Dinner was eaten with the two boats side by side, with only fenders between, in a fairy pool.
Such fendersare prohibited in Europe, as doing more harm than good.
With the best magnetic brakes, projecting fendersought to be unnecessary.
I believe these grates are made at Norwich, but Shuffery sends them or similar grates equally satisfactory with his wooden mantelpieces; which, by the way, are supplied with Doulton ware fenders like the tiled hearths.
Now the headlights on Fords were a constant source of trouble, especially if kids riding on the front fenders happened to accidentally kick the wires loose from the headlights.
The constant flopping caused the fenders to begin to break directly above each wheel.
Now, when our front fenders came in contact with the Ford car and the wagon wheel, they went way up and came way back down, and their flopping broke the wire that held the hood on.
The fenders on the old truck, just in normal driving, flopped like a crow's wings trying to fly upstream in a sandstorm.
That was when car fenders were bolted to the running board at one end and the other end of the fender was allowed to vibrate and flop up and down--especially on rough roads, and there were no smooth ones.
While she waited for Kennicott in the car, before a farmhouse, the seat burned her fingers and her head ached with the glare on fenders and hood.
He returned with an entirely new group, and this time there were three automobile fenders and a carnival rattle.
Meanwhile, the lashings which connected the two vessels were cast off, the fenders and matting removed, and all aboard the dhow, except the men who were placing the fuse, were ordered to leave and take up their quarters upon the gunboat.
Five minutes later, she was securely fastened to the dhow, great care being taken to place several thick rope fenders between the vessels, together with some fibre matting which happened to be aboard the dhow.
The stout iron stanchions supporting the engine-room hatch were bent; the port foremost Berthon boat had broken adrift from its securing chains; several ventilators had been unshipped, and every one of our fenders had been swept overboard.
Then came the stiff and formal early Victorian metal work--iron fenderswith steel tops relieved occasionally by ormolu ornament.
These fenders standing on claw feet were afterwards fitted with bottom plates of iron, on which was a ridge or rest against which the fire brasses were prevented from slipping.
There was a smash of lamps, a grinding of fenders and the interlocking of back and front bumpers.
Headlights were smashed, fenders and mud guards were so dented in as to look pitiful, while the front wheels of both cars were interlocked in such a way that they could not be separated.
About half way down the descent we met a sleigh and dashed our fenders against it.
As I demurred, he proposed to repair, without extra charge, one of my fenders which had come to grief, and we made a bargain on this proposition.
The fenders met like a pair of fencing foils, and there was no damage beyond the shock of our meeting.
It took nearly a fortnight to complete the manufacture of these fenders or trusses, for each of them was some twelve feet long by three in diameter composed of compressed straw and shielded by knitted ropework.
It is fenders to throw overboard when the ice is too obtrusive, isn't it, sir?
His chums drew in the fenders and ran up the sail, while Lester took his place at the tiller and eased the Ariel off, until a space of twenty feet separated the two boats.
They put the fenders over the side to avoid scraping, and Lester tossed a coil of rope over a butt that rose at the end of the stern.
Fred reached out and held the two boats together with the hook, while the others let the fenders over the side to keep the boats from scraping.
A good plan is to send cast-iron fenders to be bronzed or lackered by the iron-monger; they will then only require brushing, to free the dust from the ornamental work.
I am going to have thosefenders on every car of the four systems!
They havefenders there that fend and no murder list!
We made a good landing, tying up with the tug alongside, lines out at each end, both fenders out and the launch astern.
The back line was insecure, as there was nothing to which it could be attached, and the boys had merely piled a lot of rocks on the end; but we could see nothing better; so merely strengthened the lines fastening the fenders to the boat.
We have been studying the subject of mooring, and present the following as an ideal moor: The fenders are stout poles six inches thick at the butt, three at the small end, which rests on shore.
But the high bluffs protected us against wind from that quarter, and our fenders kept us out from the shore.
Hawsers are uncovered and coiled clear, stout fenders thrown over in preparation for a grind alongside the wreck.
Often there were no fences; she was so intimately in among the grain that the fenders of the car brushed wheat stalks, and she became no stranger, but a part of all this vast-horizoned land.
She tried to run the car into the empty stall, which was not a stall, but a space, like a missing tooth, between two cars, and so narrow that she was afraid of crumpling the lordlyfenders of the Gomez.
It had boxes and broken chairs, old fenders and picture-frames, and rag-bags hanging from nails.
Ocean liners carry fenders to be thrown over the side when there is need for them, but this naturally is not as often as in more crowded waters.
Boats which are in constant danger of being run into, such as the tug and ferry boats in a busy harbor, are fitted out with buffers or fenders which are as much a part of their equipment as the smokestack, and in many cases, as necessary.
The fenders of a boat are usually made of canvas, stuffed, and neatly painted.
Fenders of any kind, used to protect a vessel from injury by ice; usually broken spars hanging vertically where the strain is expected.
It is such a long time since I have indented for cork-fenders that I don't remember how much these things cost apiece.
And there was plenty of time to use them, and exactly in the conditions in which such fenders are effectively used.
That is the time, if ever, when cork-fenders are lying about a ship's decks.
She again bumped severely during the night, and the watch stood by with fenders to ease the more dangerous blows.
One pointed floe ten or twelve feet thick was steadily battering, with a three-feet send, against the starboard side, andfenders only partially deadened the shock.
The ship bumped heavily that night and fenders were of little avail.
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