The process of tooling the pen wiper does not differ essentially from that already employed in the foregoing problems.
As the spectre flitted past Pringle station, five miles down the valley, the agent caught a glimpse of the sallow face of the wiper at the cab window, and saw the drivers whirling backward.
But on the siding stood a couple of flats, empty; and with his hair straight on centres, the little wiper ran for them and mounted the nearest.
And Martie Sampson, with the washing and mending and scrubbing and cooking, nursed the outcastwiper through his smallpox.
The wiper chartered the situation in a mental second.
Aloysius had improved the interval by sweeping the roundhouse as it never had been swept before; and when Johnnie Horigan returned, morally disfigured, Aloysius McGrath was already promoted to be wiper over his old superior.
Maje and a railroad man, a wiper even, there was a bond stronger than grip or password or jolly business of any kind.
Aloysius at the words nearly sank to the platform; but the master of the hoboes, who had all the facts, went at the big man as if he had been one of the gang, and did not falter till he had covered the perspiringwiper with glory.
That's how, probably, he came to think more of young Reddy MacQuigan, who was a wiper in the roundhouse, than he did of any of the rest of the railroad crowd.
Get on that engine, my boy; take this one wiper left for a fireman, and pull out.
Mr. Hebron had counted on a non-union engineer to pull the train, and a wiper to do the firing, but just as we expected them to appear, we found that some of the strikers had succeeded in talking them over to their side.
The centre of the pen-wiper is covered with a circle of white cloth larger than the side ones, worked in point Russe and point Mexico in black silk.
Yet he remembered it was not so many months since he had applied for the position of wiper in an engine round-house, obtained the job, and worked there with the grimiest and lowest employees of the railroad.
Found he had worked round machinery, and we took him as wiper and general assistant.
Shortly after, the guest was found assisting Angela in a tableau, where a pen-wiper doll in nun's costume was enacting the exorcism of the said bat, in a cave built of wooden bricks.
Yes, the train had been rented and paid for by our old extra wiper here, that dreamer, kicker and would-be detective, Dallas.
As the wiper finished his work on the locomotive, engineer and fireman got into the cab.
The wiperwas killing time at a window which commanded a view of the upper yards, with the Union Passenger Station at the end of the three-mile vista.
The men at the roundhouse window heard the crash of the splintering wagon above the roar of the train; and the wiper on the window seat yelped like a kicked dog and went sickly green under his mask of grime.
An oil-begrimed wiper crawled from under the 1031, spat at the dope-bucket and flung his bunch of waste therein.
THE PEN-WIPER Eliza always works me some little pretty trifle for my birthday, and always has done so since the day when I led her to the hymeneal altar.
I lifted the tin cover, and there on the plate was the pen-wiper which Eliza had made for me.
The top and bottom of the pen-wiper which Eliza had made for me were of black velvet, which always has a handsome look to my mind.
It appeared that the words, "Kindly clean the pen," meant that the pen was to be cleaned on a scrap of paper before the pen-wiper was used.
He took the paper and the pen-wiper out of her hands; and (thoroughly understanding the trick she had played him) changed them for a bronze saucer and a book.
The instant his back was turned, she shut her eyes, and ran over the paper and the pen-wiper with the tips of her fingers!
He ranged the hat, the paper, and the pen-wiper in a row.
She turned over the pen-wiper and the hat, and looked round at me.
Having expressed that resolution, he approached the writing-table, and took a sheet of paper out of the case, and a circular pen-wiper of scarlet cloth out of the inkstand.
She opened her eyes (very unwillingly), and looked once more at the pen-wiper and the paper.
I was going to cut the outline of a leaf from green paper and tie pen-wiper things to the back.
Three pen-wiper layers of cloth or chamois would be enough.
His hand travelled toward the potato he used as a pen-wiper and there was something so significant in the action when taken in connection with his menacing expression that, without a word, they obeyed him.
Girls are always trying to find something which they can make to delight their papas, and a gay little pen-wiper with fresh uninked leaves rarely comes amiss to a man who likes an orderly writing-table.
A nice little pen-wiper can be made by cutting three circles of black cloth, snipping the edges or button-holing them with colored silk, and standing in the middle one of the droll little Japanese birds just mentioned.
A Portia pen-wiper is practical, unique, new, and easy of construction.
Whenever the chamois is soiled, replace the skirts, and thus the pen-wiper is always clean.
With the aid of wiper Ralph soon got the dummy ready for action.
That book, too, tells of how Ralph left school to work for a living and win laurels as the best engine wiper in the service.
Supporting the pipes in this way will allow the wiper perfect freedom.
If the instructions for preparing the pipe are not carried out as detailed, the wiper will experience some trouble that he may find hard to overcome.
The wiper is cautioned to move the ladle constantly while dropping the solder.
The pipe being larger, there is more solder for the wiper to handle, and the edges to keep clean and to wipe are longer.
But the redoubtable Buck refused to allow the wiper to be skied.
He didn't sky the wiper when his beezer was bleeding, anyway!
Into my pocket the pen-wiper went, and, wrapped in the same old paper, it lies in another desk, as free from ink as it was four years ago.
The pen-wiper looked as though it had been made the day before, so fresh was it.
This can then be put on a wiper which will snugly fit the bore, and the barrel may then be put in the lathe and rotated at a high rate of speed with the wiper in the bore, and during the rotation the wiper is drawn in and out.
The windows were heavily frosted and it was like being in a sealed room, the only peephole being the small frame of glass which the windshield wiper kept clear.
The windows of the bus were heavily frosted for a heater was going full blast but the driver, a middle aged man, had a windshield wiper cutting a swath through the frost that formed on the glass in front of him.
He stopped while one of the boys scraped the frost off the window outside for the windshield wiper had frozen.
Ralph understood that a green engine wiper in the roundhouse was paid six dollars a week to commence on if a boy, nine dollars if a man.
Keep on as wiper till I get a new helper, and I'll give you a boost into an extra berth quicker than any boy ever shot up the roundhouse ladder before.
He was just mounting the club steps, his long pen-wiper cloak about his shoulders, as Oliver, after his interview with Colonel Clayton, passed down the street on his way back to his mother.
The wide hat, long, evenly parted hair, and pen-wiper cloak could be traced to these same old-fashioned ideas.
People smiled at him as he hurried along, his head bent forward, his long pen-wiper cloak reaching to his heels, a wide-brimmed Quaker hat crowning his head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wiper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
