All that day Potapitch remained in attendance upon her; but the
Poles who directed her play she changed more than once.
The ice-bridges had to be tested, and either Daylight or Kama went in advance, snowshoes on their feet, and long
poles carried crosswise in their hands.
But we must have already emerged and gone seven hundred or eight hundred leagues; and if I had here an astrolabe to take the altitude of the
pole, I could tell thee how many we have travelled, though either I know little, or we have already crossed or shall shortly cross the equinoctial line which parts the two opposite
poles midway."
They intimated that there was some band in the neighborhood, and probably a hunting party, as they had lodge
poles for an encampment.
Ten minutes he maka da machine - one barrel, one wheel-hub, two
poles, justa like dat."
Did he wish to reach the
pole? I did not think so, for every attempt to reach that point had hitherto failed.
They thought and they thought, till at last they cut down a
pole, tied the donkey's feet to it, and raised the
pole and the donkey to their shoulders.
On the contrary, he is ungratefully disposed to regret the North
Pole.
There was a great cornfield beyond the fence, and not far away she saw a Scarecrow, placed high on a
pole to keep the birds from the ripe corn.
We may also notice that, on the lunar sphere, the south
pole is much more continental than the north
pole.
He had been getting on so well that he had grown quite cheeky over the business, and was walking up and down the punt, working his
pole with a careless grace that was quite fascinating to watch.
These last now hoist the bucket within grasp of the Indian, to whom another person has reached up a very long
pole. Inserting this
pole into the bucket, Tashtego downward guides the bucket into the Tun, till it entirely disappears; then giving the word to the seamen at the whip, up comes the bucket again, all bubbling like a dairy-maid's pail of new milk.