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His bowed shoulders and hands roughened by toil, and worn-out mechanic's dress, were such a change, that perhaps, she acknowledged it reluctantly to herself, if he had not spoken as he did she might have passed him by undiscovered. "I am Jean Merle," he said, "not Roland Sefton." "Jean Merle?" she repeated in a low, bewildered tone, "not Roland Sefton, but Jean Merle?"
Calculating in some degree on the state of the public mind, and upon the influence which vague rumours, coupled with the evidences of the mechanic's handicraft exhibited in court, might have on the mind of the jury, he dwelt upon every ward and winding on the story of the iron chest on the evident poverty of the locksmith, and yet his apparent waste of time and asked if all this work were not intended to insure success in some vast design?
Here is my pulpit, and I preach in it. Your pulpit is the bank. Your pulpit is the store. Your pulpit is the editorial chair. Your pulpit is the anvil. Your pulpit is the house scaffolding. Your pulpit is the mechanic's shop.
In pursuance of her plan, Esther meant to assume the manners and character, as she had done the dress, of a mechanic's wife; but then, to account for her long absence, and her long silence towards all that ought to have been dear to her, it was necessary that she should put on an indifference far distant from her heart, which was loving and yearning, in spite of all its faults.
"I tell you what," he said, slowly. "You know when they took us to the Sportsman's Show last week at Mechanic's Hall? Don't you remember about that Eskimo igloo that they had built of ice in the middle of the skating pond? Let's build an igloo like that, and get into it and keep warm." "O-oo!" gasped Vi, "how can you do that?" "Where will you get any ice?" Laddie demanded.
Letter by Mr. Truran in Mechanic's Magazine. In the memorandum-book of Wm. Reynolds appears the following entry on the subject: "Copy of a paper given to H. Cort, Esq.
Two hundred and fifty years later pay attention now a mechanic's wages will be mind you, this is law, not guesswork; a mechanic's wages will then be twenty cents a day!" There was a general gasp of awed astonishment, Dickon the mason murmured, with raised eyes and hands: "More than three weeks' pay for one day's work!"
Warner, with his mechanic's instinct, had reached for the key. What he said was not a surprise. "Yale lock," he said. "Probably a key to the east entry." There was no reason why Thomas, an old and trusted servant, should not have had a key to that particular door, although the servants' entry was in the west wing. But I had not known of this key, and it opened up a new field of conjecture.
Article by Dugald Bannatyne in Glasgow Mechanic's Magazine, No. 53, Dec. 1824. Glasgow Mechanic's Magazine, vol. iii. p. 159. Mr. Mushet described it as "a wonderful discovery," and one of the "most novel and beautiful improvements in his time." Professor Gregory of Aberdeen characterized it as "the greatest improvement with which he was acquainted." Mr.
They could convey lively images of the situations in which the vulgar notions and manners had their free display, by representing the assemblages, and the fashion of discourse and manners, at fairs, revels, and other rendezvous of amusement; or in the field of rural employment, or on the village green, or in front of the mechanic's workshop.
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