tintacks

Indoor: discussion in tepid security of unsolved historical and criminal problems: lecture of unexpurgated exotic erotic masterpieces: house carpentry with toolbox containing hammer, awl nails, screws, tintacks, gimlet, tweezers, bullnose plane and turnscrew.

Ulysses 2003

At a little distance the effect is rich and excellent, but close inspection shows up the tintacks and the glue, and a prying finger penetrates the solid-looking panel with perfect ease.

A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

Indoor: discussion in tepid security of unsolved historical and criminal problems: lecture of unexpurgated exotic erotic masterpieces: house carpentry with toolbox containing hammer, awl nails, screws, tintacks, gimlet, tweezers, bullnose plane and turnscrew.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

The room looked so abjectly wretched that she sprang from her resting-place and attempted to draw the curtains, in order to take complete stock of her surroundings -- attempted, because the dark, cheap cretonne, of which they were made, refused to move, their tops being nailed to the upper woodwork of the window by tintacks.

Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl 1909

Yet it's as obvious as tintacks that a medium who's hampered at his hands will do all he can with his teeth, and what _could_ be so self-evident as a bladder under one's lappel?

Love and Mr. Lewisham 1906

On the walls are unframed reproductions of fine pictures, secured with tintacks.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

On the walls are unframed reproductions of fine pictures, secured with tintacks.

Complete Plays of John Galsworthy John Galsworthy 1900

On the walls are unframed reproductions of fine pictures, secured with tintacks.

Plays : Third Series John Galsworthy 1900

On the walls are unframed reproductions of fine pictures, secured with tintacks.

The Fugitive John Galsworthy 1900

The green that looked sublime in the fitting room now looked the colour of something you'd find at the bottom of the fish pond at the end of winter, the once-sparkling diamante straps as dull as tintacks.

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