Zabern talks of employing the rack and the thumbscrew to-day.
My mind is kept perpetually on the rack following that piece of wax through the infinity of space, ever lured onward by the hope of arriving at some goal.
Give me leave to employ the rack upon him, and I'll soon extract the truth.
There was a grinning skull, a steel casque of the Middle Ages, a spearhead, and an ancient piece of sculpture draped with jewels; upon the floor at the further end bulging leather sacks, and a rack of modern rifles and ammunition.
As the flash-light wavered a moment in Tanya's hands it fell for a second on the rack of rifles.
Rowland leaned against the gun rack and fingered the muzzles of the rifles.
There was a towel very much soiled upon the rack and another upon the floor which showed traces of some dark stuff.
For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water.
Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness.
That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Clinch the ends to the foot of the sail, bight them around under the sail and rack the bights to their standing parts, and stop the head of the sail to the standing parts below the rackings.
Have the fly-block of the topsail halyards above the top, and rack the runner to the topmast backstay or after shroud.
Pape urged his mount into the rack of Times Canon.
He followed her suggestion with alacrity, using a nearby Davenport to rack his hat and overcoat.
But all this does not, of course, make it clear why in a beneficently ordered world such a necessity of slaughter should ever have been allowed to arise.
The attendant sergeant promptly picks a metal ticket from a rack and lays it on the stretcher.
There was a baggage-rack immediately above the number plate.
Beside an umbrella rack a high-backed chair was placed.
That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.
That would upon the rack of the rough world Stretch him out longer.
O if we but knew what we do When we delve or hew-- Hack and rack the growing green!
Throgmorton, however, who could tell the most, would tell nothing, though the rack was used freely to open his lips.
There was some nautical implement resting in a rack convenient to her hand.
He eyed with considerable malignity the bottle of water in the rack above his head, a harmless object provided by the White Star Company for clients who might desire to clean their teeth during the voyage.
But experience has proved the distinction of active and passive courage; the fanatic who endures without a groan the torture of the rack or the stake, would tremble and fly before the face of an armed enemy.
The first, which is used in several large libraries, provides a large elevated rack above the table-top, on which the periodicals are placed, so as to free as much as possible of the table surface for readers.
A similar style of rack can be used for storing large collections of prints, the only difference being that the prints would be kept in special boxes as described in Section 307, which would take the place of volumes.
A third method is to keep the whole of the periodicals off the tables or racks, and to issue them from a counter or rack which is superintended by an assistant.
A less conspicuous form, and one equally effective, dispenses with the elevated platform, and the rack simply rests upon the table-top as illustrated (Fig.
The card catalogue in cabinets of fixed drawers is not, in some ways, such an effective arrangement as detachable trays or drawers stored in a suitablerack or cabinet.
It is advisable to provide a card-sorting tray, which may be a simple rack divided into narrow compartments representing thousands.
A rack or pigeon-holes can be provided in which to store these sheafs in numbered, alphabetical or class order.
In this form of table-rack the periodicals are not fastened to their places, and, owing to the varied sizes of the periodicals in an elevated position, they give a somewhat untidy appearance to a room.
If the less popular or valuable periodicals were placed in a rack similar to that shown in Section 165, Fig.
A smaller rack for railway time-tables is illustrated on p.
I placed my dispatch-box on the rack above my head, and opened out a newspaper, which I had no intention of reading.
What was your object in taking two of our shotguns from the gun rack and going over to Mr. Lacy's farm and shooting down two of his cows?
Last year the hunting there was much better than it was up the Rick Rack River.
The gun rack at Colby Hall boasted a number of these weapons, but none of them could be taken out and used without special permission from Captain Dale.
Here are the two guns you took from the gun rack and afterwards hid in your beds.
At the head of the lake was the Rick Rack River, running down from the hills and woods beyond.
Such were some of the words uttered immediately after the well-delivered blow from Jack Rover had sent his opponent spinning into the swiftly flowing waters of the Rick Rack River.
They were wondering how they could get them from their rooms back into the gun rack without detection.
That's the Rick Rack River," explained Spouter, as they passed the stream.
The tossed empty space Of cloud-rack whence the moon has passed away.
Gracefully poised on one leg against an adjoining type-rack leaned a tall youth with fair curling hair, a weak tremulous mouth, and an almost girlish physiognomy.
Why didn't you lead her up to the hitching-rack while you were there?
He listened, the rack of sleep clearing from his brain in a breath.
