| In the early '50s, Bate's parents, Bev and Viv, swapped him to unwary tinkers for a three-legged dog. |
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| He's also becoming addicted to hang gliding, and he tinkers with bikes and trikes. |
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| Are we to believe the little tinkers were using language of the kindergarten? |
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| In Scotland and Ireland gypsies were often called tinkers because of their similar wandering life-style. |
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| I suddenly realized that here I, like the tinkers of whom Della had been so suspicious, was part of a persecuted minority. |
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| A particular type of graphic art involving wire and metalworking was produced by Slovak tinkers from the Upper Vah River Valley or Spis. |
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| The tinkers live by mending pots and pans, telling fortunes and selling horses and ponies at the various fairs throughout the country. |
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| A tantalising childhood image was of nomad tinkers who came trailing families and children, and disappeared as suddenly beyond the horizon. |
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| The travelling folk, or tinkers, were often treated as second-class citizens, with heartbreaking consequences. |
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| Jack, an outcast and drifter himself, feels a connection with the tinkers and takes the job which, in turn, takes Taylor to perilous places within and without. |
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| One photograph reminded me of a time long ago, when I was just a child and the likes of traveling minstrels, tinkers, gypsies, rag-and-bone men et al, were the norm. |
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| The gypsies or tinkers as they were better known walked around the fair the whole day trying to sell ponnies, strainers and tin cans to reluctant buyers. |
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| Quite near us, in Wigton, just beyond the cemetery, was a place called Black Tippoe and that was where gypsies and tinkers used to come and winter there. |
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| On their sprawling homesteads and in their citified saloons, each well-armed Pallatian cultivates a folksy accent and tinkers with quaintly Victorian machinery. |
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| But if I die I don't give a tinkers cuss who gets my body parts. |
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| This guy is an engineer who designs and builds humanoid robots that are capable of standing and walking on their own, not just some guy who tinkers in his garage. |
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| Youve been on the ran dan you couple of wee tinkers and your mother's up to high doe. |
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| Kibbitzed by sympathetic bystanders, the desperate driver tinkers ineffectually under the hood. |
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