Only the rich would ever be plumbed, and very soon the plumbers would be the millionaires.
The bore is that there aren't any otherplumbers that I know of, and one is so at the mercy of these people that we must go very delicately.
Its precincts do not quit Till you have made, as plumbers say, A thorough job of it.
Let me sing in mournful numbers Of the sorrows of the Spring, When the house is full of plumbers And the builder has his fling!
Plumbers on their lodge nights, I am told, have their very own Charlie Chaplin.
Plumbers were a darker breed, who chewed tobacco fetched up from their hip-pockets.
He counts up the forty rainy days and names the present rascals to be drowned--profiteers in food, plumbers and all laundrymen.
The cathedral plumbers seem to have been accommodated here after the porch below was reopened, until the year 1851, when the chamber was appropriated as the muniment room.
In an engraving of the year 1672 this fine porch is shewn as walled up; it was used, in the last century, as a work-shop for the plumbers of the cathedral.
Incidentally, I am on the way toward solving my problem of what to do with the children while the carpenters and plumbers and masons are here.
The plumbers are here, and the kitchen floor is all ripped up.
Such was the outcome of the struggle between the carpenters and joiners on the one side and the wood workers on the other and also between the plumbers and steam fitters.
Some plumbers think fit to begin here, but that is a matter of no importance.
It is not uncommon for plumbers to make their bends with only one joint on the back.
I have seen some plumbers put an extra thickness of lead on the back before beginning to bend.
A to E, all of which has to be got rid of in uncut bends--some plumbers shift from front to back, but how many?
At that instant the carpenters, plumbers and stone masons resumed their infernal racket, while scrubwomen, polishers and painters began to move intimately among us.
I've been a month trying to get another bathroom put in on the third floor, and plumbers do try the soul.
There were gangs of workmen, carpenters, plumbers and shovelers, but almost no uniforms.
The swarm of carpenters, plumbers and mechanics was larger than ever there now and the buildings were hastening toward completion, for the first allotment of aviators, soldiers and recruits was due to arrive in March.
Mrs. O'Halloran always dealt with plumbers when they came.
The pleasant quiet life in Lady Devereux' house was occasionally broken by visits from plumbers and gas men.
The plumbers in our house were one day overheard to say that, "They say that she says that he says that he wouldn't take a hundred dollars for him.
Somewhere out there, somewhere hunted, but not found, the plumbers gathered.
In some communities it is not used at all, and manyplumbers consider it only an added means of causing stoppage and an extra expense to install.
Additional examples of the various forms of plumbing and pipe fittings, valves, traps and water fixtures may be found in the shop of dealers in plumbers and steam-fitters supplies.
If I should consume midnight oil during a full four years' course at a college for plumbers I should still find myself just upon the threshold of the temple of knowledge.
One morning, after breakfast, David went to his mother and said that the foreman wanted him to come to the new house that morning, for the plumbers would be there.
Two days afterward the plumbers came and began to make a genuine effort to reach the boiler.
After that we retired behind the curtain to sit on an empty box and eat sandwiches and watch the last lingering plumbers pasting up the steam connections with a pot of molten lead.
I was not absent more than half an hour, but when I returned I found the Countess anxiously conversing with the plumbers and pointing despairingly at the thermometers, which now registered only 95°.
Here, about six o'clock, the Countess retired with her maid, to dress, leaving me to watch the plumbers and the thermometers.
The plumbers lingered on, hour after hour, while we sat and watched the little silver thermometers, and waited.
If all plumbers were to read this book, and if they followed the instructions given, there would, we are sure, be fewer accidents from household boiler explosions, and many lives might be saved.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plumbers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
