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tinker and out
The tinker farts while crossing a stile but Tom calls out about the farting and the frightened tinker drops the pudding.
The Storyteller recounts the adventures of a boy who goes out into the world to learn what fear is, accompanied by a dishonest but loveable tinker.
I made a drum out of an old butter container and hit it with tinker toys.
Since new Autocockers are designed to work " out of the box ," new owners are usually advised to not tinker with anything until they fully understand how the marker works.
* The chorus of The Kingston Trio's " Take Her Out of Pity " from their 1961 album Close-Up ( The Kingston Trio album ) is " Come a landsman, a pinsman, a tinker or a tailor ; a doctor, a lawyer, a soldier or a sailor ; a rich man, a poor man, a fool or a witty ; don't let her die an old maid, but take her out of pity.

tinker and Robin
From this period there are a number of ballads in which Robin is severely " drubbed " by a succession of professionals including a tanner, a tinker and a ranger.

tinker and only
The play within the play has been presented only after all the preliminaries have encouraged us to take it as a farce [...] the main purpose of the Induction was to set the tone for the play within the play – in particular, to present the story of Kate and her sister as none-too-serious comedy put on to divert a drunken tinker.
GURPS Discworld suggests that the apparent transformations of both parties were only special effects, as Discworld spellcasters would not so carelessly tinker with their own morphic fields ; regardless, Granny Weatherwax was shown to be a match for the Archchancellor.
His early band, Roxy Music, supposedly requested that he join them after watching him tinker with the Synthi AKS for only a few minutes.

tinker and with
BeOS PE could be started from within Microsoft Windows or Linux, and was intended to nurture consumer interest in its product and give developers something to tinker with.
Nevertheless, Le Verrier continued to tinker with Vulcan ’ s orbital parameters as each new reported sighting reached him.
The younger Tom does not tinker with motorcycles ; his inventions and adventures extend from the center of the Earth ( in Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster ) to the bottom of the ocean ( in Tom Swift and His Diving Seacopter ) to the moon ( in Tom Swift and the Race to Moon ) and, eventually, the outer solar system ( in Tom Swift and His Cosmotron Express ).
While M. Houdin worked in the main shop, Jean was to tinker with mechanical toys and automatic figures.
The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself.
During the shooting of Help !, a piano was placed on one of the stages where filming was being conducted and McCartney would take advantage of this opportunity to tinker with the song.
Even with that success, Arledge wanted to tinker with programming ideas.
He also mentions Harry Blackmun's vote in Gregg v. Georgia that ruled the death penalty constitutional and his later dissent in Callins v. Collins in which he states " from this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death ...
While he was studying to be an accountant, he continued to teach himself electronics, and tinker with radios and other electrical items but never took any kind of electronics course.
Although BFD was originally designed to be a generic library usable by a wide variety of tools, the frequent need to tinker with the API to accommodate new systems ' capabilities has tended to limit its use ; BFD's main clients are the GNU Assembler ( GAS ), GNU Linker ( GLD ), and other GNU Binary Utilities (" binutils ") tools, and the GNU Debugger ( GDB ).
He composes what may be called musique concrète, using samples usually without " tinker " with them.
When it was decided the show would return, NBC and Universal used this opportunity to tinker with the show's format.
Highly active, and operating largely independently of the parliamentarian hierarchy, to Royalists Fox came to symbolise a dangerous and uncontrolled overturning of the established order, with his background in the Birmingham metal trades seeing him caricatured as a tinker.
2002 and 2003 saw the band tinker with sound effects, taking the sampling ( or " grand theft audio " as Neutron put it ) practices of Steel Pole Bathtub and adding this to their developing aggressive and chaotic sound, as well as keyboard.
Behind the scenes, however, the network continued to tinker with the show.
Individual schools must ensure that their tournaments meet a broad set of APDA guidelines, but are free to tinker with their tournament formats.
Certain tournaments tinker with the format, having more or fewer preliminary rounds and larger or smaller breaks ; the National Championships, for instance, generally has one additional preliminary round and one additional elimination round.
He also doesn't revisit scripts to tinker with them after he is done.
Huggins continued to tinker with his roster during the offseason.
Today, again, there was a large market in the square, where a number of country people, with their horses and donkeys, stood about bargaining for young pigs, heather brooms, homespun flannels, second hand clothing, blackening brushes, tinker ’ s goods and many other articles.
" Thomas Edison is said to have asked when he learned that Moore had started to tinker with light-producing tubes of gas as a potential replacement for the incandescent bulb.

tinker and him
This, he argues, is done so as to ensure the audience does not take the play literally, that it sees it as a farce ; " The drunken tinker may be believed in as one believes in any realistically presented character ; but we cannot ' believe ' in something that is not even mildly interesting to him.
When a tinker comes begging, Tom's mother inadvertently gives him the pudding containing her son.

tinker and after
Wilder Penfield wrote a letter to his family after his death saying, " for such there must be an immortality which we who tinker at the body may guess at but not understand.
He is called the son of a tinker, and, after a romantic interlude, became son-in-law of Colantonio, the leading artist in the mid-15th century Naples.

tinker and has
Almost the whole of The Taming of the Shrew is a play-within-a-play, presented to convince Christopher Sly, a drunken tinker, that he is a nobleman watching a private performance, but the device has no relevance to the plot ( unless Katharina's subservience to her " lord " in the last scene is intended to strengthen the deception against the tinker ) and is often dropped in modern productions.
Bob realizes that his wife is starting to think he needs to go back to the sanitarium, but his bigger concern is that, if nothing is done about the gremlin, it will damage the plane and cause it to crash ; in fact, the gremlin has already started to tinker with the wiring under one of the wing flaps.
Meanwhile, the baby has been discovered in the woods and taken by a nameless tinker.
He appears to be a seafaring man and on his examination confessed the robbery but denied the murder declaring that he found the deceased lying dead on the road having ( as he supposed ) been killed by a fall from his horse, he added, that he thought it no crime to rob a dead man he appears very resolute and yesterday a tinker was apprehended who has confessed his being concerned in the said murder and robbery and has impeached two other accomplices, besides that above mentioned who are likewise sailors.
Although the emergence of widely available public internet services has made private BBS systems obsolete in most of the developed free world, a dedicated core of enthusiasts remain in this new century who continue to tinker with vintage computers and keep software like DS2 running, despite the quaint limitations of the simple linear message threading system and the primitive keyboard-based, non-graphical games.

tinker and been
By World War II, Lambrinides was working as a chef for the original Empress Chili restaurant, where he continued to tinker with a recipe which he had been developing for years.

tinker and is
Although there is no direct literary source for the Induction, the tale of a tinker being duped into thinking he is a lord is a universal one found in many literary traditions.
The most prominent and famous fairy is Tinker Bell, Peter Pan's companion, whose name alludes to her profession as a " tinker " or fixer or pots and pans.
Reece Dinsdale is Fearnot, Gabrielle Anwar appears as his sweetheart, Willie Ross is the tinker, and Michael Kilgarriff voice-acted the Pond Sprite.
The term is borrowed from the French word, from the verb, the core meaning in French being, " fiddle, tinker " and, by extension, " to make creative and resourceful use of whatever materials are at hand ( regardless of their original purpose )".
The term " little tinker " is now widely used in the UK as a term of endearment for a cheeky young child.
The tinker's dam is a wad of wet paper or other pliable material used to dam up a hole in a metal item being repaired by the tinker using molten solder.

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