This is done by passing a loop at the upper end round a pulley mounted in a travelling frame, to which is attached a weight of about 15 cwt.
The cockade was at first the button and loop or clasp which "cocked" up the side of an ordinary slouch hat.
On the arbor is set the remontoire spring s (a moderate-sized musical-box spring is generally used), of which the outer end is bent into a loop to take hold of the pin h.
Another glance at the map will show that, almost halfway between Shabatz and Belgrade, the Save takes a peculiar little loop into Serbian territory, forming a narrow strip of Austrian territory projecting into Serbia.
So complete is the loop that, while it measures a good two miles in circuit, across the neck of it, where the houses cluster, you might fling a pebble over their roofs from stream to stream.
It described a big loop around, and then crossed the fox track only a few yards from the point where its course was interrupted.
It was the usual long, silvery note in the sparrow's song greatly increased; indeed, the whole breath and force of the bird put in this note, so that you caught little else than this silver loop of sound.
Her maid is a deal more simple; her hair is dressed very plainly, a loop by the ears, a twist at the nape of the neck.
Pendants were worn, hung upon jewelled chains that wound twice round the neck, once close to the neck, the second loop loose and passed, as a rule, under the lawn shift.
Donal tied a piece of rope round each hind pastern--if cows have pasterns--and made a loop at the end.
The moment she was at the top of the stair, he and his mother dropped each a loop over a horn.
On the right of the chest was the sailor, his body stretched transversely along its end, with his left arm buried to the elbow in the sennit loop forming its handle.
Provided with this simple weapon, which they carry, stuck through a loop in their leathern belt, they dive without fear among the sharks that frequent the waters of the pearl-oyster fishery.
It soon tightened sufficiently to give Ben the free use of his hands; when with a fresh loop taken around the crumpled canvas, and after a turn or two to render it more secure, the cord was made fast.
With that he started the heavy barrel rolling down-grade; and the loop caught him by one leg, instead of both, as I meant it should.
He had thought his ankle in the grasp of some unseen giant, when the loop tightened, and snatched him upwards.
Fred, as he assisted Colon to take the victim down, by dragging in on the rope, so as to slacken the loop around the leg of the trapped one.
By the time they had cut a large loop in the desert the sun was high in the sky, the daily heat begun.
Only on Anvhar did life repeat its sameness endlessly, like a loop of tape in a player.
Here he rigged a sensitive trigger catch connecting with the loop that held up the sliding door.
Straight through the snare he saw the apparently heedless victim; but he did not see the slender, bright loop faintly gleaming among the green fir-twigs.
The other swept the loop in one quick glance, located the house, and fell into step without a word, the guarded structure fixed on his brain as clearly as if he had studied it for an hour.
There, in the very center of the loop joining the two rows of huts, was a house twice as big as any other.
I'll go and get the loop aerial, Bob, and we can test it right now," suggested Joe.
The way we've got our set hooked up now, we're using a loop antenna, aren't we?
Of course, it was out of the question to erect an outdoor aerial, but they were not bothered by this and decided to use a loop aerial instead.
Well," as the others nodded assent, "why not unwind the loop and string a double aerial on the roof?
Yes, but the loop is mighty handy, just the same," remarked Joe.
For a loop was thrown over my head from behind, and then two strong men had hold of me.
We put a rope round him, and two men at either end, and swept him down the hill faster than he came up, and we promised him the loop round his neck if he came back; for I can't stand their jealousy of everything we discover!
As we pass down the well lighted streets of the loopdistrict we are halted in our progress by a man standing in front of a garish-appearing theater just south of Van Buren on State street.
As for instance, a cigar store in the loop district makes bets on races which are being run off at Jacksonville, Florida.
These places in the loop district pay an average graft and protective price of $100 a month.
This runs as high as $300 for the big loopplaces and those whose revenues are excessively high.
To the shady hotels within the loop or just outside of it, where no embarrassing questions are asked, these brazen prostitutes take their temporary masters.
It is just one of hundreds of indecent forms of entertainment that have enough air of respectability about them to exist on the borders of Chicago's loop district.
Some of the faces which we saw earlier in the evening within the loop district have also "come south," as the expression is.
There is an army of 2,000 of these women infesting the loop district and its adjoining neighborhoods every night in the year.
The interiors of these cafes are similar to the loop cafe we have described, stripped of its air of hidden sin.
The high-priced forms are found in the loop district, the gambling handbooks are found everywhere, and the cheap forms can be met with in any part of the big city.
Down into the heart of the loop district we shall go first.
These places are to be found within theloop district and also in the resident sections of the city.
As we walk along we are conscious of the number of unescorted women, walking the main loop thoroughfare.
The loopdistrict is infested with such shops which are nothing but thin veils for prostitutes.
I got my foot into the loop of chain, grasped at a projection in the gatepost and found myself up.
Diving here is exceedingly primitive; all the necessary paraphernalia consists of a loop of rope and a stone to go down with, a curious horn thing to hold the nose, and oil for the orifice of the ears.
Those for whom there was no room inside continued the line, forming a long loop which extended for some yards outside the tent.
At a season when the volume of water begins to increase, the narrow neck of the loop gives way little by little under the continuous impact of the strengthening current.
In more than one place the current forms a loop ten, twenty and even thirty miles around, rather than to cut through a neck perhaps not half a mile in width.
He seized his revolver and slipped his belt through the loop of its case, and grasping a horsewhip he darted from the house.
Felipe produced the cash, and slipped his belt through the loop of the holster.
Paste the straight dotted edge of each flag over a strong string long enough to extend in a graceful loop from the centre of the ceiling to the side wall (Fig.
Pass E under D, then around back again over D and through the loop (Fig.
Tie a strong cord on the centre of the cross stick, leaving one end long enough to loop down and under the handle of a pail or kettle and reach up and tie to the short end of the cord.
Bring the bunch from your right hand under and through the loop formed by the crossing of the bunches; this will give Fig.
Make a loop of the floss about one inch long (Fig.
Do not take your finger out of the loop until the entire double knot is made.
In a moment the loopof the rope flew out, not toward the horse's head, as Jack had expected, but toward the ground in front of it.
Hugh held the long rope in both hands, the part in his left hand being in a small coil, while from his right hand a long loop trailed behind him in the dust.
He moved his right arm a little forward, turning his hand as he did so, and the loop flew forward and lay spread out open on the ground just before him.
Jack saw that Hugh took the loop of the rope with his right hand, and the free end in a small coil in his left hand, holding the end of the rope pressed against the palm of the hand with his little finger.
Suddenly he threw his right hand forward, the largeloop flew out and settled over the head of a small grey horse that was galloping by.
Your right hand must hold both the loop and the free rope about a foot and a half from the hondu--that's the eye the rope runs through.
Suddenly Joe stepped forward with a rope in his hand and swung the loop about his head, and as he did so the horse, frightened, broke into a gallop.
He walked toward the horses and they started to run, and as they started, he began to swing the rope around his head, and the loop was partly open.
In a moment his hand reached forward, the loop flew out and settled over three or four horses that were crowded together, and they all stopped.
For instance, a dog would be put in a box the door of which would fall open when a loop of string hanging outside the box was clawed down an inch or so.
Putting her mouth near a loop she said in a low but distinct voice--"Why you don't roll here, and fall in scow?
At this moment the Delaware was vigilantly watching through a loop for an opportunity to fire, while the Hurons kept within the building, similarly occupied.
A rabbit snare is made of fine babiche, sinew, cord, or wire, and the loop is hung over a rabbit runway just high enough to catch it round the neck.
