Curiosity was this young man's capital weakness, and he had tinkered the wires of the private telephone system so that the flicking of a switch made him an auditor at any conversation carried on in the private office.
The crew tinkered things up some way, and the train proceeded.
All the way up to midnight, at which hour a station of a bigness to supply a standard brass was reached, the tinkered journal-bearing gave trouble and killed speed.
And Bland, seeing ready money just ahead, overlooked Johnny's blunt distrust of him, and pulled the corners of his mouth out of their habitual whining droop and whistled to himself while he tinkered with the motor.
Bland helped himself to a pair of new coveralls of Johnny's and tinkered with the motor.
Hal smiled to himself as he tinkered with the engine.
Calmly he bent over the engine and tinkered with it a moment later.
So day after day He stitched and tinkered and hammered away, 30 Till at last 'twas done,-- The greatest invention under the sun!
He tinkeredaway industriously for a moment, and when I continued to stand there watching him, he inquired solemnly: "A hen has no spark coil, has it?
So day after day He stitched and tinkered and hammered away, Till at last 'twas done,-- The greatest invention under the sun.
His window-catch that he'd tinkered up one day; And we were to have a good per cent on the sum that each would bring.
So day after day He stitched andtinkered and hammered away, Till at last 'twas done,-- The greatest invention under the sun!
His teacher had been old Rudie, a mechanic who had tinkered around automobiles since their kerosene days, and who knew more about them than their inventor.
So day after day He stitched and tinkered and hammered away, Till at last 'twas done-- The greatest invention under the sun!
It must be tinkered with before it will go, so to speak.
Only see how the News has been tinkered and hacked about with the idea of making it a property.
Again Robert Fairchild filled an oil cup, again he tinkered about the pumps.
For a while it wouldn't work for a cent, although they tinkered with it night and day.
So I tinkered with that and got nothing else done.
Locating their backup units was a little trickier, but years of hanging out at the Hall of Presidents while Lil tinkered with the animatronics helped me.
At last he gin in and Jabez attacked it agin, and tinkered and puttered at it all day, I watchin' Josiah clost for fear he would surround Jabez and fall on him and demolish him in his anger.
So he went after a load of maple wood and Jabez come and tinkered and hammered and pounded and then sayin' with some of his pride returned into his port: "It will go now like clock work.
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