"Tinker" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... course of the hours and minutes, at the same time disclose the whole combination of springs and wheels whereby they are moved." A similar transparency of motive and purpose, of individual traits and spontaneous action, belongs to the Bible. From the hand of Shakspeare, "the lord and the tinker, the hero and the valet, come forth equally distinct and clear." In the Bible the various sorts of men are never confounded, but have the advantage of being exhibited by Nature herself, and are not a contrivance of the imagination. "Shylock," ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859 • Various
... A tinker and a tailor, Had once a doubtful strife, sir, To make a maid a wife, sir, Whose name was buxom Joan. For now the time was ended, When she no more intended To lick her lips at men, sir, And gnaw the sheets in vain, sir, And lie o' ...
— Love for Love • William Congreve
... WEDDING: Rather boisterous comedy of a tinker-woman who upsets ancient custom by insisting on ...
— The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays • Various
... at the drunkard manufacturing machine behind her. That confounded pot, as round as the stomach of a tinker's fat wife, with its nose that was so long and twisted, sent a shiver down her back, a fear mingled with a desire. Yes, one might have thought it the metal pluck of some big wicked woman, of some witch who was discharging drop by drop the fire of her entrails. A fine source of poison, an ...
— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola
... lazy as Ludman's dog, who leaned against the wall to bark. As lazy as the tinker, who laid ...
— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.
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