"I'll tell you what it is, worship," said Robin, "we three rascally servants will compound our back wages for those
plates. And we will keep the herd of cattle free for our own use--and the King's.
I searched all over the outside for an aperture, a panel, or a manhole, to use a technical expression; but the lines of the iron rivets, solidly driven into the joints of the iron
plates, were clear and uniform.
At the last experiment the cylindro-conical projectiles of Barbicane stuck like so many pins in the Nicholl
plates. On that day the Philadelphia iron-forger then believed himself victorious, and could not evince contempt enough for his rival; but when the other afterward substituted for conical shot simple
"The price of the irresistible gun would have been much greater, your Majesty, but for the fact that its missiles can be so effectively averted by my peculiar method of treating the armour
plates with a new- "
They do not make the whole three-sided pyramidal base of any one cell at the same time, but only the one rhombic
plate which stands on the extreme growing margin, or the two
plates, as the case may be; and they never complete the upper edges of the rhombic
plates, until the hexagonal walls are commenced.
"Well, then, what's the sense in wasting the
plates?"
THE ham broke off the
plate with a jerk, and rolled under the table.
In the abridged London edition of, there are
plates of an alleged whale and a narwhale.
You have seen people eating cherry-tart, and every now and then cautiously conveying a cherry-stone from their lips to their
plates? Well, something like that went on all through this ghastly--or shall we say 'ghostly'?
"I wish we could have afforded some of the
plate, Rawdon," the wife continued sentimentally.
I heard all this, much to my satisfaction, for I found plainly that the tankard was not missed, and yet they concluded it was fetched away; so I drank my ale, called to pay, and as I went away I said, 'Take care of your
plate, child,' meaning a silver pint mug, which he brought me drink in.
plate. See sketch from my pencil; [Figure 7] it is in the main correct, though I think I have foreshortened one end of it a little too much, perhaps.