"But if you don't know what that thing is," the colonel objected, "how can you say the device won't work?
"The Foreign Hand Tie"
Gordon Randall Garrett
It might help if we knew what the device is supposed to do.
"The Foreign Hand Tie"
Gordon Randall Garrett
Our main hope for fuel was the blubber of the walrus, and if the harpoon should be destroyed or lost we could not hope to attack so powerful a brute as a walrus with any other device.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook