Splashing about, presently the plank forgotten for the moment slipped away, and, impelled by the waves they made, floated into deep water.
Then they stood away, and swam to it as if it had been the last plank of a wreck.
The plank immediately tipped and pitched him into the water, bundle and all.
There was no jelly, and it was dry, but they enjoyed it very much sitting at the plank table under the shed.
Mark went first with one end of the plank on his shoulder, and Bevis followed with the other on his, and as they had to hold it on edge it rather cut them.
Till she reached the permanent plank table under the awning and saw the remnants of the supper carelessly left on it, she had had no thought of taking anything.
With the end of a plank under each arm Bevis hauled these across to the other materials.
The way is to lie down with the chest on the plank head first, trailing the toes behind, legs extended as rudders to keep the course straight.
He had not enough plank to make the sides so he proposed to fix uprights and extend a railing all round, and wattle this with willows, which would keep off some of the wash of the waves, like bulwarks.
Putting the plank down again, Mark went forward with his harpoon, for he knew that shoals of fish often played in the water when it was still, just beneath this rocky wall.
Bevis struggled hard to get on, and so pushed the plank sideways to the edge of the weeds.
This was sliding down the steep down just behind the house, on a short piece of broadplank with a ridge in front.
He was holding the plank at arm's length with his limbs floating.
They stood up in the shallow and rested a few minutes, and Bevis fastened his bundle to his plank just in front of where he sat.
In the figure, a skin K is represented upon the plank with the head knife upon it, in the act of being pared.
At the spinning-mill these are unrolled, and the slivers are laid on a long plankor trough, with the ends lapping over, in order to splice the long end of one sliver into the short end of another.
In the middle between these two chests, a plank is fixed, mounted with twenty-two pegs for wringing the hanks upon, as they are taken out of the bath.
They hold this plank in an inclined position, and put the sand to be washed in the first groove; they then throw water on it, when the gold mixed with a little sand collects usually towards the lowest furrow.
The under part of the lowermost plank of the frame rests upon the surface of the ground, which is chosen level and very firm, that the piles may hold the faster.
This plank is heavily loaded, to make it immovable upon the floor.
The half of each plank next the kettle is made of lead, the upper half of mahogany.
The space between them is filled with an oak plank on which the trial chain is laid.
There are three modes of keeping back or stopping up these feeders; by plank tubbing; iron tubbing; and by oak cribs.
They are left in this predicament for 3 or 4 hours, under compression of a plank loaded with weights.
And now, the plank being as full as it would hold, they all returned to the hotel to arrange the table.
Return the plank to the oven to finish broiling the fish and to brown the potatoes.
At its ending the crowd slowly began filing down the one long, narrow plank reaching from the ship's gangway to the wharf.
The culprit was placed in the chair, and the other end of the plank was raised several times, so that the ardour of the culprit was effectually cooled by frequent immersions.
At the edge of the pond you might have seen a long plank which turned on a swivel, with a chair at the end overhanging the water.
The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.
The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length.
The freight was being rolled over the plank and all was confusion.
The "all aboard" was shouted, the plank was pulled in, the paddles turned and we were moving away amid the waving of caps and fluttering of handkerchiefs.
The men carried him to father, the plank was pulled in, the paddles turned and we steamed away with those on the dock waving us good-by.
Aunt Margaret lifted me to the seat, took the lines, and our horse just flew down the plank road till we arrived at Mrs. Matthews, where Mr. Crane was waiting for us.
We crossed the Grand river at Fairport, then took the old plankroad to Painesville.
I could scarcely wait for the gang plank to be put out.
Jan from the top of the plank that crossed the trench, and served as a sort of gangway between the foot of the side ladder and the firm ground beyond the excavation.
Mr Flinders jumped up and down on the plank gangway, making it sway to and fro with his excitement.
Knowing that his flight to Paulus Hook would be intercepted, he started for the British patrol boats lying in Newark Bay near Brown's Ferry (near the Newark plank road).
The road was nearly the same as the one since known as the Newark plank road.
These consisted of four bedrooms, the plank floors of which gaped so widely that one could see and hear everything that went on below.
Now the tower had been built in a hurry and the floors were of plank only, not of brick or stone.
At this moment they came to the plank and the ditch.
No fences were required for Colonel Eliot's domain--the three near hillsides were his natural walls, a ditch andplank at the entrance of the ravine his moat and drawbridge.
On some questions the plank may not be plain, but may straddle the issues.
He stepped lightly upon the near plankto reconnoitre.
A long, narrow, single-plank bridge stretched across the channel.
He had stepped lightly off his own plank for a moment while he drew Louise back to it.
When he had reached what he considered the middle of the channel, he returned and pronounced it in his opinion safe, with proper care, and advised strongly that no one step upon a plank till the one in front of him had left it.
People had blocked the rough plank walks leading to the court-house long before the doors were unlocked.
Dark figures balanced themselves on the slim footing, each the length of a plank from the other, the line seeming to stretch from bank to bank.
It was a more dangerous undertaking now that two must stand on a plank at the same time.
Lawson had crawled to a place of safety on a forward plank after having been flung out of the way by Gordon in his swift rush for Louise.
I rapidly removed the loose earth, and then with the pickaxe I heaved the plank up bodily.
Some plank in the ship's side was evidently stove in, admitting free passage for the waves.
Didn't have no Christmas tree, but they set up a long pine table in the house and that plank table was covered with presents and none of the Negroes was ever forgot on that day.
The natives was feeling less scared, and the next day some of them walked up the gangplank to get things off the plank and off the deck.
In one room was bunk beds, just plain old two-by-fours with holes bored through the plank so's ropes could be fastened in and across for to hold the corn-shuck mattress.
Den we hear de fighting up to de north 'long about what de river is, and de guns sound lak hosses loping 'cross a plank bridge way off somewhar.
Pierre saw the child's black figure in the moonlight standing out clearly against the background of grey willows, he saw the white plank and the dark river tipped with light flowing on beneath it.
If you come upon them at the noon-hour, sprawled along the narrow ledge of a singleplank you may be impressed by two things--their Americanism and their cosmopolitanism.
But I had no sooner reached the window than I forgot all else in the sight that met my eyes, and I made but two bounds into my clothes, and down the crazy plankto the platform.
The room immediately above could only be entered by a plank propped against the threshold, along which the intruder must foot it gingerly, clutching for support to sprays of poison oak, the proper product of the country.
Thereupon he gravely rose, as though to hint that this was not a proper place, nor the subject one suitable for squaws, and I, following his example, led him up the plank into our barrack.
But I say, as I said before, Mrs. Vance has got to plank the money down more freely.
On the top of the upright timber, and fastened immovable, is a puncheon plank on the upper edge of which are cut three grooves, the middle one large enough to contain a man's neck and the other two his wrists.
Now a second plank is fashioned to fit down over the first one, with other grooves in it to match.
Du Bois-Reymond speaks very frankly: "Albeit, in holding to this theory we may feel like a man kept from drowning only by holding firmly to a plank just strong enough to keep him afloat.
There appears to them, like a rescuing plank in a shipwreck, Darwin's Natural Selection.
