A right angle curve of the distal end is usually sufficient, and a corkscrew spiral is often advantageous, rendering removal easy by a reversal of the twisting motion (Bib.
Oscar, you and Joe and Corkscrew and the rest of you decide who's going to take over-all command of the hunters.
I tried, a few times, to warn some of these captains, but except for Oscar Fujisawa and Corkscrew Finnegan, none of them would listen to me.
The men who had gotten off the Helldiver, and the ones who got off Corkscrew Finnegan's Dirty Gertie and Nip Spazoni's Bulldog were all talking about what was going to have to be done about Steve Ravick.
Joe and I knew about him, and so did the Mahatma and Nip Spazoni and Corkscrew Finnegan, and that was all.
We'll have to keep our main force around Hunters' Hall while we're demonstrating at the Municipal Building," Corkscrew Finnegan said.
Corkscrew and some of his gang are here at the Times, now.
Well, we'd better get back to the docks before it starts," Corkscrew was saying.
I pushed through, with Cesário behind me, and found Joe Kivelson and Mohandas Feinberg and Corkscrew Finnegan and Oscar Fujisawa and a dozen other captains and ships' officers in a huddle.
Then I made the emblem and sign of a corkscrew in my sketch-book with a pencil, but he pretended not to understand--such was his breeding.
The Snail and all the molluscs with turbinate shells increase the diameter of their corkscrew staircase by degrees, so that the last whorl is always an exact measure of their actual condition.
No wheeled vehicle can enter those corkscrew streets and we saw no animal of any kind save two cows that were being led to slaughter.
He poked his head out of the upper berth at midnight, hailed the porter and said, "Say, have you got such a thing as a corkscrew about you?
You get aboard a steamer, and when you get out of sight of land you suddenly realize that the ship has taken up seriously its corkscrew career through the sea.
This child of his would corkscrew her way into a brick wall!
And, going to her little sideboard, Leila stealthily extracted a pint bottle of some champagne which Jimmy Fort had sent in, and took it with two glasses and a corkscrew into her bedroom.
All the tension in putting a corkscrew into a cork is on the backward journey, or that which corresponds to the upward swing in golf.
It seems to be a sort of flick--in some respects very much the same kind of action as when a man is boring a corkscrew into the cork of a bottle.
He continues: "It seems to be a sort of flick, in some respects very much the same kind of action as when a man is boring a corkscrew into the cork of a bottle.
As a matter of fact, I never inserted a corkscrew into a cork where I did not turn my wrist from left to right.
He says that this wrist action is "in some respects very much the same kind of action as when a man is boring a corkscrew into the cork of a bottle.
Thin up the fut path round the Corkscrew an’ met niver a sowl but a dog that he cast a shtone at.
A man made the corkscrew with a purpose in his mind, and he knew and intended that it should be used for pulling out corks.
Thus the man who first invented a corkscrew must have previously known that corks were in bottles, and have desired to get them out.
A thing serves a purpose when it is adapted to some end; thus a corkscrew is adapted to the end of extracting corks from bottles, and our lungs are adapted to the end of respiration.
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, without getting any nearer to anything, when Harriet appeared returning.
Fancy the young ladies of the family working tapestry in their "bower" with the knowledge that at the bottom of the corkscrew staircase one of their papa's enemies was sitting month after month in mouldy midnight!
Billy, in a kind of desperation, seized the fatal marble, and sent it spinning down the corkscrew turret.
His fingers were cut off one by one and the corkscrew was bored into his legs and arms.
A man with a cork screw came forward, ripped Foresta's clothing to her waist, bored into her breast with the corkscrew and pulled forth the live quivering flesh.
So I ran, and found the Chatham steering a corkscrew course--threading in and out amongst the warships at anchor.
So the moment we left the harbour we took on a corkscrew course, dodging and twisting like snipe in an Irish bog, to avoid winding up our trip in the dark belly of a German submarine.
