"Timer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is that produced by A. M. Herring (an old-timer) and W. S. Burgess, under the name of the Herring-Burgess. This is also equipped with an automatic stability device for maintaining the balance transversely. The curvature of the planes is also laid out on new lines. That this new plan is effective is evidenced ...
— Flying Machines - Construction and Operation • W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell
... In his driving examination he stalled only once, stopping dead across a trolley track in deference to a push-cart. But he was out and in and off again in ten seconds, upbraiding me like an old-timer. ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 • Various
... Charley, as bold as an old-timer, and scooped some dirt into his pan. The ex-preacher sat down on the side of the ...
— Gold Seekers of '49 • Edwin L. Sabin
... political friends, set things in motion at Ottawa for the reinstating of Ould Michael in his position as postmaster at Grand Bend, and this, backed up by a petition, which through McFarquhar's efforts bore the name of every old-timer in the valleys, brought about the desired end. So one bright day, when Ould Michael was sunning himself on his porch, the stage drove up to his door and, as in the old days, dropped the mail-bag. Ould Michael stood up and, waving his ...
— Michael McGrath, Postmaster • Ralph Connor
... missus ain't lettin' me range like I used to. So long. Keep sober, old-timer. Don't play none with strangers. Say, d'you remember ...
— Desert Conquest - or, Precious Waters • A. M. Chisholm
... of Grafton that the low swells around it, rolling away towards the mountains, look just alike everywhere. One has to be a resident, and an old-timer at that, to be able to tell one from another. Harley and Sylvia, hand-in-hand, had little thought of such things as these, nor were they anxious to reach Grafton quickly; yet the time when they must be there would ...
— The Candidate - A Political Romance • Joseph Alexander Altsheler
... can have induced you to remain so long?" cried Barbara. "How very much like an old timer you must feel—one of the ...
— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... twice since. Oh, I've got the cases on you, all right, Westcott. I know you haven't got a cent left to go on with, and nowhere to get eny except through him." He laughed. "Ain't that right? Well, then, yer chances look mighty slim ter me just at present, ol'-timer. However, there's no fight on yet; will yer behave yerself, an' let this man Beaton alone if I hand yer ...
— The Strange Case of Cavendish • Randall Parrish
... yet sensible "old-timer," whose habits were rough and ready and who made Bob work for his pocket-money most of the time. He had been working just at present, Mart noted; his fingers were ink-stained, his blue-eyed, freckled, careless face was smudged, and he ...
— The Pirate Shark • Elliott Whitney
... An old-timer, seldom seen today. Stony-hard, horny "flet milk" cartwheels locally nicknamed "bang." Never popular anywhere, it has stood more abuse than Limburger, not for its smell but for its ...
— The Complete Book of Cheese • Robert Carlton Brown
... Stubbs, "I am going to keep it to myself." He added under his breath: "The young cubs! Trying to pump an old-timer like me to see how ...
— The Boy Allies At Verdun • Clair W. Hayes
... command post. Operating out of the command post, at points where the sky could be observed, would be sighting teams. Each team had sighting equipment to measure the elevation and azimuth angle of the UFO. Four men were to be on each team, an instrument man, a timer, a recorder, and a radio operator. All the UFO patrols would be assigned special ...
— The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects • Edward Ruppelt |
