1 As a matter of fact, that screw was not used.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE 2 This bottle was opened by a pocket screw, probably contained in a knife, and not more than an inch and a half long.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE 3 If you will examine the top of the cork, you will observe that the screw was driven in three times before the cork was extracted.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE 4 This long screw would have transfixed it and drawn it up with a single pull.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE 5 He immediately began to talk to Drummle: not at all deterred by his replying in his heavy reticent way, but apparently led on by it to screw discourse out of him.
6 'I'll tell you what I am,' whispered Mr. Creakle, letting it go at last, with a screw at parting that brought the water into my eyes.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 6. I ENLARGE MY CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE 7 Every attempt has been made, the screw has come unscrewed.
8 I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.
9 The mark they thus leave on the whale, may best be likened to the hollow made by a carpenter in countersinking for a screw.
10 Just when it seemed to him that another turn of the screw would kill him, little Stanislovas stopped.
11 Taking from his box a piece of the Sacred Wafer he laid it reverently on the earth, and then shutting down the lid began to screw it home, we aiding him as he worked.
12 She knew he had a good screw for one thing and she suspected he had a bit of stuff put by.
13 At the present time, for example, the mixed vessel with a screw is a surprising machine, propelled by three thousand square metres of canvas and by an engine of two thousand five hundred horse-power.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN... 14 He had something of the look of sailors, who are accustomed to screw up their eyes to gaze through marine glasses.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS 15 'I'll put a screw into that business,' said the little tailor.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR