And yet--one would have been wiser to keep the bag about one, in spite of the danger of fouling the controls.
Sherbrand went on: "I developed muscle in persuading him to let it go in the observer's cockpit for fear of it fouling the warping-controls.
The alkaline fouling produced by the black and brown powders acted as a preventive of rusting to some extent, as well as a lubricant in the bore.
The fouling from modern smokeless powders is a slight deposit of acid grease, and the remedy consists in washing out the bore of the piece with an alkaline liquid.
They can hardly degrade me for fouling up this kind of a job.
Meanwhile your speech yesterday and your fouling up Doc Craven's computer this afternoon, and whatever you did at the tennis tonight, have the Computer crowd screaming for your recall before you upset their little red wagon.
I'll give them hell for foulingup the computer-prophecy.
She lit a cigarette and said, "Now--how the hell are you fouling up the computers?
The Orphan pushed his boat so close that he had to back out to prevent her fore mast-head and "wireless" gear fouling him as it heeled down to the water's edge.
Hays, after fouling off two, struck out on a mean drop, and the inning ended without damage.
Their hope grew dimmer, however, when Ralston, after fouling off two, fanned on the third strike.
The extractor-ring prevents the interior of the lock and the ratchet from fouling by escape of gas about the primer when using outside primed ammunition.
In addition to the American brands of black powder mentioned is the American wood powder, which is favored by some pistol-shots on account of its non-fouling qualities.
The hood on the front of the cylinder, about the base-pin hole, prevents fouling of base-pin.
The chief trouble with revolver ammunition to-day is its excessive fouling from the grease and powder.
Most shooters believe a great improvement will, before long, be made in powder, and it is thought that this will lessen the fouling of revolvers; but this difficulty is not likely to be wholly overcome.
The Bouvet, fouling a mine, the detonation of which caused her principal magazine to explode, sank with appalling suddenness, taking with her practically the whole of the crew.
The difficulty of a military rifle lay in the rapid fouling of the barrel, which necessitated a bullet too small to expand sufficiently to fill the grooves; this resulted in inaccuracy.
The charge of powder was inserted by inverting the rifle and passing up the loading-rod with an ounce measure screwed to the end; this method prevented the powder from adhering to the sides of the barrel, and thus fouling the grooves.
Several times, no less a personage that the great Maltby was sent to the sidelines for fouling Rudie who had fouled him likewise.
The usual method is the use of insulated switch rods with insulated joints in the leads of the turnout and at the fouling point of the turnout.
It is also necessary for safety that the side track from the switch points back to the fouling point (Fig.
Use the reel only when the loop of line grows so long that, when you are wading the stream, there is danger of fouling the line.
Line fouling occurs constantly over the projecting handle of the multiplying reel; moreover, as a general thing, multiplying reels are too heavy for the purpose and balance the rod poorly.
When casting from a boat or canoe there is little chance of fouling the line no matter what the length of the loop may be if you take pains to lay down the line evenly on the bottom boards.
You are one of the best players we have; but you are fouling the game, and if you do not have a care we shall lose through your fault.
Hester's foulingput her team-mates out not a little, and the ball was carried to their end of the field and their opponents scored.
No fouling whatever shall be allowed; the boat committing a foul shall be disqualified.
He knew the famous anti-fouling composition; the crew had put on the last coat and, so far as her being painted went, the tug was ready for sea.
When the plates were clean they would paint her with red-oxide before applying the anti-fouling coat.
There was a strong smell of paint, but he could not tell if it was the priming coat, or the anti-fouling that would finish the work.
There is something fouling our propeller, Herr Kapitan," he shouted.
Many were still grimed with dust, and the brown hands that held the glasses stained with the black fouling from the rifles, but there was no mistaking the good will in the dark eyes.
In the meanwhile Appleby was grimed with perspiration, smoke, and dust, while his hand was blackened by the fouling from the pistol.
It was shorn entirely of mudwings and footboards to save the wheels becoming clogged or the running boards fouling the road.
Time and time again I was thrown off by fouling the side of the rut and plunged headlong over the handlebars into the road.
For some time I managed to keep the swerves within the limits of the track without fouling the ruts and the rocks at the side, but it was no use; I saw a fearful crash coming.
I judged I could steer round all right without fouling the rut.
They wasn't praising him so much for licking the big feller as for licking him, clean; and for not fouling when he had a chance to.
And then there's you, who I've learned to be the best lad at slick fouling in the whole business.
There's some Russian or Chinese organization fouling up Congress, and the unions, and the gangs.
And you can do that by foulingup the more intelligent people.
Metallic blocks with nibs, which keep the blocks fair with the falls, and thus prevent the falls from foulingin the recoil, are to be supplied to all Marsilly and heavy pivot carriages.
This is a very valuable book, translated from the German, discussing in detail anti-fouling and anti-corrosive paints.
The gunboat heeled violently over and nearly drove ashore; but the two vessels then went clear, the Brooklyn fouling the booms of the eastern hulks, breaking through them but losing her way.
The two rear gunboats, the Kineo and Wissahickon, were both delayed in passing; the Kineo by a collision with the Brooklyn, the two vessels meeting between the hulks, and the Wissahickon by fouling the obstructions.
The boat was then allowed to drift with the current, and the line held in the hand gave no sign of fouling anything.
