Tell other barge and boat captains to follow channels that will take extra time, or cause them to make canal detours.
Taxi drivers can waste the enemy's time and makeextra money by driving the longest possible route to his destination.
In making fire-proof bricks for the inner lining of blast furnaces, put in an extra proportion of tar so that they will wear out quickly and necessitate constant re-lining.
In making carbon copies, make one too few, so that an extra copying job will have to be done.
We had come in our old weather-stained hunting garments, and, in order not to burden the buggy, had brought with us very little extra clothing.
Here and there, about the room, stand upright posts affording extra support to the roof.
Think what you could do if some one would give you an extra hour of leisure every day.
Very truly yours, 3 Dear Madam: An extra hour of leisure every day!
He did not wish to take up an extra study, thus lessening his chance of being eligible for athletics.
We always observe Sunday by showing a little extra attention to dress, and, as far as the gentlemen are concerned, a little more care in the matter of shaving.
This was annoying; but they worked extrahard all day, and by 4 p.
In their hurry and fright, however, they left all their provisions behind them, and it is no joke to have to provide food for fifteen extra hungry mouths for a week or ten days, with no shops at hand from which to replenish our stores.
In August crops were harvested, which called for extra help from neighbors and townsmen who took holidays at harvesting.
Poor farming families took up extrawork in the villages such as making gloves, knitting stockings, or spinning yarn.
These extra rations for himself and Tige Steve carried to the woods and laid away.
For three or four days Steve took an extra share of corn pone and bacon, Mirandy not noticing in her shiftless manner of providing, and feeling the loss of her mother, she was even more listless than usual.
If I put an extra thousand dollars to your account to-morrow, will you check it out to this fund?
When you want extra amounts you have only to let me know.
Outside the gates to the mill enclosure he heard an earlyextra being called, and bought it.
And he thinks I ought to do without the extra man for the car, and the second man in the house, and heaven alone knows what.
Since the attack on Mr. Winter nearly every mill-owner in town goes armed and takes extra precautions.
It should be said that after moving out of the parsonage into his house in the tenement district, Philip had more than given the extra thousand dollars the church insisted on paying him.
Fairy did not stutter, but, when excited, she was apt to put extra syllables in her words.
Of course with so many extra people, more waitresses will be necessary; but as you say, Lilian, if we hire a lot of servants it will make our profits pretty slim.
We'd have to have extra help, with so many more people, and if Tessie has any friend who would like to come for a week, it would be very satisfactory.
You mustn't do a single thing extra for us, will you?
There's plenty of room, and as to the extra work, if we all do a little more each day, it won't amount to much.
Grandma says we can't afford any extra expense this summer.
Lilian had put the hotel in apple-pie order, and given finishing touches to the guests' rooms, and Fairy had performed her part by inducing Mrs. Hickox to let them have an extra lot of flowers.
Also, I most certainly shall do extra things while you're here.
Quick learners can spend their extra time on private or group preparation for their Merit Badges, for which they become eligible as soon as they have passed the test, but not before.
That is why it is important to watch sick people and babies and to put an extra cover over them at that time.
Punctual feeding makes good digestion, and even if the baby takes an extra nap it is better to wake a healthy baby to give him his meals at regular hours than to let his digestion get out of order.
This will include: An extrablanket to wrap around the sick person.
It is the quickest method of flag signalling but is available for comparatively short distances, seldom over a mile, unless extra large flags are employed or there is some extraordinary condition of background or atmosphere.
They receive two suits of coarse clothes in a year, and the gay handkerchiefs, and fine calico dresses in which the females always appear on the Sabbath, are purchased with the proceeds of their extra labor.
David, and little Harri's portrait received the extra polish breathed upon it by a deep sigh previous to the ordinary one, emanating solely from the handkerchief, 'God forbid!
But here he showed himself as obdurate as a mule until, arbitrarily, I strapped on our second automatic, took out our second rifle, and filled my pockets with extra cartridges.
And there's plenty of extra acetylene tanks, too, so she carn't get away now!
The three-quarter breed is an enormous animal in size, and has an extra good robe, which will readily bring $40 to $50 in any market where there is a demand for robes.
As the wagon and extra horses proceeded up the Sand Creek trail in the care of W.
It took from eight to twelve buffalo hides to make a covering for one ordinary teepee, and sometimes a single teepee of extra size required from twenty to twenty-five hides.
But they all worked, and Diane helped, too, to place extra bows at points where they might be needed and to put handfuls of arrows at the firing platforms spaced at regular intervals along the barricade.
He dropped behind the barricade and crawled into one of the huts to come out with three extra pistols clutched in his hand.
This was all right with Chet, but he raised his eyebrows inquiringly at sight of several boxes of ammunition and an extra gun.
There's one for each of us including Towahg, and one extra in case you miss.
His nurse came into the room with extra chairs; Chet waited till she was gone before he repeated: "Now what?
He can have the extra gun you brought for Schwartzmann, too.
Their bows, a store of extra bone-tipped arrows, and food: as Chet had said there was not much to prepare for their flight.
What strikes a stranger most on entering the Mint, is the absence of all extra defence round it; the building appears as open as any London house.
I turned over, gave the clothes an extra jerk, and again sought the land of dreams.
No extra clerk is wanted by Cook and Wheatstone's, as all messages are written out by a manifold writer.
Should the length of any train be found too great for such communication, surely it were better to sacrifice an extra guard's salary, than trifle with human life in the way we have hitherto done.
The funds for such payments to be raised by increased licensing fees and anextra tax on liquor.
But Sir James did not, as a matter of fact, spend a great deal of his time there on the extra day that he had proposed to devote to it.
I didn't hear that," if an extra burst of laughter engaged his attention; and after such an interruption he would usually address himself next to Caroline, who was sitting on the other side of him.
It had been a fascinating occupation, planning and contriving and doing the work himself with no professional guidance, and only occasional extra labour to lift or move very heavy stones.
We can get what we want extra for comfort, and add to the good things here and there.
Inasmuch as the whole argument in favor of tipping is based upon the allegation that the servitor actually gives a value in extra service, the element of obligation will be examined closely.
Hence, extra compensation to them may be justified only as charity.
Of course, a waiter may give a patron more than the proprietor agrees to give in the bill of fare, and this undoubtedly is an extra service--but it is also a dishonest service.
Two dollars all around is a tariff fixed for persons of average means, and this is increased to individual servants from whom extra service has been demanded.
On the surface it seems that the porter's attentions in a barber shop are extra and deserve extra compensation.
For some one to check and guard your hat and overcoat while you see a show or dine has a speaking likeness to a real extra service.
If an extra service is given, in reality or in appearance, the servitor has pitched his appeal upon the ground of obligation.
The porter is psychologist enough to know that to create the illusion that he has rendered anextra service is as good for producing a tip as actually to do so.
He looks to one or the other to supply the extra remuneration for the extra service.
A host should ascertain if servants consider themselves outside the feeling of hospitality and pay them for the extra work, thus giving the guest complete hospitality.
When two dollars is paid for a theater ticket it also pays for this service, and extra compensation to the attendant in charge may be defended as charity but not as an obligation.
He often works in the appearance of extra attentions to create the sense of obligation.
He feels that the servant has given him something extra and unexpected--and he wants to pay something extra for it.
But at the hour of departure something extra must be added to the weekly franc, and the head waiter will scarcely smile as blandly as need be if he is not propitiated with gold.
But it is as counterfeit as the other pretenses of extra service.
My cousin, Albert, is page boy at the castle, and he told me there were a few vacancies for extra help tonight, so I applied and was given the job.
I had been saving up some extraappetite for this dinner, and my regular appetite was a very good one.
This being an extra job, Priscilla earned two sixpences that day.
He bought them of a man--a passenger, I believe--who had an extra suit.
If you do happen to have an extra joint in your front flipper you needn't show off so.
But for the most part they are women who, by their beauty or their position, have been used to receive extra attention from men; and thus their preference is not flattery so much as exigence.
A hostess who has a grudge against one of her more famous lady-guests can always ensure her a disappointing evening under cover of doing her supreme honour and paying her extra attention.
Long ago they caught hold of the fact that money is only a circulating medium, and they have added an extra speed to the circulation at which slower folk stand aghast.
She shows no heat, no passion, no turbulence; she leaves these as extra weapons of defence to women who are assailable.
Sometimes the glasses were attached to the bureau itself, which then had an extra set of small drawers above the larger ones, set back so as to leave a shelf in front of them.
The carving of the posts was of course extra and was to be paid for according to time.
Sometimes those who wished extraelegance bought the yarn and paid for the weaving.
The heavy veneered Empire curved posts are noticeable, and an extra old-fashioned appearance is given to it by the movable candle-brackets fastened to either side.
Fitting on a box lock was 1s 4d, while a patent lock came extra and cost 2s.
At Loudon, where we arrived January 27, supplies were more plentiful, and as our tents and extra clothing reached us there in a few days, every one grew contented and happy.
We could get no shoes, although we stood in great need of them, for the extra pair with which each man had started out from Murfreesboro' was now much the worse for wear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "extra" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
