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  • The jets of steam escaping around the soldered patches began to lose their force.†   (source)
  • Now solder them back wrong.†   (source)
  • She went to people's homes and soldered power transistors in their TVs, replaced signal capacitors in old tube-model radios.†   (source)
  • I'm not going to solder it to your finger.†   (source)
  • Halfway through, she'd given up and soldered the fabric together with a hot glue gun.†   (source)
  • Around the rim of the main rod little curlicues and doohingies had been soldered on, later.†   (source)
  • Like the tip of a soldering iron.†   (source)
  • The first soldering at a radiator shop, plugging holes mostly, the other as a cook at a Chinese restaurant.†   (source)
  • From the door, she could see her dad soldering some lead together.†   (source)
  • Great uncle on my mother's side, mother's side, I said, got killed on a horse and it never singed a hair on that horse and it killed him graveyard dead they had to cut his belt off him where it welded the buckle shut and I got a cousin aint but four years oldern me was struck down in his own yard comin from the barn and it paralyzed him all down one side and melted the fillins in his teeth and soldered his jaw shut.†   (source)
  • The only thing he succeeded in doing was to unearth a suit of fifteenth-century armor which had all of its pieces soldered together with rust and inside of which there was the hollow resonance of an enormous stone-filled gourd.†   (source)
  • In this case the proper resistors have been clipped off, and new ones soldered on.†   (source)
  • He folded and crimped the chain mail into its final shape, then soldered the seam.†   (source)
  • One of the first things they had to learn was how to solder.†   (source)
  • My daddy took the gold pin off it and soldered it to the box.†   (source)
  • He could use a soldering iron and hammer two boards together so that the wood did not split and the nails did not bend.†   (source)
  • But after, we'd been soldered somehow.†   (source)
  • Her soldering iron still smoldered in one corner, a white sliver of smoke winding up to the ceiling from its tip.†   (source)
  • I spot a few moritis: rusted metal enclosures over the burial mounds, with frayed canvas and nylon tops; a name and birth and death dates soldered to the front, the letters breaking away.†   (source)
  • They had even used solder.†   (source)
  • I wasn't much on electronic theory myself, but I'm a neat hand with a soldering gun; Carl supplied the skull sweat and I carried out his instructions.†   (source)
  • That day a Mrs. Hector Fraser took a broken silver cream jug to the jeweller's to have the handle silver-soldered.†   (source)
  • The parts can't be welded. Join them with silver solder.
  • The contract specifies leadless solder.
  • Perhaps those two drops of soldering were my assignment in this lifetime.†   (source)
  • "The solder melted," he announced, wrinkling his nose at the sulfurous stench.†   (source)
  • She saw a line on one of the feet where someone had once soldered it back in place.†   (source)
  • I watch him part a mass of wires with his pliers, then reach for his soldering gun.†   (source)
  • "Do you know how to solder?" he said at length.†   (source)
  • He then gave me a quick lesson in soldering.†   (source)
  • With each drop of solder, a small puff of gray smoke trellised into the air.†   (source)
  • Jim pointed his nose at a bug soldered to the iron.†   (source)
  • Since they now knew how to solder, they could connect the propellers and cameras to the controller.†   (source)
  • At night, amid the smell of solder and machine oil, he felt most happy.†   (source)
  • Lorenzo positioned the wires in the holes, while Oscar melted the solder with the soldering iron.†   (source)
  • "Shut up," Oscar said, picking up the solder gun.†   (source)
  • Lorenzo positioned the wires in the holes, while Oscar melted the solder with the soldering iron.†   (source)
  • Still, there was a big difference between soldering a connection and building an entire robot.†   (source)
  • He bought a soldering iron for thirty dollars and kept his eye out for deals at Home Depot.†   (source)
  • Cut to the outside reverse, showing us an irregular bead of solder where the door has been sealed shut Stupid, sure , not a bit literary , but you could do thing, with it.†   (source)
  • Hissing jets of steam had begun to play around the edges of old patches; beads of solder had begun to sizzle.†   (source)
  • Werner's blood gallops through his ventricles, his thoughts on Hauptmann's transceiver, on solder, fuses, batteries, antennas; his boot and Frederick's touch the ground at the exact same moment.†   (source)
  • He salvages the inferior Soviet equipment, milled from marginal steel, clumsily soldered; it's all so unsystematic.†   (source)
  • He keeps any doubts at bay by memorizing lyrics or the routes to classrooms, by holding before his eyes a vision of the technical sciences laboratory: nine tables, thirty stools; coils, variable capacitors, amplifiers, batteries, soldering irons locked away in those gleaming cabinets.†   (source)
  • I pick up the soldering gun, and he pinches the wires together over the terminal as I drop a bright bead of smoking silver on it.†   (source)
  • I gobbed on the melted liquid, but I made a mess of it, the solder dripping down the tubing and the washer not on straight.†   (source)
  • It was flying, but the solder melted.†   (source)
  • All you had to do was hold a hot iron rod to a coil of solder, which was like a soft metal, melt it, and let the silvery material flow into place.†   (source)
  • The solder was a perfect circle around a perfectly aligned washer at the base, and he had also soldered a metal cap to the top of the tube and glued on a wooden bullet-shaped nose cone.†   (source)
  • As long as my washer was well attached, soldering sounded good to me, although I wasn't exactly certain what soldering was.†   (source)
  • He ran his fingers around the base of the rocket, studied carefully the soldered washer, sniffed speculatively at the cured black-powder mix.†   (source)
  • The solder was a perfect circle around a perfectly aligned washer at the base, and he had also soldered a metal cap to the top of the tube and glued on a wooden bullet-shaped nose cone.†   (source)
  • Soldering it would be easier.†   (source)
  • The ballerina's pink tutu had long been replaced by dark purple gauze, her blond hair inked black, and tiny metal jewelry added to complete the outfit, which Dess had made out of soldered paper clips.†   (source)
  • The hinges had crumbled with rust, the doors were held up only by clouds of cobwebs, the windows were soldered shut by dampness, and the floor was broken by grass and wildflowers and in the cracks lizards and all manner of vermin had their nests, all of which seemed to confirm the notion that there had not been a human being there for at least half a century.†   (source)
  • He raised his soldering gun and announced, "Done!" just as a crash reverberated from Junior's workstation.†   (source)
  • A stretcher on wheels was there, and the solder in white was lifted out of bed skillfully and rolled out of sight in a matter of seconds.†   (source)
  • Twist some dials, and the machine trembles, two robot arms pick up soldering irons and hunch down on him.†   (source)
  • Jonah showed Will how to cut the lead strips and taught Ronnie how to solder; Jonah cut the glass, as he'd been doing most of the summer, and slid them into the lead strips before making room for Ronnie to set the pieces in place.†   (source)
  • Sixty-four wires the size of a single hair needed to be meticulously fitted into individual, small holes and then topped with a dash of solder.†   (source)
  • To build a robot, students need to be able to connect wires, so Fredi and Allan showed them all the soldering tricks they'd need to know: how to "tin the tip," how to apply the solder to the wires, and why not to apply solder to the iron itself.†   (source)
  • If Oscar hit the wire with the soldering iron, the wire would instantly melt and disappear, forcing them to pull out everything they'd done, restrip all the wires, and start over.†   (source)
  • To build a robot, students need to be able to connect wires, so Fredi and Allan showed them all the soldering tricks they'd need to know: how to "tin the tip," how to apply the solder to the wires, and why not to apply solder to the iron itself.†   (source)
  • ' Light shines on old man soldering bottom of ash can.†   (source)
  • The fearful images would not be shaken, but clung to his mind as though soldered there.†   (source)
  • I calculated, and rightly, that no one would think of working their way throug4 a pile of apparently untouched foodstuffs, especially as all the top tins were soldered.†   (source)
  • He saw himself in exalted circumstances with Bessie Barnes, her pure eyes dim with tears, her sweet lips tremulous with desire: he felt the strong handgrip of Honest Jack, her brother, his truehearted fidelity, the deep eternal locking of their brave souls, as they looked dumbly at each other with misty eyes, and thought of the pact of danger, the shoulder-to-shoulder drive through death and terror which had soldered them silently but implacably.†   (source)
  • Or he sat absorbed for a moment, soldering.†   (source)
  • Out of a large fruit-jar and a soldered pipe Martin made his apparatus.†   (source)
  • An' about this engine — Jim — ain't you got ne'er a pal as can use a soldering iron?†   (source)
  • The hook was soldered into the staple: a circumstance observed by me when awake, but forgotten.†   (source)
  • We didn't cook none of the pies in the wash-pan—afraid the solder would melt; but Uncle Silas he had a noble brass warming-pan which he thought considerable of, because it belonged to one of his ancesters with a long wooden handle that come over from England with William the Conqueror in the Mayflower or one of them early ships and was hid away up garret with a lot of other old pots and things that was valuable, not on account of being any account, because they warn't, but on account…†   (source)
  • Bjornstam could do anything with his hands—solder a pan, weld an automobile spring, soothe a frightened filly, tinker a clock, carve a Gloucester schooner which magically went into a bottle.†   (source)
  • These and twenty other cries broke out at once! and almost before the poor little victim could draw a breath he was crowned with a tin basin, robed in a tattered blanket, throned upon a barrel, and sceptred with the tinker's soldering-iron.†   (source)
  • James Ryder, upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose.†   (source)
  • We soldered up the leaden coffin, screwed on the coffin lid, and gathering up our belongings, came away.†   (source)
  • Then the children watched with joy as the metal sank suddenly molten, and was shoved about against the nose of the soldering-iron, while the room was full of a scent of burnt resin and hot tin, and Morel was silent and intent for a minute.†   (source)
  • He was sent out with a tinker to help him at his work; he would not work; moreover, he threatened the tinker with his own soldering-iron; and finally both Hugo and the tinker found their hands full with the mere matter of keeping his from getting away.†   (source)
  • He can, when once he find his way, come out from anything or into anything, no matter how close it be bound or even fused up with fire, solder you call it.†   (source)
  • 'Tons of it,' said Father, cheerfully; 'but it'll want something besides hope — a bit of brazing, say, or some solder, and a new valve.'†   (source)
  • {8}Hugo got the help of the tinker whom the King had cowed with the soldering-iron; they took the boy out on a tinkering tramp, and as soon as they were out of sight of the camp they threw him down and the tinker held him while Hugo bound the poultice tight and fast upon his leg.†   (source)
  • First he took out a soldering iron and some plumbing solder, and then small oil lamp, which gave out, when lit in a corner of the tomb, gas which burned at a fierce heat with a blue flame, then his operating knives, which he placed to hand, and last a round wooden stake, some two and a half or three inches thick and about three feet long.†   (source)
  • First he took out a soldering iron and some plumbing solder, and then small oil lamp, which gave out, when lit in a corner of the tomb, gas which burned at a fierce heat with a blue flame, then his operating knives, which he placed to hand, and last a round wooden stake, some two and a half or three inches thick and about three feet long.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, the actors had obeyed his injunction, and the public, seeing that they were beginning to speak again, began once more to listen, not without having lost many beauties in the sort of soldered joint which was formed between the two portions of the piece thus abruptly cut short.†   (source)
  • One part of his dress only remains, but it is too remarkable to be suppressed; it was a brass ring, resembling a dog's collar, but without any opening, and soldered fast round his neck, so loose as to form no impediment to his breathing, yet so tight as to be incapable of being removed, excepting by the use of the file.†   (source)
  • Towards the close of 1815 a man, a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired with the idea of substituting, in this manufacture, gum-lac for resin, and, for bracelets in particular, slides of sheet-iron simply laid together, for slides of soldered sheet-iron.†   (source)
  • And if Commander Maury is correct, were one to harness the full warmth of this current, it would supply enough heat to keep molten a river of iron solder as big as the Amazon or the Missouri.†   (source)
  • It was a small cavity under ten feet of water; but I think that I can warrant the pond not to need soldering till they find a worse leak than that.†   (source)
  • The combs I made with nails, which I placed head downwards on a sheet of tin about an inch wide; holding the nails in their proper positions I poured solder round their heads to fix them to the tin, which I then folded down on either side of them to keep them perfectly firm.†   (source)
  • At last, when the three lids had been planed down, nailed, soldered, it was placed outside in front of the door; the house was thrown open, and the people of Yonville began to flock round.†   (source)
  • Toussaint could not get on with Nicolette, the soldering of two elderly maids being impossible, and she went away.†   (source)
  • I wish he'd been soldered in lead.†   (source)
  • For bracelets, I invented a way of substituting for slides of soldered sheet iron, slides of iron laid together.†   (source)
  • Then Bors set his hand thereto, if that he might have soldered it again; but it would not be.†   (source)
  • And there he took the sword, and set the pieces together, and they soldered as fair as ever they were to-fore; and there put he the sword in the sheath, and laid it down on the bed.†   (source)
  • Then Bors set his hand thereto, if that he might have soldered it again; but it would not be.†   (source)
  • She is eighteen, and he twenty-two, and they are fairly matched, though some knowing ones, who have all the pedigrees in the world by heart, will have it that the family of the fair Quiteria is better than Camacho's; but no one minds that now-a-days, for wealth can solder a great many flaws.†   (source)
  • Wars 'twixt you twain would be As if the world should cleave, and that slain men Should solder up the rift.†   (source)
  • And there he took the sword, and set the pieces together, and they soldered as fair as ever they were to-fore; and there put he the sword in the sheath, and laid it down on the bed.†   (source)
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