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"But fancy the cleverness of the little thing to do all the details up so nicely," said the Lawyer. "She dovetailed everything so neatly. But what I want to know is whether she planned the baby when she planned the make-believe husband?" "I fancy not," replied the Nurse. "One thing came along after another in her imagination, quite naturally."
The net earnings of the planters were increased in a still greater proportion than this, for the work-seasons in the two crops could be so dovetailed that a single gang might cultivate both staples. St. Indigo grew best in the light, dry soil so common on the coastal plain.
The absence of the French teacher from the dormitory, the connection of the little lady with the obese foreigner who played the harp on the Lanawaxa, and the sounding of harp-strings on the campus in the middle of the night, were all dovetailed together in Ruth Fielding's mind. She wondered what the mystery meant.
The logs of the walls were faced on two sides and set close together, and were slotted every four feet for rifles. At one of the corners which had no bastions were double gates, also made of logs, bound by cross and diagonal bars, dovetailed and pinned firmly to them. Each hung on huge, triple hinges of iron.
Uncle Gerald might indeed have moralized in some such fashion, but he considerately refrained, and only remarked, kindly: "Do not be disheartened. This is not such bad work for a first attempt. The boat would look better if it were painted, and that would fill up a few of the cracks too. As some of the boards are not dovetailed together, you should have calked the seams with oakum."
Their subtle messages dovetailed with the hurt look in Philip's eyes with the conviction of the girl's sore heart, unconquerable for all she had desperately fought it with the revelation of treachery which lay now at the bottom of the lake. Philip was very white. "But," he said gently, "you could not know." "I could have waited and trusted," cried the girl. "I could have remembered Arcadia!"
Carpenter: A scout must be able to shoot and glue a four-foot straight joint, make a housing, tenon and mortise, and halved joint, grind and set a chisel and plane iron, make a 3 ft. by 1 ft. 6 in., by 1 ft. by 6 ft. dovetailed locked box, or a table or chair. Clerk: A scout must have the following qualifications: Good handwriting and hand printing. Ability to use typewriting machine.
This dovetailed with what Johnny Two-Hawks had told her that night. "How the two came together originally I don't know. Gregor was in his younger days a great violinist, but unknown to the American public. Early in his career he speculated with his concert earnings and turned a pot of money. He dropped the professional career for that of a country gentleman.
Nevertheless Miss Van Tuyn felt afraid. This strange and terrible letter dovetailed with Dick Garstin's warning, and both fitted in as it were with the underthings in her own mind, with those things which Garstin had summed up in one word "intuition." Arabian had taken her news about Garstin quite coolly. "I will see about that myself," he had said. "But now "
In answer to his gasping snort, as he gaped and gasped there in the darkness, the little safety lamp told him what it made of it of the staggering sight it made a pair of big feet in rough cowhide boots tightly wedged by the ankles in a buckling switch of rock where two sharp, narrow ridges that formed the bottom of the Tinker's Pot dovetailed into each other, after the manner of rails at a switch.
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