That from the first blow contains between 1% and 2% of copper, and is usually poured from ladles operated by an electric crane into a reverberatory, or into the settling well of the cupola.
Gangways are left between adjoining rows of tanks, and an overhead travelling-crane facilitates the removal of the electrodes.
Then the disappointed crane fastened upon another snake, and arose like a white cloud, with his squirming victim in his strong beak.
So graceful in all its movements is the crane that many a dainty little maid who acts politely hears herself spoken of as the "bird that rises from the water without muddying the stream.
Yet it was not a sparrow but a crane that fell down out of the air.
The startled crane turned and saw the eye in the wall.
Mr. William Morris ranked them so highly that Mr. Gaskin was commissioned to design illustrations for some of the Kelmscott Press books, and Mr. Walter Cranehas borne public witness to their excellence.
For since Mr. Walter Crane ceased to illustrate the long series of Mrs. Molesworth's stories, he has carried on the record.
Illustration: The Great Auk, Another Extinct Bird] The Trumpeter Swan and the Whooping Crane are nearly extinct to-day.
We might go farther and note also the rapidly decreasing numbers of the Sandhill Crane and the Limpkin of Florida.
The pan is then hung from an unfamiliar variety of crane close over the fire, and the contents wheedled and teased by a skillful spoon and bribed with salt and butter and a sprinkle of parsley.
From that time the Crane undertook so many duties that he was busy from dawn till night.
On one occasion the Crane went back, drove up some lagging heifers through the street and then frightened them so much that they broke away and ran two miles in the wrong direction.
In this association the Crane learned the duties of cowherd, so that one evening he brought home the whole of the village herd of heifers unaided and drove them into the stable.
A Turkey and a Game Cock were found fighting, whereon the Crane first fought the Turkey, then sought out and thrashed the cock.
Hyde, Philadelphia, is granted a United States patent on a combined coffee roaster and stove, fitted with a crane on which the roasting cylinder is revolved and swung out horizontally from the stove.
Hyde, of Philadelphia, was granted a United States patent on a combined coffee-roaster and stove fitted with a crane on which the roasting cylinder was revolved and swung out horizontally for emptying and refilling.
And quite as important as the crane is the cook-car--generally some old-time coach or sleeper descended to humble service on the road.
When they are gone the giant crane again comes noiselessly down along the ceiling.
In carload lots it is not loaded or unloaded by hand, but by big magnets on a crane which picks up a ton of the bars at a time and thinks nothing of it.
The hoist-crane reaches down to the dock siding for a gondola, snaps the car-body off from the trucks, lifts it aloft over the open hatch of the waiting vessel, and turns it upside down.
Into the collar of that saddle a giant overhead crane carefully sets the boiler and the fire-box.
In that lake dwelleth a crane of the name of Nadijangha.
And the crane thereupon seemed to reflect a little and then said, "I do not know king Indradyumna.
And at this king Indradyumna taking both myself and the owl went to that lake where the crane Nadijangha dwelt.
And then that crane gave information to the tortoise, saying, "It is intended by us to ask thee something.
And thecrane was asked by us, "Is there any one who is older than thou?
And that cranewas asked by us, "Dost thou know the king Indradyumna?
His faith in her was assured by her knowledge of the death of the she-crane and the excellent words of virtuous import she had uttered.
So many died that the Magpie, the Lark, and the Crane talked together, and tried to find water to drink.
The Lark, the Magpie and the Crane flew high to the sky.
Towards lake Illinois, on River St Joseph, the Miamis or men of the Crane who have three different languages, though they live together.
There was a clacking of wild-fowl flocking down to their marsh nests; perhaps a crane flopped through the reeds; but Radisson, who had laughed the nervous fears of the others to scorn, suddenly gave a start at the lonely sounds of twilight.
He would also persuade Mrs. Crane to accompany him to the village and aid in the requisite investigations; entertaining a tacit but instinctive belief in the superiority of her acuteness.
