So I'll explain, as briefly as possible, just what this contraption of mine is.
It's a contraption for getting a light in a wind, given me by an old friend in Valparaiso," replied the Captain.
The littlecontraption that keeps the side-piece from biting into your ears--that's Raymond's.
My children's teeth never had to have all thiscontraption on them.
It is not, however, a good contraption to go in all day when the sun is strong.
I observed them carefully at every opportunity, and my private opinion is that man has rarely managed to invent as idiotically unfitted a contraption for the purpose in hand.
I declare to goodness I don't know what dat air contraption am conglomerated with," said the colored man.
Dis suttinly am a queer contraption of a country to find eggs growin' in de sand.
Two ingenious boys invented a contraption which decreased the time and labour to a minimum and almost made the job a pleasure.
He undoubtedly knows a clever boy at home who can rig up a home-made contraption that will cost nothing at all, and do the work better than the expensive tool.
I suppose now he's gone and invented some sort of contraption that never can be made to work, and he wants to tell you he's saved up enough hard cash to get a patent on the same.
Sit as far back as ever you can, and, if Oriental courtesy have put an English bit and bridoon in a mouth by education intended for a spiked curb, leave the whole contraption alone.
He's powerful smart, but his real Pa and Ma must have been right smart too to build a flying contraption that could come so far.
That there flying contraption must have smashed down awful hard, but that rubber hammock was so soft and cushiony all it did to him was jolt him good.
In the middle of the infernal contraption there was a door, and it hung all to-other as if every hinge on it had been wrenched halfway off.
Rev'rend, it was the most tarnal crazy contraption I ever saw in my life.
Think I ain't wantin' to see that there contraption that hears a hunderd miles off?
Then each yelled something at the machine--bits of slang or slurs--and it made them roar to hear that funny little contraption 'sass back!
They had been thoughtful enough to fetch one along, a clever little contraptionthat took only a small amount of room, and yet afforded considerable light.
Well, he certainly did when he turns over this here neat contraption at a price that was dirt cheap, and which I'd be ashamed to mention to yuh.
What I done intended to convey to de auditory sensibilities ob de auricular nerves ob do exterior contraption ob de--" "Hold on, Washington!
I want three thousand dollars, or I'll hold your contraption for security.
He says he's bought thiscontraption to please you, Jane Ann," said the storekeeper.
When on the ground this contraption of wood and wires had seemed an ungainly, waddling freak.
To an aviator used to the exquisite finish and polish of a modern factory-built sky boat, Hal's contraptionoffered a contrast of a rather sketchy aircraft fuselage.
To the uninitiated, this cloth contraption stretched on hay-bale wire and sprucewood sticks, hauled out of its lair on its screakily protesting keel skid, looked more like some waddling antediluvian from the prehistoric past.
That rotor-bladed, squat-built contraption was going to get its proving in a real emergency.
That's a strange contraption you've brought down though.
Back at their camp, Maben, chuckling like the big boy he was at heart, worked all the rest of the morning on a contraption made of empty cloth sacks on which he sewed valiantly with a huge needle threaded with stout string.
Anyone knew that it took genius of sorts even to hold the contraption to the straight road.
He and his frail wind craft, mere contraption of cloth and wood and some lengths of steel tubing, had come out victorious so far--but there was still the night ahead of him.
Well, I did see ’em tinkering with some contraption over in the woods,” admitted the cattle buyer as he called himself.
If I ain’t greatly mistook it’s what we’ve been lookin’ for, though how in the name of a chuck wagon they make use of that contraption is more than I can remonstrate.
Except I don’t understand what contraption this is,” and Ned kicked a box that an expressman had just delivered at the Slade homestead in Cresville.
He was dreaming of some strange new contraption that might startle the world.
Someone offered us a great deal of money for an electriccontraption that sorts beans, sorts a car load a day.
For the end of the thing lay beneath the ivy covering, in a little home-made switch which, touched by the finger, obviously set the whole contraption in motion.
Is it rightly true," burst from Jimmy before Lee had hardly got settled on the bench, "that you got a whirling glass contraption up at the big house what pulls the lightning right down out of the sky?
I reckon though, since fur was used on this contraption at first, fur is what we better use again.
From the cupboard he brought out the strangest little contraption of all.
Before him stood a homemade contraption young Renaud fondly hoped bore enough resemblance to a telegraphic outfit to work.
Soon everybody was hard at it, doing whatever he could on this strange contraption young Renaud was evolving.
It didn't seem possible that this homemade contraption of wood and wire and old curtain fixtures could really reach out into the ether and pull down music for its users.
