British pot-fixer: Var

Usage examples of tinkler.

Newport pops his head round the cell door to announce that Mr Tinkler, the principal officer, would like a word with me.

I go to the interview room and find Mr Cariton-Boyce and Mr Tinkler waiting for me.

Mr Tinkler leaves me in no doubt about how he feels the system has treated me.

I dash upstairs to see Mr Tinkler in his office, who confirms the news, and adds that I must start packing immediately.

Jeanie seemed to heed her not, save only once, and then she but looked at the misleart tinkler, and shook her head.

The boss bell hangs central below a rack of tenors and a tinkler, and wind sets brass mouths atremble.

Sometimes a herd from the hills would pass by with sheep, sometimes a tinkler or a wandering merchant, and once in a long while the laird of Heriotside on his grey horse riding to Gledsmuir.

Anyhow three tinkler ruffians of the Baillie clan were on the trail, and had followed Bauldy to his camp for the night.

But when she is there this Methody fine lady queens it among poachers and black-fishers and tinklers who do her biddings and know fine that they would lose their tongues if they blabbed.

I should likewise place on record, that the first ass that had ever been seen in this part of the country, came in the course of this year with a gang of tinklers, that made horn-spoons and mended bellows.

A pinch of Greek powder in the lantern, and for the rest a device I learned among the tinklers in Hungary when some of us gentleman-cavaliers had to take to the hills and forests for a season.

The figurative detail, the red-flowered skirts, the tinklers, combined with the size of the drum, give it an unusual sense of both power and sweetness.

The body of the pedlar was secretly buried, a ceremony for which the tinklers had their own contrivances, and it was not likely that a wandering packman would be missed.

His ill-treatment at the hands of the tinklers had affected both his memory and his wits, and it was a long time before his head cleared.

Hayward followed on the witness stand, but for all my questioning he would not acknowledge that Tinkler had come down to the berth with me on the night before the mutiny.