... “Ay” said he, “if they got hands on me, it would be a short shrift and a lang tow for Alan! But I have the King of France’s commission in my pocket, which would aye be some protection...
Robert Louis Stevenson 「Kidnapped」
... and accused him of dumping garbage to frighten the fish; they offered to tow him and charge it to his wife; and one audacious youth slipped almost under the counter...
Rudyard Kipling 「"Captains Courageous"」
...The woody fibre of roots and branches is dropped in the state of tow, the nutritious matter alone having been extracted...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Here they found the hippopotamus which had been shot, and, taking it in tow, told the villagers that if they would follow to their landing-place, they should have most of the meat...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...On the 10th of January, 1863, the “Pioneer,” with the “Lady Nyassa” in tow, steamed up the Shire...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...At the mouth of the Zambesi they found HM ships “Orestes” and “Ariel,” when the former took the “Pioneer” in tow, and the latter the “Lady Nyassa,” bound for Mozambique...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
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The quadruped killed, the first and important step is to plug up thenostrils and throat with cotton-wool or tow, as also any wound fromwhich blood may escape...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...Work them outsuccessively with several changes of tow, till they burn again...
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson 「The Dog」
...Drop a fewdrops of animal oil—refined by putting shot into the bottle; neat's footoil is best for this—on to the tow, and rub out the inside of barrelswith it well...
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson 「The Dog」
...The flow of blood may be readily stopped by means of apledget of tow and a string, as in bleeding the horse...
Robert Jennings 「Sheep, Swine, and Poultry」
...They are two circles of leather about four or five inchesin diameter, joined together with a strip of chamois leather about threeinches wide, so as to form a pad or cushion, that is stuffed with tow...
Joshua A. Nunn 「Notes on Stable Management in India and the Colonies」
...A little tow,previously chopped by the medium of a sharp pair of scissors, isnow pushed into the empty skull, with the "stuffing iron," whichis a small piece of thick wire (see Fig...
Montagu Browne 「Practical Taxidermy」
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