"Screw-driver" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pocket the tiny revolver he had brought with him, and holding it in his palm, studied it in silence. Should he take it, or shouldn't he? He hesitated. Then habit mastered caution. He dropped it among the discarded heap of clothes, and picked up in its stead a small screw-driver, which he put into his ragged pocket. That particular tool looked as if it ...
— The Girl in the Mirror • Elizabeth Garver Jordan
... back to his work. But he got tired of the old knife—it was not tool enough, and had to fashion on the grindstone a screw-driver to a special implement. With that ...
— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald
... from Jasmine, but a smothered exclamation from some one else; a heavy tread on the uncarpeted boards, and Dove, his face red, his shoes off, and something which looked like a screw-driver in his hands, came up and bent ...
— The Palace Beautiful - A Story for Girls • L. T. Meade
... result of lawful use, and is what we all have to put up with as the result of years of activity of brain and body. Tear is another matter: it comes of hard or evil usage of body or engine, of putting things to wrong purposes, using a chisel for a screw-driver, a penknife for a gimlet. Long strain, or the sudden demand of strength from weakness, causes tear. Wear comes ...
— Wear and Tear - or, Hints for the Overworked • Silas Weir Mitchell
... overslep' hisse'f, en got inter mo' trouble. Atter breakfus', Mars' Dugal' sont 'im ober ter Mars' Marrabo Utley's fer ter borry a monkey wrench. He oughter be'n back in ha'f a' hour, but he come pokin' home 'bout dinner-time wid a screw-driver stidder a monkey wrench. Mars' Dugal' sont ernudder nigger back wid de screw-driver, en Hannibal did n' git no dinner. 'Long in de atternoon, ole mis' sot Hannibal ter weedin' de flowers in de front gya'den, en Hannibal dug up all de bulbs ole mis' had sont erway fer, en paid a lot er money ...
— The Conjure Woman • Charles W. Chesnutt
... He was joined immediately by the others; the turn-screw was set to work; and, as he expected, Vincent found no trouble whatever with the screws, which were not yet rusted in the wood, and turned immediately when the powerful screw-driver was applied to them. When all were out the bar was carefully lifted from its place and ...
— With Lee in Virginia - A Story of the American Civil War • G. A. Henty
... Chauncey up when he does come in. Ask him to bring a screw-driver." Mrs. Bogardus rose and examined her jacket. It was still damp. She asked for a cape, or some sort of wrap, as her waist was thin, and the rain had chilled the ...
— The Desert and The Sown • Mary Hallock Foote
... up and ran to Uncle Joe's tool-box for the big screw-driver, and was back with it in a very short time, Uncle Dick laughing heartily as ...
— Nat the Naturalist - A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas • G. Manville Fenn
... again." The circus man took hold of Pony and felt his joints. "You're put together pretty tight; but I reckon we could make you do if you'd let us take you apart with a screw-driver and limber up the pieces with rattlesnake oil. Wouldn't like it, heigh? Well, let me see!" The circus man thought a moment, and then he said: "How would double-somersaults on four ...
— The Flight of Pony Baker - A Boy's Town Story • W. D. Howells
... again!" emphatically assented Will. "I declare, John, you surprise me! And now, we must have everything all ready so that the minute they leave we can get busy. Let's see, what'll we need? A screw-driver—and ...
— How John Became a Man • Isabel C. Byrum
... was the signal for her to speed to the zenith. But gradually, in spite of the noise they made, she came to accept them as dumb, inanimate, harmless. And one day, when Honey, working on the roof, dropped a screw-driver, she flew down, picked it up, flew back, and placed it within reach of his hand. She would hover over him for hours, helping in many small ways. This only, however, when the other men were sufficiently far away and only when Honey's two hands were occupied. If any one of them—Honey ...
— Angel Island • Inez Haynes Gillmore
... I got a small screw-driver, and with very little loss of blood managed to screw it into the door. Some people are born screwists, some are not. I ...
— Once a Week • Alan Alexander Milne
... he put the big screw-driver in the first screw. "Good luck to the Cromartys and three cheers for Uncle ...
— Patty's Friends • Carolyn Wells
... clapping his hands, "what a happy day it will be! I shall buy that tool-box at the store round the corner! It's such a beauty, with a little saw, a claw-hammer, a chisel, a screw-driver, and everything a carpenter needs. It costs just ...
— The Story Hour • Nora A. Smith and Kate Douglas Wiggin
... laid down the screwdriver, and stepping back, regarded the result of his labours ...
— Tommy and Co. • Jerome K. Jerome |
