To the hoarsegrating of her anchor chain the Lulio swung to, and through the darkness the vague outlines of rowing boats could be seen approaching.
It was nearly midnight when Dansowich was awakened from a deep but troubled slumber by a grating noise at the door of his dungeon.
Over the other hatchway, in the fore part of the vessel, a wooden gratingwas fastened.
He'd evidently come along to count his day's 'bag,' for he walked along the grating looking in at us.
I heard 'kilometres' mentioned once or twice, and then the President waved his hand majestically and I was taken back and the grating locked behind me.
The wheels of the Pippitt equipage crunched heavily down the drive, and as the grating sound died away, clear on the quiet air came the soft slow chime of the church-bells ringing.
Once there, he coughed softly to attract Frost's attention, but that individual was too much engrossed with his work to heed any lesser sound than the grating of the chairs he was arranging.
Trejago, thinking that the rupture had lasted quite long enough, went down to Amir Nath's Gully for the fifth time in the three weeks, hoping that his rap at the sill of the shifting grating would be answered.
As the song stopped, Trejago stepped up under the grating and whispered:--"I am here.
Directly the gongs in the City made the hour, the little voice behind the grating took up "The Love Song of Har Dyal" at the verse where the Panthan girl calls upon Har Dyal to return.
He has lost her in the City, where each man's house is as guarded and as unknowable as the grave; and the grating that opens into Amir Nath's Gully has been walled up.
Bisesa or her old handmaiden who had thrown the object-letter had detached the heavy grating from the brick-work of the wall; so that the window slid inside, leaving only a square of raw masonry, into which an active man might climb.
A few drops on the sugar you make punch with will instantly impregnate it with as much flavour as the troublesome and tedious method of grating the rind, or rubbing the sugar on it.
If you put your ear to it while I strain it, you will hear the gratingof a fracture in the bony core.
I touched the hilt, and felt the characteristic gratingof bone.
Here Don Sanchez ringing a bell, a little grating in the door is opened, and after some parley we are admitted by a sturdy fellow carrying a cudgel in his hand.
At the bottom of the wall next to the patio there was a grating which could be removed.
There was a crunching, grating shock and the vessel was thrown into a dizzy spiral, from which Costigan finally leveled it into headlong flight away from the scene of battle.
Cleveland, eyes upon interferometer grating and spectrophotometer charts, fingers flying over calculator keys, grinned as he turned toward Rodebush.
Just as I lost strength, my hand touched a cask lashed to a gratingthat must have fallen from some vessel, or been thrown from it.
For on the envelope that had lain uppermost when he had picked up the package from the grating of the tender, he had seen the name, "Ruth Adams.
By crepitation is meant that characteristicgrating sound produced by rubbing the two ends of the fractured bone together.
If a fracture is present it will be manifested by a distinct grating sound, also by a jarring sensation as the uneven fragments pass over each other.
The place had never been aired, as there was nothing but a very small grating right at the top, which was never opened; and it smelt foul.
But she could not rise, her ankles felt broken, so she slid on her knees to the grating in the wall, behind which stood the image of the Holy Mother with her Child.
In length, my room was thirty paces from the iron grating to the opening in the face of the cliff.
He left me without a word, and locked behind him a gratingof stout iron bars which filled all the space between floor and roof.
Dick, watching the slimy creature as it sought for a hiding-place, and strove to get under the grating in the bottom of the boat.
The next minute the boat was grating upon the rocks.
I arrived unobserved, and left the mule on which I had come at the house of the worthy man who had brought me the letter, and fortune was pleased to be for once so kind that I found Luscinda at the grating that was the witness of our loves.
Lord Mafferton came up that day with us, and explained that the grating was to prevent the ladies from throwing themselves at the heads of the unmarried members--a singular precaution.
On no consideration what-;' but the grating slowly disappeared, and the rest of Lady Torquilin's admonition came down on the top of the elevator.
To receive the quenching water that escapes through the grating a trough is placed beneath, and a scraper is used to free the trough of the dust escaping through the grating.
He escaped this, however, and slowed down the movement of the heavy bomb to such an extent that near the opposite rail he was able to grasp it, lying with feet and hands braced in the grating of the gun platform.
In passing before the town hall, I saw that a number of people were stopping before the little grating where notices are posted up.
A basilisk fire shone through his eyes, and the breath which he blew through the grating of his teeth, over his thin, livid lips, and into my face, was freighted heavily with the fumes of whiskey.
He then blew a rasping, grating blast upon the air, ear-splitting and dissonant, that was his own rendition of a few bars of Yankee Doodle.
Considering, however, that every word except the part about the grating is based on evidence which has reached us, it looks to me very like the truth.
The mere fact of Percy having been in the house close to the passage from which there was an opening closed only by a grating into the 'cellar' itself,[177] would negative the impossible supposition.
Hamar had climbed the spikes to the chimney base, and by the time the policeman got his head through the grating was shinning up the big smokestack like a monkey.
His discovery was a rusty grating set in the floor close to the foot of the chimney, and it was surprising how easily it could be moved.
