paying-out

• “I am naturally in good spirits, but keep very quiet, for misfortunes may arise at any instant; moreover tomorrow my paying-out apparatus will be wanted should all go well, and that will be another nervous operation.”

  Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

• “There was a grooved pulley used for the paying-out machinery with a spindle wheel, which might suit me.”

  Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

• “I have made my calculations and find the new paying-out gear cannot possibly answer at this depth, some portion would give way.”

  Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

• “Wish I'd a wench like _that_ every day," says the little auctioneer, at paying-out time -- you never saw such a heap of gold coin on one dirty deal table.”

  Flash For Freedom

• “I suggested that he send for a canvas screen to put across the gap between the two buildings, as when the crowds began to stream towards the bar and the paying-out Tote windows after the race, someone would be certain to see him.”

  Dead Cert

• “The man in charge touches a small handle, and an electric bell rings violently in the tank and at the paying-out machinery.”

  St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878

• “If my leg is caught in the bight of a paying-out hawser, my whole brain focuses at once on that single thought, "_an axe.”

  The Opium Habit

• “The sharp, whizzing sound, caused by the rapid paying-out of the line and its great tension, gradually subsided.”

  The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family

• “If the trouble is not in the tanks, the paying-out machinery must be metamorphosed into a picking-up apparatus, and the cable already laid will be coiled back into the hold until the fault appears, when it will be cut out and the two ends of cable spliced.”

  A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route

• “The Mazarini mob used to use it for a paying-out place last year; did you know that?”

  Traitor's Purse

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