"Tinner" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... down in de wasser, Vhere dere's heaps of dings to see, Und hafe a shplendid tinner Und drafel along ...
— The Breitmann Ballads • Charles G. Leland
... transformed into a beautiful garden, with weeping willows, chrysanthemums, and mountain ferns. Also we had a wedding-bell. In a wild moment of enthusiasm I proposed it. It is always a guess where your enthusiasm will land you out here. I coaxed a cross old tinner to make the frame for me. He expostulated the while that the thing was impossible, because it had never been done before in this part of the country. It was rather a weird shape, but I left the girls to trim it and went to the church to help decorate. ...
— The Lady and Sada San - A Sequel to The Lady of the Decoration • Frances Little |
