The boilerprimed when he started and was not steaming well.
If the boiler primed again, he might knock out the cylinder-heads, but there was a steep pitch in front that was difficult to climb.
Of course I primed him with the state of preparedness we were all in, though not seeming to be--and that there were Maxims hidden under that waggon sail instead of soda-water bottles.
Primed at once by nature and the education of books for the exercise of domestic justice, he sat ready to receive Élodie's admissions.
As Bombay was ordered to the palace to instruct the king in the art of casting bullets, I primed him well to plead for the road, and he reported to me the results, thus: First, he asked one thousand men to go through Kidi.
They then seized hold of the magic horn, primed for the purpose, and allowed it to drag them to where the culprits dwelt.
The spring of 1915 found the air service of every army primed for a dash.
With every gun and man primed for the fight, with the greatest collection of armed vessels ever known lying at ports, merely awaiting the word, she felt supremely ready.
When primed by spirits, they become quarrelsome; and scarcely a Sunday or holiday passes without savage fights between the workmen of different mines.
My pistols are primed and loaded," he continued, feeling in an inner pocket of his coat.
Next I taught her how to charge them, how to wad powder and then shot lest the ball roll out of the barrel; how having primed she must be careful ever to close the pan against the priming being blown away.
So I reached down the pot and espied therein a long-barrelled pistol; whipping it out, I blew off the dust and saw 'twas primed and loaded and with flint in place albeit very rusty.
Then Mr. James Little found another security that looked very plausible, and primed his wife with arguments, and she implored Guy to call and talk it over with them both.
He was primed on every subject that could interest his guests, and knew something about nearly everything else.
But lady Feng was conscious that the wine she had primed herself with was mounting to her head, so abruptly staggering to the upper end, she meant to betake herself home to lie down, when seeing the jugglers arrive, "Get the tips ready!
Chia Lien had freely primed himself with wine, so, on his return home, he was in such exuberance of spirits that he observed no secresy in his doings.
The simple elf when primed with wine doth the waning rainbow bestride.
They primed themselves with wine throughout the hours of night and then they broke up.
That worthy was at first inclined to brazen matters out, but when Noel, primed with Daisy's confession, appeared on the scene, his face underwent a remarkable change.
She too wrote a private letter to a London friend, and arrived at Woodbine Cottage primed with what she considered valuable information.
Electrical Power Storage Company is illustrated in figure 21, and consists of a glass or teak box containing two sets of leaden grids perforated with holes, which are primed with the paste and steeped in dilute sulphuric acid.
Detonating fuses are primed with fulminate of mercury.
It consists of a box of wood or metal primed with gunpowder or other explosive, and a platinum wire P soldered to a pair of stout copper wires W, insulated with gutta-percha.
Varick was elected district chairman, but soon afterwards was made bishop.
In Monrovia the only bank is the branch of the Bank of British West Africa.
There'd have been trouble, for we were all primed for you," and he waved his hand toward the rocks amid which some cowboys were just arising, picking up the ammunition they had spread out for quick use.
Primed with these questions, she left immediately after coffee, arriving at her own red stone portal at ten.
At every turn in the day's business Flora kept meeting that placid presence; and it was not until the end of the day that she met it primed for departure.
Raoul took his pistol out of its holster and checked to see that it was primed and loaded.
Levi, who wore six pistols at his belt, all primed and loaded, got down from his horse and unhooked a coiled rope from his saddle.
The fact is, they are terribly excited and primed with superstition, for there hasn't been a suicide in the parish in the memory of this generation.
A swift but complete reaction had taken place within him; he was charged with nervous energy and primed with impatience.
I stretched canvass and primed it and finished Anson's "Voyage Around the World" a thrilling book.
Four canvases stretched and primed stand to my credit and that alone is one day's work in effort and conquered repugnance.
I primed eight canvases to-day, six of which I had also stretched.
On this evening I could see that she was full of the project for which she had primed her father, and was nervously anxious lest he shouldn't go off at the right moment or with the proper pyrotechnic.
She had attended an educational congress during the Easter holidays, and came back primed with the very latest theories.
She prohibited the use of the English tongue altogether during meals, and insisted upon her pupils conversing in French, requiring each one to come to table primed with a suitable remark in that language.
He then primedthe gun, and handed it to Reillaghan.
He had ordered all cannon of the fort primed with powder, to be fired in the traditional Muslim salute if a male child was the issue.
And, Mackintosh, order the musketsprimed with pistol shot.
He stared at the boots for a moment, and then removed them while he carefully wrapped two primed pistols and slid one deep into each hollow toe.
The pots, Hawksworth realized, had been primed with powder, ready to detonate.
They are all trembling and crying now, and God only knows what will come of it," he said, primed with all that his mother and sister had been impressing upon him.
