1 I got on here with a bit of contriving, because I knew Richards, the company engineer, in the army.
2 By profession I am a hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB 3 , Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB 4 There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB 5 Yes, Mr. Holmes, Cyril Morton, an electrical engineer, and we hope to be married at the end of the summer.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST 6 "I am my own engineer, and my own carpenter, and my own plumber, and my own gardener, and my own Jack of all Trades," said Wemmick, in acknowledging my compliments.
7 The walls of his chest seemed to thrill and quiver as a frail building would do inside when some powerful engine was at work.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W... 8 Clifford started the little engine, the man carefully turned the chair, and set it nose-forwards to the incline that curved gently to the dark hazel thicket.
9 The Germans invented a new locomotive engine with a self feeder, that did not need a fireman.
10 The man crouched solicitously by the wheel, and peered at the little engine.
11 Then he sat down on his heels and peered under the chair, poking with his finger at the greasy little engine, and resenting the grease-marks on his clean Sunday shirt.
12 The man lay flat on his stomach on the floor, his neck pressed back, wriggling under the engine and poking with his finger.
13 Clifford started his engine, then put her in gear.
14 Clifford resented the interference: but he made his engine buzz like a blue-bottle.
15 He began doing things with his engine, running her fast and slow as if to get some sort of tune out of her.