Jerry Rivas and a couple of others took a heavy-duty lifter and went looking for conversion mass; they brought back a couple of tons of scrap-iron and fed it to the converters.
Conn took one quick look in the direction in which it was firing, saw an aircar that had broken through the police line and was rushing toward them, and dived under the lifter after his father.
Fifteen or twenty men were clustered around it, with a lifter loaded with ammunition.
The lifter put his fingertips against Jon's ear pick-ups and lowered his voice to the merest shadow of a whisper.
The burly bulk of a lifter was moving back and forth in the gloom of the ancient warehouse stacking crates in ceiling-high rows.
When I was taking water samples in the morning I discovered that the water-lifter suddenly stopped at the depth of a little less than 80 fathoms.
Unfortunately, in all arrangements of this sort, the plunger comes to a reluctant and weary stop, as the roller of the lifter rounds the nose of the cam.
Thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
In chemical works it raises liquids so corrosive that no other lifter is feasible.
For oil wells, which may be 2000 or more feet in depth, a lifternot so simple is employed.
This gave designers a hint to reverse the turbine and use it as a water lifter or pump: this machine, duly built, with a continuous instead of an intermittent motion, showed much better results than the old-fashioned pump.
Ye needna ask whae Rob Roy is, the reiving lifter that he is--God forgie me!
He switched off the drive knob and the twelve auxiliary lifter switches.
He gripped the lifter knob in his fingertips and, turning his head, stared out at the dark floor of the workshop below.
Nancy's air was so serious, for she had within the past hour become a changed girl, that The Lifter could not help noticing it.
The Lifter turned away his head; for he was sick and sore at heart.
The girl did so, and presently The Lifteropened his eyes.
Heard your words to the capteen,' The Lifter said to our hero, in a smooth, even whisper.
It was quite plain, and evidently near at first; but The Lifter was soon satisfied that the listener had gone to bed.
Indeed, if The Lifter is to be believed, she passed her fingers caressingly through these insinuating locks.
Nevertheless, the fact remains that The Lifter broke the compact which binds us loyally to one another.
At first it was proposed that The Lifter should go in and enquire the distance to Sloan's tavern, a well-known rendezvous for lumbermen in the neighbourhood.
The Lifter had lain where he fell without moving a muscle; but upon taking his wrist our hero found that his pulse beat.
It was all along here that the men who came into the bush fell through; and as they fell the old woman, Poll, and The Lifter despatched them with clubs.
Ah; he's a miser,' The Lifter said in a low voice.
As the lifter was about to be followed by the teakettle, Ezra took to his heels, bolted from the house and began his long tramp to the village.
Then he remembered certain fragments of their last conversation and wished the stove-lifter had been flung with better aim.
This was the end of the dialogue, because Mr. Payne was obliged to break off his harangue and dodge the stove-lifter flung at him by the outraged lightkeeper.
If one reaches in and takes hold of the pie pan with a cloth, the arm is liable to touch the oven door and receive a [Illustration: Lifter on Pie Pan] burn.
The same lifter will pick up any size of plate or pan from a saucer to the largest pie plates.
Hot Pan or Plate Lifter [318] Unless a person uses considerable caution, bad burns may be suffered when taking hot pies from an oven.
On withdrawing the finger from the trigger, the lifter and ratchet pall descended and again slipped into the notches of the hammer and the chamber, in readiness for repeating the operation of firing.
I know nothing of the habits of the tiger of the grass plains, but those of the hill tiger are very interesting, the cattle lifter especially, as he is better known to men.
The curved toe on the rock-shaft operates on the lifter attached to the lifting rod to raise the valve.
Toe and lifter for working poppet-valves in steam engines.
Visit the first half-dozen circuses that may come to town, and ask the managers whether the cannon-lifter or the general performer has the better health.
The lifter and the India-rubber man constitute the two mischievous extremes.
Wherefore, O my soul, thou canst be fully comforted and perfectly refreshed, only in God, the Comforter of the poor, and the lifter up of the humble.
For in this Sacrament Thou hast bestowed many good things and still bestowest them continually on Thine elect who communicate devoutly, O my God, Lifter up of my soul, Repairer of human infirmity, and Giver of all inward consolation.
He picked up the can lifter and stood looking at it.
The can lifter was too long to be gotten wholly into the chimney, but Tom poked the end of it through the hole and upward until its angle brought it against the chimney wall.
Before leaving home on a thieving excursion to the stores the female shop-lifter carefully and systematically prepares her clothing, and sees that it is in proper form and ready for business.
The female shop-lifter is generally a woman well known to the police, as her picture will, in nearly every case, be found in the Rogues' Gallery at Police Headquarters.
As soon as they were there a woman detective was sent for, and the supposed shop-lifter was taken behind a screen and searched thoroughly.
There's a shop-lifter over in the hosiery department!
A Bottle-Cap Lifter [Illustration] To remove the crimped bottle cover so extensively used requires a special lifter, the corkscrew being of little use for this purpose.
A steam water-lifter has also been added, by which the tanks can be filled without delay during frost.
The lifter is polished, and insinuated under the section.
The section being held in position by the needle is now raised from the fluid, excess of which is removed by holding the section in position with a mounted needle, and tilting the lifter so as to allow it to drain off.
