"Book of instructions" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... life several times by watching "Fritz's" times and seasons. I am quite sure that each battery "over yonder" had a book that laid down a certain number of rounds to be fired at a certain range on Mondays, and so on for every day in the week. And every relieving battery would take over this "book of instructions." Of course there were times when "Fritz" "got the wind up" (lost his nerve), and then he would shell anything indiscriminately. The god of the German is Method, and his goddess System, and it hurt his gunners sorely when we tried something new, and made ...
— "Over There" with the Australians • R. Hugh Knyvett
... The Child's Own Toy Maker. With designs on Cards, and a book of instructions for making beautiful models of familiar objects. Price 5s. in a ...
— Cat and Dog - Memoirs of Puss and the Captain • Julia Charlotte Maitland
... darning a pair of very large socks. The juvenile policeman, and the incorrigible criminal were sound asleep in their respective cribs, the one under the print of the Queen, the other under that of Sir Robert Peel. Giles was studying a small book of instructions as to the duties of police-constables, and pretty Molly was commenting on the same, for she possessed that charming quality of mind and heart which induces the possessor to take a sympathetic and lively interest in whatever may happen ...
— Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished - A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure • R.M. Ballantyne
... book of instructions which you all receive from the Emperor, is not the first recommendation to take care of your health? Quite rightly; that is the condition precedent of efficiency. Moreover, if I know any Latin, you yourselves, in returning a salutation, constantly ...
— Works, V2 • Lucian of Samosata
... a book of instructions and melodies printed in highly-simplified and explanatory bars, which he balanced on his knee while ...
— Mountain Blood - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer |
