Chips

Examples

• Formerly augers and similar boring tools had merely a curved sharpened end and a concavity to hold the chips, and the whole tool had to be withdrawn to empty the chips. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• One day Epstein appeared and said: 'Good-morning, Mr. Bergmann, have you any chips to-day? Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the sulphite process the chips are then delivered into the digesters shown in Fig. 128, which are supplied with sulphurous acid generated in a plant shown in Fig. 129. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Pliny refers to the curled chips raised by the plane, and Ansonius refers to mills driven by the waters of the Moselle for sawing marble into slabs. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Poor chips-in-porridge, you are very unmannerly. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Epstein went up to several boxes piled full of chips, and so heavy that he could not lift even one end of a box. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There were only four stationers of any consequences in the town, and at each Holmes produced his pencil chips, and bid high for a duplicate. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The imagination makes what it will of chairs, blocks, leaves, chips, if they serve the purpose of carrying activity forward. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I ate olives, salted almonds and potato chips and looked at myself in civilian clothes in the mirror behind the bar. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I knew the barman and sat on a high stool and ate salted almonds and potato chips. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Finally Epstein was so persistent that Bergmann called an assistant and told him to go and see if he had any chips. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Such men as this are feathers, chips, and straws. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I am, sir, even I who dislike such arid chips of wisdom; but 'tis an excellent proverb, which has borne the wear and tear of centuries. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

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