Coventry, gold repeaterpresented to Dickens by watchmakers of, iii.
Here he fired--only one shot," he declared, and picked up the brass jacket of a long cartridge that had been ejected from the repeater when Eli worked the combination.
At the same moment a second man stepped into view, having his own rifle hung over his shoulder with a strap, while the repeater belonging to Cuthbert was resting in his grimy hands.
Hopalong ran forward for a short distance and slid down the steep bank of a narrow arroyo and waited, the repeater thrust out through the dense fringe of grass and shrubs which bordered the edge.
Why don't you lose that repeater an' get a gun like mine?
They traded rifles, Hopalong taking the repeater in place of the single-shot gun he carried, and Red departed as bidden, his face gradually breaking into an enthusiastic grin as he ruminated upon the plan.
When Chicago is sending, one part of the repeater works in unison with the Chicago key and is the key to the New York circuit, which begins at Buffalo.
When New York is sending the other part of the repeater operates, which becomes a key which repeats the message to the Chicago line.
Regarding each repeater as a key, when Chicago depresses his key the armature of the next repeater must act, and then the next successively, and all of this takes time, although only a small fraction of a second.
The repeater is an instrument that repeats a message automatically from one circuit to another.
I remember on one occasion in Cleveland that along in the middle of the night the repeater failed to work.
The repeater was a very delicate instrument and had to be handled by a skilled operator.
For instance, if Chicago is sending a message to New York through two circuits, the division being in Buffalo, the repeater will be located at Buffalo and under the control of both the operator at Chicago and the operator in New York.
His repeater was in the waistcoat-pocket, with his full name enameled on the case.
He had already been an hour on the river; his repeater struck a quarter to three; he ought long ago to have reached the other side; he must have lost his reckoning.
Coggan carried an old pinchbeck repeater which he had inherited from some genius in his family; and it now struck one.
Coggan's repeater struck six from his pocket in the usual still small tones.
Illustration: Fig 136] There are a large number of such repeater stations in the United States along the important telephone routes.
He would have liked to know the time--to feel his old watch, so butter-smooth, to hear the repeater strike.
He could not see the hands, but he set the repeater going.
Instead of putting two number 1 flags together, for instance, number 1 is flown with a repeater under it; second repeater repeats number 2, and so on.
As the repeater in Horace's hands cracked, the buck whirled round in a half-circle, leaped once, and fell.
He sat down against a tree, close to the cage, with the loaded repeater across his knees.
As the thought flashed through my brain a rifle shot rang out from the poop, and, glancing that way, I saw the boy Julius with a Remington repeater at his shoulder aiming at the rapidly advancing boat.
Standing comfortably behind this, I placed the barrel of my repeater in the nick, levelled it at the spot where I expected the first of our foes to appear, and calmly waited.
I turned faint with jealousy, and when a second glance showed me that the interloper was no other than the identical gold repeater whom I had known and dreaded in my infancy, I was ready to break my mainspring with vexation.
It was a relief to think the repeater could not overhear this, or he would have sneered in a way to extinguish me altogether.
I suppose that the works must have been disarranged in some way by the bullet, for the repeater was one of Barraud's, never known to fail before, and the circumstance occurred at SEVEN o'clock.
That splendid repeater you used to strike in the library whenever we said it was time for us to go into church.
She made no difficulties about consenting, but she wanted to know what o'clock it was again, and requested me to make my repeater strike once more.
Here is one of the numerous instances where the Mongolian tale-repeater introduces into the Indian story details drawn to the life from the manners and customs around him of his own people.
The Mongolian tale-repeater here gives the Khan a Tibetian name (Tibetian being the learned and liturgical language of Mongolia), making one of the instances of which the tales are full, of their transformation in process of transmission.
Lama, Buddhist priest: the tale-repeater again grafts a word of his own language on to the Indian tale.
The tale-repeater again gives a name of his own language to a town which he places in India.
Hugh promised that he would find a Henry repeater with an abundant supply of cartridges waiting for him there at his mother's house.
I shall carry the new Henry thirteen repeater I had from Edinburgh yesterday, and if I don't touch up that other gang of scientific ruffians my name is not Jack Jaikes, and I never smelt the good Clyde water from the Broomielaw.
I soon got the magazine of the repeater filled again with cartridges, and once more opened fire, not on the seething black mass which was gathering at the end of the kraal, but on fugitives who bethought them to climb the wall.
I had emptied my repeater of the ten shots it contained and was just beginning to slip in some more when I bethought me of little Flossie.
They had that very afternoon picked the pocket of the Earl of Idford of a repeater studded with diamonds, under the Piazza, as he was coming out of the Shakespeare, where he had been to attend an election meeting.
I had business enough for the day, and my first care was to keep my appointment with the reverend Enoch, whose counsel concerning the Earl of Idford and the repeater I once more thought it prudent to ask.
