The letter which Dr. Wyville Thomson wrote to Dr. Carpenter in May, 1868, out of which all these expeditions have grown, shows that this query had become a practical problem in Dr. Thomson's mind at that time; and the desirableness of solving the problem is put in the foreground of his reasons for urging the Government to undertake the work of exploration: [Footnote 7: See above, "On a Piece of Chalk," p. 13.]

I'll make the two holes, and you must put the screws in; you're the best carpenter of the lot.

Robert Smith, the landsman, was a carpenter by trade, and it fell to his lot to put together again the materials of the old warehouse.

"I had brought to Cambridge the telescope which I had made at Colchester, and about this time I had a stand made by a carpenter at Cambridge: and I find repeated observations of Jupiter and Saturn made in this October term.

The word "rubrics" was originally applied to the red marking lines used by carpenters on wood, later it referred to the titles used by jurisconsults in announcing laws, which were written in red colours.

A dozen carpenters with axes flew to cut away the wreck and the ship righted herself.

Some business having called friend Carpenter from the room, the young people had a pleasant time to themselves, talking of books, poetry, and the current literature of the day, although being students, their acquaintance with these things was somewhat limited.

Now I can be a carpenter for God.

All this had been well put together, rather more attention than is often bestowed on such structures having been paid by the carpenter to the cracks and joints on account of the known sharpness of the climate, even in the warm months.

205.Seal of the Corporation of Carpenters of St. Trond (Belgium)From an Impression preserved in the Archives of that Town (1481).]

He told him one day, when he was lamenting that he couldn't pay him even yet, that he was only too glad to do anything in the least little bit like what the Saviour did when he was in the world"a carpenter like you, Spelmanthink of that," added the Doctor.

"I went to London when I left you to see what might be done; but a merchant without money is like a carpenter without tools.

In his father's absence, he smuggled a dumb carpenter into his tower, and gave reality to one of these models.

They, however, had no small difficulty in cleaning their vessel, as there was no carpenter among them.

"I used to be called the best negro journeyman carpenter between Monroe, Louisiana and Little Rock, Arkansas.

Apparently no outside help was employed except for an Irish carpenter during the construction of a sugar house on Evergreen in 1850.

In the early part of Mr. Winston's career, when he worked as a boy on the plantation of his father, he had frequently received great kindness at the hands of one Charles Ellis, who was often employed as carpenter about the premises.

Don't you remember how once long ago we could never get the Walrus and the Carpenter out of our heads?"

Young Derwentwater had fought valiantly and worked arduously at the barricades, but Forsterwhose appointment as General had been made in the hope of attracting other Protestant gentry to the Jacobite causeoffered to submit to General Carpenter under certain conditions.