The
tubes, as I have already remarked, enter the sand nearly in a vertical direction.
All night through their destructive
tubes advanced.
As Peking was bombarded by glass
tubes, so was all China.
"On the upper part of this tank is a platinum
tube provided with a stopcock.
With a
tube in his hand he rushed over to his wife and held it to her face.
He still continued to escort her to the
Tube, to buy her occasional presents, to tap, when conversing, the pleasantly sentimental vein.
Maston knew no bounds, and he narrowly escaped a frightful fall while staring down the
tube. But for the strong hand of Colonel Blomsberry, the worthy secretary, like a modern Erostratus, would have found his death in the depths of the Columbiad.
Then up the
tube he cried, "Gone overboard?" and clapped his ear to.
He was playing at 'puff the dart,' which is played with a long needle inserted in some worsted, and blown at a target through a tin
tube. He placed the needle at the wrong end of the
tube, and drawing his breath strongly to puff the dart forward with force, drew the needle into his throat.
The girl accompanied us, and when she saw the thing I had in mind, she stepped forward and lent a hand to the swinging of the great cylinder of death and destruction into the mouth of its
tube. With oil and main strength we shoved the torpedo home and shut the
tube; then I ran back to the conning-tower, praying in my heart of hearts that the U-33 had not swung her bow away from the prey.
This receives confirmation from the circumstance, that it is observed of animals destitute of lungs that they have also but one cavity in the heart, and that in children who cannot use them while in the womb, there is a hole through which the blood flows from the hollow vein into the left cavity of the heart, and a
tube through which it passes from the arterial vein into the grand artery without passing through the lung.
"The screw consists of an axis of hollow brass
tube, eighteen inches in length, through which, upon a semi-spiral inclined at fifteen degrees, pass a series of steel wire radii, two feet long, and thus projecting a foot on either side.