United States or Sint Maarten ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
It is not often that people strive to set their house in order after this fashion, and all honour is due to them for the courageous endeavour. The mistake they made was in tinkering with a system inherently bad and useless, instead of taking the bold step of abolishing it altogether and beginning afresh on new and sound principles.
In a little while the gas began filling the bag, which slowly distended. "Hurrah!" yelled Jack, seeing that the Monarch was beginning to look like herself again. He and the others were working hard at the ice, which did not seem to want to let the ship go. The inventor went about testing each separate piece of apparatus. He found that, with a little tinkering, all the machinery would work well.
Each garage contained a big sullen looking car about which was grouped half a dozen mechanics. These men were tinkering here, tightening a bolt there, or wiping and polishing the great machines as if they were so many sacred elephants.
Was I not wealthy? Was not my home life a happy one? What benefit to me, I say?" a growing fierceness in his voice and gestures. "All my estates confiscated, my wife dead of shame, and I molding among these clocks!" "But why the clocks?" in wonder. "It was a pastime of mine when I was a boy. I used to be tinkering among all the clocks in the house. So I bought out this old shop.
Ted was motor-mad as Eunice was movie-mad. A thousand sarcastic refusals did not check his teasing for a car of his own. However lax he might be about early rising and the prosody of Vergil, he was tireless in tinkering.
He also assumed responsibility for the condition of the boat, and did it so thoroughly that nothing in the little cutter was ever found wanting. And when, for any reason, his presence was in demand, the first place to look for him was in the boat, and there, too, he was usually found, tinkering away with sheets, sails, or rudder and singing as he tinkered.
Reforming the Papacy, as Carlyle grimly said, is like tinkering a rusty old kettle. If you stop up the holes of it with temporary putty, it may hang together for awhile; but "begin to hammer at it, solder it, to what you call mend and rectify it, it will fall to shreds, as sure as rust is rust; go all into nameless dissolution, and the fat in the fire will be a thing worth looking at, poor Pope!"
Blob, impassive as a jellyfish, was still sucking at his apple. Quick and clear Kit gave his orders. "Knapp, stop tinkering those bolts about, and stand back till I give the word! Now, Blob, listen here! Knapp and I are going through this door down the drain. You'll stand here with the lantern, and light us, d'you see?" "Ah!" said Blob. "You're not to stir, d'you see, boy?" "Aw!" said Blob.
'Yes, said Charlotte in her haste then adding that she was not quite sure if they had progressed so rapidly as before; blushingly correcting herself at this point and that, in the tinkering manner of a nervous organization aiming at nicety where it was not required. 'Well, I should have liked to carry out the undertaking to its end, said Somerset. 'But I felt I could not consistently do so.
Reformers, exhorters, Christian Endeavorers, humanitarians, Salvation Armies, social reformers, penologists, scientific experimentalists with surgical apparatus, together with parole laws, indeterminate sentences, commutations, pardons, not to speak of a good warden here and there and a kind guard all toiling and tinkering to make prisons better, to sweep them, to air them, to instil religion and education, to supply work and exercise and to pay wages and all the while the tide of criminals gets larger and the accommodations for them less adequate.
Word Of The Day