Sentences with phrase «head of steam even»

Managers in tenuous positions may feel pressured to get up a full head of steam even with only two weeks of exhibition games.

Not exact matches

Or even «full head of steam,» whichever you prefer.

So even if Freese signs a one - year deal, somehow gets 500 at - bats and hits the market with a head of steam... well, best of luck.

Not taking the time to bash any former staffers, but the true talent of the kids we had means even more knowing they had to overcome the ability of opponents getting a head of steam before our kids could even break toward the ball.

uses an electronic pump system to prevent the steam head from spitting water, and it even contains a water purification element that will prolong the life of the product, even if you use tap water in it.

At five in the morning someone banging on the door and shouting, her husband, John, leaping out of bed, grabbing his rifle, and Roscoe at the same time roused from the backhouse, his bare feet pounding: Mattie hurriedly pulled on her robe, her mind prepared for the alarm of war, but the heart stricken that it would finally have come, and down the stairs she flew to see through the open door in the lamplight, at the steps of the portico, the two horses, steam rising from their flanks, their heads lifting, their eyes wild, the driver a young darkie with rounded shoulders, showing stolid patience even in this, and the woman standing in her carriage no one but her aunt Letitia Pettibone of McDonough, her elderly face drawn in anguish, her hair a straggled mess, this woman of such fine grooming, this dowager who practically ruled the season in Atlanta standing up in the equipage like some hag of doom, which indeed she would prove to be.