| Mark Twain - Americans - 1889 - 494 pages
...my real trade; learned all there was to it ; learned to make everything : guns, revolvers, cannon, boilers, engines, all sorts of labor-saving machinery....any quick new-fangled way to make a thing, I could aCY invent one — and do it as easy as rolling off a log. 1 became head superintendent ; had a couple... | |
| Mark Twain - 1890 - 592 pages
...learned to make everything — guns, revolvers, cannon, boilers, engines, all sorts of labour-saving machinery. Why, I could make anything a body wanted...invent one — and do it as easy as rolling off a log. I became head superintendent; had a couple of thousand men under me. Well, a man like that is a man... | |
| Mark Twain - 1899 - 436 pages
...learned my real trade; learned all there was to it; learned to make everything: guns, revolvers, cannon, boilers, engines, all sorts of labor-saving machinery....invent one — and do it as easy as rolling off a log. I became head superintendent; had a couple of thousand men under me. Well, a man like that is a man... | |
| Mark Twain - American fiction - 1899 - 430 pages
...learned my real trade; learned all there was to it ; learned to make everything: guns, revolvers, cannon, boilers, engines, all sorts of labor-saving machinery....any quick new-fangled way to make a thing, I could ;nvent one — and do it as easy as rolling off a log. 1 became head superintendent; had a couple of... | |
| Mark Twain - Young adult fiction - 1910 - 210 pages
...learned my real trade; learned all there was to it; learned to make everything: guns, revolvers, cannon, boilers, engines, all sorts of labor-saving machinery....invent one — and do it as easy as rolling off" a log. I became head superintendent; had a couple of thousand men under me. Well, a man like that is a man... | |
| Mark Twain - 1917 - 426 pages
...learned my real trade; learned all there was to it; learned to make everything: guns, revolvers, cannon, boilers, engines, all sorts of labor-saving machinery....any quick new-fangled way to make a thing, I could ;nvent one — and do it as easy as rolling off a log. I became head superintendent; had a couple of... | |
| Mark Twain - 1917 - 474 pages
...boilers, engines, all sorts of labor-saving machinery. Why, I could make anything a body wanted—anything in the world, it didn't make any difference what;...quick new-fangled way to make a thing, I could invent one—and do it as easy as rolling off a log. I became head superintendent; had a couple of thousand... | |
| Mark Twain - American wit and humor - 1920 - 326 pages
...learned my real trade; learned all there was to it; learned to make everything: guns, revolvers, cannon, boilers, engines, all sorts of labor-saving machinery....invent one — and do it as easy as rolling off a log. I became head superintendent; had a couple of thousand men under me. Well, a man like that is a man... | |
| American literature - 1927 - 776 pages
...Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee, the chap who turned King Arthur's Court topsy-turvy, and bragged: " I could make anything a body wanted — anything in...invent one — and do it as easy as rolling off a log." In Cleveland are factories producing an amazing number and variety of objects, ranging from the smallest... | |
| 1890 - 982 pages
...a body wanted — anything in the world, it did n't make any difference what ; and if there was n't any quick, new-fangled way to make a thing, I could invent one — and do it as easy as member that in our house at East Hartford, rolling off a log. I became head superinten- all unpretending... | |
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