The mats with which the galleon had stuffed her netting now took fire, and burned violently, terrifying the Spaniards and alarming the English, who feared lest the treasure would escape them.
However, the Spaniards at last cut away the netting and tossed the blazing mass into the sea among the struggling and roaring cattle.
If he wanted to hang from the netting he would reach up a hind foot and gain a foothold in the side of the box, then raise the other, thus climbing backwards until he could clasp the netting.
By having one toe around the wire of the netting he could hold himself suspended in the air.
Happily, thenetting was strong enough to bear the wreck.
Net five rows, then take a mesh a very little larger, and widen by netting two stitches in every stitch.
I never attained to much proficiency in the netting of fringe, nor did I ever get the little bureau, and now it is quite reasonable to suppose I never shall.
Hunter had a fish-trap lowered from the forecastle, used a hand dredge from the ship, and did tow-netting occasionally from the launch in its journeys to and from the land.
When not engaged in sounding, dredging, or tow-netting members of the land party found endless diversion in trimming coal.
If you are willing to help with the work to be done on it, we will consider it squared on the cost of the wire-netting and nails," explained Mrs. James.
The netting used for yards should be strung on posts set in the ground and the lower edge should be pegged down so that the birds cannot get under it.
One quarter inch mesh wire netting is bent in a circle and placed in the drinking dish as a guard to keep the ducklings from getting into the pan.
Where yards are provided for ducks poultrynetting about 2 feet high is ordinarily used.
We at length saw him descend from the netting and reappear over the edge of the basket, and he seemed to be motioning to the breathless crowd below the story of his failure.
He appeared directly over the edge of the car, and then clambered up the netting and reached for the cord, but he was so far above us then he looked no bigger than a great black spider.
Mrs. Donaldson has a piece of fancy netting which she reserves for her evening work, because, she says, it does not make much demand upon her eyes.
Thus you have the whole apparatus of “clap”-netting and its use explained.
A twine net will do very well for boys, and if they have mastered the instructions for netting they need have no difficulty in making their own.
Mrs. Sparsit netting at the fireside, in a side-saddle attitude, with one foot in a cotton stirrup.
A set of panels or netting stretched on light frames is provided.
Let the front be of rat-tight netting or heavy screen.
And she pressed against the wire nettingof her pen and stuck her head through it as far as she could, as if she would have pecked Henrietta had she been able to.
Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began to affect the netting under which the three children lay.
Practically I contracted my sausage gas-bag bynetting it down.
We were protected from rolling over simply by netting between the steel stays.
I had no sooner done so than I made the discovery that there was no netting triced up on the port or shoreward side of the vessel, the Frenchmen apparently taking it for granted that we should dash alongside on the side nearest to us.
When the coarse netting is done by machinery, it can be obtained at 12½ cents a fathom, and a fathom of the same kind done by hand would require a day.
Netting for horses is made by hand, in a large establishment near New York.
In England, woollen netting is used by some gardeners for the protection of the bloom of fruit trees from frost.
The best time to shake grates is when throttle is closed, as there is no exhaust to carry the unconsumed gases and sulphur through the flues into the front end, which is liable to choke or clog up netting and cause a steam failure.
What is the purpose of a netting in a smoke-box or front end?
The netting and smoke-arch should be kept in good condition; cinder slide and hand hole plates securely fastened, ash-pan clean and slide dampers for dumping ashes closed.
In many cases, they were covered with branches of trees or with rope netting overspread with leaves.
A belt of netting a hundred and fifty feet wide would have made an effective bar to the passage of U-boats.
Luckily the gate in the wire-netting fence that shut off the house and garden was not latched, for she could not have opened it, but would have stood there holding on to it and foolishly sobbing till some one came and helped.
And Giton did not hesitate at obeying this order, but fastened his hands in the netting for a moment, outdoing Ulysses in his own cunning!
If a person fell from the top of the chimney-stack it was a chance whether that person fell on the wire-netting, or through the space between the wire-netting and the chimney on to the roof itself.
The Coroner understood that the wire-netting did not extend over the whole of the house.
He had an impression similar to that of being at sea, for the wind, which he had scarcely observed in the street, made melancholy noises in the new protective wire-netting that stretched over his head.
Presently the protective netting stopped, and he was exposed to heaven; he had reached the roof of the servants' quarters towards the back of the house.
He had a perfect plan of the wire-netting in his mind.
