I had the coil of the lariat all ready; I paid it out slowly, till it hung right over his head; all of a sudden I let go of the slack, and the slipnoose fell fairly round his neck!
The still is heated directly with a coal or coke fire, and in this fire space is the superheater, which consists of a coil of pipes through which high pressure steam from the boiler is superheated.
The process is generally carried out in two wooden vats, covered with closely fitting lids, furnished with the necessary draw-off cocks, the first vat containing a lead coil and the other a brass steam coil.
The other portion of the distillate is concentrated by means of a dry steam coil in a suitable vessel under a 28 inch vacuum.
The oil is placed in a suitable tank and heated by means of a closed steam coil to 100° F.
The coil of braiding is brought around more loosely and flattened out as it is sewed.
The next row is brought around at a little distance from the first and the raffia is brought down through the centre, up and once around the coil, thus holding the first coil to the second.
A coil is then started with the edge of the braid up, not the face, and it is sewed through at least two braids at a time, in stitches which run in the direction of the braid.
The coil is then brought round with the upper edge just below the centre of the last row.
It would be well to pull thecoil slightly tighter as it draws nearer the outer edge so that the last rows may roll a little.
It is Jolly to Make a Raffia Work Bag] Wind the raffia around the rattan until the coilhas been brought half way around the second time, when it is again sewed through the centre.
Besides, he had no time to lose in speculating as to what Gorlias might have in the skiff besides his lines and his coil of rope.
The knotted rope was coming in fast; Zeno threw it upon the floor behind him in a wide coil to keep it clear.
At dawn she got up and went listlessly and sat down on the cablecoil again.
At any rate, I'm in a good coil of hemp rope," he said to one of the men who had come out to see the fun.
Dave, who, at the time, was busily engaged in making a noose at one end of a long coil of half-inch rope.
Here, you two men get hold of the other end of this," ordered Dave, running up with the coil of rope.
Now, may Heaven give me the strength to throw this coil far enough to do the trick!
Tom leaned against the rail, holding up the lamp, and the thing that had the shape of a man sat gibbering on a coil of hawser in the midst of the bridge deck.
The winch had stopped, and Jefferson lay across it, amidst a coil of slack wire, with a suffused face.
There may be only a coil of the snake visible, but that betrays the presence of the slimy folds, though they are covered from sight among the leaves.
If you're going to make a round or an oblong mat you decide which right at the beginning andcoil the centre accordingly.
The slip makes it stick to the roughening, so you have to roughen the top of every coil and moisten it with slip.
He spent most of that day lying on a coil of rope on the deck of the cabin--dozing and delighting himself with long day-dreams.
He had fastened the end of a coil of rope about his waist.
Elihu; "the coil of stuff he has got won't drag any of us up, we must make a rope for ourselves.
He was absent for some time, and when he was again seen, he had a coil of something or other, we could not exactly make out what, round his neck.
The graduated coil of hair and waved coiffure, shown by No.
By dressing the hair low so the coil does not appear above the crown, as in No.
One of the captives had long, beautiful hair, and as Thorkill came near him on his bloody errand he twisted his hair into a coil and asked the executioner not to soil it with his blood.
To humor him Thorkill asked one of the bystanders to hold the coilwhile he struck.
As for these skins of parchment you keep such a coil about, look in the nearest brook or stye, and 'tis odds but you find them.
Here is a coil about Gerard Eliassoen," said Martin contemptuously.
And why keep such a coil about my beauty, Gerardo?
And now I think on't, we shall have papa after it next; these bears make such a coil about an odd cub.
And what is all this coil about killing of old men?
As for these skins of parchment you keep such a coil about, look in the nearest brook, or stye, and 'tis odds but you find them.
As Tom spoke, he adjusted the receivers, while; Frank moved the coil slowly about.
Instantly all were again silent, glancing at one another with wonder and amazement on their features, for the signals were coming in with the coil pointed to the east!
Turning, Frank moved the resonance coil around, and the next instant the sharp "dee-dah" of a dot and dash signal buzzed clearly from the receiver.
Then a coil of line spun from the hands of a waiting bluejacket, the man in the bow of the lifeboat caught it and the next instant the haggard-faced occupants of the little craft were being helped over the destroyer's rail.
Tom clamped the phones to his ears, Frank turned the resonance coil about and as it pointed towards the south, Tom fairly leaped from his seat.
Light the wick; and, when the coilof platina above the wick is red-hot, blow out the flame.
If passed over a coil of fine iron wire heated to redness, in a porcelain tube, and the operation repeated, the iron will be oxidized, and the carbonic acid changed into carbonic oxide gas.
There will then be a current of pure alcohol, gradually rising from the reservoir below, through the wick, sufficient to keep the upper coil of platina red-hot, until the whole of the alcohol is consumed.
I had not swum more than half-way before the line got foul on the coil on board, and checking me suddenly, it pulled me backwards and under water.
Exactly," Captain Levee replied, who then ordered his boat to go for a coil of three inch, and bring it on board.
I will give you a receipt for a coil of rope, which you will send your boat for, and write a letter to the owners, after which you will wish me good bye, and make sail.
We then descended to the cabin, and I wrote a letter to the owner, and also a receipt for the coil of rope, which I delivered to Captain Levee.
A coil of wire was produced next, and the connection made to the dynamite cap.
He backed the jeep in next to the banana plants and made sure he could get out again easily, then he took the coil of wire and began unwinding it along the edge of the road.
He returned as he spoke, and, unwinding a coil of rope which he carried, fastened one end thereof round his waist.
The boy tossed a coil of rope so accurately that the coil dropped directly over Grace Thompson's head.
They are from the first directed obliquely backwards, and coil close round the inner and dorsal sides of the segmental duct.
In my embryos the secondary coil of the segmental tubes opens, as in the Anura, into the fourth section of a kidney tubulus.
This coil forms the fourth section of each segment, and starts from the Malpighian body.
They rode into the yard, jumped from their horses, and approached me with large whips, one of them also carrying a coil of rope.
I felt as if I had a serpent by the neck, watching the slightest relaxation of my gripe, to coil itself round my body, crushing and stinging it to death.
Their duty is to ease each coil as it passes out of the tank, and to give notice of the marks painted on the cable one mile apart.
Illustration] It is a very intricate knot that an old sailor cannot untie, and the old sailors on the "Great Eastern" twisted and untwisted coil after coil until they succeeded in untying this one.
