Assistants

Examples

• Hunger and recent ill-usage are great assistants if you want to cry; and Oliver cried very naturally indeed. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I gave him all the assistants and guards he called for. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Few drapers' assistants, as he was once, could have made themselves what he is. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• For several Sundays he walked through different parts of New Jersey with two of his assistants before he decided on Menlo Park. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He next sent a boy to buy a reel of cotton, and told his assistants he was going to see what a carbonized thread would do. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• So I went down to Quogue with one of my assistants and saw there for miles large beds of black sand on the beach in layers from one to six inches thick--hundreds of thousands of tons. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The assistants were paralysed with wonder; the boys with fear. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• As already implied, capable assistants were at the astronomer's command. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• These works were owned by me and my assistants until sold to the Edison General Electric Company. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Practically all of my assistants have given of their time and skill to the preparation of the work, but the list is too long for individual mention. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• With a full corps of assistants, other teamsters, he would then proceed to get his mules together. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He gave up his workshop in New York and opened a factory and experimenting shop in Newark, New Jersey, where he would have plenty of room for himself and his assistants. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Before the death of Queen Victoria, English shop assistants were being badgered to attend evening classes to learn French. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I was fortunately absent, and she was mollified somehow by my other assistants. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I went down once with my father and two assistants for a little fishing inside Sandy Hook. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He was sitting in his laboratory one evening, when his right hand happened to touch a small pile of lampblack and tar that his assistants had been using in working on a telephone transmitter. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Details of the various experiments concerning them have been set down by his assistants from time to time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Half-a-dozen assistants were at his beck to remove the pianos, &c. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Some of the laboratory assistants could be seen now and then sleeping on a table in the early morning hours. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In this manner Edison and his assistants became established in New York City. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• One of the laboratory assistants was told to make some of this mixture, knead it, and roll some filaments. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• One of the inventor’s early assistants tells of going to sleep standing up, leaning against a door frame--this, after forty-eight hours of uninterrupted work. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He had several cots placed in the adjoining building, and he and a few of his most strenuous assistants worked day and night, leaving the work only for hurried meals and a snatch of sleep. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She called Adrian; my couch was quickly surrounded by friends and assistants, and such medicines as were judged fitting were administered. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This I did, and I sent two of my assistants, whom I could trust, down to this place to erect the plant; and started to sink shafts fifty feet deep all over the area. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• One of my laboratory assistants went out with me and we visited many of the mines of New Jersey, but did not find deposits of any magnitude. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He had two assistants, either brothers or nephews, and they knew the secret of his process. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• All his assistants agree that Edison is the most patient, tireless experimenter that could be conceived of. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This he did, working with the best corps of assistants and the most efficient materials he could find. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• While I and Mr. Sadler, one of my assistants, were working near it, there was a sudden flash of light, and a very smart explosion. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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