Your skid off to the side put them all off, and gave me a fine chance at Mr. Swooper.
While one fingered the tail skid bolt the other examined the safety cable on the tail skid.
During the winter, temperatures may skidto 30° below zero or more.
Then they were lowered by rope onto a mule-drawn skid and “snaked” down the trail into the gulch to await boxing.
The subtitle is "The Boy with no Skid to his Wheel", and that is the only mention of the word "skid" in the entire book.
Quicksilver; or, The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel, by George Manville Fenn.
Remove nut and bolt which secures lower end of hanger bracket to skid plate on left side of vehicle.
Secure muffler front mounting bracket bolt, but do not tighten nut until skid plate rear bracket is located on this bolt.
To remove skid plate from vehicle, follow instructions in step b above; then remove nut and bolt from U‐clamp which secures skid plate to frame bracket, and remove nut and belt from clamp which secures right front end to support rod.
Loosen skid plate support bracket lower bolt and nut and remove bracket from stud.
Loosen nut and bolt which secureskid plate hanger bracket to skid plate: drop bracket.
Remove bolt and nut from left‐side skid plate bracket and remove nut to free right‐side skid plate bracket at muffler pipe clamp and frame connection.
Raise skid plate into position and install right side mounting bolt which secures muffler front bracket and skid plate bracket to frame clip.
And we sees that Skid Mallory has his eyes glued to this waiter shrimp.
It was a great old banquet too; for Skidinsists that if they must have a conquerin' hero to drink to Mr. Popokoulis is the only real thing in sight.
Skid tells the story just the same, and makes him stand out where they can all see him.
Popover he pinks up and acts foolish about swappin' grips; but Skid insists.
As I sped on ever quicker to avoid the gathering storm, the non-skid pads of the tyres hummed a merry tune.
At one time and another I have performed wonderful acrobatic feats after a bad skid or a sudden encounter in the dark with a stray horse or a flock of sheep.
It was after sunset when they came back into the gulch along a forgotten skid road.
Then it moved another inch or two, and one released skid shot up as though fired out of a gun when the log rolled upon the first of the preceding ones.
He cut a skid from the butt of the log, and when they went back to the pile the work which before had been hard now became more or less dangerous.
The round boltheads are countersunk into the bottom of the skid and the nuts are drawn down tight on the cleats.
The front end of the skid is rounded up slightly, sled runner fashion, as much as the boards will bear, to avoid digging into the sod to destroy either the grass roots or crowns of the plants.
There is also an iron skid to lock one wheel if required on going down hill, and a roller besides for safety in stopping when going up hill.
When these hills were covered in ice your car would run backwards or skid and come down sideways, and these happenings were a useful preparation for the steep, sandy banks of the trail, where the wheels could not grip.
The manager showed us the caravan, which was all ready for the road, except that they had not put non-skid tyres on the rear as ordered.
The wind whipped and whistled around the caravan, and blew the earth in great clouds over us, and formed huge drifts on the trail, which made the car skid as on loose sand.
When I went to fetch the caravan I found that a mechanic was just about to take it to the Ford Company to have the non-skid tyres put on, so I accompanied him.
I tried to rush through at full speed, but with a tremendous skid the car lurched sideways and stuck fast in a drift.
The record time for detaching the legs of the pianoforte, covering the body, removing the instrument from the stage and having it on the skid ready to start for the station, is seven minutes.
Is it you that works for Skid, or Skid that works for you?
And when we splits up on the corner Skid has decided against the party proposition, and goes off towards his boardin' house with his chin down on his collar and his heels draggin'.
At that Sis looks at Skid and Skid he looks at Sis.
Did they make Skid a junior partner for that, or paint his name on a private office door?
So what does Skid do but slow up on the correspondence, skippin' an answer here and there, and coverin' only two pages when he did write.
Skid he flushes some behind the ears; but he only bows and says he's much obliged.
And wouldn't it have been a nice break if I'd let out that we was smotherin' the Great Skid under a twelve-dollar job?
Twas long and crookedskid roads that made our logging late, And Bunyan took his old Blue Ox and pulled his skid roads straight.
Were he not to heel his craft it would skid outwards through its pace, and swing wide at the turn, thus losing a second or so of time.
The single-skid landing chassis with buffers is the outstanding difference.
These cars, which were of rectangular shape with a blunt nose, were fitted with a single landingskid aft, and contained seats for three persons.
Well, but what's oneskid more or less in a good cause?
To negotiate these dangerous paths in the dark the driver had to put on all possible speed and make a dash for it, and he usually got to the other side before a skid became serious.
This skid is made in laminations, with alternate joints, and starts from the point where the two planes intersect in the front of the machine, which is one of the strongest joints in the whole construction.
The skidruns the whole length of the machine like the runner of a sledge.
At the bottom of the semicircle the skid is joined to the slanting skids or springs depending from the bottom of the machine, and here the laminations are bolted together making the skid stiffer.
On this skid the wheels are sprung with a steel spring lever arrangement, Fig.
The front skid of steel pianoforte wire, the rear of jointless cane wire tipped; the rear skid was a necessity in order to protect the delicate gearing mechanism, the weight of which was reduced to a minimum.
Nobody as sees me in that 'ere 'aunt of luxury, 'ill take me for a millionaire vith a skid in his mouth.
All I says is--it's the same swell as guv me the skid to find her.
But when Skid Thomson appeared in the door of the old shack, bearing a tiny form muffled up with wondrous care, the whole of Beetle Ring shouted.
With steady, practiced hand Skid Thomson guided his powerful team through the deep snow, over the rough forest road; and sometimes brawny arms carried the sleigh bodily over the roughest places.
And when you went around a slippery corner, your automobile would not skid in the least.
While he was working, would it have been best for him to stand on the bare cement floor, on a wire mat, on an old automobile tire, on a wet rug, or on some skid chains that were there?
Skid chains tend to keep automobiles from skidding on wet pavement.
Yes, I know my days are numbered, all the signs to me are plain: I shall never guide the movements of the skidroad boys again.
