The newly created Leading Seaman, whose nose was a reminder of the vagaries of the main sheet block of a cutter when going about, flushed with pleasure and turned smartly on his heel.
To produce the curved pattern I show you, nothing more is necessary than to bend the tin pattern on a block of the right shape, and we now get a pattern which would puzzle a good many pattern-makers of the old style.
They came up to the church, they shattered the door with a push, and threatened to block up the very nave with the invading scions of their race.
A mighty shout hailed the downfall of the block of wall.
Swarms of sparrows were retiring to roost beneath the eaves of the church; and, on the steps of the parsonage, a blue calico skirt had just appeared, of such spreading dimensions as to quite block the doorway.
Tourists of the period describe the Yugoslav-Bulgarian frontier as the most fortified in Europe with "entanglements, block houses, redoubts and searchlight posts".
They were worried by the latter's tendency to block German designs on Austria.
Jackson to transcribe the entire painting as a pen-and-ink drawing in Titian’s style, with a tint block added.
After each impression the next inked block was slid into the chase and printed wet into wet.
Illustration: TRIAL PROOF of the keyblock of Christ on the Mount of Olives, after Bassano.
Impressions were then printed from each block in succession.
Friedländer[52] commented that relief effects in blockprinting were not alien additions but natural consequences of the method.
Jost de Negker, working after drawings by Hans Burgkmair, cut blocks which are dated, on the black block at least, as early as 1508, and work by Hans Baldung and Hans Wechtlin appeared shortly after.
White highlights were imitated, as in the German manner, by cutting out lines on a tone block to let the white paper assert itself.
A trial proof of the key blockis in the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art.
Paulus Moreelse, a Dutch artist in the first half of the 17th century, employed a dark block in clear outline but modeled his forms internally in the da Carpi manner.
The whites even show embossings in the paper to make the light vibrate, and a specially cut block is sometimes impressed to help in modeling the forms.
Illustration: Trial proof of the key block of center sheet of The Crucifixion, after Tintoretto.
Soberer men, trying here or there in small numbers to block the way, were swept aside.
So, clamorous for his life, the people came And dragged him forth, and led him to the block And slew him.
Pon honour, the intrepid man then rehearsed the execution with his headsman, kneeling down at the block to show how he would give the signal for the blow.
He expressed joy that Cromartie had been pardoned, inspected with interest the inscription on his coffin, and smilingly called the block his pillow of rest.
The native needs a chair, so he goes to the forest and, selecting a certain kind of tree, he cuts a suitable block of wood.
The ground is very hard and the work proceeds slowly, and since they have difficulty in seeing, we place our lantern on a stamping block near them.
There are also the necessary stamping block and a large flat stone on which the grain is ground.
Her bed consists of a large hide spread on the hard, polished earthen floor, and a block of wood serves for a pillow.
The pillow is made from a block of wood, and there are no chairs, a small mat answering for this purpose.
With his little axe he hews and cuts until from a solid block of wood he makes a very respectable-looking chair, or stool, varying in height from six to fourteen inches.
The north half of this block was occupied chiefly by Black's Hotel, one of the best-known hostelries in New England, and the south half by the newspaper plant of the Boston News and by several smaller buildings.
But a block to the north, at School Street, which only a moment before these two had just quitted, there was to be seen a wild confusion.
And at that very moment their eyes sprang to where, barely a block away, great tongues of red fire licked above a wide building's roof--and all else but that thing faded into nothing.
Shortly after one o'clock the entire block between Tremont and Washington, School and Bromfield was one vast seething furnace from whose throat the fire burst now southward and upward with a roar.
If this could be saved, probably so also could the whole block to the south of Summer Street; but if it could not, then that block too was doomed, and there was grave danger beside lest the district east of Federal Street be also involved.
And now the building of the Boston News, although protected by a system of automatic sprinklers, was thoroughly ablaze, as was the Miles Block immediately fronting City Hall Avenue.
The next moment a dull sound from the Miles Block was heard, and Smith saw its western cornice sway.
In my opinion theblock we hold is worth more to the Duane people than it is to us; I'd let them have it.
From where they stood it seemed that the fire was in the heart of the block bounded by Court Square, Court, School, and Washington Streets.
The house was taken down in 1845 and a block of buildings erected by Noah Sturtevant.
On the north-west corner of Washington and Vernon streets, where Diamond block now stands, there formerly stood an old house, which was occupied in 1805 as the Old Red Tavern, kept by Martin Pierce.
He was as undaunted in sight of the block as he had been before his judges; and he died as brave men die—firmly and meekly, and without bravado.
There are signs of a large bracket having existed on the north side of the altar; and the base-mould of a small column, which possibly supported its front edge, may be seen on a block of stone rising above the pavement.
In one of these should be noticed an enormous salting-trough, hollowed out of one immense block of wood, without joint or fastening.
The Saloon—the principal internal feature of Westwood—occupies the entire space, in the central block of building, over the Front Hall.
She gave another nod back to the police station now a blockor so distant.
It seemed pretty clear that there were no kidnaped women in the block opposite, nor in the row of blocks on the side where John Allingham had his office.
They went in and out of every block that was not locked upon the street, and invaded every floor, but without avail.
A still simpler plan consists in driving two nails into a block at such a distance apart that an iron rod (six-inch nail, poker, bolt, etc.
Make a coil by winding insulated wire around a block of wood about ten times.
When a lever is used to lift a log, one end is placed under the log, a block called a fulcrum is placed under the lever as close as possible to the log, and then the workman pulls down on the outer end of the lever.
The greatblock of studios--the Tower House--rises up to an immense height on the right, almost opposite to the Victoria Hospital for Children.
A tablet inscribed with quaint English, recording Petyt's charity, still stands on the dull little block building of the present century, which replaced the old school.
Paradise Row opens into Dilke Street, behind the pseudo-ancient block of houses on the Embankment.
The oak pulpit is modern, and the font, cut from a solid block of dark-veined marble and supported by four pillars, stands on a small platform of tessellated pavement.
In the nextblock we have the famous Queen's House, marked by the little statuette of Mercury on the parapet.
Tentatively he asked me how far I thought the threat of proceedings could be used to block Grayle's path of office.
I found Beresford sitting up on a sofa with a blockof paper on his lap.
I would as soon spend a week-end with a well-bred block of ice," he confided to me on his return.
Failing to transfer my burden to other shoulders, I drove one night to Sloane Square and ran Beresford to earth in his rooms at the top of a modest block of service flats.
At the western end of the geological galleries of the British Museum may be seen a human skeleton imbedded in a block of limestone brought from Guadeloupe.
On our way out, my friend shewed me the block of buildings set apart for the use of out-patients.
The medical cases are in a block of buildings quite distinct from the surgical.
Near the latter gate the polygonal wall is nearly fifteen feet in height, and on one great block may be read in very ancient letters the words PED.
The central block of buildings contained four immense halls and a rotunda, around which numerous smaller rooms were grouped.
The walls have rivets upon them, by which it appears that they were covered with a marble casing, and the magnificent block of African marble which serves as the threshold shows that the building was of a costly description.
An inscription cut in a block of travertine has been fixed in the right-hand parapet of the bridge.
In front of the Temple of Castor a large block of substructions has been cleared, which is with great probability assigned to the chapel built in honour of Julius Caesar, and called the Heroon of Caesar.
Don't put a stumbling-block in the poor fellow's way by spreading such insinuations as that.
There was no clock in the room, and he had no watch, but the engine-house bell in the next block clanged the alarm regularly.
Law, Sir, is Law, even to Magistrates, Not a mere chopping-block for maudlin charity.
Turnbull undertook to do with his platoon of 42 men a task which had been intended for a battalion; he was to block the main road to enemy forces pressing south from the Cherbourg area against the American right flank.
Those slaves who were publicly hired out for the year also took their stand on this block and were hired out at the highest price bid.
And there were soon erected, with an occasional exception, the substantial block of brick buildings which now stand as monuments to the good judgment and excellent workmanship of that early day.
The slave to be sold was required to stand on this blockin the presence of the gathered traders, when he or she was "cried out" by the auctioneer to the highest bidder.
At the corner of Commerce and Charles streets, in front of this hotel, is a stone block about two and a half feet high and some two feet in diameter.
