For, as he raised the bottle, the glass stopper fell out, and the burning vitriol streamed down on his head and over his countenance, a few drops only falling upon Dykes, and those principally on his clothes.
The stopper was made, and it appeared to be sufficient.
A stopper made of a piece of tow served to close it in case of need.
The engineer corked them by means of a stopper through which passed a glass tube, bored at its lower extremity, and intended to be plunged into the acid by means of a clay stopper secured by a rag.
We left 'Frisco next day, with a fine, fair wind, that seemed a bit like putting thestopper on the yarns I had heard about the ship's ill luck.
Several of the men shouted out loud in their fright, and let go of the haulyards; but luckily the stopper held it, and the yard did not come down.
If a stopper is left off a cologne bottle, the contents of the bottle will slowly evaporate; if a dish of water is placed out of doors on a hot day, evaporation occurs very rapidly.
Close the mouth of the tube with a one-hole rubber stopper in which is fitted a long, narrow tube, and clamp the test tube to an iron support, as shown in Figure 22.
If the glass stopper is removed and the air is allowed to reenter the flask, the loudness of the sound immediately increases.
Some receive a stopper of kneaded clay, which, when dry, will correspond in thickness and consistency with the mortar ceiling of the natural nest.
They bore through the stopper of the inhabited tubes, a work of no great difficulty, for we have here not the hard cement of the Chalicodoma, but a simple lid of dried mud.
The stopper was jammed, and flatly refused to be unscrewed.
A firm hold, a vigorous grip with her strong, lithe fingers--the stopper came off in the most provokingly easy manner.
The males occupy the fore-part of the reed, the end next to the opening; the females are at the bottom, next to the knot which serves as a naturalstopper to the channel.
Each time that the light disappears, on removing the stopper it will instantly re-appear.
In cold weather the bottle should be warmed in the hands before the stopper is removed.
He placed within the receiver the cistern of a mercurial barometer, the tube of which was made to pass through the central hole in the brass plate, from which the stopper had been removed.
By attaching a string to this stopper, which was so long as to enter the receiver to the depth of two or three inches, and turning the stopper in its seat, the string could be wound up, and thus objects could be moved within the receiver.
He then removed the stopper from his new Goodyear esophagus, inserted a neat little tin funnel, with which he was able to introduce the water.
He had hardly wiped away an idle tear with the corner of his blanket and replaced the stopper in his tear jug when the local representative of the U.
Pass the cat-stopper through the ring of the anchor, through the chock, belay it to the cat-tail, and seize it to its own part.
A stopper used for securing the cable forward of the windlass or capstan, while it is overhauled.
Single and double wall the small strands (as for a stopper knot) round the rope, worm them along the divisions, and stop their ends with spunyarn.
I have provided the screw stopperwith a spring catch, and .
This has a tightly fitting ground glass stopper (B).
If the bottle is filled with water, and the stopper dropped in and tightened, water will squirt out through the small hole in the stopper.
On wiping offstopper and bottle we have the bottle exactly full of water.
Moreover, we must not leave out of account that in the Nightmare type the wife cannot herself take the wooden stopper out of the hole through which she entered; but directly it is removed by another she vanishes.
In other tales she is caught in the shape of a straw; and she is generally released by taking the stopper out of the hole whereby she entered.
Next, I made a stopper of soft wood, three inches long, to exactly fit one end of the tube when driven in half an inch, and secured it by little nails driven through the tin.
Through the centre of this stopper I made a hole one-fourth of an inch in diameter.
The end of thisstopper was cut down to about half an inch, tapering it from the tin.
The seaman stationed at the stopper obeyed, and down went the anchor.
This was successfully done also, and Mark let go the stopper within twenty feet of the wall of the sunken reef, just as the ship began to drive astern.
While he was thus busied, Mark was looking to the stopper and shank-painter of the sheet-anchor, which had been got ready to let go, before Captain Crutchely was lost.
But let us examine the shapeless mass more closely and we shall perceive the number of chambers composing the habitation with the funnelled mouths, each quite distinct and each furnished with its gravel stopper set in the cement.
A large, rough earthen stopper finishes the nest at the entrance to the shell.
All, after filling the spiral staircase with two or three cells, closed the house with a thick earthen stopper on a level with the opening.
With the upright position of the reeds, the stopper of the opening would receive the rain and would become diluted; the ceilings of the storeys would fall in and the family would perish by drowning.
The ovipositor has therefore lengthened its extensible tube and pushed beyond the feather stopper driven in by the lead.
This tube had one end closed, and the other provided with a stopper, so that in loading the stopper could be drawn out and held by the teeth while the powder was poured into the gun.
Leigh laughed harshly as he replaced the stopper and screwed on the cap.
Snuff up heartily," said the dwarf, holding out the bottle towards the other with the stopper removed.
After a time tap the stopper smartly, but not too hard, with the handle of a hair brush.
Let a drop of pure oil flow round the stopper and let the bottle stand a foot or two from the fire.
Fit a large glass flask with a tightly fitting rubber stopper having a short glass tube passing through it.
This bottle should preferably have a rubber stopper, as the hydroxide solution attacks the glass of the ground joint of a glass stopper, and may cement the stopper to the bottle.
Pour out from the tube a portion of the carbonate, replace the stopper and determine approximately how much has been removed.
Take the flask from the balance, stopper it, place it in a bath at the desired temperature, usually 15.
Fit the funnel into the stopper of a filter bottle, and connect the filter bottle with the suction pump.
Nearly fill the burette with the chromic acid solution, close the upper end with a corkstopper and tip the burette backward and forward in such a way as to bring the solution into contact with the entire inner surface.
How was he to know that the list of the Twenty-seven was still inside that crystal stopper or that the crystal stopper was still inside the object where Daubrecq had first hidden it?
Because what you stole from Daubrecq was not the stoppermade by his instructions, but the stopper which was sent to John Howard, the Stourbridge glassworker, to serve as a model.
If she mistrusted him, had he not also reasons to mistrust that woman who had twice taken the crystal stopper from him to restore it to Daubrecq?
A quick movement of the head, a glance, and the stopper was put back in its place.
Dazzled by the crystal stopper which he flashed before your eyes, you did nothing but look for that stopper in which he had stowed away no matter what, the first bit of paper that came to hand, while he quietly kept.
Of course, some one saw you give me the stopper and took advantage of the crowd in the shop to pick my pocket of it.
And yet Daubrecq, who knows that he is being spied upon to his very bedroom, has once more left the stopper in a drawer, as though he attached no importance to it at all!
But you don't know the article in which the stopper is hidden?
She trembled so violently that Lupin took back the stopper and unscrewed it himself.
In the evening his old nurse told him that, having opened the drawer of the bedside table from curiosity, she had found the crystal stopper there again.
And the person who brought it back and who enters this house by some unexplained means considered, as I did, that the stopper ought not to disappear.
If the crystal stopper was no longer there, would this not be obvious from some material sign?
And that is why I replaced the stopper in the cupboard before its absence was noticed.
