What's the use of being a tin soldier in a place where even the cobblestones are of gold and silver.
Then we can tell whether it was true or not by looking in the tin soldier's box.
The minute Spritey turned into Bludgeonhead you ran away just about as fast as your tin legs could carry you--frightened to death evidently.
In the first place, you have publicly humiliated me in the presence of a tin corporal, an inferior in rank, and consequently have hurt my feelings more deeply than you imagine.
He made what you might call a 'Wish Dipper' out of an old tin cup.
Now I dare say that tin colonel of yours would try to make you believe that water is wet, and that fire is hot, and other things like that.
Have you ever read those lines of High-private Tinsel in his little book, 'Poems in Pewter,' in which he tells of the trials of a general of the tin soldiers?
I'm so sick of cherries and peaches that I run every time I see them, and when I run there is no tin soldier or general of your size in the world that can catch me.
With a little care I have made tin coffee pots and tinpails last out a season.
It is a coarse yellow granulation and comes in one-pound screw-top tin cans.
The average reflector is built of light tin by the village tinsmith.
I like best any tooth soap which is sold in handy flat tin boxes, and cannot spill.
Over the top you invert four aluminum plates and a small tinmilk pan for bread mixing and dish washing.
The cowboy travels with a tin cup and a slicker; the cruiser with a twenty-pound pack; the prospector with a half blanket and a sack of pilot bread--when he has to.
Sidenote: Tin] Tin is the lightest material, but breaks up too easily under rough usage.
As for poor Eddie, when he come up to explain why he hadn't kept on bidding, his wife put him out like he was a tin lamp.
First 'twas a lot of huckleberry pails, then a basket of groceries and such, then a tinpan with some potatoes in it, then a jug done up in a blanket.
Then she took up that tin pan and one of the potaters we'd jounced out of the cart.
He had been out to get a bucket of water; he set the pail down by the end of the bar and filled a tin cup from it.
John Ringo left the room without more words, and the three tin horns fell to cutting for low spade to while away the time.
Only one big tin to a person, but then you're six and we'll count the babies as grown ups.
Never mind if we were compelled to take our baths at the foot of our bed in a tin basin.
The best orange marmalade was bitter, and the tooth-powder was in a round tinhard to open, that spilled and wasted a lot when you did succeed in prying the lid off.
François used to fill with water a tin can in the bottom of which he had punched half a dozen holes.
Made of a marle occurring close to the town; the glaze is a white enamel, containing both tin and lead.
He then pushed the littletin cistern with his foot under the table.
The first of Newcomen’s construction in Cornwall was erected in 1720, at the Wheal Fortune tin mine, in the parish of Ludgvan, a few miles north-east of Penzance.
This cylinder was substituted for the tinone brought from Kinneil, and other improvements having been introduced, the engine was again set to work with very satisfactory results.
Indeed there was scarcely a tin or copper mine of any importance in Cornwall that had not one or more of Newcomen’s engines at work.
He went straight into the parlour, without ceremony, and found Watt sitting before the fire looking at a little tin cistern which he had on his knee.
When a company of grown people goes walking on a tin roof, there are moments of shock when the tin bubbles snap and crackle, making a sound nothing short of terrifying, like the reverberations of season-cracks in the ice on a pond.
I freely admit that it always seems less dangerous to one whose feet can feel the crotches on the tree, and on whose arm the tin pail is, than to the anxious relative on the ground below.
In her right hand she carried a small tin box, her bony fingers clasping it as tightly as they could.
The woman dropped her stick and the tin box and clapped her hands, saying, "Thankee!
You can have a tin of sardines, or a pocket-handkerchief, they are much better for you.
And in one of the cupboards was a bottle of camphor pills, and a tin of tobacco labeled "For Tramps and Gypsies.
Kink, is there any decent way of opening a tin without a tin-opener?
