He had a hammer in his hand at the time and a tack between his teeth.
At last, came the halt for dinner, and most of us experienced a full realization of the blessedness of rest, while our hard-tack and coffee was like the milk and honey to the Jews.
It was a pretty hungry time for a day or two, and for one forty-eight hours but four hard-tack to a man were issued by the quartermaster, and those who were unsuccessful in their foraging went very hungry.
After a long rest and a lunch by all who had been prudent enough to bring a supply of hard-tack in their pockets, our turn came for an active part in the proceedings of the day.
So I'll try another tack to keep you in evil odour, Mr. Bourne.
You'll see him on the borrowingtack to-morrow, Mr. Acting.
One morning at daylight Yawl sighted a sail--a large vessel a few miles astern of us, but a point or two more to the west, and on the same tack as ourselves.
When they had to tack they lowered the sail half down the mast, and then hauled upon the heel of the yard until they brought it to the foot of the mast, and passed it over to the other side.
At length the pilots and masters entreated Vasco da Gama to tack back again, on the plea that the days were short, the nights long, and the vessels leaky, while the wind blew strongly, and cold rain and sleet came beating in their faces.
Vasco da Gama, on hearing of their complaints, assured them that the cape was near, and that by making another tack on their return they would find that they had doubled it.
The tack of the sail was made fast to the end of a sprit almost as long as the mast, so that they could set their sails very flat, and steer close to the wind.
And now, if you please, I'll tack back again once more into my proper course, to the spot where I broke off in sight of Erromanga.
We have always to luff round again, and start anew on a fresh tack half a dozen times over, before we can get well under way for the port we're aiming at.
I close-reefed my sails, and kept tack and tack 'till daylight, when we were happy to find we had drifted very little to leeward of our situation in the evening.
As this would never do, and the wind freshened so as to give us four or five knot way, a most fortunate circumstance for us, the captain determined to tack while he had room.
Everybody seems to think the proper caper is to tack on a cent or two a pound wherever he can.
You could scarcely keep your feet, and as for food--our Christmas dinner consisted of hard tack and lucky we were to get that.
You can talk about the hardships of the trenches, but how about being aboard a pitching vessel, when you can't even get a light in your galley ranges, which means no food can be cooked and a steady diet of hard tack and bully beef?
At sunset the two fleets lay to the westward of the Saints' Passage, and there was no probability that De Grasse would attempt to tack through it during the hours of darkness.
The French admiral signalled the order to tack to the southward under shortened sail.
The Armada turned from its course up Channel, and on the starboard tack stood towards the English fleet, hoping in Spanish phrase to catch the enemy "between the sword and the wall.
If the battle was now to be fought out on the old traditional method, the fleets would clear each other, wear and tack and repass each other in opposite directions with a second exchange of fire.
Gibson took this tack in his own defense, pointing to the irony of a situation in which "some people can, on the one hand, argue that segregation is wrong, and on the other .
Continuing on a tack he had pursued for several years, the Air Force Deputy Special Assistant for Manpower, Personnel, and Organization, James P.
Another tack at the top of the head will also do good service in holding the skull in its place while the grand struggle with the body is going on, for the head is the last thing finished.
In cleaning bird skeletons beware of injuring the little tack like points which project downward from each of the cervical vertebrae.
The steward came off with me, to buy some soft tack and fresh meat.
The rain had turned the hard-tack into a sort of dough; but it was better than nothing.
The Normans, perceiving the English to tack as they did to get the wind, thought that they were taking to their heels, and began to triumph.
As the sun rose above the ocean on that May morning, soon after four o'clock, the enemy were seen standing southward, forming their line on the same tackas that of the allied squadrons.
In order to frustrate the design, he had no sooner passed the Spanish rear than he wore and stood on the other tack towards the enemy.
If you should put it hard over and get him on the home tack all Hell couldn't stop him until he reached the stable.
By doing this I should be forced south, and back onto the northern isles of the Fiji group, while on a starboard tack I should be driven onto a lee shore of the Gilbert Islands.
Should the Hindoo stowaway come back to life, it would be necessary to tack ship and put back to Suva in order to put him ashore.
There are times when you tack and wear, and boxhaul ship every fifteen minutes.
He thinks it is not necessary to tack and boxhaul, he wants to wait for the wind.
Then nail the wheel down firmly, and tack the other piece slightly.
Tack these two pieces of tin in front of the coils as shown in the illustration.
Illustration: Brass Key on a Wood Base] the screw of the knob strikes the base when pressed down, put in a screw or brass-headed tack for a contact.
Tack on a piece of sheepskin or deer hide where the foot rests, Fig.
Tack them and the arm stick together at the point where they intersect.
Then put the wheel in a central position in the frame, tack the other side piece of zinc in place and put the other crosspiece in place.
Fill the seam with thick paint and tack it down with copper tacks along the center of the keelson.
Procure a wooden box such as cocoa tins or starch packages are shipped in and stretch several thicknesses of flannel or carpet over the bottom, allowing the edges to extend well up the sides, and tack smoothly.
On one side of this block tack a piece of tin (K, Fig.
Tack the cloth to the hoop on the inner side after it has been wrapped around the hoop two or three times.
Turn three of the flaps of the carpet up and tack them securely to the sides of the box.
Tack over one end of the hole a piece of pasteboard in which seven coarse sewing-machine needles have been inserted.
Wrap tightly with strong thread andtack on the two sticks that are to serve for the legs and body.
If it is found difficult to plait the cord on the handle as in the illustration, wind it around in a continuous line closely together, and finish by fastening with a little glue and a small tack driven through the cord into the handle.
With a little practice you will learn to tackand guide yourself as desired.
The rascals might have avoided all this by simply putting a thorn tack or two in its place last night.
It's the next lot, the ewes, that are brutes to funk; and once on that tack the devil himself won't make them jump.
There was nothing for it but to haul off till the following morning, so we stood away on the starboard tack until we had made what appeared to be a safe offing.
The lasttack enabled us to get through, and at last we were in the wide mouth of the bay.
We had just completed all our preparations comfortably when Jones called my attention to the fact that the commodore was in stays, and presently she was round on the other tack and heading well up for us.
Carter flourished an arm by way of reply, and then gave the order: "Main tack and sheet let go!
To Chi--" Don Strong paused with histack hammer raised.
We had a dinner of hard tack and salt pork, and should have passed a miserable day had not the commissary arrived with a supply of “Poland water,” and the officers were given a canteen each.
A pile of hard-tack as large as Faneuil Hall was set on fire.
With no time for rations we went into line and waited until nearly morning, when the detail brought us our hard tack and pork.
At noon we were ordered out of the car, and after some delay rations were issued, consisting of twenty small hardtack and a small piece of bacon not properly cured and covered with maggots.
He knew, therefore, that his first long reach on the starboard tack would take him well clear of the land.
If the wind's right, I may tackabout a bit this afternoon.
The storm had lulled, and day began to dawn over the Swedish coast, when the last tack was made, and the ship glided in a right line towards the haven of Helsingborg.
