The French also were attacking; the drumhead fire of their soixante-quinze made a continuous roll, and the puffs of shrapnel smoke hung in a long, gossamery cloud fringing the horizon and the canopy of the green ridges.
Page 142] The Hawaiians sometimes made use of the clear gum of the kukui tree to aid in fixing the drumhead in place.
It may be well here to note a fundamental distinction between the drumhead cabbage of England and those of this country.
The flavor of this new cabbage is rich, tender, and sweet, being superior to the general Drumhead class, making it a very superior variety for family use, and also for marketing when there is not a long transportation.
As an early drumhead for the family garden, it has no superior; and where the market is near, and does not insist that a cabbage head must be hard to be good, it has proved a very profitable market sort.
Until the introduction of Fottler's Drumhead it was the standard drumhead cabbage in the markets of Boston and other large cities of the North.
This, as the name implies, is the result of a cross between a Savoy and a Drumhead cabbage, partaking of the characteristics of each.
Cabbage seed in England, particularly of the drumhead sorts, is mostly raised from stumps, or from the refuse that remains after all that is salable has been disposed of.
English-grown drumhead cabbage seed is utterly worthless for use in this country except to raise greens or collards.
They appear to lack in this country the sweetness and tenderness that characterize some varieties of our drumhead, and, consequently, in the North when the drumheadenters the market there is but a limited call for them.
I have seen acres of the Marblehead Mammoth drumheadwhich would average thirty pounds to each cabbage, some specimens weighing over sixty pounds.
An early sure heading variety of theDrumhead class.
The drumhead of a capstan; especially, the drumhead of the lower of two capstans on the sane axis.
I wonder that you were not shot without any drumhead court-martial," said the Colonel.
Captain Archer says that I nearly spoiled all their plans, and that I deserved to be tried by a drumhead court-trial and shot.
A drumhead court-martial is a hurried trial held in camp.
When it was learned that the General was not to be treated as an honorable soldier and held as a prisoner of war, but was to be tried by a drumhead court-martial and shot as a rebel, the Senate immediately took action in his behalf.
The drumhead court-martial which followed was brief and formal.
Even a spy is entitled to a trial bydrumhead court-martial!
They accused the negro of treachery and hung him from the nearest limb without the formality of a drumhead court martial.
The chief of police was arrested and imprisoned, the police board was suspended and the city brought under the rule of drumhead court-martial.
The magnet remained stationary for a few seconds, the liana supporting it tightening with every revolution of the drumhead at which the men were laboring.
The windlass creaked and trembled as revolution after revolution of the drumhead slowly brought the great black bar of metal nearer to the surface.
Her watery blue eyes were fixed upon the drumhead of the banjo, where it hung suspended above the melodeon.
On thedrumhead of the banjo someone had painted a bunch of nondescript flowers, and Pearl always claimed these as her own handiwork, wrought in happier days.
Why, they tried him by a drumhead court-martial and shot and quartered him right on the spot!
Why, they just took him out, and without even giving him a drumhead trial, tied him up and burned him to ashes at a stake!
This same magnanimous Republican party took him prisoner, tried him by a drumhead court-martial, and shot him down like a mad dog after he had surrendered up his sword.
There never can be such a thing again; and no one would look at a drumhead savoy!
So that the drumhead never once brimmed over, though so many dozens were cracked on it.
I won’t have my celery washed away, nor my drumhead savoys, nor my ragged Jack.
Beyond thedrumhead is the cavity of the middle ear about as large as a pea.
A chain of three tiny bones stretches from the outer drumhead across this cavity to a tiny inner drumhead.
If I had not made my escape after the battle in which Jose believed me shot, I should not be here now, but a victim of Rogero’s drumhead court-martial.
In the back of his head there formed a little picture--a drumhead court-martial, a provost guard, a tree and a rope.
On the whole, I like you even better than I did--but it's a question now for a drumhead and a provost guard.
Wait and you will see," he replied; and then he told me the findings of the drumhead court.
We're going to hold a drumhead court-martial and try these amateur pirates right here and now.
Now, with a little attention you will understand that when the air in the canal shakes the drumhead to and fro, this membrane must drag with it the hammer, the anvil, and the stirrup.
The first of the bones is fastened to the middle of the drumheadso that it moves to and fro every time this membrane quivers.
Captain Archer says that I nearly spoiled all their plans, and that I deserved to be tried by a drumhead court-martial and shot.
Capstan-bars, large thick bars put into the holes of the drumhead of the capstan, by which it is turned round, they working as horizontal radial levers.
The lower drumhead of a capstern, when it is double, and worked on one shaft both on an upper and lower deck.
In thedrumhead of a capstan, the holes receive the capstan-bars.
To fix the bars in the drumhead in readiness for heaving; not forgetting to pin and swift.
They are also held in their places in the drumhead holes, by little iron bolts called capstan or safety pins, to prevent their flying out when the surging overcomes the force of the men.
The whelps reach downwards from the lower part of the drumheadto the deck.
But Kolgrim looked at the drumhead and took it, and then coiled the long line on his arm.
And when he handled the gold rings, he showed me that they were very old; but when he handled the drumhead and looked at the marks thereon, he laughed.
It is something to arrest your own captain, but the sergeant did it, and there was a drumhead court-martial and the captain was shot.
It does not take a long argument to convince a drumhead court-martial, and the old woman saw that the game was up.
Illustration: Forged-steel Drumhead with Manhole Plate in Position] The drums are of three sheets, of such thickness as to give the required factor of safety under the maximum pressure for which the boiler is constructed.
Illustration: Forged-steel Drumhead Interior] The drumheads are hydraulic forged at a single heat, the manhole opening and stiffening ring being forged in position.
Illustration: Partial Vertical Section Showing Method of Introducing Feed Water] The method in which the feed water is introduced through the front drumhead of the boiler is clearly seen by reference to the illustration.
That they can shoot us by drumhead court martial if we refuse?
Drumhead court martial was their portion, and military execution their end.
Many militia officers were murdered, and many militiamen were executed by drumhead court martial.
If you refused to go into the militia, or to obey after you were in, you would be tried by drumhead court martial and shot down like dogs.
