 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871 - 276 pages
...inside of his watch ; and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box with part of the...never seen any other spring than that of my father's gun-lock, I asked how a spring within a box could turn the box so often round as to wind all the chain... | |
 | William Chambers - Biography - 1873 - 326 pages
...inside of his watch ; and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box with part of the...never seen any other spring than that of my father's gun-lock, I asked how a spring within a box could turn the box so often round as to wind all the chain... | |
 | Biography - 1877 - 814 pages
...the inside of his watch ; and, though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened it, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box, with part of...never seen any other spring than that of my father's gun-lock, I asked how a spring within a box could turn the box so often round as to wind all the chain... | |
 | James Frederick Skinner Gordon - Banffshire (Scotland) - 1880 - 488 pages
...inside of his Watch : and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the Watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the Spring-box with part of the...turn round : he told me that it was turned round by a Steel-Spring within it. Having then never seen any other Spring than that of my Father's Gun-Lock,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1881 - 648 pages
...inside of his watch ; and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box, with part of...never seen any other spring than that of my father's gunlock, I asked how a spring within a box could turn the box so often round as to wind all the chain... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - Conduct of life - 1881 - 658 pages
...of his watch ; and, though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put it in my hands. I saw the springbox, with part of the chain round it; and asked him what it was that made it turn round? He told me it was turned round by a steel spring within it. Having then never seen any... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1847 - 534 pages
...inside of his watch ; and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box with part of the...round; he told me that it was turned round by a steel spring1 within it. Having then never seen any other spring than that of my father's gun-lock, I asked... | |
 | English literature - 1774 - 760 pages
...watch, and put it into my hands. I faw the fpring-box with part of the chain round it, and afk" ed him what it was that made the box turn round : he told me that it was turned round by a tteel fpring within it. Having then never feen any other fpring than that of my father's gun-lock,... | |
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I saw the spring-box with part of the chain round it, and asked him what it was that made the box turn round ; he told me that it was turned round by a steel spring within it. Having then never seen any other spring than that of my father's gun-lock,... 
