"Nothin' would do ye but to be offerin' the contraption for sale, and tellin' each and every that hit'd been used in the Hardwick mill.

"You run on down and see if that contraption will go.

"I used the thing on the indicator, the contraption in the box, but I think it's clean enough.

Well, he certainly did when he turns over this here neat contraption at a price that was dirt cheap, and which I'd be ashamed to mention to yuh.

I got a little idea while I was alookin' the ground over, and reckoned I could fix it up so there'd be a heap right good chance that a feller creeping around here o' a night would step into the contraption.

They had been thoughtful enough to fetch one along, a clever little contraption that took only a small amount of room, and yet afforded considerable light.

How can I help you?" A grateful light shone a moment in her eyes, yet there remained a piteous hostility in the tone in which she demanded: "Mais, pou'quoi yé, fé cette méchanique là?"What business had they to make that contraption?

"Say, be careful with that contraption, will you?

" They were delighted at the chance, Will lugging his camera along, though the old trapper cast a dubious eye on the affair, as if he did not wholly like the idea of visiting his traps with such a "contraption," something unheard of in his experience.

"Go slow; no use rocking the boat," sang out the pilot, who was forever cautioning his companion with regard to quick motions when seated in such a delicately balanced contraption as a biplane.

"The next thing," said Bruce, "is to hunt out that infernal contraption which threatens our lives.

He now believed that his fellow might have been sent by the crew to destroy the "devil-bird," as they undoubtedly considered a contraption that could soar through space as fast as the fleetest condor.

When I got to the front I found a first-class car retained by every little officer who commanded a dozen Cossacks, but I proudly raised the Union Jack, to denote the British Headquarters, on the dirtiest and most dilapidated second-class contraption that could be found on the line.

In this contraption we got as far as Nikolsk, where our truck was to have been hung on to the Harbin Express; but the station-master, the best type of Russian public official, thought it a disgrace that the Commander and Staff of their most trusted Ally should travel so.

I'll follow 'em with this contraption.

An' dishyer road up yere, it mighty hard to navigate foh er grea' big hebby contraption lak er threshin' machine en er engine.

An officer unscrews a cap on a metal contraption, and throws it down, and it begins to fizz away in the most disconcerting manner.

He said, among other flattering things, that I was no common mundane contraption, though such I might seem to the untutored eye.

Charles Addams (A); 17Aug66; R392114. Inventor with queer contraption in patent attorney's office.

Think I ain't wantin' to see that there contraption that hears a hunderd miles off?

But that ain't all; if you lads kin git ol' Eddy's son out o' the air on this contraption you're makin' an' hear him talk fer sure, I'm goin' to see to it that you kin git all the tectecwhat you call it?eddication there is goin'

Then each yelled something at the machinebits of slang or slursand it made them roar to hear that funny little contraption 'sass back!' "Edison has always had a saving sense of humor.

"Say, this is quite a right smart contraption, ain't she?" "We think she is a pretty good little boat," modestly replied Rob, taking his place at the wheel.

"How long was you holdin' that contraption up over me?" "O-oh," she debated with herself, "a long, long time.

You can still see the contraption; I let it stand on the sill to guard me from future temptation.