The whole period of time elapsing between the chute of the last story from the city room and the delivery of the printed pages to the newsboys will not have exceeded ten minutes.
A muffled screaming and a dangerously increased agitation of the chute was the only reply.
The fixed ration is one slither per chute per person.
All he'd had to do was drop it into the mail chute from his room and then cool his heels in jail while the Galactic Mails got rid of the loot for him.
The robot bellhop whirred, a chuteopened in the wall, and a bottle slid out.
The chute lay quiet and he sat on the ground and cursed in English.
He fought the chute to collapse it, tripped, and twisted his ankle painfully.
At length he bundled up the chute and removed all of the packages of money but the one disguised as a field pack.
Should the body or air bag of the chute come in contact with the plane, he would naturally crash with it.
He knew that the average time required for an air chute to open and assume normal descent is approximately one and three-fifths seconds after the rip cord has been pulled).
The chute immediately bellied in and sideslipped into the wind.
He dared not overdo the business, and presently righted the chute by the simple expedient of releasing the shrouds.
By throwing his head way back he could look upward and see his fouled 'chute and the tree branches silhouetted against the billions of stars that twinkled at him from high overhead.
He got the 'chute harness snaps undone, grabbed the straps with both hands and slowly lowered himself until his feet touched solid earth.
Avail yourself of it and bless me, and I'll bless you, and Hollingshead will bless us both, and Chute will bless us all.
In a moment of enthusiasm I engaged to begin with Chute on September 29th, and I had scarcely done so when Hollingshead reminded me that I was booked to begin with him on that date, and that it could not be altered.
Very much aware of gravity after years of weightlessness, he walked to the canopy of the chute and spread it out on the flat ground in a full circle.
A tangle of cords stretched out to the nylon of the main chute draped over a dust dune.
Should wait at least ten seconds before releasing the drogue chute so I'll clear the ship.
The string of ribbon chutes he reeled in hand over hand stuffing it into the cylinder, discovering in the process why the chute Section hands at Base wore that harried look.
Reflected for a moment in the helmet face was a glimpse of the lead chute slowly opening out like a gigantic flower.
But in the next minute he was making fast the lower end of the string to the WD cylinder, then, finding the top chute he toed his pedals and jetted himself out, trailing the string out to its full extent.
As long as the chute was empty below the point of entrance of A the nickels kept on filling the zig-zag runway.
The winning player was paid from the nickels which lined a zig-zag chute ending at C.
Chloroform was then administered, the body hurled through a chute to the basement, where it would be dismembered and placed in a gunnysack.
In a second the sliding doors of the chute had closed, the skip was loaded, and the relentless downpour of “ground” and hard lumps ceased.
My whole frame was trembling with the fear of impending death, as, with a loud creak, the slides at the bottom of the chute separated, and I felt myself violently overturned and forced irresistibly through the opening.
The chute would bring the ore down from the ledge, and the carts would take it to the ship.
The tumbling waters of the chute seemed insistently loud, as though jealous of the brawling monster that had dared to challenge its incessant song.
The October wind seemed to quiver to its lowest note, and the water racing over the chute was quieter than it had been for hours.
The noise of the water tumbling over the chute was a song to which her ears had grown accustomed, but more than once she looked up as the October wind rose and fell in a chromatic whine.
Mebby it's the brandingchute of some gospel sharp.
This retainer told his young master that Anne Chute loved him well, and that she deserved a better fortune than to love without return.
Anne Chute entered, and finding the man she loved in an intoxicated condition she withdrew in sorrow and disgust.
Mr. Chute took me in hand, and I had to wake up and be alert with brains and body.
He sprang towards it, flung his oil-can into it, and in another moment, though the chute was above his head, he had climbed the slippery wall and entered it.
Running back a few steps to the mouth of a chute he had noticed a moment before, the miner tossed Paul up into it much in the same way that Derrick had tossed his oil-can into a similar opening.
A few minutes later they had risen above the mouth of the chute and completely filled the gangway.
These breast miners filled their cars very quickly, as the moment they loosened the coal it slid down the slaty incline, above which it had been bedded, to a wooden chute on the edge of the gangway that discharged it directly into them.
Close beside him was the mouth of a chute belonging to a breast that he knew followed the slant of the vein upward for a great distance.
Shanghai, the hostler, appeared at the head of the chute leading a large, coal-black horse.
When the bugle sounded, Hopwood grasped the bridle and led the horse through the chute to the track.
Two Smith mixers were used, located as shown, and each discharged through a chute into one of the bucket elevator boots.
The mixing was done in portable Ransome mixers, set on the trench bank alongside the work and discharging by chute into dished shoveling boxes provided with legs to set on the erected forms.
As stated, there were two tracks, one on each side of the bridge, but they converged as they neared the concrete mixer, so that a car coming from either track could run under the discharge chute of the mixer; Fig.
The bucket is dumped automatically at any point desired by means of a tripping device attached to a chute which receives the contents of the bucket and delivers them to carts, wheelbarrows, or other receptacle.
Frequently the stone and sand bins can be arranged to chute the materials directly into the charging hopper as shown by Fig.
They helped Jane out of the chute harness and she stepped clear just as Miss Comstock arrived aboard the ambulance.
The cameras, following the blazing ship, failed to show her chute open, but they kept the focus on the plane until it smashed into the ground, a flaming mass of wreckage.
The blazing biplane roared past her and she pulled the chute ring, using both hands.
Behind her the pilot chute cracked out and then the great silken umbrella filled with air.
You might add that you never dreamed you would have to take to a chute to get down," put in Charlie.
The tall pilot was wearing one chute pack and he carried another in his arms.
Jane crouched in the seat, making sure that the chutewas clear of any obstructions.
She did not know just which wooden chute Freddie would slide down.
You stepped into a hay chute and you're stuck half way down.
He was much heavier than Desiree, and the brunt of the drag came just when he occupied the mouth of the chute before the rope could be eased over the pulley.
That the chute was not raised now could hardly have been an oversight.
