Tools

Examples

• Weight of gun, carriage, limber, drag ropes, tools, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Many special tools, particularly those designed for _bicycle work_, have been devised, as exhibited by patent to Hillman, August 11, 1891, No. 457,718. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A nation bent upon a policy of social invention would make its tools an incident. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Food--that was the problem of those long tired years which dragged through the ages, when nearly everyone was a farmer, and a farmer with crude tools held in his hands. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• 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similar boring tools had merely a curved sharpened end and a concavity to hold the chips, and the whole tool had to be withdrawn to empty the chips.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.
• His tools were old bottles, glasses, tobacco-pipes, teacups, and such odds and ends as he could find. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I consider his planting one of his menial tools in the yard, an act of sneaking and sniffing. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Human beings have desires that are far more important than the tools and toys and churches they make to satisfy them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There was a door in the kitchen, communicating with the forge; I unlocked and unbolted that door, and got a file from among Joe's tools. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Yes, he said, the tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price. Plato. The Republic.
• His few common tools and various scraps of leather were at his feet and on his bench. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It is argued that pupils must know how to use tools before they attack actual making,--assuming that pupils cannot learn how in the process of making. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• What a variety of labour, too, is necessary in order to produce the tools of the meanest of those workmen! Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I had an idea that he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The varied and complex machining required on armor plate demands tools of enormous size and strength as well as varied purpose. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But intellectual tools are indefinitely more flexible in their range of adaptation than other mechanical tools. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In these a single machine is provided with various tools, and adapted to perform a great variety of work by shifting the position of the material and the tools. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Handle your tools without mittens; remember that _The cat in gloves catches no mice_, as Poor Richard says. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The use of the thermometer in recording the progress of fevers is also a valuable modern application, and the list of instruments and small tools is beyond enumeration. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But man's propensity for wearing clothes has led to the invention of every variety of tools for making them faster, cheaper, and better. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Marvin's safe was globeshaped, to present no salient points for the action of tools, made of chrome steel, mounted in this shape on a platform, or enclosed in a fire-proof safe. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Rulers are simply interested in such training as will make their subjects better tools for their own intentions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He contrived so many little tools to cheapen the work that he made lots of money. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I judged the fellows to be strolling conjurors, and the boy with the bag to be carrying the tools of their trade. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The implements of the stone age are still found in use by some whose environment has deprived them of the knowledge of or desire to use better tools. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But to say that we must make tools first, and then begin, is to invert the process of life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It consisted of many milling machines and other tools for duplicating. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They were comforted by seeing some birds, and later on by finding a pole worked with tools, and a branch with strange berries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the application of hydraulic power to machine tools great advances have been made. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Then, the mender of roads having got his tools together and all things ready to go down into the village, roused him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

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