... longer the better); then the rippers take them, and draw them into wire, through two or three holes. Then they neal them again for six hours or more, and water them the second time about a week. Then they are carried to the rippers, who draw them to a two-bond ...

... therefore may claim to belong essentially to the railway age, having ever since followed every step of that gigantic civilising ripper with close interest. One of the earliest and latest objections to every railway project that was to be opposed, was a tunnel ...