I hate tin-openers, they are pure evil, is there a word for being evil to people who are left-handed? ❋ Chaos-raven (2004)
When the Americans left, their tents and rubbish bins were plundered, and for a decade their miraculous tin-openers no bigger than a razorblade were currency in the place of coins and penknives within the swaps and negotiations of the islands 'little boys. ❋ De Bernieres, Louis (2003)
The boys hunted about and found two or three tin-openers. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1973)
Instead, we bought a head-stall for eighteenpence, because how providential we should be to a farmer whose favourite horse had escaped and he had nothing to catch it with; and three tin-openers, in case of a distant farm subsisting entirely on tinned things, and the only opener for miles lost down the well or something. ❋ Edith (1925)
The man with the frilly whiskers was very pleased to be called "sir" – Oswald knew he would be – and he looked at everything we'd got, and bought the head-stall and two tin-openers, and a pot of marmalade, and a ball of string, and a pair of braces. ❋ Edith (1925)
Warm it up and put it on the table with the tin-openers. ❋ Douglas Mawson (1920)
He may not care for lending it, because things like tin-openers generally drop overboard and then of course he wouldn't get it back. ❋ George A. Birmingham (1907)
Could he help shift a consignment of electric tin-openers? ❋ William Langley (2011)
Within an hour, the entire stock of 112 tin-openers had been sold and listeners were clamouring for more. ❋ William Langley (2011)
"sir" -- Oswald knew he would be -- and he looked at everything we'd got, and bought the head-stall and two tin-openers, and a pot of marmalade, and a ball of string, and a pair of braces. ❋ Unknown (1891)
Alice had spread out a few choice treasures – needles, pins, tape, a photograph-frame, and the butter, rather soft by now, and the last of the tin-openers – on a basket lid, like the fish-man does with herrings and whitings and plums and apples (you cannot sell fish in the country unless you sell fruit too. ❋ Edith (1925)
Alice had spread out a few choice treasures -- needles, pins, tape, a photograph-frame, and the butter, rather soft by now, and the last of the tin-openers -- on a basket-lid, like the fish-man does with herrings and whitings and plums and apples (you cannot sell fish in the country unless you sell fruit too. ❋ Unknown (1891)
