De mug behind de fence, dat's de barkeep, he twists out four scuttles an' a torch.
The entrance to the concealment was by means of a couple of scuttles on each side of her false keelson, these scuttles being screwed down in such a manner as also to be imperceptible.
These scuttles were fitted with bed-screws fixed through false timbers into the real timbers, and covered with pieces of cork resembling treenails.
Teutonic voices raised in heated argument welled out of the openscuttles of what had probably been the ward-room.
The hatchways, scuttles or other openings in the decks, wherein the ladders are placed.
Certain scuttlesor square holes, formerly cut through the sides of the smaller vessels of war, near the surface of the water, for the purpose of rowing them along in a calm or light wind, by heavy sweeps, each worked by several men.
A lid or hatch for covering and closing the scuttles when necessary.
Those by which side-scuttles or ventilators to the cabins are hung.
One makes direct for the shell, and having first poked in an inquiring claw and found all safe, slips in his tail, and fastening on by his hooks, scuttles away rejoicing.
Michel Ardan wanted to open one of the scuttlesand throw himself on to the moon's surface!
These scuttles then were protected against the shock of departure by plates let into solid grooves, which could easily be opened outwards by unscrewing them from the inside.
Nicholl; "but ourscuttles are fixed on hinges; they can be let down.
They tried to see through the darkened scuttlesby extinguishing all light in the projectile; but not a luminous spark made its way through the darkness.
Thus from the first of the morning, through the scuttles silvered by its rays, they saluted the orb of night with a confident and joyous hurrah.
This was an intense cold, which soon covered the inside of the glass of the scuttles with a thick coating of ice.
But, through thescuttles Barbicane saw a prolonged smoke, the flames of which were immediately extinguished.
Somehow it jarred upon me, and I retired to the little smoking-room, where I lit a cigar, and sat down beside the open scuttles to enjoy a quiet smoke.
We could not open the scuttles and admit fresh air, for there was little or none to admit.
My mind, too, was preternaturally clear, and the solitude became so irksome that I rose from my seat, and looked out of the scuttles to relieve the tension of my nerves.
We threw the grass in at the scuttlesand spread it round in a layer about eighteen inches thick.
Once in the haymaker it dried so fast that you could often see a cloud of steam rising from the scuttles in the glass roof, which had to be left partly open to make a draft from below.
We never had a complaint about him except for little matters of carelessness--leaving coal-scuttles on the staircases for people to fall over, losing shovels, and so on.
The evidence of the chopper was very untrustworthy, especially when I had heard of Goujon's careless habits--losing shovels and leaving coal-scuttles on stairs.
The seas roared in thunder high above the scuttles to the wild and sickening dipping of the ship's side into the trough.
These cabins were lighted by ports or scuttles cut in the sides of the ship.
Her consort turns too, and scuttles off at top speed.
The only representative of animated nature hereabouts is a species of small gray lizard that scuttles over the bare ground with astonishing rapidity.
While descending the eastern slope, I surprise a gray lizard almost as large as a rabbit, basking in the sunbeams; he briskly scuttles off into the rocks upon being disturbed.
What is that queer-looking little reptile, half lizard, half frog, that scuttles about among the rocks.
The last Gunkus was to empty the scuttles into the coffee-mill.
Very careful men should be selected for attending the Powder-scuttles on the different decks, as well to prevent noise and contention among the Powder-boys as to guard against accidents, and speedily to repair such as may occur.
Cartridges, as experience proves, can be passed up each independent chain of scuttles leading from the magazine to the point at which the Powder-boys are to receive the full boxes, at the rate of one every six or seven seconds.
Each delivering-passage is to have, for the distribution of powder, at least as many passing-scuttles communicating with the orlop or berth deck as there are chains of scuttles above.
Each deck is to be supplied in like manner, by a distinct and separate arrangement, through as many independent sets of scuttles as may be required by the preceding "Arrangements for delivering and distributing powder.
Should any serious difficulty arise in finding places for cutting any of the different sets of scuttles through the decks, or in the cases of small or very wet vessels, recourse may be had to the gratings of the hatchways.
Should any single-deck vessel be of such great length, or so remarkable in her armament of guns, although all of the same calibre and class, as to render additional scuttles advisable, they are to be cut.
He will also take care to prevent confusion at the powder-scuttles in the range of his division, and that all orders which require to be repeated are duly passed.
For each chain of passing-scuttles there will probably have to be-- One man in the magazine to deliver charges from the tanks.
A wash of water swept the scuttles, then the ship lurched slowly over to starboard, and again the scuttles were under the brine.
Presently the bell rang again, and a grey steel wall, dotted with scuttles and surmounted by a rail, towered above them.
Scullery-maids were machines who carried coal-scuttles and made fires.
She blacked boots and grates, and carried heavy coal-scuttles up and down stairs, and scrubbed floors and cleaned windows, and was ordered about by everybody.
The scuttles had been opened to ventilate the interior of the ship.
Scullery maids were machines who carried coal scuttles and made fires.
Tom Findlater, who now sees the crows hovering over his fox as he scuttles away on the opposite side of the brook.
So saying the Major drops his hands on White Surrey's neck, rises in his stirrups, and scuttles away, bounding over the gorse bushes and broom that intervened between him and the still stick-hoisted tenpenny.
Over the door and scuttles the dark-blue baize curtains had been drawn.
Mostyn had a momentary vision of the lighted scuttles slipping upwards as the boat dropped down past the ship's side.
Dust covered everything, while the absence of fresh air, owing to the scuttles having been secured for months, was distressingly noticeable.
He lifts my camels and scuttles back into your territory, where he knows I can't follow him for the life; and when I try to get a bit of my own back, he whines to you.
The heir of all the ages, the annihilator of time and space, who politely doubts the existence of his Maker, hears the roof-beams crack and strain above him, and scuttles about like a rabbit in a stoppered warren.
Shafts of dusty light from the gunports and overhead scuttles relieved the lantern-lit gloom, illuminating the massive beams supporting the decks above.
The cannon were already run in and cooling, but vagrant threads of smoke still traced skyward through the scuttles and open hatch, curling ringlets over two draped bodies by the mainmast.
The latter wheels round and scuttles back along the path with her frightened burden, both maid and golden lily no doubt very thankful at finding themselves unpursued.
The village policeman is on duty in the land of dreams, a not unusual circumstance, by the way; but a youth scuttlesoff and wakes him up, and notifies him of my arrival.
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