 | 1825 - 208 pages
...manufacturer, to make dolls' eyes. He took me into a room quite as wide, and perhaps twice the length of this, and we had just room to walk between stacks,, from...the ceiling, of parts of dolls. He said, ' These are onlv the legs and arms ; the trunks are below,' But I saw enough to convince me that he wanted a great... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1824 - 470 pages
...amamifactnrer,¿tomake (lolls' еуеь. He took me into я .room quite as wide, and perhaps twice the length of this, and we had just room to walk between stacks, from...floor to the ceiling, of parts of dolls. He said, there are only the legs and arms, the trunks are below. But I saw enough to convince me that he wanted... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1824 - 726 pages
...tnrer, to make dolls' eyes. He took me into ft room quite as wide, and perhaps twice the length of this, and we had just room to walk between stacks, from...floor to the ceiling, of parts of dolls. He said, there are only the legs and aims, the trunks are bclmv. But I saw enough to convince me that he wanted... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1824 - 512 pages
...dolls* eyes. He took me into a room quite as wide, apd perhaps twice the length of thi s, and we bad just room to walk between stacks, from the floor to the ceiling, nf. parts of dolls. He .said, there are only the legs and arms, the trunks are belovr. But I saw enough... | |
 | Meteorology - 1832 - 890 pages
...manufacturer, to make doll's eyes. He took me into a room quite as wide, and perhaps twice the length of this, and we had just room to walk between stacks, from...parts of dolls. He said, ' these are only the legs and arras; the trunks are below.' But I saw enough to convince me. that he wanted a great many eyes; and... | |
 | Charles Babbage - Industrialists - 1832 - 352 pages
...to make dolls' eyes. He took " me into a room quite as wide, and perhaps twice the " length of this, and we had just room to walk between " stacks, from...ceiling, of parts of dolls. He " said, ' These are pnly the legs and arms ; the trunks " are below.' But I saw enough to convince me, that " he wanted... | |
 | Railroad engineering - 1834 - 434 pages
...manufacturer, to make doiis1 eyes. He took me into a room quite as wide, and perhaps twice the length of this, and we had just room to walk between stacks from the...to the ceiling, of parts of dolls. He said, ' these arc only the legs and arms ; the trunks are below.' Bull saw enough to conv'nce me, that he wanted... | |
 | Charles Babbage - Calculators - 1846 - 448 pages
...make dolls' eyes.- He took " me into a room quite as wide, and perhaps twice the " length of this, and we had just room to walk between " stacks, from the floor to t'i3 coiling, of parts of dolls. Ho '" said, 'These are only the legs and arms; the trunks " are below.'... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1850 - 216 pages
...dignity as a manufacturer to make dolls' eyes. He took me into a room quite as wide, and twice the length of this (one of the large rooms for committees in...of Commons), and we had just room to walk between the stacks, from the floor to the ceiling, of parts of dolls. He said these were only the legs and... | |
 | Ralph Temple (miscellaneous writer.) - 1865 - 488 pages
...eyes. He took me into a room quite as wide, and, perhaps, twice the length of this committee room, and we had just room to walk between stacks, from...below.' But I saw enough to convince me that he wanted me to make a great many eyes, and as the article appeared quite in my own line of business, I said... | |
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I could supply him with dolls' eyes ; and I was foolish enough to feel' half offended. I thought it derogatory to my new dignity as a manufacturer to make dolls 
