Some slid away from the solid propsupon which they rested.
The shoemaker and the blacksmith, those two main props of Arab handicraft, are already at their work, and some gossiping bystanders are collected around them.
The planks with props more false than slim, The tempting heaps of poison'd meal, The traps of wire and traps of steel, Were only play compared with him.
Six Douglas Devastator torpedo bombers had been rolled into take-off position, and were waiting with props ticking over.
Twenty minutes later the two fifth column prisoners were stowed aboard the Stinson, and the plane's props were ticking over.
So when they were now come to the wide camp of the Achaians, they drew up their black ship to land high upon the sands, and set in line the long props beneath her; and themselves were scattered amid their huts and ships.
She propsher elbow on her knee and rests her head in her hand.
The ship that stood with idling propswas a De Havilland Mosquito.
Three Lightnings stood there with their props spinning.
It has taken 21 years in building, and will require as many more to complete it; the interior presenting only a forest of props placed in all directions.
The economical handling of mining props was naturally not a subject she had any particular interest in, though she realized that the success of his venture was of some importance to the man who had stretched the rope across the canyon.
A team of mules could haul a good many props in over it in a day.
We have struck no gold in the adit, and now when we're waiting for the props the Englishman has dropped the rope into the canyon.
You are putting him a rope across to bring props over with?
I was building Devine a dam, and I am now stretching a rope across the canyon to bring his mine props over.
Do you know who's stopping him cutting all the props he wants right behind the mine?
That is partly why I shall go away the day we swing the first load of props across the canyon.
You can see plenty young firs that would make mining props yonder.
With that working, and a skid-slide up the gully, one could send over the props we want without much difficulty.
But when they reached the wide armament of the Greeks, they drew up the black ship on the continent, far upon the sand, and stretched long props under it; but they dispersed themselves through their tents and ships.
Two Props of Vertue, for a Christian Prince, To stay him from the fall of Vanitie: And see a Booke of Prayer in his hand, True Ornaments to know a holy man.
He explained how he was really putting more props under the tower and said it was because my mind wasn’t right that I had been afraid he would kill me.
Then I looked down, and, as sure as I’m alive, there was Uncle Jasper taking the props out from under the tower.
Uncle Jasper did, just before he went down and started taking the props out from under the tower.
I heard him putting props against the door, and pounding them down so as to make it secure.
While I was busily engaged in this effort, the props were removed, and the door thrown open.
If they remove props which have been placed by the miner for the security of the roof, they shall reset suchprops as promptly as possible.
He shall see that the working place of each miner is kept supplied with props of approximate length, caps, and other timbers necessary to securely prop the roof thereof.
We have no props in this gallery because we have a roof as good as a ceiling.
We have worked that out piece-meal, and the props are gone and the place is down.
The remainder of the caterpillar is abdominal and carries small pro-legs with which to help it cling to twigs and leaves, and the heavy analprops that support the vent.
Frantically Arcot warned them away, lest the air blast from their props tear the glider from the magnet.
In the last months, unperceived, the props had dropped away, one by one.
Here I renewed my declaration of independence with regard to those earthly props on which I had so long been wont to lean, and of dependence on God, and on his natural and moral enactments.
For, as the great change in her treatment which we made, left her no mystical props to lean upon, and as Dr.
As the spars were of a greater length than was necessary to reach the rock, they necessarily lay at an inclination, which was lessened every inch the after body of the wreck was raised, thus forming props to the hull of the schooner.
The stern of the schooner rose gradually, and at each lift the heels of the shores dropped in more perpendicularly, carried by the weights attached to them, and the spars stood as firm props to secure all that was gained.
The props are induced to sprout by wet clay and moss tied to the branches, beneath which a little pot of water is hung, and after they have made some progress, they are inclosed in bamboo tubes, and so coaxed down to the ground.
The branch meanwhile continues to grow outwards, and being supplied by its new support, thickens beyond it, whence the props always slant outwards from the ground towards the circumference of the tree.
As the tree gets old, it breaks up into separate masses, the original trunk decaying, and the props becoming separate trunks of the different portions.
These rails were cast in lengths of four feet, and supported upon props and frames of cast-iron, varying in height from six inches to five feet, according to the inequalities of the rock, that the whole might be laid upon one level.
For a long time afterwards we used to chaff the captain, and tell him that he valued his sergeant-major at six pit-props and ten sheets of iron.
The other people agreed, provided the officer ransomed him with half a dozen pit-props and ten sheets of corrugated iron.
The props supporting the roof were fusty with mildew and fungus, but the entrance faced away from the German guns.
Many a frontier boy has succeeded beyond all his expectations simply because all props were early knocked out from under him and he was obliged to stand upon his own feet.
Remove wealth and props of every kind; and, if he has the right sort of material in him, he will thrive.
How often we see a young man develop astounding ability and energy after the death of a parent, or the loss of a fortune, or after some other calamity has knocked the props and crutches from under him.
I think I have omitted nothing but the propsand scaffolds, which are not of use but in building.
The institution of the commonwealth was such as needed those props and scaffolds which may have troubled the reader; but I shall here take them away, and come to the constitution which stands by itself, and yields a clearer prospect.
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