Quotes About Tin

He grazed his cattle on these slopes, and he learned to dig for tin when the bronze sword began to supersede the stone axe. Look at the great trench in the opposite hill. That is his mark. Yes, you will find some very singular points about the moor, Dr. Watson.

For its stupid to laugh and its useless to bawl About a rusty tin can and an old hurley ball

This place) presumed to be a town then, but was hardly more than a word under a tin roof.

He would keep the rest where it belonged: in that tobacco tin buried in his chest where a red heart used to be.

They had well-fed faces and laughter that was made cruel by its context the way a gem could be made ugly by being set in tin.

The rat is in the trap, it is in the trap,And attacking heaven and earth with a mouthful of screeches like torn tin.

You mean the one that used to be advertised on late-night television? Where the guy on the commercial uses it to cut through a tin can?" She nodded. "That's the one." "Did you get it?" "It's the knife I'm using now." He smiled. "I've never known anyone who actually admitted to buying one." "Now you do," she said.

Come: there shall be such islanding from grief, And small communion with the master shore. Twang they. And I incline this ear to tin, Consult a dual dilemma. Whether to dry In humming pallor or to leap and die. Somebody muffed it?? Somebody wanted to joke.

The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.

The drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.

He swings the knocker against the door. The entire building booms like a drum. It continues booming after he lets go, banging like a clock striking the hour, rattling like a great tin drum.

VERTICAL TURBINE BEARING MATERIAL DATA 1. Bronze-SAE 660 (Standard) #1104 ASTM-B-584-932 -50 to 250° F Min. S.G. of 0.6 General purpose material for non-abrasive, neutral pH service. 7% Tin/7% Lead/3% Zinc/83% Cu. 2. Bronze-SAE 64 (Zincless) #1107 ASTM-B-584-937 -50 to 180°F Min. S.G. of 0.6 Similar to std. bronze. Used for salt water services. 10%

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

The geese are all asleep. A few tip their heads out from under their wings as we approach. I open the cookie tin and a few more sway slowly over to us. It's cold, and Silas has wrapped the green blanket around me so I feel like I have wings, too.

the demented clatter-like nuts and bolts trying to escape from a biscuit tin-of the small Citroën van that every farmer drives home at lunchtime...

I'd live with loneliness a long time. That was something which was always there... one learns to keep it at bay, there are times when one even enjoys it - but there are also times when a desperate self-sufficiency doesn't quite suffice, and then the search for the anodyne begins... the radio, the dog, the shampoo, the stockings-to-wash, the tin soldier...

She closed the first-aid tin and returned it to the shelf. 'You're all fixed.' Hubert gingerly traced a finger over the cut above his eye. 'Thank you, thank you very much.' The young woman smiled. 'You're welcome Mr . . . in all that kerfuffle I don't think you actually told me your name.' 'Hubert, Hubert Bird. And yours?' A faint smile played on her lips as they shook hands. 'Joyce,' she replied, 'Joyce Pierce.

The nature of the canning process of the day, which required that tins be nearly immersed in boiling water or saltwater, destroyed any ascorbic acid they may have contained, so that their tinned meats, vegetables, soups and even fruits were virtually useless as antiscorbutics.

Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—

Tarshish was your merchant because of your great wealth of goods; they exchanged silver, iron, tin, and lead for your wares.