Why don't pirates shower before they walk the plank?
One day they had a stroke of luck: one of the boarding-masters got a contract to paint a tramp that had come in from Madagascar round the Cape of Good Hope, and they spent several days on a plank hanging over the side, covering the rusty hull with paint.
it's in the West—I should think that gold plank would have calmed the air out in that direction.
She knocked a whole plank out of the bottom with a hod.
Petersburg and the neighboring villages was dissected, plank by plank, and its foundations dug up and ransacked for hidden treasure—and not by boys, but men—pretty grave, unromantic men, too, some of them.
" Tom said: "Oh, they have just a bully time—take ships and burn them, and get the money and bury it in awful places in their island where there's ghosts and things to watch it, and kill everybody in the ships—make 'em walk a plank.
Sighing, he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank; repeated the operation; did it again; compared the insignificant whitewashed streak with the far-reaching continent of unwhitewashed fence, and sat down on a tree-box discouraged.
"Then here's to Johnny Plank!
Peter had been removed for ever from his path, and all the other boys were in the brig, about to walk the plank.
"We will seize the children and carry them to the boat: the boys we will make walk the plank, and Wendy shall be our mother.
To the right of the statue a plank road with nine turns was built and it is now famous as the nine-turn plank road; it goes from the bottom to the top.
" Twenty students gathered in a circle, holding a plank in a gym in northern China's Tianjin University.
Her comments were the clearest indication yet that she plans to make overhauling the eurozone a key priority if she wins next month's Bundestag elections and a central plank of her political legacy.
Learn to Plank The plank exercise requires no equipment, can be done almost anywhere, and works your entire body, especially those abs.
Renegade Row 2、 Holding a high plank, keep the shoulders in line with one another and allow elbow to graze the rib cage as it moves toward the ceiling.
Here's a guide on how to perform a basic plank: ?
Now, on his way home he had to cross a plank lying across a running brook.
The road features temples, rock paintings, post houses, ancient bridges and plank roads.
Last year, the plank exercise was still a new thing for most Chinese.
Joslyn recommended trying planks, side planks, and hollow holds, which she likens to a 'reverse plank on the floor'.