But, as he turned a corner, he noticed that the pallid youth was still close behind, wherefore he halted before a shop window where, among other articles of diet, were cans of tomatoes neatly piled into a pyramid.
Soapy turned away to stare at the tomato cans again.
One of the simplest and most readily understood of these experiments was that of filling tin cans with hot water and wrapping each one with a different fabric, and then observing with thermometers the varying rapidity in the loss of heat.
Of two cans surrounded with the same amount of common cotton batting, in one case the cotton being compressed, and the other not, the loss of heat was found to be much more rapid in the former than in the latter.
There's no housekeeper in de United Shtates can watch de ash-cans wid dem divil's imps around.
Those Reservists will damned well be on duty tomorrow morning or we'll have their cans in a courtroom before dark.
The Just Married sign was still in place, but the car's train of shoes and milk-cans had been ripped off to furnish ammunition in the fight.
There was work in plenty there, making the tin cans in which salmon and other fish is packed, and as I was industrious I soon had a shop of my own, and supplied cans to the packers.
My factories were now scattered all along the coast, even to California, where I made the cans for the great quantities of canned fruits they ship from that section every year.
They crawled about on their hands and knees, carrying the cans and bundles of light wood.
Deck did not understand what they intended to accomplish by this operation, though he concluded that they meant to blow up the abutment, and that the cans contained powder or dynamite.
I reckon they stuck the cans of powder in between the 'butment and the bankin', and it only blowed out a lot of dirt, and knocked off a couple of stones from the top of the wall.
Then the four cans they had brought were deposited in the aperture, Kipps adjusting and preparing them with his own hands.
The cans are about four feet deep, and are made of galvanized iron.
As fast as their contents are frozen the cans are removed by a special lifting apparatus, and dipped for a minute into hot water to loosen the block from the can.
Ice soon begins to form on the inside and bottom of the cans under the influence of this intense cold.
In the factories which freeze the water in cans there is provided a very large brine-chamber or vat, so deep that the cans may be immersed in it nearly to their tops.
Between the rows of water-cans are tiers of iron pipes running back and forth through the brine, and throughout these pipes the expansion of gas takes place, cooling the brine to ten degrees below zero.
Geoff wondered dreamily to himself why people need get up so early in the country, and then remembered that it would take two or three hours for the cans to get to London.
And the day did not come to an end without his getting into terrible disgrace for not having rinsed out the cans with boiling water the night before, though nobody had told him to do it.
You've brought the milk-cans back, too, I suppose?
After dinner the farmer set him to cleaning out the stables, which it appeared was to be a part of his regular work; then there were the pigs to feed again, and at four o'clock the milk-cans to fetch.
For a message had come from London that the cans were dirty and the milk in danger of turning sour, and that if it happened again Farmer Eames would have to send his milk elsewhere.
They got the cans into the cart, and in a minute or two Geoff found himself jogging along the road, already becoming familiar, to the station.
It'll be quite safe; and if by chance you hit it off with Mr. Eames, the milk-cart that comes to fetch the empty cans in the afternoon can bring the bag too.
They picked up their beer-cans and went out to their work.
They had captured all the tomato cans left over from the great flood which the Bible tells about and had cut out tin stars to decorate themselves with.
So he rides miles every morning on his motor-cycle to get orders, and he delivers the things himself unless it is barrels of flour or cans of kerosene or other heavy articles, and then he hires somebody to help him.
More than one crew coming in half frozen were glad of the soup and coffee which were sent down to them in cans with baskets of bread.
We shall have to drink our tea out of cans now," was all he said.
You'll find some tea in one of them cans on the shelf; leastways, there was some there when I come away.
It was stacked high with the same empty syrup cans that at Gertie's did the duty of flower-pots.
And all the time the Mexican lapdog barked so that the houses shook, and the tiles on the roof of the palace rattled like milk cans in a cart whose horse is frisky.
And of course he left the kitties outside, because there was no room for them in the book--and the milk cans too.
Now add one or two cans of tomatoes which have been stewing slowly for half an hour or more.
In another pan or kettle place twocans of tomatoes.
When the cows were all milked, Uncle John poured the milk through the strainer into the big cans and took it out to the spring-house to set it, so that the cream would come on it.
And Uncle John went back to the milk-room and took the cans of milk and carried them out to the spring-house.
Rockford was asleep in his chair an hour later, three empty beer cansbeside him.
Rockford was in bed, snoring loudly, with six empty beer cans on the floor beside him, when Hunter got up.
Obtainable incans or terrines, of different sizes.
Put in a casserole two cans of flageolet beans and one quart of fresh water, bring to a boil, and drain.
Then add one pint of chicken broth, one pint of milk, and two cans of French flageolet beans.
Hearts of palm can be obtained in canssimilar to asparagus, and may be served in the same way, with Hollandaise, Polonaise, vinaigrette, or other sauces.
This is an Italian sausage, very highly seasoned, and comes in cans already sliced.
What do you mean by telling him that I eat tin cans and scrap iron?
His shopping cart was beside him, half full of cans and bottles.
The paint cans were stacked by the ladder and the folded drop cloths.
A member of the police force came across a boy the other day who was wheeling home a load of oyster cans and bottles, and, curious to know what use the lad could put them to, he made a direct inquiry.
But cans made with reference to this use are now furnished with crowning or with patent bottoms, and are so well hooped and braced that no serious accidents of this kind are likely to occur.
Cans that hold over a barrel will be found inconvenient.
If sixty to eighty messes are to be received, at least two weighing cans will be necessary.
This is the easier but the slower way, and necessitates the use of at least double the number of weighing-cans that are required by the crane.
Their use is, therefore, discarded as far as possible, and we believe cans are generally made without them.
They reached the engine-room, to find a blaze in one corner, where Socker kept some waste, cans of oil, old rags and brooms.
They cleared away the remains of the feast, leaving Socker to put aside the boards, cans and bottles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
