"Handmade" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... which, banner-like, hung upon the outer wall proclaiming this to be the office of the California Insurance Company. For furniture, there was a flat top desk and a typewriter (both secondhand) and the balance of the equipment was handmade, of ordinary lumber, by a local carpenter. There was not very much cash among those thus assembled, but, fortunately, the company had maintained a deposit in an Oakland bank and this was immediately available ...
— The Spirit of 1906 • George W. Brooks
... an' I puts it to you fair. You comes in with a strong ante an' you gets a genuine, guaranteed an' high-grade convert—the real article. You stays out, an' not only you loses a good chanst to cut off and dam up as vigorous a stream o' profanity as is found between here and Laredo, but you loses a handmade, copper-bound, steel-riveted, artificial limb—which in five minutes o' time,' says I, windin' up, 'will sure feed the fire. ...
— A Deal in Wheat - And Other Stories of the New and Old West • Frank Norris
... in England of drains laid with handmade tiles, which have operated well for thirty years, and ...
— Farm drainage • Henry Flagg French |
