Apollyon also entered heartily into the fun, and contrived to flirt the smoke and flame of the engine, or of his own breath, into their faces, and envelop them in an atmosphere of scalding steam.
Had the engine run off the track,--a catastrophe, it is whispered, by no means unprecedented,--the bottomless pit, if there be any such place, would undoubtedly have received us.
They listened with strained ears - the
engine continued to beat.
97," which took them over from the old Dominion of Light which had them out of the wreck of the Persew aeroplane in the years when men still flew wooden kites over oil engines!
My mate's arm's broke; my engineer's head's cut open; my Ray went out when the engines smashed; and
He travelled with his
engine from farm to farm, from county to county, for as yet the steam threshing-machine was itinerant in this part of Wessex.
'What, then you don't--' the little voice began, when it was drowned by a shrill scream from the
engine, and everybody jumped up in alarm, Alice among the rest.
At this cry the whole ship's crew hurried towards the harpooner-- commander, officers, masters, sailors, cabin boys; even the engineers left their
engines, and the stokers their furnaces.
For twenty minutes the Coldwater bucked the great seas with her three engines. I doubt if she advanced a foot; but it was enough to keep her nose in the wind, and, at least, we were not drifting toward thirty.
All this time it had been impossible to work upon the damaged engines or the gravity-screen generators; but we had a full set of instruments upon the bridge, for Alvarez, after discovering my intentions, had fetched the reserve instruments from his own cabin, where he had hidden them.
Rout had gone away, and Captain MacWhirr could feel against his ear the pulsation of the
engines, like the beat of the ship's heart.
There was one man at the rudder, one to tend the
engines, and two burly police-inspectors forward.
