The network that supported the car was made of very strong hempen cord, and the two valves were the object of the most minute and careful attention, as the rudder of a ship would be.
Its weight, along with that of the network, did not exceed two hundred and fifty pounds.
Mynheer Isaac had not yet quite decided which of these two names he would give to the tulip, but, as both meant the same thing, this was, after all, not the important point.
Two of the keys entered the lock, and one of them turned round once, but not the second time.
So it came as a mighty shock to the girl when she heard the hated tones of the man whom she had knocked overboard from the prahu two nights before, and realized that the bestial Malay sat close beside her, and that she was again in his power.
Along the stretch of black river that the prahu and her consort covered that night Virginia Maxon saw no living thing other than a single figure in a small sampan which hugged the shadows of the shore as the two larger boats met and passed it, nor answered their hail.
The
two men were at this juncture gone to find them out, and had resolved to fight them wherever they had been, though they were but
two to three; so that, had they met, there certainly would have been blood shed among them, for they were all very stout, resolute fellows, to give them their due.
Now, in artificial fertilisation pollen is as often taken by chance (as I know from my own experience) from the anthers of another flower, as from the anthers of the flower itself which is to be fertilised; so that a cross between
two flowers, though probably on the same plant, would be thus effected.
Ask them that if
two chronometers ain't better than one, then how can
two thousand be better than one?
The host, his helpers, and
two watchmen who were passing, and who from curiosity had penetrated too far into the room, were mixed up in the tumult and showered with blows.
To describe the impatience and anxiety of these
two friends would be impossible.
When (for example) we see one man and hear another speaking at the same time, what we see and what we hear have a relation which we can perceive, which makes the
two together form, in some sense, one experience.
The screw-guns are tiny little cannon made in
two pieces, that are screwed together when the time comes to use them.
"Ordinarily the length of a gun is twenty to twenty-five times the diameter of the shot, and its weight
two hundred and thirty-five to
two hundred and forty times that of the shot."
As for my cats, they multiplied, as I have observed, to that degree that I was obliged to shoot several of them at first, to keep them from devouring me and all I had; but at length, when the
two old ones I brought with me were gone, and after some time continually driving them from me, and letting them have no provision with me, they all ran wild into the woods, except
two or three favourites, which I kept tame, and whose young, when they had any, I always drowned; and these were part of my family.
