When the irons are attached, the job is sandpapered and a coat of lead containing a durable binder of oil is given.
When possible it is advisable, as in case of heavy trucks, to coat the job, prior to fitting the ironswith raw linseed oil.
The man opened his old leathern bag, and his stained hands fumbled in it, amongst irons that were brown but not rusty, and thongs plaited with wire, and strangely shaped tools in which there were well-greased screws that turned easily.
Perhaps at that very moment they were questioning him before Andronicus, twisting his handsome limbs till the joints cracked, or holding red-hot irons close to his blistering feet.
So I went, and after passing my honour's word to them they appeared easy, and the more so when I caused the two men that were inirons to be released and forgiven.
Presently, he was too ill to leave his bed, and Waxel, who hated all interference and threatened to put the scientists in irons or throw them overboard, took command.
Heere is now the Smithes note, for Shooing, And Plough-Irons Shal.
I haue sworne to do it: And with hot Ironsmust I burne them out Ar.
I sent to entreat that the irons might be taken off; but all entreaties were in vain.
I was not used to pain, and I could never have kept on pressing those irons to my cheek if I had not had the strength given me by my own reflection in the glass.
A pair of curling-irons lay on the hearth, but I had no sooner lifted them than I dropped them with a shudder of unspeakable loathing, only to start at the noise they made in striking the tiles.
Good Queen Isabella was so indignant at this barbarity that she ordered the poor Indians to be liberated, and sent out Francisco de Bobadilla, who in 1500 arrested Columbus and his two brothers, in Espanola, and sent them in irons to Spain.
The king made him governor of Paraguay in 1540; but he was as unfit for such a post as Columbus had been for a viceroy, and soon came back in irons to Spain, where he died.
I remember the words as well as if spoken yesterday, and I told him that he could put me in irons again, for work I would not.
Moreover, I knew the letters that box contained, and also guessed that their destination would be--the father of the girl who wrote them, so I went back solus to my irons in the after cabin.
It hurt, but it had not the least effect in disturbing my resolve, and the mate interposed with the advice not to strike us but to put us in irons in the after cabin.
I got the irons in front of me, slipped on deck through the skylight unseen by any one on board, threw the vang fall over the side, slid down it, and struck out for the shore.
He released me from the ironsand told me what I should have to do.
Where the men got the drink from we never knew, but there was violence and a free fight more or less before getting some of them in irons and tied up to the mainboom for security until they were sober.
The name of the lawyer who represented us was Edmunds, and I recollect well how he painted the terror we must be in (at which we grinned comprehensively) when one could risk life by venturing into the water with irons on.
On sailing day it was no uncommon thing to be obliged to go up town in a hansom cab, find your men half drunk, and then sit upon them in the cab until you could get them safely on board and in irons until they were sober.
With shout and cry Red Rowan bore him on his shoulders down the long ladder, the irons clanking at every stride.
The Laird's Jock got the prisoner on his back, irons and all, and brought him down the stairs with no small speed and joy.
The grappling-irons were thrown aboard, and the jackies swarmed nimbly up the sides, and began the work of destruction.
When everything was in shape, Irons hired a canoe of the natives for the use of his friends.
The captain and his companions gave expression to their deep gratitude, and Irons continued in his bluff, pleasant manner: "I guess I am about as much a savage as any of them.
The time for driving S-irons of either form is when the cracks first appear.
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He wondered if it were a fire, but he crawled with the irons toward Coupeau, who began to solder the zinc, supporting himself on the point of one foot or by one finger, not rashly, but with calm deliberation and perfect coolness.
He blew the furnace with his mouth, and he went down on his knees and made a motion as if he had soldering irons in his hand.
The stove and the irons were alike red hot; she must wait a quarter of an hour before she could touch the irons, and Gervaise covered the fire with a couple of shovelfuls of cinders.
Her first glance, however, was directed to her stove, a sort of furnace whereon ten irons could be heated at once.
She had not taken her cap off but stood at the table, moving her irons to and fro with the regularity of an automaton.
He recalled the days when he first knew her, when her skin was so delicate and she stood at her table, briskly moving the hot irons to and fro.
The irons hissed as he applied them, and he called to Gervaise: "I am coming!
The boy thrust the irons among the coals which showed only a dull pink in the sunlight and then went to work again with his bellows.
Gervaise undressed her husband and tucked him up in bed as if he had been a child and then returned to her fluting irons in time to still a grand dispute that was going on about an iron that had not been properly cleaned.
One afternoon in June the ten irons were heating on the stove; the door was open into the street, but not a breath of air came in.
She moved more slowly, and when she took a chair to wait for her irons to heat she rose with reluctance.
Grotovey, Grotovey; piet minute" said the man, producing the ready prepared irons from one pocket and a hammer and nails from another.
Then he claps Bill in irons mighty decisive, an' plants him up ag'in the high face of a rock bluff which has been frownin' down on Bird River since Adam makes his first camp.
Between the sentence and the hour for execution a man came into the prison to measure the seven culprits for the irons in which their bodies were subsequently to be hung by chains.
She was further furnished with a couple of creeping irons for getting up the smugglers' kegs, a grapnel, a chest of arms and ammunition, the Custom House Jack and spy-glass as already mentioned.
For branding irons do not always inquire very closely into the parentage of a calf that comes bouncing up stiff-legged at the end of a cowpuncher's rope.
He rode away to the wagon, where a fire was already burning and the branding irons heating.
He supposed strange irons were set now and then on the hide of an NL animal across the mountains--but the branders had better not let him catch them at it!
Have the waffleirons hot but not scorching--grease well with melted lard--the salt in butter will make the batter stick.
And a very comfortable tea there was set out on the old oak table in front of the large fireplace where the dog-irons were.
Once again he found himself in the brig, and the door locked, after the leg-irons had been fitted.
But I'm going with you to the brig, and want to see leg irons put on the rascal, too.
Oh, if I had my revolver and handcuffs and leg-irons here.
That fellow is in irons because he joined us from the 'Victor.
From the instant Cragthorpe had caught sight of the face of Gaston Giddings, the man in irons had stood more at ease, a sneer on his face.
Yes," answered Lawrence, recovering himself a little, "she thought I was dead when I was in double irons for mutiny on a merchant ship.
His play with the irons is a fine test of the golfer.
An unreasoning golfer may play with his clubs on wet days, see that the irons are brightened afterwards, and store his collection in his locker without another thought concerning them.
One driver may be very much like another, and even to the practised eye two irons may be exactly similar; but with one the golfer may do himself justice, and with the other court constant failure.
One expects to get much nearer to it with this last of the irons than with the cleek or the simple iron, and the more nearly the flag is approached the greater the skill and experience of the player.
Drivers and brassies vary a little, cleeks and irons differ much, but mashies are more unlike each other than any of them.
It jars upon one's nerves to see rusty irons and mashies which have evidently not been cleaned for months, and which are now past hope.
I find them lunging out with all their power at full shots with their irons when they might be far better employed in effecting one of those pretty low shots made with the cleek at the half swing.
They are of different makes, and to the average golfer they appear quite ordinary irons and very much like others of their class.
