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American Notes
(1842).
―
The drivers on these roads who certainly get over the ground in
a manner which is quite miraculous, so twist and turn the team about in forcing a
passage,
corkscrew
fashion, through the bogs and swamps...
‖
Bleak House
(1852-1853).
―
All through dinner; which was long, in consequence of such
accidents as the dish of potatoes being mislaid in the coal skuttle, and the handle of the
corkscrew
coming off, and striking the young woman in the chin; Mrs. Jellyby
preserved the evenness of her disposition.
‖
A Christmas Carol
(1847).
―
And when old Fezziwig and Mrs. Fezziwig had gone all
through the dance-advance and retire, hold hands with your partner, bow and courtesy,
corkscrew
, thread-the-needle, and back again to your place.
‖
Christmas Stories: The Battle of Life
(1846).
―
All this she delivered by way of soliloquy,
gradually rising higher and higher on tiptoe, in her impatience to hear the news, and
making a
corkscrew
of her apron, and a bottle of her mouth.
‖
David Copperfield
(1849-50).
―
I went on, by passing the wine
faster and faster yet, and continually starting up with a
corkscrew
to open more wine, long before any was needed.
‖
...and later...
―
...only Steerforth was with me, helping me to
undress, and where I was by turns telling him that Agnes
was my sister, and adjuring him to bring the
corkscrew
, that
I might open another bottle of wine.
‖
...and another...
―
I
should say Mister, but I know you'll excuse the
‗
abit (habit)
I've got into-you're so insinuating, that you draw me like a
corkscrew
!
‖
Dombey and Son
(1846-1848).
―
...above the archway of the
door, there was a monstrous fantasy of rusty iron curling
and twisting like a petrifaction of an arbor over the
threshold, budding in spikes and
corkscrew
points...
‖
and
―
The gentleman was still twirling a theme, which seemed to
go round and round and round, and in and in and in, and to
involve itself like a
corkscrew
twirled upon a table...
‖
From a November 19, 1865 letter to Archibald Michie.
―
You
should have seen him as I saw him, when he was inventing
an immense
corkscrew
with which infallibly to extract gold
from any Diggings in those parts. He had only to find the
spot where gold lay hidden; the
corkscrew
would then be
worked by twelve men shipped to the Antipodes for the
purpose, and all turning to with a will (unless they had run
