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...on a laid-back settee, facing the counter behind which she presided from a battered swivel chair. The librarian position was adjacent to the frosty ... ...thing to eat and smoke as well.” He straightens the lapels of his grey tunic and swivels his belt so that its shiny buckle shows. “Get up, let... ...tains text, the interview. It also contains three groups of images – not one.” – he swiveled towards the screen and used the cursor to indicate them...

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...s." "Not in this country he isn't," Randall snapped. Alana slumped down in her swivel chair. "What do you mean?" "Exactly that. I've checked with ... ...low­ ered like a respectful servant. Rapini settled into a coal-stained, wooden swivel chair behind his desk. "You know," he said, "I've been in thi... ...rent interjected, as Novic. The Secretary sat down in a straight backed, wooden swivel chair. "So, what've you got?" "Mr. Secretary we've uncovered... ... "Get him out'a here, Chuck, before I kill the bastard," the President said and swiveled his chair around so that no one could see the rage on his f... ...ouse. "Right on time," Ryan said with a slight Irish accent as he turned in his swivel chair in front of a roll-top desk. "It's good to see you, Pa...

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...her. "Meet god face to face." Alex picked up her naval coat, laying over a swivel chair. "By the way, I've secured an elevator, lift three. They're d...

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...n another pocket, TripStone's parchment stung like burning coal. Zai's hips swiveled as she hurried past the Soala to her brother Ila's hut. Four ma... ...ide reluctantly and stepped toward the table. She watched FeatherFly's head swivel back and forth between HigherBrook and WindTamer, as though their...

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...ression that I have never had a good time—never laughed. My eyes, when I swivel them in a mirror, warn me that grave changes are taking place insi...

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...ril 15th a suitable location was found for the building of a fort in which six swivel guns were mounted. The work of erecting an observatory was next ...

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... ammunition; to-day, I discovered charges sufficient for two guns, and two swivels, which were much longer, but had bores of about blun- derbuss size.... ...he two guns, and hand crammed the contents of a bottle of olives into each swivel. They advanced,—whish! went one of the Dutch cheeses,— bang! went th... ...beautiful Belinda, and then, stepping into the front, took down one of the swivels;— a shower of matchlock balls came whizzing round my head. I did no... ...tchlock balls came whizzing round my head. I did not heed them. I took the swivel, and aimed coolly. Loll Mahommed, his palanquin, and his men, were n...

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...n the intervals of their pleasing labours, firing bow and stern smoke-ring swivels. This orgie—I can give it no other name—went on for at least two ho... ...e or aluminum and flux for winter work. Smoke-ring cannon for hail storms, swivel mounted, bow or stern. Propeller blades: metal, tungsten backed; pap...

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...he idea. Quintains, however, she was determined to have, and had poles and swivels and bags of flour prepared ac- cordingly. She would no doubt have b... ...l home park where the quintain was erected. The pole and cross-bar and the swivel, and the target and the bag of flour were all complete. She got up o... ...d touched the target with her hand; it went round with beautiful ease; the swivel had been oiled to perfection. She almost wished to take old Plomacy ...

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...t that the author ever beheld, as the smoke- house was the first ruin! The swivel alluded to in this work was buried and abandoned by the troops on th... ...of New York, there had been found in Templeton, at its settlement, a small swivel, which would carry a ball of a pound weight. It was thought to have ... ...portance of such an instrument in hurling death at his nimble enemies. The swivel was dragged by a horse into a part of the open space that the sherif... ...e to keep his sentiments to him- self until he saw the introduction of the swivel into the sports. “This comes of settling a country!” he said. “Here ... ...he touch-hole, the whole volley of the musketry preceded the report of the swivel. On receiving this united discharge of small-arms, the front of the ... ...he log on which he was seated, and taking a squint along the barrel of the swivel, which had been brought on the hill during the night, and now formed... ...of decapitation, but for the for- tunate interference of the muzzle of the swivel. As it was, the gun was dismounted at the critical moment that Benja... ...as retrograde, and in less than a minute after the bellowing report of the swivel among the rocks and caverns, the whole weight of the attack from the... ...ud shout, and fired a volley into the tree-tops, after the contents of the swivel. Animated by their own noise, the men now rushed on in earnest; and ...

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...and the like, securely screwed down, while against the wall, in front of a swivel leather chair that was ironed to the deck, was the locked secretary.... ...atter Kitchell smashed in with the axe-head. Then he seated himself in the swivel chair and began to rifle their con- tents systematically, Wilbur lea...

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...lected numerous relics of the wreck—iron utensils, anchors, pulley-strops, swivel-guns, an 18 lb. shot, fragments of astronomical instruments, a piece... ...anchor weighing 1,800 lbs., a brass gun, some pigs of iron, and two copper swivel-guns. Dumont d’Urville, questioning the natives, learned too that La... ...em.” “But,” said I, “it is not a question of fishing for them with an iron-swivel, hoisting them into the vessel, cut- ting off their tails with a blo...

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...-end of the cabin. Mr. Burns motioned to sit down, dropped into one of the swivel-chairs round the table, and kept his eyes on me as per- 41 Joseph C...

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...who were shifting the powder; and then suddenly observing me examining the swivel we carried amidships, a long brass nine, “Here you, ship’s boy,” he ... ...ad the gun, by this time, slewed round upon the 81 Robert Louis Stevenson swivel, and Hands, who was at the muzzle with the rammer, was in consequenc...

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...entres of population. They were mounted upon rough adaptations of the Doan swivel, which at that time gave the maximum vertical range to a heavy gun. ... ... and set to work with remarkable vigour to improvise a fort about the Doan swivel gun that had been placed there. They found it still in the hands of ...

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...l-sized hunting-knife. Blade snapped short. Buck’s horn, diamond cut, with swivel and ring on the butt; fragment of cotton cord attached. It must not ...

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... on the Ohio, too, Danny . See?” said Tom Platt, laughing. “Guess they was swivel-eyed, then, fer it didn’t git home, and I know who’ll find his boots...

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... a vast, wide stall, full of great thieves. Therefore they are also called swivel-chair robbers, land- and highway-robbers, not pick-locks and sneak-t...

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...e been enough for anybody to get drunk. The captain sat down in one of the swivel arm-chairs fixed around the table; I had him right under me and as h... ...changed. The field too was smaller. The end of the table, the tray and the swivel- chair I had right under my eyes. The captain had not come back yet....

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... enemies afore you begin on your friends.” ‘Him that was laying the liddle swivel-gun at us sweeps off his hat an’ calls her Queen Bess, and asks if s...

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...lors for assistants. For his task he elected a vengeance on the shark. A heavy swivel hook, baited with fat salt pork, was dropped overside; and by th...

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...e. Similarly, she found herself possessed of what is colloquially termed a swivel eye (derived from her father), which she might perhaps have declined...

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...; unless, to be sure, one’s limb went round and round in the ankle, like a swivel. Upon getting into a sort of doze, it was no wonder this uneasy post...

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...ved on the brink of a little canal near the India Docks, where there was a swivel bridge which opened now and then to let some wandering monster of a ... ...abours, the hackney-coach, after encountering unheard-of difficulties from swivel-bridges, soft roads, impassable canals, caravans of casks, settlemen...

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...d, distinct. While he spoke, he swung slowly back and forth in his leather swivel chair, his elbows resting on the arms, his pop eyes fixed vaguely up... ...ge slid to with a clash. Shelgrim did not look at the order. He turned his swivel chair about and faced the win- dows behind him, looking out with uns...

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...d floor of the Board of T rade, swing- ing nervously back and forth in the swivel chair, drum- ming his fingers upon the arms, and glancing continuall...

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... away and accusing your country of rejecting you.” He swung round upon his swivel at me. “Remington,” he said, “have you forgotten the immense things ...

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...at man laid down his fountain pen and leaned 245 Frank Norris back in his swivel chair with great deliberation. “I don’t understand, Mrs. McTeague,” ...

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...one foot on the rail, ready to leave his ship, “and mount the four-pounder swivel in the longboat’s bow. Cast off the sea lashings of the guns, but do...

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...ved on the brink of a little canal near the India Docks, where there was a swivel bridge which opened now and then to let some wandering monster of a ... ...abours, the hackney-coach, after encountering unheard-of difficulties from swivel-bridges, soft roads, impassable canals, caravans of casks, settlemen...

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...azing at the sea from behind the green fan, which was mounted on a kind of swivel, and turned any way. We dined soon after I awoke, off a roast fowl a...

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...e. Similarly, she found herself possessed of what is colloquially termed a swivel eye (derived from her father), which she might perhaps have declined...

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...the event of our not appearing in twelve hours, to send the cutter, with a swivel, around the island in search of us. At every step we took inland the... ...nettings were up, the guns double-shotted with grape and canister, and the swivels loaded with canisters of musket-balls. She lay, with her an- chor a... ...irection without being distinctly seen and exposed to the full fire of our swivels immediately. The six men being left on board, our shore-party consi...

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... ammunition; to-day, I discovered charges sufficient for two guns, and two swivels, which were much longer, but had bores of about blun- derbuss size.... ...the two guns, and had crammed the contents of a bottle of olives into each swivel. They advanced,—whish! went one of the Dutch cheeses,— bang! went th... ...beautiful Belinda, and then, stepping into the front, took down one of the swivels;— a shower of matchlock balls came whizzing round my head. I did no... ...tchlock balls came whizzing round my head. I did not heed them. I took the swivel, and aimed coolly. Loll Mahommed, his palanquin, and his men, were n...

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...ain departs who looks behind.” As in the hinges of that sacred ward The swivels turn’d, sonorous metal strong, Harsh was the grating; nor so surl...

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...hantly. BELZANOR (with grim humor) Ftatateeta: daughter of a long-tongued, swivel-eyed chameleon, the Romans are at hand. (A cry of terror from the wo...

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...ed the sound of a blowing-horn. The only fire-arms on board were a pair of swivels of one-inch calibre; but it is quite surprising how much the sound ...

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...… . That’s the way it always is,” he cried, leaning back tragically in his swivel chair. “Ev- erybody always puts everything off on me at the last min... ...hrough a door beside the stove. The red-haired sergeant leaned back in his swivel chair and lit a cigarette. “Hell,” he said, yawning. The man with th...

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...t high, for the men to stand on when to fire thro’ the loopholes. We had one swivel gun, which we mounted on one of the angles, and fir’d it as soon a...

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... whoever looks behind.” And when upon their hinges were turned round The swivels of that consecrated gate, Which are of metal, massive and sonorou...

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...ain departs who looks behind.” As in the hinges of that sacred ward The swivels turn’d, sonorous metal strong, Harsh was the grating; nor so surl...

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...ane and bevel, Like Banville’s rhyming devotees; In vain by many an artful swivel Lug in my meaning by degrees; I’m sure to hear my Henley cavil; And ...

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...his fish hook, T rolls it quickly through the waters, T urning on a copper swivel Dangling from a silver fish line, Golden is the hook he uses. Now he...

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...ked Madame Bovary of one of the lads, who was amusing himself by shaking a swivel in a hole too large for it. “He is just coming,” he answered. And in...