"Spanner" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... behind a bulkhead door at one end of the control room. I listened, and again the sound was repeated. With the lighter still flickering in my hands, I got to my feet. The bulkhead door was jammed, but I found a heavy telargeium spanner-wrench on the floor, and with a strength which frightened me—a strength which could have come only by some upset condition of gravitation—I soon crashed the door open. I had no sooner done it, however, than I forgot about the moan which had ...
— The Winged Men of Orcon - A Complete Novelette • David R. Sparks
... the armorer's and there he bought that very suit for which he had yearned so short a time before. Then and there he tried it on in the booth, Wat and his boy walking round him with spanner and wrench, fixing bolts and ...
— Sir Nigel • Arthur Conan Doyle
... bit, Jim," replied Terry, working away like a madman with spanner and screw-wrench; "if I can but loosen this nut I can disconnect this bent rod and replace it in ...
— Under the Chilian Flag - A Tale of War between Chili and Peru • Harry Collingwood
... she was not going to be sentimental. "If you mean that you lost the spanner, you don't seem to have suffered much. I think you were asleep when I rode up. But I was surprised to hear you had begun to farm again. Do you like it? And how ...
— The Girl From Keller's - Sadie's Conquest • Harold Bindloss
... bad workman who complains of his tools, yet even the best of them may be justly annoyed when his spanner ...
— Mr. Punch Awheel - The Humours of Motoring and Cycling • J. A. Hammerton
... of the seventh week out, their ennui vanished. A ship was picked up by the spec-spanner, and at their delight at the break in routine, they summoned Arnold up ...
— Unspecialist • Murray F. Yaco |
