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And then she flushed dully, realizing that she had made a confidante of one of the hated breed. But Isabel's hand was on hers in a moment; her eyes, full of understanding, looked earnest friendship into hers. "Oh, I know," she said. "It is the little things that gall us all, until until some great some fundamental sorrow wrenches our very lives in twain.
"I hope you'll allow that to be a very pretty cure," said the doctor, appealing to the audience; "and I hardly need say, that for sprains, bruises, contusions, wrenches, and dislocations, this plaster is infallible; and I will surprise you more by telling you, that I can sell it for eight-pence a sheet." The plaster went off rapidly, and was soon expended.
Each had her own wrenches and pincers to use for that purpose. All this promised little for the nurture and admonition of the young girl, who, if her will could not be broken by imprisonment and starvation at three years old, was not likely to be over-tractable to any but gentle and reasonable treatment at fifteen.
Faraday has now got fairly entangled amid the chemical phenomena of the pile, and here his previous training under Davy must have been of the most important service to him. Why, he asks, should decomposition thus take place? what force is it that wrenches the locked constituents of these compounds asunder?
Musgrave thought that every man who has faith, every man whose heart has been torn by the wrenches of chance, must sympathize with the yearning of Job; but at the last every man, like Job, comes to see that there are things beyond our minds.
"Well, why don't you?" invited Tom. He moved to one side, so as not to be hampered by his wheel. As he did so he knocked from the handle bars the valise of tools. They fell with a clatter and a thud to the pavement, and the satchel came open. It was under a gas lamp, and the glitter of the long-handled wrenches and other implements caught the eyes of Andy and his crony. "Huh!
"And you're sure they were burglar tools?" asked the chief, for he depended on Andy to be his most important witness. "Sure I am. I seen a picture of burglar tools once, and the ones Tom had was just like 'em. Long-handled wrenches, brace an' bits, an' all. He tried to hide 'em, but me an' Sam was too quick for him. He wanted to lick me, too." "No doubt you deserved it," murmured Mr. Swift.
"Away, away to the underworld" chant the singers; and at the command Krishna wrenches himself free from the men who are holding him and dashes out with a yell into the night.
Most fractures, or broken bones, in children or young boys or girls, heal very rapidly; and if the limb be properly straightened and splinted by competent hands, it will be practically as good and as strong as before the accident. Sprains. Sprains are twists or wrenches, of a joint, not severe enough to "put it out," or dislocate it, or to break a bone.
My, my! But this is a surprise!" "I don't see what makes Andy say he saw me with burglar tools," commented Tom, with a puzzled air. Mr. Sharp thought for a moment. Then he exclaimed "It was that bag of tools I sent you after the long wrenches, the pliers, and the brace and bits. You " "Of course!" cried Tom. "I remember now. The bag dropped and opened, and Andy and Sam saw the tools.
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