Crimps who were caught red-handed had short shrift.
Original The countrymen seized the intended hero by one arm, the crimps held on as doggedly by the other; and as both parties pulled stoutly, it might have been supposed that they intended to partition the victim between them.
I never go to Boyle upon a message, but there are half-a-dozen crimps at my heels; and every recruiting party that passes by, eyes me as if I had the cockade already mounted.
The amount of bark in each crimp and the location of the crimps fore-and-aft would determine the shape of the bottom profile and the amount of rocker, as well as the flatness of the bottom athwartships in the midbody.
The crimps were formed so that the maximum fold in the bark took place at the gunwales; below this the fold tapered away to nothing, ending low in the side with an irregular bulge in the bark.
In placing the outwales, the crimps were carefully formed and held by the clamping action of the inwale and outwale, and reinforced by a lashing through the crimp or by two lashings close to the sides of the fold.
This was due to the fact that the hull form of these canoes was not good for speed, and also because the bulges at the bottom of the crimps caused them to be markedly unfair at and near the waterline.
The crimpswere commonly located a fourth to a fifth the length of the canoe inboard of the ends, about where the end thwarts would be located.
It appears that two crimpsto the side were employed in most of these canoes, but perhaps more, say four to a side, might have been employed in a very large canoe.
She pinned on her cap and pulled her crimps down over her forehead.
I wish I could describe the hundred and onecrimps and frills and things.
We always begin in this here way--we crimps our cod before we cooks it.
In view of the fact that this vilest of crimps was the loser of the money, I could almost forgive the "galoots" for the theft of my boat.
All the "runaway rum" that could be held out by the most subtle crimps of Montevideo could not induce these sober Brazilian sailors to desert their ship.
Most of the crimps get one or two of them to watch the sailors as the boys of the village watch our men, and give notice when they are going to make a raid.
Any irregularity in the length of the crimps can be remedied by pressing out the crease.
In the same way a series of crimps is carried round the heel, leaving an uncrimped space of 2 or 3 inches on each side of the foot.
Florence; "you've got it just high enough without being a bit too high, and those crimps are heavenly!
The next morning the girls noticed that Miss Christine's crimps were not entirely "out.
At a recent meeting of the Welsh Society at New York, facts were stated, showing the depravity and audacity of the crimps at Liverpool and New York.
No wonder they are a prey to apparitions at sea andcrimps ashore.
During the evening the master said, "I hear there are plenty of good men stowed away by the crimps at different places.
Jose had met the ruffian Sam some time before, and had discovered him to be one of those infamous crimpswho earned a rich living by snatching men from their employment ashore and passing them over to ships' captains.
And when the barrooms and the women and all the waterfront sharks have stripped 'em of their last red cent, then the crimps collect an advance allotment from their future wages to ship 'em off to sea again.
He was shipped at Buenos Ayres, where the crimps still handle the business.
Perhaps the crimps thought I was too old to be worth much and would not let me run up a score.
My cash was gone, however, before I could well look round; my old friends the crimps got most of it.
Mamma, if anything on earth can interest you that is not in a newspaper, I should like to know whether crimps or curls are most becoming with my new seal-skin set.
The niggardliness of owners of ships caused them to pick up their crews at haphazard by paying crimps to herd them from lodging-houses and saloons an hour or two before sailing to save a day's wages.
Often the crimps brought aboard as sailors men who had never set foot on a vessel.
And here's Bennie Cree with cramps in his legs and crimps in his chest, just waiting for you.
Sullivan was put into the mate’s watch and the twocrimps in the second mate’s watch.
Within another minute the two remaining crimps were hotly engaged with two of the ship’s crew whose relatives had been “shanghaied” aboard the Britishers.
Just before midnight, and while the dance was still going on, Sullivan and his fellow-crimps removed the helpless men down to a boat, and took them off to the ships at the buoys.
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