They will bake bricks twenty times as rapidly as any kiln, and the bricks produced are not the friable blocks which a mason chips easily with his trowel, but bodies so hard as to scratch case-hardened steel.
As soon as we landed we perceived that the ground was strewn with flaked chips of chalcedony, jasper, and similar stones.
Then by holding a blanket up over Andy by the four corners he was able, with some chips he had previously chopped out of the side of a dead pine, to start a fire, by which he proceeded to cook dinner.
Fragments of arrow-heads, chips of chalcedony, and quantities of potsherds scattered around proved that our ancient Shinumos had known the region well.
The boats seemed to be scarcely more than chips on the sweeping current and we not worth mentioning.
The other gamblers could have squawked that my chips should go into the next pot, but apparently none of them did.
There really weren't enough chips left in front of me to bother cashing in.
I looked up from stacking the chips I had just bought from Nick.
The floors or partitions of the tub or generator being covered with birch twigs or beech chips to the depth of a few inches, the alcoholic liquor (first heated to between 75 deg.
The story of Chips is better than the story of Captain Murderer, but I do not care for the responsibility of laying it before you.
The infected trees are often so riddled with the burrows of these larvae that they are completely destroyed, and the presence of the intruders is frequently indicated by a heap of small chips of wood lying on the ground near the roots.
The caterpillar, when full fed, makes a cocoon with silk and the chips of wood that it has bitten off; and in this undergoes its metamorphoses.
When fully grown they construct a strong cocoon of chips of wood, bound together by silk, and within this they change to the chrysalis.
Shut one in a little wooden box, and you will have the pleasure of watching it construct a cocoon of chips of wood that it has bitten out with its powerful jaws, all joined together into a hard shell by means of transparent glue.
I recollects, I used to get chips en pile dem up for her 'cause she always been tell me, if de baby go to sleep, to get up some chips en put dem on de steps for her to hurry en start fire wid.
Well, in de evenin', I fill them boxes wid chips and fat splinters.
Uncle Rob toted water, picked up chips and carried rations fum kitchen to dinin room.
A Hebrew banker staked a pile of chips on the "17" to come up a third time.
I just want to look the place over and lose a few chips in a good cause.
There was no money on the table, nothing but piles of chips of various denominations.
At Miss Cullen's suggestion we three had a second game of poker, but with chips and not money.
Fires were started, and as there was no wood on that range, buffalo chips were used instead.
He produced little chips and pebbles, and stones, with which he played roundup.
At last she made a tiger and sent it to frighten him home; but Chando took up a handful of chips from the log he was cutting and threw them at the tiger and they turned into wild dogs and chased the tiger away.
Meanwhile the man went home with the door and chopped it up and gave the pieces to his wife to cook; the wife said that it was useless to cook dry chips but he insisted and said that her mother had made a beautiful dish of them.
Follow the chips and you will arrive four or five hundred feet above both the bridge and the level of the upper fall.
You ascend another ladder of one hundred feet, and you arrive at a path pointed out to you by the broad chips of the woodman's axe.
The mountain was still above me, and I continued my ascent; but the chips now disappeared, and, like Tom Thumb, I lost my way.
The envelope was dirty and weather-beaten, but to a certain extent the redwood chips under which it had lain hidden had served to protect it, and the writing on the face was still legible.
The Black Minorca turned, and Pennington nodded to him to follow; whereupon the latter cashed in his chips and joined his employer on the sidewalk.
Sandy did not have many chips in front of him, but there were five small oblongs of blue, markers representing five hundred dollars apiece.
The front rooms held no loungers, but the click of chips and murmurs of talk came from behind closed doors.
The nails ain't rusted like the old ones an' the chips are fresh.
The following verses on the life and death of poor old Buffalo Chips are founded entirely on facts.
An’ Chips he never left him, for fear he’d get a pill; Nor would he think it mighty hard to die for Buffalo Bill.
Having given us these sad scraps of information, and heaving a big sigh, the poor old soul lifted up her bundle of chips and went fumbling forward over her stumbling-blocks.
Whilst we were engaged in our calculations, an old crone, who had been groping about in the crevices for chips and sticks, stopped, and seeing us thus penned in by tree boles, eyed us with a compassionate look.
Them guns won't be heavy enough to hurt the tower and walls more than to send chipsof stone flying.
Sam Donny's wound progressed favourably; but the hospital-room was occupied as well by three more men, all suffering from cuts and contusions, caused by the flying chips of stones when a ball struck the edges of the crenelles.
