"Crusher" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Bull Head A Sewing Machine Given to the Boss Girl A Safe Investment A Tony Slaughter-House A Trying Situation An Arm That is not Reliable An Editor Burglarized Banks and Banking Bounced from Church for Dancing Boys and Circuses Boys will be Boys Broke up a Prayer Meeting Buying a Stone Crusher "Cash!" Camp Meetings in the Dark of the Moon Church Keno Colored Concert Troupes Dogs and Human Beings Effects of Mineral Water Expedition in Search of a Doughnut Failure of a Solid Institution Fishing for Pieces of Women Fooling with the Bible George Washington Granite Head Cheese ...
— Peck's Compendium of Fun • George W. Peck
... artisans? If we cannot be artists, if we are not allowed to make our work a self-expression, were it not better to get one's living by the labour of one's hands,—by digging in the wonder of the ground? A stone-crusher, as long as one works one's will with it, makes it say something, is nearer to nature than a college. "I would rather do manual labour with my hands than manual labour with my soul," the true artist is saying to-day, and a great many thousand teachers ...
— The Lost Art of Reading • Gerald Stanley Lee
... the subject? jiggered if I've got one; Only I wants no centrylisin', I don't— Which I suppose it's a crusher standin' ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... "What a crusher! I've knocked him out in one round. There's no hurry. The referee will count ten at least three times before Weber ...
— The Teeth of the Tiger • Maurice Leblanc
... steel. The tower rolls on two rails along the dock and is self-propelling. The lift is unusually short; for the reason that the weighing apparatus is removed horizontally to one side in a separate house, instead of lying vertically below the crusher. This arrangement reduces by 40 per cent. the lift of the bucket, which is of the clam-shell type of forty-four cubic feet capacity. The motive power for operating the bucket is perhaps the most massive and powerful ever installed for such service. The main hoist is directly ...
— The New York Subway - Its Construction and Equipment • Anonymous
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