23 Metaphors for tool

all My tools are no sight to see: A little hempen string, and a post whereon to swing, Are implements enough for me!" Shepherd Fennel glanced round.

Behind him was a long bench on which were scattered tools of various sorts, fantastically shaped chemical apparatus, two or three electric batteries of odd sizes, and ranged along one end of it, in a row, were a score or more metal spheroids, a shade larger than a one-pound shell.

It is a valid answer, that the only tools habitually needed by woman have been the needle, the spindle, and the basket, and tradition reports that she herself invented all three.

"I expect his tools were in the bag that Leamy carried, as well as the jewels.

From this shipwreck, poor sailor, thou hast saved only thyself: thy tools, thy instruments of labor, even thy Bible, are a prey to the sea!

Tools were plenty in the Engineers' chest.

Old Evolution is still evoluting, and her only tool is competition, the same under the earth and on the earth, the same out in the sky as in these states.

" "My tools are my lancet and my drugs," said he, quietly, "and all I have to say refers to them.

Here were our cities when we feared the beast, before we had knowledge of bronze or iron, when our tool and our weapon was the flint.

[A] "TOOL is some instrument taken up to work with."Ib., ii, 145.

Every tool is a potential weapon.

The latter, who was no fighter, and whose tools were treachery and craft, fled to the protection of the Spaniards.

A tool is a piece of material taken into the hand to apply force to other things, to shape them or move them.

Probably the most effective tool that the human mind and hand have ever made is the American axe.

It is true that tools, materials, and the articles on which the labourer is supported, are the only articles which are directly subservient to production: and if I have a capital consisting of money, or of goods in a warehouse, I can only employ them as means of production in so far as they are capable of being exchanged for the articles which conduce directly to that end.

Consider Courts: what draws their train? Think you 'tis loyalty or gain? That statesman hath the strongest hold, Whose tool of politics is gold.

The best tools are half-leaves of carriage springs.

The singer thoroughly moistened himself from his lips inward, and went on with the next stanza as requested: "My tools are but common ones,

"I can understand there being rascals in the outside world and that they should believe your careless, foolish old father lawful game, but that he should be thought a tool for dishonest thieving by members of his own family is incomprehensible.

The principal tools of government are buildings, guns, and money.

This is true; but it is also true that tools, buildings, and materials, are themselves the produce of labour; and that the only cause (cases of monopoly excepted) of their having any value, is the labour which is required for their production.

all My tools are no sight to see: A little hempen string, and a post whereon to swing, Are implements enough for me!" Shepherd Fennel glanced round.

It is a valid answer, that the only tools habitually needed by woman have been the needle, the spindle, and the basket, and tradition reports that she herself invented all three.

23 Metaphors for  tool