And, snatching it up, he again assailed the
loosened pinnacle, which was of weight enough, if thrown down, not only to have destroyed the remnant of the drawbridge, which sheltered the two foremost assailants, but also to have sunk the rude float of planks over which they had crossed.
Looking closer, he perceived a thin little plate of gold, with three false teeth attached to it, which had apparently dropped out (
loosened by the shock) when the manager let the head fall on the floor.
I was surprised with this at first, but soon concluded it must be done by the earthquake; and as by this violence the ship was more broke open than formerly, so many things came daily on shore, which the sea had loosened, and which the winds and water rolled by degrees to the land.
- Went to the wreck, and with the crow made way into the body of the wreck, and felt several casks, and loosened them with the crow, but could not break them up.
- Every day, to this day, I worked on the wreck; and with hard labour I loosened some things so much with the crow, that the first flowing tide several casks floated out, and two of the seamen's chests; but the wind blowing from the shore, nothing came to land that day but pieces of timber, and a hogshead, which had some Brazil pork in it; but the salt water and the sand had spoiled it.
It is a quiet noon-scene among the isles of the Pacific; a French whaler anchored, inshore, in a calm, and lazily taking water on board; the
loosened sails of the ship, and the long leaves of the palms in the background, both drooping together in the breezeless air.
He
loosened two buttons of his coat, thrust in his hand, and brought forth the packet.
A sailor was near me coiling the
loosened mooring-rope on the deck.
When, in despair, I took my drink, at once my brain
loosened up and began to roll off the thousand words.
A wind,
loosened from wild places far away, steals out to blow over dewy, star-lit, immemorial hills.
In none of the patients more than one screw was found
loosened. The number of loose screws were related to the fracture pattern and distribution.
Maria Luisa Calubaquib, Bicol police spokesperson, said huge volume of
loosened soil and rocks cascaded down the Maharlika highway in Barangay (village) Comadaycaday at around 6 a.m., rendering it impassable to all types of vehicles bound for Manila and Bicol on both sides.
When laws regulating motorcycle helmet use are
loosened, head injuries go up, according to new research.
