She also took a pitcher[FN#183] and filled it with water to the neck; after which she set three dinars in the mouth and stopped it up with a plug of palm-fibre.
She took the ewer from her shoulder and whirled it about in air, so that the plug flew out of its mouth and the three dinars fell to the ground.
Without hesitation Frank explained how a person had hired Plug Kirby to break his arm and what the result had been; how the person who made the bargain had given a card on which Putnam's name was engraved.
He started back when he saw the little group of students, but Plug Kirby saw his face and hoarsely exclaimed: "Dere's der mug now!
Permit me to introduce you to Mr. Plug Kirby--Mr. Burnham Putnam.
Frank might well have felt pleased that he exercised such an influence over a man like Plug Kirby.
There may be regions beyond when poets and mythologists may bring great treasures for the Human Spirit; but do you do well to treat such treasures as plug material for exchange and barter?
Plug souls; no poetry in them;--but the Earth Breath cleanses and heals and satisfies them.
Soon afterward the plug is drawn out of the hole at the bottom, and the mixture, having percolated through the sand, escapes into a tub.
As the water percolates through the material it dissolves the saltpetre; then, the plug being pulled out from the vat, the solution is drained into a tub and ladled out into small vats.
As soon as the strake is filled with the material which has been washed, he closes the mouth of the tank and continues washing in the other strake, and then the plug is withdrawn and the water and tin-stone flow down into a tank below.
Then he closes up the tap-hole at once with mixed lute and charcoal dust; this plug he fastens with his hand to a round wooden rammer that is five digits thick, two palms high, with a handle three feet long.
Across it a piece of 4-ampere fuse wire is always kept as a protection to the more expensive plug and cartridge fuses.
Show where it comes from to enter the plug fuse, exactly how it goes through the fuse, where it comes out, and where it goes from there.
Fasten the bare end of one copper wire to one nail of the nail plug if you have direct current (d.
But when you pull theplug entirely out of the iron or stove, the gap is too big for an arc to form and you are perfectly safe.
The directions that usually come with electric irons, toasters, and stoves say that the connection should be broken by pulling out the plug rather than by turning off the switch.
Screw the plugwith nails in it into the lamp socket.
Why should you pull out the plug of an electric iron, percolator, toaster, heater, or stove?
Unscrew the lamp, and into the socket where it was, screw the plug with the two nails sticking out of it.
To test your knowledge of short circuits and fuses, trace the current carefully from the upper wire as it enters the laboratory, through the plug fuse.
When you pull theplug out of an electric iron, the iron cools.
Jack had learned that a plug of tobacco had "open sesame" qualities among certain species of human beings, and in his war bag were several pounds cut into goodly sized pocket pieces.
They did not see him fasten the plug of the boat to a fishing-line, the other end of which was attached to the boat, and drop it overboard to mark the spot.
They bored holes in the log at intervals of three feet, filled them part full of powder, and drove in a plug with a score cut in the side of it.
In the plug out type, resistance is put in the circuit by removing plugs, as in fig.
The unknown voltage can now be read directly from the position of the tenths switch and the extended wire contact if plug be at 1, or by dividing by 10 if plug be at .
The required ratio, as for instance 1:100, is obtained by withdrawing a plug from each arm A and B.
Commutator plug setting for comparing electromotive forces by the fall of potential method with Queen acme set.
Again, there are occasions where violent deflections of a galvanometer are prevented by not having the circuit entirely open when a plug is taken out.
When this battery is fresh, the plug shown in the figure at 2R should be inserted at R.
The final position of the two contacts in conjunction with the position of the plug at the left of the instrument indicates the voltage under test.
Moreover, if any plug make bad contact, its effect is somewhat lessened by having this bad contact shunted by the remaining coils of the decade.
This casing is not quite circular in section, for two slots are cast in the circumference to allow water to pass round the plug freely when the valve is open.
As soon as the steam pressure on the face of the plug exceeds the counteracting force of the weight or spring, the plug rises, and steam escapes until equilibrium of the opposing forces is restored.
Lest the reader should have doubts as to the nature of a plug tap, we may add that it has a tapering cone of metal working in a tapering socket.
The plug at the top of a stopped pipe is pulled out or pushed in a trifle to flatten or sharpen the note respectively.
Water enters the cistern through a valve, which is opened and closed by a plug faced with rubber.
The lower extremity of theplug is flattened, and has a rectangular hole cut in it.
The ends of this secondary coil are attached to the objects (in the case of a motor car, the insulated wire of the sparking-plug and a wire projecting from its outer iron casing) between which a spark has to pass.
Even Sandy had to be on the keen jump, without a moment to call his plug of tobacco his own.
Where two anvils were to be had, the cannonade was much brisker, as then a plug was not needed.
The helper, with the powder-horn, would spring to the anvil and pour the black explosive into the hole, while another stood ready with plug and hammer.
Observe also various forms of the bayonet, from the early plug bayonet to the later socketed type of that weapon.
He swallowed the remains of his tea and reached for a plug of tobacco.
Roger turned to look at the wizened spaceman who still was chewing on the plug of tobacco.
The well is closed with a plug as thick as the armor, and it's rotated into place.
Very slowly, theplug gave way, eventually the surface rose slightly above the warhead's surface.
He then took a bite off the corner of a plug of tobacco about as big as a railroad land grant, and laid two twenty dollar gold pieces on the desk near my arm.
I once knew a plughat that had been respected by everyone, and had won its way upward by steady endeavor.
A plug hat can stand prosperity, and shine forth joyously while nature smiles.
But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk.
I leave here to-morrow with a large, wet towel in my plug hat.
I cannot call to mind a more powerful lecture on temperance, than the silent pantomime of a man trying to hang his plug hat on an invisible peg in his own hall, after he had been watching the returns, a few years ago.
Then I requested them to go in and calm the cow a little, and see if they could get my plug hat off her horns.
These are the words of truth, and my warriors will do well to paste them in their plug hats for future reference.
Then Tom North's friend Jim, who had gathered his long figure on the top of a stump, unclasped his knees and remarked that old Plug Hat was back.
Followed by the reluctant North he walked away, leaving the gaunt figure of the dam owner gazing after them, his black garments flapping about him, his hands clasped behind his back, his ruffled plug hat thrust from his forehead.
The old man was still in full regalia, his plug hat fuzzier than ever, and thrust even farther back on his head, his coat-tails and loose trousers flapping at his every movement as he paced back and forth with military precision.
He brought to earth the front legs of his chair with a thump, and jammed his ruffledplug hat to its proper place.
A fine bunch of whitewater birlers we'd look if we got hung up by an old mossback in a plug hat.
Ten minutes later, Daly, relieved in his mind, was standing by the fire drinking hot coffee and laughing at Orde's description of Reed's plug hat.
I was afraid I couldn’t plug him with my revolver, but I managed to do it.
I happened to have my big revolver with me, but I knew it was taking desperate chances trying to plug a mountain lion with it at that distance.
But I could plug him as easy as not,” and he sighed regretfully, for the boat ahead offered a splendid mark.
It sure was,” replied Ned, and, stepping on the footboard he reached to the dash, and snapped on the switch which connected the batteries with the spark plug in the cylinder heads.
And they believe that a child can digest everything from carpet tacks to fried steak, so whenever Willie hollers they think he's hungry, and try to plug his throat with a banana.
But one morning, when he came rooting and grunting into my office in a sort of casual way, trying to keep a plug hat from falling off the back of his head, I knew that he was going to fly the track.
With a splitting knife that he snatched out of a cleat he pried loose a tiny plug in one of the bottom boards that had been replaced so carefully that it almost defied detection.
Then he refitted the plug and set it right side up again.
I've not time to stand here while you talk," said Mr. Pappleworth, and he pushed the plug into the tube.
He drew out his pipe, and had just commenced to shave a plugof T.
His share of the work completed, Lamont exchanged rifle for pipe, and began to chop at a plug of T.
Toby went to Skipper Zeb's chest, and fetched a plug for each of them.
Drawing a pipe and a plug of black tobacco and a jack-knife from his pocket, he shaved some of the plug into the palm of his left hand, rolled it between his palms, and filled the pipe.
In places exposed to frost, a cock or a plug should be provided, so that a liquid can be introduced to dissolve the naphthaline.
The one remedy for these evils is to be found in the most painstaking care of the spark-plug and of the other elements of the ignition system.
In automobile-motors, however, the spark-plug only too often fails to perform its function.
It is advisable to fit a plug or iron cock in the base of the chest.
If no spark is produced at the plug or at the make-and-break device it may be inferred that the wires are broken or that the generating apparatus is out of order.
Good engines are provided with a plug or flap valve.
The spark-plug is a particularly delicate part, subject to many possible accidents.
Breath through your mouth and plug up your nose so you won't get it all stopped up with sand while you pull your way through.
He believes that the capsule contains a substance which swells very rapidly when brought into contact with water, and that in the undischarged condition the capsule has its opening closed by a plug of protoplasm (x, fig.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plug" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
