So are we like to be crushed 'twixt hammer and anvil," quoth Sir Hacon, tightening thelacing of his battered casque.
The only way in which the invalid could clear herself from the suspicion of malingering, as it is called in the army, was to go on lacing and unlacing, till she fell down dead at the royal feet.
As the one hundred and twenty pounds allowed for the four wings permitted only thirty pounds per wing, and as the cloth covering, lacing cords, etc.
When shifting foresails, the sail is lowered, tack let go, and the lacing comes away by itself; then the new sail can be hooked on to the halliards and laced to the forestay as quickly as it can be hauled up.
Whilst on a subject connected with mainsails, the writer can recommend for the gaff and head of the mainsail, instead of the ordinary long rope lacing commonly in use, separate stops or seizings to each eyelet-hole.
He has the luff of each foresail fitted with loops at regular intervals, after the manner of gaiter lacings, otherwise called 'lacing on the bight.
There was something about the fact of Dred lacing his shoes, and putting on his coat and hat, that made the certainty of what he was embarked upon very present and very real.
Strips of this cut to about the eighth of an inch square, and well greased with mutton suet, are next to indestructible, and are available for all sorts of purposes apart from that of lacing boots or shoes.
A tongue of soft leather ought to be stitched in, that the lacing may not gall the instep, but the edges of this must be carefully thinned down, and no knots or ends of thread should be left inside.
Making eyelet-holes for a lacing at the back of the waistband braces we usually make no provision for; but if the wearer desires, buttons may be affixed for them in their proper place.
If you have long trousers cut them off half way up to the knee, slit them the rest of the way up and fold over to a snug fit about the calf and secure with lacing or buttons.
It can be made into a browse bag by folding the sides together and lacing the ends and side with a string of number 36 tarpon line.
In the second instance, if the cylinder presses too hard against the needle board, the lacing is often cut, and the needles have a tendency to pierce the card where it is blank.
The grooves are also a great saving on the lacing of the cards, for if it came in close contact with the needle board every time the cylinder was drawn in, the lacing would soon be cut, and this often causes the breakage of cards.
The lower extension part of the corset has short stiffening stays, and it is connected independently of the upper stays by short side lacing and elastic straps to the side or hip parts of the corset.
A central front and lacing admit the front part of the corset to expand.
I wish it were unnecessary, in a book like this, to join in the general complaint against tight lacingany part of the body, but especially the chest.
We know, too, from the nature and structure of the lungs themselves, that tight lacing must injure them.
If we wish to know whether a pain in the foot is due to a tight lacing, we relax the lacing and make no other change: if the pain then disappears, we refer it to the lacing as the cause.
The material used for the lacing appeared to be the stem of the Campsidium chilense, a creeper which grows to a great length, is very abundant, and is remarkable for its exceeding toughness.
Caulking is effected by stuffing the seams with bark, over which a lacing is carried, and the squarish holes are finally plugged with some vegetable pulpy matter, of which moss is the chief constituent.
Different ways oflacing the shoes will suggest typical stitches.
She tied the knot of the last lacingand put her boot-heel down firmly.
The lacing of red came again to his cheeks, and before we went back to town he had walked with me to Master Dingley's tavern on the highroad, and back.
He was a man nearing the middle age, with a lacing of red in his cheeks, a pleasant gray eye, and a singularly quiet manner.
A rickety ladder rose to a kind of tower (cupola, I suppose it would be called), whence the bay spread out before me like a picture, the white islands edged with the whiter lacing of the waves.
The only way in which the invalid could clear herself from the suspicion of malingering, as it is called in the army, was to go on lacing and unlacing, 'till she felt down dead at the royal feet.
The lanyard to which the filling is woven is next put in, by boring pairs of small holes in the toe and heel sections, and lacing a narrow rawhide thong through the obliquely drilled holes.
An ordinary leather belt lacing L is attached to the work and faceplate while the latter is screwed off a few turns as shown.
Then the lacing is drawn up by hand and tied, and the faceplate is screwed onto the spindle, thus tightening the lacing and drawing the work against the headstock center.
The method of applying the lacing is quite clearly indicated in the illustration.
A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.
A little tongue or thong of leather; a lacing for belts.
To unite, as bylacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave.
To loose, and take off, as a bonnet from a sail, or to cast off, as any lacing in any part of the rigging of a vessel.
