Tumblers

Examples

• I am told you had a remarkable breed of tumblers. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• She was at home with everybody in the place, pedlars, punters, tumblers, students and all. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• If the tumblers be filled with strong diluted acid, the motion is at first very rapid and powerful, but it soon almost entirely ceases. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• You have no tumblers among your pigeons. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• No, no, it's of no use my talking to _you_ about tumblers. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Quite true--nothing was to be discovered there but a couple of empty tumblers and a strong smell of hot grog. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Near the tumblers are the grinding wheels, upon which are ground off the rough edges and the castings put into shape for the machine shop. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Small metal stars are placed in these tumblers with the castings, and when the tumbler is full it is started revolving. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The manufacturer placed on the table plates, a loaf of bread, a black bottle, and two tumblers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Here, for example, I have been speaking to you this morning about tumblers. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The sight of the tumblers restored Bob Sawyer to a degree of equanimity which he had not possessed since his interview with his landlady. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Why, what do _you_ know about tumblers? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• As soon as the castings have cooled sufficiently they are put into great horizontal cylinders, called tumblers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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