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Updated: May 21, 2025
"I beg your pardon?" "You won't wise him up that I threw a spanner into the machinery?" "I do not understand you." "You won't tell him that I crabbed his act ... gave the thing away ... gummed the game?" "I shall not mention your chivalrous intervention." "Chivalrous?" said Bream Mortimer a little doubtfully. "I don't know that I'd call it absolutely chivalrous.
The spanner caught him on the shoulder, and he grunted in pain, but he kept on moving away from Mellon. The medic screamed something and lifted the spanner again. By this time, Keku, too, was on his feet, moving toward Mellon. Mike the Angel got behind Mellon, trying to grab at the heavy metal tool in Mellon's hand.
Scotty was a stalwart rough, whose customary suit, when on weighty official business, like committee work, was a fire helmet, flaming red flannel shirt, patent leather belt with spanner and revolver attached, coat hung over arm, and pants stuffed into boot tops. He formed something of a contrast to the pale theological student.
She wished she had been allowed to fetch her in the motor as there were one or two sharp corners on the way home which, taken fast, provided a good test of a passenger's courage. Perhaps it was as well that permission had been denied, she reflected, since had Isabel screamed or turned even the least bit pink she, Flora, would certainly have hit her with a spanner.
"Why doesn't he rattle them again with the gun?" McConkey had the best will in the world, but something had gone wrong with his gun; it was a complicated machine, and he had evidently jammed some part of it. I saw him working frenziedly with a large iron spanner in his hand; but nothing he could do produced the least effect. It would not go off.
"The trouble is you need a bent spanner to get at some of the bolts." "They give you spanners with the plows, and there's a box on the frame to put them in. I've seen Stephen use the things." "Just so," Charnock agreed. "Stephen's methodical, but when I want my spanner it isn't in the box." "You never were very careful," Helen remarked.
"Always asking her to dress up and come over to chow with him at the hotel." And the spanner went down as if Neptune were rebuking the seas. "Does she go?" "No." "Well, then can't you leave the lady to discourage him in her own way?" "She won't go to the ho-tel, because she hates Ching Po. But she walks out with him Sunday afternoons. He gives her gimcracks." "Then she likes him?"
Macintyre's first act was to subject the propeller nut to a very careful examination, after which he fixed a big spanner in position and threw his whole weight upon it, assisted by Jack, who was pulling at a rope attached to the extreme end of the spanner handle.
"He's done more damage, the few times he's driven it, than a skilled chauffeur would do in five years." "Dear me," said the other. "Knows nothing of the mechanism, I suppose?" "Doesn't know the difference between the carburettor and the er exhaust." Lord Brethe laughed. "Dear, dear. These young men," he said. Here the spanner I was using slipped off a nut.
I had no messenger to send up to the house; I dare not leave Moss to get talking to the people of the inn; and there I was, helping him to fit and time the new magneto, and just feeling I'd pay ten pounds for the privilege of knocking him down with his own spanner. We finished the job in about half an hour, and the Renault started up at once.
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