All roight, sor," said Mick, as he clutched hold of a swab which we had brought with us, in case of such an emergency.
Standing on the sidewalk he looked about the street and thought with shame: "How could I permit that swab to mock me and abuse my father as a thief?
To Foma it seemed that he resembled a swab with which the steamer decks are washed, and this amused the half-intoxicated fellow.
Then a gunner serving the nearest piece suddenly dropped his swab and seized a carbine, for out of the whirling confusion before them a single rider was seen galloping furiously towards the gun.
A line bent to the eye of a swab for dipping it overboard in washing it.
The bunch of rope-yarns sometimes secured to the tompion, saturated with water to cool the gun in action, and swab up any grains of powder.
A small swab for wiping dry the stern-sheets of a boat, washing plates and dishes, &c.
It was a shack where "Pop" Swab sold soda and "pop," from which he took his name.
Let me prescribe for you, Bertie my boy," and taking his arm he steered his chum around and toward the little shack where Pop Swab held forth.
He could still hear the trucks of the cannon below decks, as the starboard battery was being run out, and he knew the portside crews were only now beginning to swab the last glowing shreds of metal from the cannon barrels.
How long they worked Appleby did not know, but he forgot the smell of the blubber and the horrible sliminess of the swab as he pictured the worn-out men grimly swinging the oars in the fog.
Then it would swing away as the schooner rolled, and the lads who stood about with swab and bucket could only see them dimly until it blinked into brilliancy again.
A wash of ordinary whitewash and a pint of sulphur to the bucketful, applied with a brush or swab to the bodies of the trees, generally stops their work, but if the rain washes it off it must be put on again or they will resume operations.
You'll get a hand swaband get down on your knees, damn you!
To clean the bore after firing, proceed as follows: Swab out the bore with soda solution to remove powder fouling.
Let it stand for 30 minutes, then pour out the solution, remove the hose and breech plug, and swab out thoroughly with soda solution to neutralize and remove all trace of ammonia and powder fouling.
If no metal fouling is in evidence, thenswab out with the swabbing solution.
He was almost suffocated, and a physician was summoned; but before his arrival the swab had descended into the esophagus.
While making the application alone one day, a spasmodic movement caused him to relinquish his grasp on the handle, and the swab disappeared.
This man was afflicted with a syphilitic affection of the mouth, and he constructed a swab ten inches long with which to cleanse his fauces.
Somehow hisswab handle was thrust between the feet of a man standing with his back to the lad.
Get a swab and go to work; that's what you are to do.
When the beasts go at this pace they make a terrible lot of foam, and if he didn't swab it out they'd choke, and no nonsense.
But he had to do dirty work for the cook, clean out the styes of the captain's pigs, swab the lower deck, sometimes descend on errands for one or other to the nauseous hold.
I'll twist the head of that swab till he'll have to walk back'ard to see where he's goin'.
My particular jimmy legs was so glad to see me back that he almost cried as he thrust a broom and a swab into my hands.
A swab on one side, a bucket on the other, a broom draped over my shoulder, C.
In all these local applications prolonged contact of the swab is much more efficient than simply painting the surface.
If bronchoscopy is to be done the gauze swab is carried down through the exposed glottis to the carina, thus anesthetizing the tracheal mucosa.
It will not infrequently be observed that a pedunculated subglottic growth which is found with difficulty will be pulled upward into view by the gauze swab introduced to remove secretions.
In most cases, however, the most advantageous way to remove bronchial secretion has been found to be by introducing a gauze swab on a long sponge carrier (Fig.
If the aspirating tube becomes clogged by solid food, the method of swab aspiration mentioned under bronchoscopy will succeed.
If you swab each side of the naso-pharynx with plenty of ichthyol, the reflex contraction of the pharynx while the swab is in it will spread the ichthyol over the right territory.
Is he the swabthat carried Matt off in the air ship, Carl?
That sailboat will put about and we'll be hauled aboard--then thatswab of a Brady will have us just where he wants us.
The poor fellow drew the back of his horny hand across his eyes, and grumbled out as he turned away, "And here am I, Bill Anson, such a swab as to be ashamed of being sorry for him.
The remainder of my clothes, together with my sextant, nautical and other books, and some sixteen pounds odd in cash, are still in my berth aboard the barque, if that swab has not already seized them.
In the event that the skin is not firm enough to use the toothbrush, a cotton swab may be used.
In treating very thin types of paper the solution is best applied with a cotton swab or brush.
The rest of the operation is to swab out the inside joint to remove any cement that perchance was forced through the joint (see Fig.
In cleaning the bore after firing it is well to proceed as follows: Swab out the bore with soda solution (subparagraph j) to remove powder fouling.
Let it stand for 30 minutes, pour out the standard solution, remove hose and breech plug, and swab out thoroughly with soda solution to neutralize and remove all trace of ammonia and powder fouling.
