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You'll see an angel of his which has been declined." Then, as Francois began to praise the angel in question, Pierre agreed to accompany them. On the summit of the height, among all the sheds which the building of the basilica necessitated, Jahan had been able to set up a glazed workshop large enough for the huge angel ordered of him.
She flung a terrified glance around her, but Uncle Ivan was reading the paper at the other end of the room, her brother-in-law was cutting up little pieces of wood in his workshop, and Vera was in the kitchen. "What do you mean?" she said in a whisper. "I don't understand." "Yes, you do," he answered, smiling at her.
But in 1878, when the Western Union made its short-lived attempt to compete with the Bell Company, the Western Electric agreed to make its telephones. Three years later, when the brief spasm of competition was ended, the Western Electric was taken in hand by the Bell people and has since then remained the great workshop of the telephone.
They were known to have spent the free time between "prep." and supper, on two consecutive evenings, alone together in the workshop, with the door locked. A great deal of hammering went on, but no one could find out what they were making. When questioned on the subject, they professed a lamb-like state of innocence; and even Tinkleby himself could give no explanation of their conduct.
If the forge-yard was one point that he preferred to keep away from, there were also other places in the town that he made a round to avoid namely, that part of the quay where the blockmaker's workshop lay, and the Holmans' house up in the square. Whatever the reason might be, he had no wish to meet Silla.
"In the meantime, let us go out for a walk in the snow. There's enough wind to make it a tussle. Come, dear!" Two days later Lynda came down from her workshop by the back stairs, and passed through William Truedale's bedchamber on the way to the library.
The good of his own union as his highest aim sinks into insignificance, though regarding it as a means to an end, he may well go back to his workshop and his union card, intending to do for his fellow-craftsmen in his shop and in his trade more than ever before.
Developing the Sculpture In June, 1913, Calder returned to San Francisco to stay till the Exposition was well started. On the grounds he established a huge workshop. Then he began the practical developing of the designs, a great mass, which had already been carefully sifted.
He came to his senses that is to say, he opened his eyes and looked vacantly about him between four and five hours after the time when we had found him on the floor of the workshop. His mind, poor fellow, was still all astray. He recognized nobody. Later in the night he fell asleep. All through the next day, he still wandered in his mind when he spoke.
Mr Nasmyth says, "It was one of my duties, while acting as assistant in his beautiful little workshop, to keep up a stock of handy bars of lead which he had placed on a shelf under his work-bench, which was of thick slate for the more ready making of his usual illustrative sketches of machinery in chalk.
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