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away: when the
corkscrew
bit thoroughly...
‖
Little Dorrit
(1855-57).
―
He soon returned, with the bottle of wine: which, according to
the custom of the place, originating in a scarcity of
corkscrews
among the Collegians (in
common with a scarcity of much else), was already opened for use.
‖
Mugby Junction
(1866).
―
He looks after the sawdust department in a back room, and is
sometimes, when we are very hard put to it, let in behind the counter with a
corkscrew
...
‖
and
―
Sniff, bore away by his servile disposition, had drored [
sic
] up his
leg with a higher and a higher relish, and was now discovered to be waving his
cork-
screw
over his head.
‖
and
―
I cannot say; but his
cork-screw
alone remains to bear
witness to the servility of his disposition.
―
A Tale of Two Cities
(1859 ).
―
They fished with a spade, at first. Presently the honoured
parent appeared to be adjusting some instrument like a great
corkscrew
.
‖
Sketches by Box: The Young Ladies' Young Gentleman
(1836).
―
We dined rather more
comfortably than people usually do under such circumstances, nothing having been left
behind but the
corkscrew
and the bread.
‖
Bentley's Miscellany
(1838).
―
Mr. Hippsley here attempted to draw a bottle of wine; but
his hand coming in contact with the
cork-screw
, a severe spasm seemed to pass through
his frame.
‖
From
Houshold Words
edited by Dickens (1850).
―
Humble and Crick, meantime, silently
took out their several implements, and arranged them for use. They had with them a
powerful jemmy (a stout crow-bar), a centre-bit, screw-driver, chisel, files, a pair of iron
pincers of a peculiar shape (made to pass through a hole and turn a corner), and a large
knife, with several tools in it, such as a small saw, two gimlets, a hook, a pick, and a
cork-screw
.
From
Houshold Words
edited by Dickens (1856).
―
The personal effects found on Mr.
Nobble were few; and, denoted a leaning, more to order's, than to treason's side. They
consisted of six one pound notes, a short letter, and a picnic knife. This knife, besides
being a horse-pick, a toothpick, a gimlet, a
cork-screw
, a punch, a tweezer, a file, a
wrench, and a screw-driver, was knobbed at the end with a silver crown, which made it
also a clandestine constable's staff.
‖