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The leather straps should finish on a ring at the top which should be attached to the top of the Rucksack by a leather tab firmly sewn on.
They only know that I have pulled five hundred millions from my open whirls, the ones they have had an opportunity to keep tab on.
From his vantage point behind the conning tower of the captured U-boat Jack kept tabs on the struggle until all firing had ceased, and he was sure the Germans had been completely subjugated.
Now that they were fairly off, Jack and Ted preferred not to sleep, but rather to keep tabs on the maneuvers of the American fleet.
I went to corps headquarters in the afternoon, and a crowd of "red tabs," as the staff-officers were called, were seated around a little table having the inevitable tea.
He was not precocious, although physically he developed early; but there was no reason why the neighbors should keep tab on him and record anecdotes.
Sister is now back in Boston, keeping tabs on orchestras and attending lectures on the higher birds; and brother at last has his orchid ranch somewhere down in California.
She should be provided with a circular girdle of some strong material cut upon the bias, so it may be elastic, and provided with tabs to which to pin the folded cloth.
When they arrived, only a matter of hours after the incident, they went over the airplane, from the prop spinner to the rudder trim tab, with a Geiger counter.
Tom quickly adjusted the stabilizer trim tabs to keep the ship perpendicular to the ground, then watched the stern scanner carefully as the huge blast-pitted concrete ramp loomed larger and larger.
These guide cards should be slightly longer and heavier than the fingerprint cards and should have small tabs on the top to hold classification identifying symbols.
The boy fumbled in a back pocket and then produced a thin, metallic tab with his name, age, address and license number etched into the indestructible and unalterable metal.
Every woman should be provided with a circular girdle cut upon the bias, so it may be elastic, and provided with tabs to which to pin the folded cloth.
There is room for a broadly based citizens' watchdog organization to keep tabs on Basin affairs and to exert leverage in such critical fields as local planning.
Phil too was keeping tabs on the trail, though he realized that if there arose any knotty problem that Tony could not solve, his own knowledge would hardly avail.
"Who is the expensive-looking gentleman in the bunny hood, Olive, the one that sat back in the corner and kept tabs on Brenton's reading of the lessons?"
He was in his dusty brown Marine uniform, the scarlet collar tabs bright as blood at his throat, his major's insignia glittering at his shoulders, the battle stripes on his sleeves.
Failing that, you could do a search and replace for commas in this section (I have not used any commas in my words, definitions or notes) and replace the commas with spaces or tabs.
Two men are keeping close tab on the big spider web all the time, except in the afternoon, when no one would dare to tamper with it for fear of being detected.
Here he had all the details of the plot at his finger ends, and all that needed to be done was to keep close tabs on LeBlanc, and he would lead them direct to the headquarters of the smuggling crew.
He tugged at his tab of white chin whisker, and his puckered old eyes behind their glasses were shadowed with a deep compassion.
Like the "Daily Summary of Events," known to us as "Comic Cuts" or the "Daily Liar," these little handbooks are written by wise men wearing red tabs and living miles away from the front, where the continuity of their thoughts is only interrupted by the tea hour, and not by the "Jack Johnson" shells.
For our joint inspection there was passed the string necklace with two linen tabs soaked in aromatic oil of cedar, while the section chief gave an impromptu lecture on personal sanitation.
Gamma signals hooted, the tip off cubes on either side of the maze entrance became red, and the radiation tabs clipped to their wrists turned color before their eyes.
Later on, when he rose, I could see that he was very lame; also that around his neck (for he wore no collar) was a little leather thong and tab.
This was set with a very short tab or tabs on padded breeches tightening to the knee, which usually had very small trunks on the upper part, and large, stuffed trunk hose also appeared.
The square tabs of the jerkin increased in size, and soon formed large flaps divided into three or four, to the center of the back.
He told me to keep tab on every time her relatives come to the house and how long they stayed, and tell him when he come back home, and that he would leave orders in the home to let me work in the field, so I would not have to bother with that great big family.
"One more bend and we'll be there," answered Rob, with such absolute confidence that every one of the other scouts knew he had been keeping tabs of the conditions, and could tell to a fraction just when they were drawing near the point that had been marked down in their memories.
If one gets to a gymnasium there is an instructor or director who keeps tabs on one's hours and so helps a weak human will, and excuses are easier made to one's self than to others.
When she had braided and pegged her hair, she took the night-cap from her apron pocket and drew it over her golden head, tying the tabs under her chin.
To fix up a long-distance hike, say for twenty-four consecutive hours; and a few fellows, mounted on their wheels, kind of superintend things by keeping tabs along the line.
He even forgot his anxieties long enough to commend them for the hard work they had done and the close tab they had kept on all the occurrences of the night.
The burglar who has begun to plan to rob a house and has commenced inspection of the locality to keep tab on the movement of the police in the vicinity, has already declared war on that house.
Dick crouched down in a thick bed of ferns and studied the situation, keeping close tab on the incidents taking place before him and waiting for the darkness which would soon fall.
To the other end of the cord is fastened a hook for the purpose of attaching it to the 'tab' or loop at the back of the operator's boot.
The skirts of the coat are kept in place by a tab which engages with the third button from the top on the breeches, just above the boots.
Occasionally a tab, such as that to which reference has been made, kept the parts of the coat together; but often there were buttons and buttonholes, at least at the upper end of the openings.
The tab, peeping from beneath the cap above the ear, is red; the girdle, purse, and knife, are, in the original illumination, very clearly represented.
He counted sheep jumping over a fence, kept tab of bees issuing from a hive and tried a dozen other infallible recipes for inducing slumber.
He lengthened the girth on the other side and proceeded to bore with his pocket-knife a new hole in the short broken tab.
We used this bathroom ad lib.: but when I went to pay the bill I found an official had been keeping tabs on us, and that all baths taken had been charged up at the rate of sixty cents apiece.
In order to hear, he found it necessary to keep close to the men and women, for they spoke only in half whispers, fearing spies sent out by the Notary, chief officer of the Commune, who seemed to count it among his duties to keep tab on their very thoughts.
The fire was burning brightly, showing that either Perk or Red must have been keeping tabs on its care, having recently replenished the fuel supply.
They worked diligently for more than an hour over the boy's bared arm, frequently jotting down characters on tabs of paper before them.
The tab on the customer's card shows his business, but the occupation is not so important since he is already acquainted with the house and its goods.
To the under-side of the board glue two leather tabs, in line with the hinges, but projecting, so that the trap may thereby be fastened to the floor with drawing-pins.
A rich hip-belt has a pendent tab at the side, but, strange to note, the sword is not suspended by it, but has a separate belt passing diagonally round the waist.
"Aye, aye, that's true enough, but we thought you were keeping tab on somebody and had put on those clothes in order to do it."
Practically all that was done was to insert some kind of temporary lining to the head fit, and affix a small tab or ticket for reference purposes.
There is nothing quite so terrifying to a man who doubts his own sanity than the thought that unseen eyes are keeping tabs on him.
The alphabetical method of indexing necessitates the use of sheets on the edges of which are tabs or projections printed with the letters of the alphabet.
After the names have been entered, the ledger sheets should be arranged alphabetically under each leather tabbed indexed subdivision.
Making its appeal particularly to those who like their humor of the elemental kind, the burlesque tab often uses slap-stick comedy methods.
The guard-boats don't pay much attention to the rest of us, but they keep pretty close tab on skippers that are known to be dishonest.
When the child came along, Leighton, keeping close tab on the Peters, concluded that inevitably motherly pride in the redeemed woman would bring about an attempt at a family reconciliation.
He would at least find out whose sheep these were, count them up, and get acquainted with the herder; they might as well know that he was keeping tab on them.
Arrange with him to leave his own representative with Ogilvy to keep tab on the job, check the bills, and pay them as they fall due; and above all things, insist that Gregory shall place the money in a San Francisco bank, subject to the joint check of his representative and ours.
I started out on this plan, and among other things kept tabs on the time the watchmen paid the nightly visits to the ice box.
Brooding, as I do, pretty tensely all the time on deep and wonderful subjects, I have little leisure to keep tab on the domestic staff.
It was as though a host of eerie things were keeping tab on their movements, and after a while this silent mustering of unseen watchers got on their nerves.
Most of the population are illiterate, but they are intensely patriotic and partisan, and keep close tab on political events at Constantinople and elsewhere.
When the last button was depressed a soft, melodic chime disguised the click of the mechanism which ejected the cardboard tab.
"One moment, sir," and Detective Mitchell, who with several others from the Central Office had been unobtrusively keeping tab on each new arrival, joined them.