Because you're brave enough to tar and feather poor friendless cast-out women that come along here, did that make you think you had grit enough to lay your hands on a MAN?
But if grit and determination will help any, I’ll get up the ladder yet.
This was no job for a monkey-wrench sailor, but a man’s task, requiring strength, grit and nerve.
He dismissed the idea as unworthy of Jim, whose honour and grit he appreciated fully.
If they've any grit they'll soon be over the walls," the senior whispered.
The general characteristics of grindstones are as follow:-- For rapid grinding a coarse and an open grit is the most effective.
The finer the grit the smoother the surface it will grind.
On the other hand, any particles of gritthat may find ingress to babbitted boxes are apt to become bedded into the babbitt metal and cut or grind away the journal.
With a given degree of coarseness a soft grit stone will grind a smoother surface than a hard grit one.
By making the movement a partly reciprocating one we destroy this tendency, and either imbed the grit into the iron or else work it out.
The harder the grit the more durable the stone, but the liability of the stone to become coated or glazed with particles of the metal ground from the work is increased.
Cast iron in bearings or boxes is found to work exceedingly smoothly and well under light duty, provided the lubrication is perfect and the surfaces can be kept practically free from grit and dust.
All were anxious to shake the hand of the daring boy who had turned seeming disaster into safety by his gritand cool-headedness.
He's the grit kid," put in one of the hastily-gathered posse admiringly.
The smaller, gold-bearing part was washed into the stamp-mills, which worked incessantly, and which reduced pebbles and grit and sand and gold to a pasty slime.
Not only that, but you got to work the sodden lumps o' dirt soft wi' your fingers, so's the grit gets right into the skin.
It is good that some have a bit of grit ground into them.
The subject is hearkening if he has the grit to pass up "gutter guff" always circulating in the criminal crowd, while he puts forth earnest efforts for fundamental averages.
Good cocoa and chocolate should be slightly bitter, with a pleasant characteristic odor and taste; they should have a smooth, even consistency and be free from grit or harsh particles.
If a sample of the flour be thrown on the surface of a glassful of water, the corn and rice, being heavier, will sink; grit and sand may be detected in the same way.
He has the quiet grit one finds in the best of us--not the kind that make the speeches--and some Englishmen, in him.
I felt it would come, and yet it has shaken most of the grit out of me.
They are not rabble, but level-headed Americans, with the hardest kind of grit in them.
You are Torrance of Cedar's daughter, and everyone knows the kind of grit there is in that family.
She saw the man wince ever so slightly, and was pleased at it; but he was, as she had once told him in the old days, grit all through, and he smiled a little.
For grit and devotion the case of Howard Blackburn surpasses understanding.
It was to be man to man, where good play of cutlass and pike and youth and American gritmight mean victory.
The story of his grit and devotion to his dory-mate are to-day told to the young fishermen of the fleet, and the men of the Banks will sing his praises until Time shall have wiped out all things which remain unrecorded.
No fellow in this crowd has any right to doubt that Dick Prescott is all there with the grit when it's called for.
Come on, fellows; we can make it if we have grit and industry enough.
Besides, she had grit and the courage of a thoroughbred.
The little woman, who had great gritand even heroism beneath her indecisive and fluttering exterior, drew herself up.
It will, of course, take a long time, perhaps fourteen or fifteen years, but he has a great deal of grit and perseverance, and I believe he will stick to it until he has thoroughly mastered the business.
The editors have found here a man illustrative of perseverance, here one marked by undaunted ambition, there a life where grit overcame all obstacles, and another where the quick grasping of opportunities led to noble achievement.
And you never will know what is meant by grit Unless there's something you've tried to quit.
A rising wind swept through the dead bracken, whirled round the great grit boulders, and sent a shiver through Louie's thin body.
But no path ran anywhere near them, and from the path up above they were screened by the grit 'edge' already spoken of.
She leaned her elbows on the sill, and, looking out into the squalid bit of yard, threw a bit of grit that lay on the window at a cat that sat sleepily blinking on the flags outside.
Here the great black slabs of grit were lying fantastically piled upon each other at every angle and in every possible combination.
Here they are destined to meet with some of the pleasantest as well as the most thrilling experiences of their circus career, in which both have many opportunities to show their grit and resourcefulness.
All thegrit in the lad's slender body seemed to come to the front now.
The pink is generally preferred, and it should be as free as possible from grit of all kinds, quartz particles, &c.
The nitrating house is best built of wood, and should have a close-boarded floor, which should be kept scrupulously clean, and free from grit and sand.
If daily check reveals excessive accumulation of dirt andgrit in oil and cup, filter elements must be removed and cleaned.
If oil in cup is clean, with no signs of dirt and grit in oil or cup, but the oil level is below the indicated level mark, add engine oil (seasonal grade) to bring level up to mark.
She had the gritto pray for Judus if she took the notion--there warn't no back-down to her, I judge.
Because you're brave enough to tar and feather poor friendless cast-out women that come along here, did that make you think you had grit enough to lay your hands on a man?
It means stopping one engine for twenty-four hours, unbolting the bearings and the thrust-blocks, and cleaning the grit out.
We've got every bit of grit out, and she'll work as easy as ever she did.
You know what grit means in the bearings of a screw shaft.
I haven't spoken to the old man yet, and I need all my fighting grit for that.
