"Contraption" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a wheeled contraption and three girls playing with a skip rope," Frobisher said. "Or do you mean that the Stanford boys are ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett
... seen a piano before and June must play the "shiny contraption" and sing a song. It was only curiosity and astonishment that she evoked when her swift fingers began running over the keys from one end of the board to the other, astonishment at the gymnastic quality of ...
— The Trail of the Lonesome Pine • John Fox, Jr.
... lead. There's three braves with long poles to keep the contraption from fallin' backward. They're on their feet, but keepin' low as possible. There's t'others pushin' the bottom along. There's t'others huggin' the ground. You'll notice the ends an' middle o' the top stick up right ...
— A Virginia Scout • Hugh Pendexter
... it, first crack," he said. "It is a pigpen. Some of Laban's doin's, that is. He used to keep a pig and 'twas too much trouble to travel way out back of the barn to feed it, so Labe rigged up this contraption. That door leads into the potato cellar. Labe fenced off half the cellar to make a stateroom for the pig. He thought as much of that hog as if 'twas his own brother, and there WAS ...
— Thankful's Inheritance • Joseph C. Lincoln
... and reentered his spacecraft to emerge in half a minute with his hands full of contraption. He held a box-like arrangement under his left arm; in his right hand were two metal caps connected to ...
— Off Course • Mack Reynolds (AKA Dallas McCord Reynolds)
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