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Updated: June 28, 2025
You looked so funny, rubbing them together, that I couldn't help laughing." Jed regarded her solemnly. "It's emery paper," he said; "like fine sandpaper, you know. And the cloth's got ile in it. I'm cleanin' the rust off this screwdriver. I hadn't used it for more'n a fortni't and it got pretty rusty this damp weather." The child looked at him wonderingly.
No odour of death greeted his nostrils, unless the strong smell of chloroform can be called the odour of death. He struck a match. The first thing he saw was a candle and a screwdriver, and then the match blew out. The door of the vault was ajar, and he would not close it. He dared not. He struck another match and put it to the candle, and the vault was full of jumping shadows.
Dicky picked up the tools from the floor, and suddenly he said 'Why, this is Father's screwdriver and his gimlets, and all! Well, I do call it jolly cheek to pick a man's locks with his own tools! 'True, true, said the robber. 'It is cheek, of the jolliest! But you see I've come down in the world.
They say that when I came across Moore and corrected him with a bucket for his impertinence, he was grinding a chisel. Now, sir, that is as false as !" Rep. "Indeed?" Capt. K. "Yes, sir, 'twas a screwdriver." Rep. "That shall be corrected, captain. Anything else?" Capt. K. "Yes, sir a bigger lie still. There is a scurrilous broadside circulating all over the country. Here it is." Rep.
They might make you a chief, Bland if they don't take a notion to offer you up as a burnt offering to some other god that's got it in for yuh." Bland, testing the spark plugs hastily, one after the other, dropped the screwdriver. "Aw, f'r cat's sake, lay off that stuff," he remonstrated nervously. "Fat chance we got of godding over Injuns this close to a town! They're wise to white men.
The children who had been enrolled as members met with me in the little librarian's home, and while one child held the lamp, another the screwdriver, another the screws, and the rest did a heap of looking on, we sought a secure spot on the wall of the living-room of the librarian's family and there fastened the library.
A pair of tiny pincers, a fragile-looking screwdriver and a set of things that looked like dolls' tools occupied him. We talked, Gustave answering and evading questions and offering comments as he worked. "Not zo hard ven you ged used to it," he said. "Und I am used to it. Vatches are my friends. I like to look into dem und make dem go. Yes, I have been vorking on vatches for a long time.
In order to carry him from the boat to the house Snoop had been put in a small traveling crate. "I'll let him out as soon as I get a screwdriver," promised Bert. "My, but it's hot here!" "Indeed it is," agreed his mother, who was fanning herself with her pocket handkerchief as she sat in a rocking-chair. "It isn't much like our nice houseboat, is it?" "No, indeed," agreed Nan.
The young pilot turned a lever, and the racket subsided into a soft, steady humming. Bill repeated his remark. Ernest stopped the plane and, getting out, commenced to adjust the engine. "I see she needs a little tuning up this morning," he said, pulling off his gauntlets and fishing a screwdriver out of one of the many pockets in his aviator's coat. Bill joined him.
The lock was a trifle dull at first, simply from lack of use. A small screwdriver soon had it to pieces, and it speedily clicked again sweet as a flute. If the hammer came back rather far when at full-cock, that was because the lock had been converted from a flint, and you could not expect it to be absolutely perfect.
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