There was John Burns, who had been an engineer, but, having lost a foot, had taken to farming.

So you became an engineer.

" "I said I was; I am more than an engineer, I am a mineralogist and a geologist.

To be either a soldier, a sailor, an architect, or an engineer, would, doubtless, have its fascinations as well; but to make a real printed book, with your name in gilt letters outside, was real romance.

I have seen an engineer pour water into a boiler as soon as the escaping steam would admit it.

And yet I don't like the idea of advising you not to do a thing that can be done, for I do like an engineer who does not run to the shop for every little trouble.

And I never left one, that I had not already made up my mind fully, as to what kind of an engineer he would make.

That an engineer with a bunch of waste in his hand is a better recommendation than an "engineer license."

Q. Are there any circumstances under which an engineer is justified in allowing the water to get low?

So you see I have no apologies to make for following out my plain comprehensive talk, have not confused you, or lead you to believe that it requires a great amount of study to become an engineer.

The inhabitants of that city would do well, if they could find an engineer to fortify their island in this way.

From the young man's soiled white jacket under his black coat, I gathered that he was an engineer.

Much difficulty was experienced in finding an engineer capable of attending to the construction of the road; and at first it was thought that it would be best to engage an Englishman, but finally Engineer Denis, of Munich, was appointed.

"Oh, you are an engineer!"

I am not an engineer.

But the powers of other men are considerably less; thus an engineer officer who has himself great power of visual memory, and who has superintended the mathematical education of cadets, doubts if one in ten can visualise an object in three dimensions.

Hitherto his work as an engineer appears to have been more an employment than a vocation.

This Frenchman, My Lord, is Alexander Corréard, an engineer, an honorary member of the commission appointed to examine Cape Verd and its environs, one of the fifteen persons who escaped out of the hundred and fifty individuals shipwrecked, with the raft of the Medusa frigate, of whom only eleven are still living.

The one thing he knows is brute force; but it is not by the strength of his muscles that an engineer runs a machine, but by knowing how.

But this pavilion rendered one good service to woman in showing her capabilities as an engineer.

As a learned scholar of a little-known university once observed to an engineer officer on the Himalaya-Tibet Road'You white men gain nothing by not noticing what you cannot see.

There were two small Irish brigades under the Boer flag, those of McBride and Lynch (the latter now a member of the British House of Commons), and an engineer corps commanded by Colonel Blake, an American.

BRAMAH, JOSEPH, an engineer, born in Barnsley, Yorkshire; author of many mechanical inventions, 18 of which were patented, among others the hydraulic press, named after him (1748-1814).

The first detachment was composed of the surveyor, Mr. Bell, and an engineer having instructions to make a survey of Green River.

A bride to an engineer: a dynamite cartridge filled with one-hundred-rouble notes.