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Models of cannon, bronze castings, sights covered with dents, plates battered by the shots of the Gun Club, assortments of rammers and sponges, chaplets of shells, wreaths of projectiles, garlands of howitzers-- in short, all the apparatus of the artillerist, enchanted the eye by this wonderful arrangement and induced a kind of belief that their real purpose was ornamental rather than deadly.

As I did not want to plowter about any more in the drizzle and the dark, I put my waterproof over the muzzle of one gun, and made a sort of wigwam with two or three rammers that I found, and lay along the tail of another gun, wondering where Vixen had got to, and where I might be.

They had the gun, by this time, slewed round upon the swivel, and Hands, who was at the muzzle with the rammer, was in consequence the most exposed.

As the excellent old gentleman's nails are long and leaden, and his hands lean and veinous, and his eyes green and watery; and, over and above this, as he continues, while he claws, to slide down in his chair and to collapse into a shapeless bundle, he becomes such a ghastly spectacle, even in the accustomed eyes of Judy, that that young virgin pounces at him with something more than the ardour of affection and so shakes him up and pats and pokes him in divers parts of his body, but particularly in that part which the science of self-defence would call his wind, that in his grievous distress he utters enforced sounds like a paviour's rammer.

Very little ramming was essayed after the first tragic downfall of rammer and rammed, and what ever attempts at boarding were made were invisible to Bert.

Visitors will be able to experience the broad portfolio of battery-powered rammers and vibratory plates as well as electric wheel loaders, electric dumpers and electric mini-excavators.

| "HOUSE, tech, rammers and R'n'B" - that's the soundtrack promised from Unleashed, a new Friday night at Underground at Modo.

Shovels, their well-worn handles sticking up like fence posts, their silvery blades embedded in the brown soil; tall, iron rammers; rusty, dented buckets; moulding boxes red with rust, blackened with soot.

Qualifying Toro products include the wheeled and tracked Mud Buggy, power trowels, towable mortar mixers and concrete mixers, portable concrete mixers, plate compactors, rammers, and related whole good kits and accessories.

The result, Sandvik claims, is that Rammers are tough, durable and reliable, and offer the greatest economy in terms of ownership and operating costs - while delivering maximum production.

The company also promoted road-rollers, tamping rammers and many other specialised equipment from Mikasa, a world leading manufacturer producing light-sized compaction equipment for the construction industry and other applications at the event.