Material nature is prodigal in its bounty, and whether in the grass under our feet, or in harnessing the waterfall, we make or mar our success.
Their friends were up with the dawn, and while harnessingin the team, Forrest called Joel's attention to setting the ranch in order to water the passing herds.
My remaining servants were harnessing mules to carts, and each, in addition, had a pony, ready saddled to receive him, tied to an iron ring in the wall.
With utmost coolness they finished harnessing the carts; drove them with curses to a point near the gate-house, and silently loaded all those bundles of booty into them, strapping the swords and rifles on in stacks behind.
Harnessing in pitch dark is not very easy, unless you have everything exactly where you can lay your hand on it.
Harnessing up with numbed fingers in the dark was a trying job.
Nobody took the least notice, and we went on harnessing and breakfasting as usual.
Keely's final discovery of the means of "harnessing the ether," as he calls it, was through holding it in rotation instead of in confinement.
They belonged to a prominent paper-manufacturing family and naturally turned to that material as the most suitable for trapping and harnessing the smoke.
He had discovered a method of harnessing the wind.
Of the harnessing of the horses we have already written.
It needs to be added, that in harnessing four all the details of fit and stoutness of leather and proper bitting should be more than ever looked after.
Begin at the very beginning, with the harnessing and putting to of your horses.
All the other matters of precedence and procedure in harnessing have a rational sanction which makes them imperative.
The collar goes on first, and where horses are worked hard, and regularly, as in a road coach or on a driving tour, it is well to put the collars on, and leave them on a few moments before the rest of the harnessing is done.
All questions of form or fads or personal peculiarity must first conform to these principles, otherwise the harnessing will be wrong.
This voyage was made a hundred years before the harnessing of coal, but in the middle of the eighteenth century and far into the nineteenth much the same state of feeling widely prevailed.
But when harnesses for the reindeer were brought out I found that harnessing a reindeer was very unlike harnessing a horse, and far more simple.
And quickly harnessing his horse, he went down to the river, where a little wooden ferry could be seen.
I climbed into the bin and slept soundly until the cursing of arrieros harnessing their mules aroused me shortly before dawn.
An enormous shaggy man of a zooelogical cast of countenance, and a male-limbed girl wereharnessing mules in the yard.
The harnessing of Dapple was not easy in the faint light, and he could not find the stable lantern.
He wanted to manage the harnessing alone; but, simple as it was, he found it harder than it looked, and he would have been forced to apply to Matthew, had not Jowett strolled into the stable.
Short as it was, it caused us a good deal of trouble; but we had dogs enough, and by harnessing a sufficient number we got the sledges up.
The dogs had not been let loose that morning, and every man was now in his tent harnessing them.
In harnessing the rein deer, they are careful not to put on the right the beast that is trained to draw on the left, the sledge would otherwise, instead of advancing, be instantly overturned.
The most reluctant were the first to assist in harnessing the deer.
Instead of harnessing them to a sledge, like the Tchouktchis and the Koriacs, they train them up to carry in this manner, and make them obedient to the motions of a bridle twisted about their horns.
So Mr. George and Rollo remained quietly standing by the side of the diligence while the hostlers finished harnessing the horses.
Our conductors could not make them go on without harnessing themselves in like manner to the sledge, and thus assist them to draw us along; we encouraged them also by throwing them a handkerchief folded up in the shape of a fish.
The mode of harnessing and guiding them, as as well as the form of the sledge, ought to be described; but I think it better to defer my description till I come to travel with these people, as I shall be able to be more accurate.
We may also note the rarer occurrence of such scenes as the harnessing of a chariot (Frontispiece)[1818] or the equipping of a war-horse.
Attic black-figured hydria: Harnessing of horses to chariot (colours) Frontispiece TO FACE PAGE L.
He found Stemples hurriedly harnessing up his team, and turned in to help him.
He peered around and found that both Stemples and the barkeeper were in the stable harnessing up the horses, bent on going to a ball at a neighboring town.
Of the recent wonderful development along power lines at Niagara we treat in another chapter under the title of "Harnessing Niagara Falls.
The life of the Spirit in its supreme authority, and its identification with the highest interests of the race, does this: harnessing man's fiery energies to the service of the Light.
It was no easy job harnessing in the dark and backing the heavy carts out of the narrow yard into the still narrower street.
Two of us then had to alight from our sleighs, go into the post-station, show our podorozhnayas to the station-master, and superintend the harnessing of two fresh teams.
Fastening ropes to the half-submerged sleigh and harnessing to it the horses of the other team, we finally pulled that up on the ice.
He looked pale; and several times, while harnessing the horse, the witness had glanced up and seen him shivering, as if with cold, though it was a beautiful May morning.
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