Tin Quotes

“Wikipedia: Tin”

“Because she lately nimm'd some tin, they have sent her to lodge at the King's Head Inn.”

“The final tin-dip is useful to remove the marks of the brush, and to make the surface uniformly bright.”

“The big one I missed out on was 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' MGM wanted me for it, and Warner Bros. wouldn't give me permission to do it.”

“And a 'tin-back' is a party
Who 's remarkable for luck,
And his food is called his 'tucker,
' Or his ' panum ' or his 'chuck'.”

“Of Tin Gods you may oft have heard or read. But this one was entirely made of lead.”

“The solution of tin used by dyers for the scarlet and for many other colours upon wool, silks, and cotton, are commonly called spirits, or tin spirits.”

“My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.”

“I'm not ready to say whether it's good or bad, but when a man owns the tin, he has a vested interest in it and there is more pride in what he's doing than when he turns it over to a second party.”

“They reached for the leather cases to which their shields were pinned. Simultaneously, they pinned the tin to their collars and then walked toward the desk behind which another patrolman was seated.”

“It is inconceivable — and consequently very English! — to have a capital as Simla is entirely of tin roofs, and then the tin roofs monkeying better materials and reducing the whole show to absurdity.”

“He gives the, possibly false, impression, that he has a ‘tin ear’, as his countrymen put it, for many of the popular art-forms he discusses.”

“As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.”

“We economists are going to be the little tin gods of this generation, as the scientists were of the last, and the doctors before that, and the clergymen before them”

“A vessel is made of tin, or more usually of tinned iron.
Spec is a vessel in which meat, fish, fruit, etc., is hermetically sealed for preservation
Locally, a small cylindrical drinking vessel or mug with a handle is made of tin.”

“Many persons still extant, must remember the villainous old coinage of George III.; the tin-like sixpences which added a word to the slang dictionary, and the button-like shillings, of which the image and superscription might have been Caesar's.”

“These people are also very ingenious in making tin ware, brooms, cider-brandy, wooden bowls, and tallow candles.”

“The Little Tin Gods harried their little tin souls.
Seeing he came not from Chetham, jingled no spurs at his heels
Knowing that, nevertheless, was he first on the Government rolls
For the billet of Railway Inspector to little Tin Gods on Wheels.”

“This change does not proceed with disintegrating effects until considerably lower temperatures, when the ‘Tin-Pest’, experienced in organ-pipes, during cold winters on the Continent, occurs.”

“There seems to be a paucity of very ancient objects made entirely of tin — a lack which is sometimes laid at the door of the disintegration of tin through "[[w:Tin pest|tin pest". This is hardly an adequate reason as "tin pest" is difficult enough to initiate.”