Special tests are also made in which the spike is subjected to a transverse load applied repetitively by a blow.
Each floweret on its plain, unscented spike is the little green figure of a man, a man with outstretched arms.
And here the bladderwort, that now rests unseen on the mud at the bottom, buoyed up by multitudinous little floats of air, lifted its exquisite spike above the surface.
When the core is located on a spike which touches the inside of the innermost recurving ridge, the recurve is included in the ridge count only when the delta is located below a line drawn at right angles to the spike.
They heard "Red Mike" curse viciously as he missed hitting the spike and Gibson jerked his hand away a fraction of a second before the sledge would have smashed it against the rail.
They saw "Red Mike" adjust the derailer to the rail and Gibson kneel to hold a spike as it was hammered into the tie by "Red Mike" wielding the sledge hammer.
It'll heal much sooner than the iron spike one of yer crew drove through both cheeks of my watch-mate when you gagged him on board the brig.
And, snatching the spike from Thames, he struck the janizary a severe blow on the head.
The patch of gray vanished, and Pug could not tell whether he had scored a hit, but almost immediately he saw the spike and rounded top of the helmet lift cautiously into sight.
They also gather bilberries and the leaves of the spike (valeriana celtica) which has such a delightful smell.
The spike grows only on the tops of the second-rate mountains and on the steep sides of those which are crowned with snow.
Beneath, Spike discerned a gray tweed--and on the breast of the gray tweed was a splotch, a dark, ugly thing which appeared black and was not black.
This time Spike took a professional interest in the person who stepped uncertainly out into the night.
On the seat of his yellow taxicab, Spike Walters drew a heavy lap-robe more closely about his husky figure and shivered miserably.
He turned toward Spike Walters and laid a gentle hand on the young man's shoulder.
In spite of himself, Spike felt a genial warming toward this boyish-faced man.
As matters stand now, there's nothing to tie to but Spike Walters.
There was a pause, then Spike went on: "This isSpike Walters--Yellow and White Taxi Company.
Without leaving the driver's seat, Spikereached for her suit-case and put it beside him.
Spike shoved his clutch in and crawled forward along the curb, leaving the inky shadows of the far end of the station, and emerging finally into the effulgence of the arc at the corner of Cypress Street.
Spike hadn't seen it; only the racket of the big cars as they crossed East End Avenue, and then the lights on the rear of the caboose, had warned him.
A gale howled around the dark Jackson Street corner of the long, rambling station, and Spike defensively covered both ears with his gloved hands.
Instinctively Spike rose, paid his check, and stood uncomfortably at the door, buttoning the coat tightly around his neck.
Spike had hoped that his first impression would prove to be a mere figment of his imagination; but now there was no doubting.
Even as he speeded his car forward, Spike wondered at her indifference to the almost unbearable cold.
The woman--a young woman, Spike reflected--stepped inside and slammed the door.
No regular plodding through a monotonous spike of plain little bells for him: what he wants is brilliant colour, bold advertisement, good honey, and plenty of it.
Did not you spike two guns--and both of them after the gunners and the officer in command of the battery had run away?
As I rushed into the redoubt our men thought that I was the Russians; and when they knew me by my uniform for a Frenchman, and heard me crying in a hoarse whisper, 'Spike the guns!
But I knew, at least I hoped, that there was time for me to get to the more exposed redoubt ahead of them and give the word to spike the guns.
Both Spike and I looked under the boom and saw the sail of a yacht about a mile away.
Spike sat in silence, looking back at the stranger now and then.
It was day before yesterday,--Tuesday," Spike finally remarked.
I persuadedSpike to believe that these people were neither police nor crooks, nor anything else dangerous.
They were getting up their sail, so Spike jumped up on the seat again.
Spike pulled it out from under a seat and handed it to me.
I reached for the spy-glass, when Spike said: "They're going to row.
Spike and I dropped into the cock-pit, and crouched below the seats.
A variety is fashioned into a sort of button, having a slender spike in the centre.
The shield is bowed, and the portion in sight ensigned with a Lion: it is armed with a spike in front, and suspended over the shoulders by the usual guige.
The ball-and-spike spur is well shewn in the effigies of Henry II.
The straight spike is seen in this example of an iron spur found in the churchyard of Chesterford, Cambridgeshire, and now preserved in the collection of the Hon.
The conical spikeis seen among the Danish relics figured on pages 70 and 95 of Mr. Worsaae's "Copenhagen Museum.
The capacete of a noble was often adorned with precious stones and coronets of pure gold, while a spike projecting from the top was tipped with a large carbuncle, in order to catch and to reflect the flashing sunbeams.
The substitution for this spike of multiform and multicolor figures or devices dates from a later age.
Germans, have adopted the Prussian helmet with a spike on top.
This is appropriate, as most Germans are linguists, and like to "spike the French.
My rule most generally was to find one soft spot on 'em somewhere that a marlin-spike would hurt, and then hit that spot hard and often.
Catch him and make him shet his chops about this, if I have to spike his old jaws together.
He edged along with the apparent intention of reaching a heap of spike kegs.
Near the end of the pile of rails, Ike prepared to descend backwards to the spike kegs.
Another sharpenedspike projects from the tip of the pole P, and the three together make the prongs of the spear or gig.
When the fish is speared the arms A A bend out as the spikes "ride" over its back, and these insert themselves in its sides, the pole spike penetrating its back.
Mo-li Hung and Mo-li Hai hastened to avenge their brother, but ere they could come within striking distance of Huang Ti'en Hua his redoubtable spike reached their hearts, and they lay prone at his feet.
In this moment of intense agony Mo-li Shou fell an easy prey to Huang T'ien Hua, the magical spike pierced his heart, and he fell bathed in his blood.
This was a spike 7 1/2 inches long, enclosed in a silk sheath, and called 'Heart-piercer.
With these he partly divided a spike on the top of the hatch which led from the condemned hold.
He obtained somehow an old saw, "a spike such as is used for splicing ropes, a piece of an old sword jagged and notched, and an old knife.
In after years, if a spike came out or the bar cracked off at the spike hole, the bar would turn up like a serpent's head and if not seen in time it was liable to throw the train off the track and do damage.
The most conspicuous thing in the giant's dress was a helmet with a spike projecting from the top, much too large for the head of the wearer, and therefore falling over his eyes until they were almost blinded by it.
As one's letters when he has read them are filed away on the pointed wire standing on the desk, so as regards my Prussian experiences everything seems to have been filed away on the spike of a helmet.
The fruit grows close to the stalk, completely surrounding it, and forming a long spike of the richest crimson berries.
One or two species of grass that I have gathered bear a close but of course minute resemblance to the Indian corn, having a top feather and eight-sided spike of little grains disposed at the sidejoints.
When he got opposite to us he halted, put down the basket, and stuck the spike of his spear into the ground, so that it stood upright.
In his right hand he held a spear about five and a half feet long, the blade being two and a half feet in length, by nearly three inches in width, and having an iron spike at the end of the handle that measured more than a foot.
