"Tape measure" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for had not Lowson saved the situation by producing a tape measure three minutes after the accident, measuring the space the Frenchman swore was wide enough for his car to pass, and proving thereby it ...
— Fanny Goes to War • Pat Beauchamp
... plates, with the pattern or initials right side up, are first put around the table at equal distances (spaced with a tape measure if the butler or waitress has not an accurate eye). Then on the left of each plate, handle towards the edge of the table, and prongs up, is put the salad fork, the meat fork is put next, and then ...
— Etiquette • Emily Post
... a great convenience to measure a length of ribbon, lace or other goods without the use of a rule or tape measure; but what shall we use in their place? Look at your thumb—how long is it from the end to the first joint? And the middle finger, from the end to the knuckle on the back of the hand? Isn't it nearly four and one-half inches or one-eighth of a yard? That is what the ...
— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts
... carefully knocking the ashes into the wood-box which stood beside the stove. Then, standing with his left foot wrapped about his right ankle and his face full of suppressed eagerness, he felt in each pocket of his waistcoat, and produced first a knife, then a tape measure, a pincushion, a bunch of keys, and last a large, worn copper cent. It was smooth with age, but its almost obliterated date still showed that it had been struck the year of ...
— John Ward, Preacher • Margaret Deland
... he said, flourishing a tape measure; and the Dandy was kept busy for half a day, "wrestling ...
— We of the Never-Never • Jeanie "Mrs. Aeneas" Gunn |
