When he got into the street again, the boy noticed for the first time, a man dressed like a respectable
mechanic, walking on the opposite side of the road, and apparently keeping the sailor in view.
THE Warden of a Penitentiary was one day putting locks on the doors of all the cells when a
mechanic said to him:
Will not the merchant understand and be disposed to cultivate, as far as may be proper, the interests of the
mechanic and manufacturing arts, to which his commerce is so nearly allied?
D'Artagnan remembered that the English are masters in
mechanics and conservative industry; and he determined to go in the morning in search of a
mechanic who would sell him a strong box.
Toward the shaven monk who trudged along with his cowl tilted back and the sweat washing down his fat jowls, the coal-burner was deeply reverent; to the gentleman he was abject; with the small farmer and the free
mechanic he was cordial and gossipy; and when a slave passed by with a counte- nance respectfully lowered, this chap's nose was in the air -- he couldn't even see him.
Why, I saw you fight, before the earthquake, in the
Mechanic's Pavilion.
He trod the pavement heavily with his shiny boots, and his general get-up was that of a well-to-do
mechanic in business for himself.
If indeed they were, the race has sadly deteriorated in their knowledge of the
mechanic arts.
This center, formed of indefinite molecules, began to revolve around its own axis during its gradual condensation; then, following the immutable laws of
mechanics, in proportion as its bulk diminished by condensation, its rotary motion became accelerated, and these two effects continuing, the result was the formation of one principal star, the center of the nebulous mass.
But I shall not trouble the reader with a particular description of my own
mechanics; let it suffice to say, that in six weeks time with the help of the sorrel nag, who performed the parts that required most labour, I finished a sort of Indian canoe, but much larger, covering it with the skins of YAHOOS, well stitched together with hempen threads of my own making.
At other times anyone could dance who paid his money and was orderly; the railroad men, the roundhouse
mechanics, the delivery boys, the iceman, the farm-hands who lived near enough to ride into town after their day's work was over.
As for those of the fourth, which consisted of
mechanics, they were incapable of any office.