"Contraption" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... knew the 'movie' man had been here I would have gone the other way. You've evidently drawn fire by that contraption of yours. Where are ...
— How I Filmed the War - A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who - Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. • Lieut. Geoffrey H. Malins
... mysterious and fundamentally uncontrollable beings, his son and his daughter. The enigma of life pressed disturbingly upon him, as he took the other bed, facing Charles, and he wondered whether Sissie in her feminine passion for self-sacrifice insisted on sleeping in the truckle-contraption herself, or whether she ...
— Mr. Prohack • E. Arnold Bennett
... an amusing enough contraption honey," said he, "but what makes you stand out there in the hot sun staring at them that way? It's ...
— Arizona Nights • Stewart Edward White
... "It's the only contraption that'll ever hold One Ear," he said. "He can gnaw through leather as clean as a knife an' jes' about half as quick. They all'll be here in ...
— White Fang • Jack London |
