A member proposed to save three dollars a day to the nation by dispensing with the Chaplain.
Somebody suggested that it must be a company of soldiers from the fort, and so we accepted that solution and jogged along a little faster still, for they could not be far off now.
But our horses were no match for the fresh stage team.
The United States was too much accustomed to employing dollar-and-a-half thieves in all manner of official capacities to regard his explanation of the voucher as having any foundation in fact.
We had no tent, and so we slept under our blankets in the open plain.
This can best be pointed out by a consideration of the forces brought to bear on a single rib in the acts of inspiration and expiration.
To express this idea in figures, let the expiratory or downward pull on the rib be said to involve the expenditure of five units of strength.
One set of muscles contract to raise this rib in inspiration, an opposed set, by their contraction, lower the rib for the act of expiration.
The rib is lowered with a degree of strength equal to the excess of the downward over the upward pull.
The head of each rib fits into a notch formed in the ring of wood, which is fastened on to the top of the stick, there being a separate, notch for each rib.
At the point of the rib where the stretcher joined it, Caney fixed a middle bit, consisting of a small fork, in which the end of the stretcher was hinged.
They are double, eachrib having a pair joined, one on each side of the rib, at the same point.
For the insides of bowls or wide-mouthed shapes, a rib of slate or zinc (see Fig.
Afterwards when bigger and more finished shapes are attempted, they can be thinned and refined with the aid of the rib and a modelling tool, a considerable finish being put on before they are removed from the wheel.
Flange= (of a rib)--That horizontal part of a rib which prevents it from bending sideways.
Web= (of a rib)--That vertical part of a rib which prevents it from bending upwards.
And then truculently to the Distance Pieces, which run from rib to rib, "Just keep the Ribs from rolling, will you?
It used to be the grand hue and cry in the beginning of the war that if colored men were enlisted into the armies of the Union, they would not fight like their white brothers!
At night they would take down fence-rails and such like to make fires to keep themselves warm.
To declare to, solemnly; to assert to (any one) with the design of inspiring belief or confidence.
Of or pertaining to an assessor, or to a court of assessors.
Knit 1 row; rib 1 row; knit 1 row taking 2 stitches together all the way.
Cast on 40 stitches, knit 4 rows; rib 1 row; continue to repeat these rows, reckoning the cast on row as one; when the muffatee is long enough cast off and sew it up.
Then rib again backwards and forwards until you come to the row before the holes, which is again to be plain knitting.
Knit 1 stitch, rib 9, repeat the same to the end of the row.
Decrease 1 stitch at the beginning of the next row (consisting of 54 stitches), rib and knit it.
