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Updated: May 29, 2025
That night, had it not been for the moonless dark of it, you might have seen the same laborer who had been so concerned with tape-measures and distances near the Treasury Building, a long shallow basket stoutly woven of willow on his arm, making secretly for the mouth of the drain that once witnessed the investigations of Storri.
Girls trying to do Miss Jubb out of a job. Sally glimpsed their efforts. She had seen girls in dresses which they had made themselves. Poor mites! she thought. Paper patterns for somebody twice their size, and bad calculations of the necessary reductions. Tape-measures round their own waists, and twisted two or three times at the back, which they could not see.
That's the precognition you mentioned on Kandar that the fleet wouldn't be wiped out and everybody killed." "No-o-o," said Gwenlyn. "That was another one. I'd rather not tell you about it. It might be unpleasant. I'll tell you later." Bors shrugged. "All right. You said I'm to be measured for rumors? Bring on your tape-measures!" Morgan beamed at him. Gwenlyn went to the door and opened it.
From the next room one hears the voice of the tailor, leisurely reporting to his assistant as he tape-measures a customer. In the lineage of a vocation it is odd to think that his great-great-great grandfather might have sat cross-legged to inspire the poem A carrion crow sat on an oak Watching a tailor shape a coat. 'Wife, bring me my old bent bow That I may shoot yon carrion crow.
Equipped with tape-measures the girls had calculated to a nicety just how much furniture the platform could accommodate, and still give the performers room to make their entrances and exits without colliding with the armchair or overturning the small table.
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