A plumber was to him the devil, and I have no doubt that, in his scheme, plumbers were foreordained to do him mischief.
You knows what plumber bills is, an' your superintendent'll fire you if he has to pay ten dollars' overtime 'cause you hold me up.
Attempted bath, but the plumber has not mended the boiler, after all.
Mostly they have one o' them scientific plumber fellers from Boston.
Besides being an able plumber and tinker, Elder Dennett performed, by vocation, the pleasurable duties of unprinted journalism.
If he draws a plumber, for example, he shows us the Compleat Plumber--more like a plumber than anyplumber ever was.
He hung around the plumber's until they unearthed an old force pump somewhat out of repair, and for a few days' assisting the plumber Bob acquired it, together with after-hour help to put it into operation.
Bob and his plumber friend pumped, and Emily climbed to the attic window, which overlooked the row of hogsheads, ranged so that the water would flow from one to the other, and acted as pilot to the new enterprise.
For three days he sat on the steps of Masterman Throgton's home, disguised as a plumber waiting for a wrench.
Then she called down a flight of stairs that apparently led to the cellar: "'Father, the plumber has come.
Beginning, quite literally, at the bottom of the ladder, he had in twenty years of practice as an operating plumber raised himself to the top of his profession.
Gimblet told them, besides, that he had succeeded in finding the widow of the respectable plumber named Harsden, whom Julia had mentioned as being her father.
I do not cite such a plumber as a probability; but all things are possible in a Bross lecture.
Probably that plumber is discontented; indeed, I cannot imagine how a plumber can be anything but discontented.
Suppose a plumber is called into your house on a raw day of January to tinker up a disordered pipe in the cellar.
We stood round watching the candle swing gently and the flame dance as the plumber slowly unrolled the ball of string.
The plumber came and repaired the pump next day, going down the well with a couple of men to hold the rope he had round his waist, and I heard Mr Solomon grumbling and laughing a good deal about the care he was taking.
The plumber took off his jacket and rolled up his sleeves, after sticking the candle in his waist and the matches in his pocket, and prepared to descend.
You're very clever," said the plumber sharply; "but just mind your own business.
During this time the plumber had been rattling his tools in his basket, and Mr Solomon turned to him again.
The plumber went upon one knee, seized the top of the ladder, and got up again shaking his head.
She was a gentle soul, married to a socialistic plumbertwenty years her senior.
This tree was originally made by a London plumber in 1693; but it has been recently repaired by a plumber in the neighborhood of Chesterfield, under the direction of Sir Joseph Paxton.
There was an old maid of Carstairs, Whose villa required some repairs: When she asked if the plumber Could finish next summer, He said he would be there for years!
I found, on my return to our abbey, extensive repairs going on in view of the expected influx of visitors in September, and the procurator in despair at the dilatoriness of Highland workmen, recalling the famous plumber of Carstairs.
If the plumber effected one repair he invariably left some damage that made it necessary to recall him before the month was out.
I soon found that if I wanted potatoes and cabbages, I must grow them; if a pipe burst there was no plumber to mend it, I must mend it myself; and so through a long range of occupations, with which I had had no previous acquaintance.
Now I needn't tell you I've had a man or two fishing about among the doorkeepers and so on at the Admiralty, and one of them found a plumber he knew slightly, working on the roof.
That plumber happens to be no fool--a bit smarter than the detective-constable, it seems to me, in fact.
The plumber had sketched out the workin's of the thing elaborate to me, but I didn't see the need of spendin' the rest of the night passin' an examination in the subject.
You see, there's an unfinished space over the kitchen well and the plumber had located this hundred-gallon tank in the middle of it.
Anyway, the plumber explained to Torchy just how it works.
You can't be a plumberunless you have strong eyes.
Why, I knew a plumber who was called out in the middle of the night once by a city man who was trying to be a farmer during the summer months, and what do you suppose the trouble was?
And didn't the plumber put in a great big bill for that?
We shall hear how hard it is that the sons of the plumber should not be able to go to Oxford and how desirable it is that daughters of the dustman should sometimes take the Prix de Rome.
I could be a fairplumber in a few months, I'm sure.
He told me he couldn't THINK if he went into business--he wants to be a plumber so he can THINK!
The plumber referred him to his clerk, whom Stephenson invited to join him at a neighbouring public-house, where they might quietly talk over the matter, and finally settle the plan of the new lamp.
On the 20th November he went over to Newcastle to order his third lamp from a plumber in that town.
Less than two years ago he was a plumber and whole; to-day he has but one arm, his left; the other and a piece of his shoulder with it having gone in saving his country from the foe.
Master plumber Leistner, who had his shop at the market of Hohenstein, helped him in building it.
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