Almost the first person whom he recognized was the middle-aged friend, who told him about the escape of the Brainerd family in the scow that Maggie and the servant had propelled across the Susquehanna.
The canoe came on rapidly now, propelled by a powerful arm.
This last quality was incautiously developed in him by a negro boy-servant, who, later, was hurriedly propelled down a flight of stairs by his too proficient scholar.
Away they spun in a mad race up the river, Maggie propelledby the impulse of a wild glee, Donald by the anger that was consuming him.
He had been running a self-propelled gasoline engine long before Seldon had applied for his patent; furthermore, the royalties interfered with the long-cherished dream of cheapening his cars.
Seldon held a basic patent covering the use of the gasoline engine as motive power in self-propelled vehicles.
It is stated that the Roman army under Claudius Caudex was taken across to Sicily in boatspropelled by paddle-wheels turned by oxen.
That carriages can be propelled by steam on common roads at an average rate of 10 miles per hour.
This propelling instrument was also tried by Trevithick, who planned a vessel to be propelled by a steam-engine driving a screw, at about this time, and his scheme was laid before the Navy Board in the year 1812.
Actual experiment can only determine this matter, and I should not be surprised at seeing steam-carriages propelled at the rate of 40 or 50 miles an hour.
Brown built a locomotive which he propelled by this engine.
The Princeton was the first of the screw-propelled navy which has now entirely displaced the older type of steam-vessel.
This was pierced by thirty port-holes, to enable as many thirty-two pounders to fire red hot balls; her upper or spar deck was plain, and she was to be propelled by her enginery alone.
The British built at least one sail-propelled battery, the Spanker, in 1794.
This performance was not more than equal to Robert Fulton's expectations, but it exceeded what he had premised to the Government, which was that she should be propelled by steam at the rate of from three to four miles an hour.
In the last quarter of the 18th century and later, the Danes had built sail-propelled floating batteries or blockships, which were employed in the defense of Copenhagen.
With a show of exasperation, Arnold propelled him through the door.
He was suddenly crisp as he propelled the Minister of Justice toward Jeff Arnold's office.
During the long afternoons when you are steaming over the oily calm of the Bay of Biscay, or beingpropelled (by friendly natives) down the rushing waters of the—ah—Congo.
There are enough personnel carriers or self-propelled weapons so that all men in a unit can be transported simultaneously.
Many members of the small prewar working class were propelled upward out of the working class into managerial and administrative positions of industry.
So soon as I saw this bureau I went for it, straight as an arrow from a bow,--indeed, it would be no abuse of metaphor to say that I was propelled towards it like an arrow from a bow.
And the next action of which I was conscious was, that under cover of the darkness, I was flying from the room, propelled by I knew not what.
In the mean time, Caesar had gone on to the anchorage ground of the squadron, and had taken the transports in tow to bring them to the city; for the galleys, being propelled by oars, were in a measure independent of the wind.
He carried, at the same time, as he swam, certain valuable papers which he wished to save, holding them above his head with one hand, while he propelled himself through the water with the other.
Intended only for river navigation, propelled by a small screw like two fishtails set at right angles, working horizontally; the vessel had but two cabins, one on either side of the central part occupied by the machinery.
Her electric machinery drew in and drove out with great force currents of water which propelled her with a speed greater than that afforded by the most powerful paddles.
The second is his allusion to the fact that his conception of a boat to be propelled by steam was so well known as to be noised abroad.
Credit is sometimes given to John Fitch, who, it is said, invented a boat propelled by steam, that carried passengers on the Delaware River in 1787.
Every plantation, however, had a run of stone, propelled by mule power, to grind corn for the owners and their slaves.
Those who travelled over the Isthmus in those days will remember that boats on the Chagres River were propelled by natives not inconveniently burdened with clothing.
The vehicle itself, which seemed to be propelled by some sort of chemical-explosion engine, was dingy and mud-splattered; the men in it were ragged and unshaven.
He could ride all along the roads, and hear his missionaries preaching for him wherever a clock struck, or a dial on the gable of a great stone barn propelled its shadows.
At the same moment he descried another shadow propelled alongside his own, as if from some far distance in the rear a human object was slowly advancing to stand beside him.
Mr. Waples was propelled at least six miles out of gravity, and tossed into a most deep and silent lake.
As soon as the deer are in the water the natives pursue them in their kayaks, and as their boats are propelled much more swiftly than the animals can swim they are quickly overtaken and killed with the spear (kapun).
A leather ball filled with hard clay is propelled with a whip, the lash of which is tied up in a coil.
The custom of the Picaroons was to do their cruising in huge barges propelledby sweeps.
The first war-vessel propelled by steam was launched by the Americans for service in this war.
He was also the first to devise a steam carriage, and in 1804 built a steam dredger, which propelled itself through the streets of Philadelphia and afterwards was moved as a stern-wheel steamboat on the Schuylkill River.
Previously the warship had been of the type of an armed merchantship, propelled by sails or, latterly, by steam, and carrying a large number of small guns.
Two chunky grey horses with wide foreheads and sagacious eyes propelled him at the rate of three miles an hour; for these, as their master, had learned the lesson that if life is to be fully savoured it is not to be bolted.
The dugout was coming towards us now, propelled by easy strokes, and Nick could be heard the while talking in low tones to Suzanne.
The launch of this leviathan was a most formidable undertaking, and was accomplished by means of powerful hydraulic rams, which propelled the vessel down the launching "ways.
Like the kayak, it is a framework of wood covered with seal-skin, and is propelled by means of short paddles of the spoon form.
All of them, whether single or double, mercantile or war canoes, are propelled by paddles, the men sitting with their faces in the direction in which they are going.
But not long after, a vessel propelled by steam ventured to cross the Atlantic, and thus became the parent of commercial steam navigation.
It was propelled by steam, and averaged the rate of five miles an hour on its first voyage from New York to Albany, a distance of nearly one hundred and fifty miles.
The Fijian canoes can also be propelled by means of sculling, the sculler using a broad-bladed scull about ten feet in length.
They are propelled by short paddles instead of oars.
They are extremely light, and are propelled by the natives very swiftly.
And propelled by the three vigorous oarsmen, our bark shot through the water.
The canoe shot outward as if propelledby some projectile force; then came a loud crash, as though we had dropped upon a hard rock.
It would seem as if some strange instinct propelled them, but for what purpose, and to what end, no one can tell.
The dredge is drawn along the bottom by a rope winding about the projecting axle of the foot-power, propelled by three or more people.
This same type of vehicle, too, is one of the common means of transporting people, especially Chinese women, and four six and even eight may be seen riding together, propelled by a single wheelbarrow man.
As far as Dixon knew, Crawford's work had been confined almost entirely to a form of radio-propelled projectile for use in war-time against marauding planes.
The air was alive and vibrant with directed streams of stubby-winged shapes that drove swiftly on their way, with only a wisp of vapor from their funnel-shaped sterns to mark the continuous explosion that propelled them.
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