The first occasion on which the voice of Scout Harris arose to its former height was on the last day before West Ketchem summoned its bronzed scouts over to the makeshift school which had been prepared in a vacant, old-fashioned mansion.
Had he not engineered the camping enterprise pending the preparation of a makeshift school?
With makeshift pigments and brittle whitebark, Paul had recently painted such a group.
The meat hung from a makeshift tripod; Arek jumped back, startled, as a furry thing scampered down.
The pygmies carried only half a dozenmakeshift stretchers; the number of unwounded had diminished too.
None too gently one of the other outlaws pushed the girls before him to where a makeshift ladder led to a loft above the first floor.
Tom called and there was a concerted rush for the makeshift supper table.
There's a makeshift broom over there in the corner.
The room--there was only one--was empty of all but its meager furnishings, a table and two makeshift chairs standing before the fireplace.
They also were very interesting, showing the transition from the makeshift work of the machines (which was at about its worst a little after the Civil War before told of) into the first years of the new handicraft period.
That makeshift studio world may have no connection with the genuine professional artist, but it's very representative of life," he remarked.
Like the specter at the banquet it stands, its substanceless eyes viewing with a sad philosophy the makeshift feast.
It was Sunday; the breeze died away towards evening, and the missionary read the service of the day in the makeshift cabin.
It was of this I was thinking; for some of those makeshift spars may leave us at any moment, and then I must lie-to.
Two serious holes in the hull, caused by the entrance of the eighteen-pound shot, had been plugged in a makeshift manner, it is true, but still they had been boarded over.
It is said that the cap and gown will be used to cover untidiness, to conceal the makeshift of a disorderly and unsightly toilet.
His occupation indeed was only in his eyes a temporary makeshift while he was preparing himself for what was to be his real work in life.
The dull lamplight revealed the makeshift of the hospital.
He drew a deep breath as his gaze, abstracted, far off, was turned in the direction where his Mission stood in all its pristine, makeshift simplicity.
A most hopeless makeshift ball has been put on the market, but after a few minutes' play it no longer keeps its shape or resiliency.
Not only does the universal introduction of clothing tickets falsify this boast, but the cloth is found to be a mere makeshift when tested.
Upon the makeshift rustic platform sat the high dignitaries, scoutmasters, trustees--the faculty, as Hervey was fond of calling them.
Therefore, without some such makeshift as that already described one would be in the most unsatisfactory position of knowing that water existed, and yet of being unable to obtain any but a very small supply.
We did not completely exhaust the water in the well--not, I fear, because we studied the convenience of the natives, but because our makeshift appliances did not enable us to sink deeper.
We have a makeshift thing set up there now--but it's nothing to what will be needed.
Long before dawn he rose and scribbled a note in the dim light of the old kerosene lamp in the makeshift lobby, a note to Ba'tiste Renaud: "I'm going over the range.
Each knows his makeshift and feels some of the humour of it, and in his closet, when not before his public, acknowledges the violence to which he is lending himself.
This makeshift of refinancing is a device of speculative financiers.
In the afternoon the Marchesa’s guests played golf on a rather makeshift nine-hole course laid out in the meadows.
In that second there has come a breaking up of the makeshift organization which long served the working multitudes fairly well.
We must be patient with the inevitable makeshift of our human thinking, whether in its sum total or in the separate minds that have made the sum.
And did the school ever feel surer of its oneness, or more proud of its name, than when it sat on those rude benches within the ruder walls of their makeshift great school-room?
The prospect of a fresh period of makeshift life was not a welcome one; but the worst had been faced by this time, and found, after all, not hard to deal with.
The makeshift gymnasium and carpentery, in the stables and coach-house, have been mentioned before.
Pillows and blankets were whisked into position for a makeshift bed.
When they arrived at the spot where Bruce's boat was tied to the makeshift pier they were both breathless and laughing.
The travelers agreed to occupy this makeshift bed-chamber.
It was, of course, a mere makeshift hypothesis to derive the beginnings of Christianity from an imposture.
It may be presumed that they considered a steamship man as a sort of inferior being, or shall we say a hybrid being--at best a makeshift seaman.
It’s rather a mercy we had no accident, for we were dealing with heavy weights with makeshift gear.
I had been on board the Tecumseh and rigged up a makeshift rudder with stream chain, and returned to my own ship to get the towing-gear ready for a start at daylight.
They were forced to carry him the rest of the way on a makeshift stretcher of leaves and branches.
Crosses of black timber newly varnished, makeshift crosses built out of two logs, crosses of stones piled up and plastered together, crosses whitewashed on crumbling walls, humble crosses drawn with charcoal on the surface of whitish rocks.
This is but a makeshift at best and usually results in either a reduction of the safe working pressure or in the necessity for a new plate.
In other designs the means of access to the rear ends of the tubes are of a makeshift and unworkmanlike character.
He unpacked the bright, gleaming space helmet and used it as a makeshift mirror.
