The Motterone spy screwed his eyelids to an expression of the shrewdest secresy.
A third gave the figures of the manager's salary, while a fourth added that it was screwed out of the farmers.
The corpse is in the coffin, but with lid not yet screwed on.
He screwed himself into a corner of the coach, and there he sat until the short homeward journey was completed, mentally chewing, with the best appetite he could, the cud of that day's delicious feast.
I was passing the grate in pacing the room, as I had already done several times, when my eyes fell upon a piece of paper which had been screwed up and flung there.
So I screwedit up again and put it back among the cinders in the grate, afterwards leaving the house.
But a box which may be carried about has advantages over one that is screwed up in the tool house.
The best arrangement is that of iron brackets screwed to the casement beneath the window sill.
This brace acts as a support to which the upper ends of the legs are firmly screwed and glued.
After the legs are screwed to the upper and lower braces sandpaper the entire stool.
Make the handle and drill a small hole in it where the wheel is to be screwed on.
If the knocker touches the rattle, take it off and plane a slanting chip or two where it is screwed to the gun-stock.
At least one of the uprights must be screwedto the base.
If the wheel does not run exactly true on the axle, the motor will need legs screwed on the outside of the box.
The holes for the screw and the hook must be large enough so that the spring will not be split, and yet the hook must be screwed in strongly to hold the elastic.
Two tongues, nailed or screwed to the sides of the body, probably make the strongest handle, but they are not so good looking as the one shown in Plate 24.
Better bearings for the axle can be made of two pieces of solder screwed to the inside of the sides.
If this one is screwed to the box with six 1" screws, two in the tongue and two in each block, it will be strong enough.
Their construction is as follows: the tops are made of double-thickness lapped and tongued and screwed together.
He was deeply immersed in Lesson Eleven, his bird-like face screwed into tensity.
His head is screwed on the right way," he thought.
At these mournful words Pufka howled louder than ever, while Fimishka screwed up her eyes, opened her lips, drew in a deep breath, ready to retaliate, to speak.
Kollomietzev smiled and screwed up his eyes, conveying to her that he understood.
Did you say," Boris Andraevitch continued, still turned towards the footman with his nose screwed up, "that the business was an urgent one?
Kollomietzev sat on her left, and as he unfolded his serviette screwed up his face and smiled, as much as to say, "Well, now let us begin our little comedy!
Her scanty hair was pale straw in color, showed dirt, and was slicked back and screwed into a knot about the size of a walnut on the crown of her head.
Also that as the hair gradually stretched by use, the length thereof increased as the same tension was obtained each time it was screwed up for use.
The nut is then re-adjusted and slightlyscrewed up.
Before the bow is finally "cleaned up" it is haired[1] and screwed to see if it is all true, for there may be something faulty in the cambre which can be corrected at this stage.
When the slate bed is laid, the slabs, doweled as the leaves of an extension dining table, are fitted together and screwedto the frame.
On a permanently constructed pocket table, right-angled plugs of the rubber cushion are screwed to the corner pocket irons and straight sections are screwed to the side pocket irons.
Screw holes, countersunk, are bored from the top down through the slabs, around the outer edges, through which the slate is screwed to the frame.
After some time the Lamas screwed up their courage, and returned to where my baggage had been overhauled.
The sensation was especially noticeable in my head, which felt as if my skull were being screwedinside a vise.
Meanwhile the intermediate bars were heated and expanded, and the nuts screwed up as before.
The nuts were then screwed up so as to be again in close contact with the walls.
In cooling they gradually contracted and resumed their former dimensions; consequently the nuts, pressing against the walls, drew them together through a space equal to that through which they had been screwed up.
Tell us whatever you know about how to find this place, and maybe we can adjust the terms on the money you screwed me out of.
That morning, however, in spite of everything else, I was missing Steve terribly and feeling like I'd screwed up essential components of my life.
Then a tall yellow man, like the Penitent Thief, With his jaw bound up in a handkerchief, And eyelids screwed together tight, Led himself in by some inner light.
In supplying fire-engines with water from firecocks, one or more lengths of hose are screwed on the firecock; the extreme end being put into the engine, the firecock is then opened and the water rushes in.
They are usually made from six to eight feet long, with a copper strainer screwed on the farther end, to prevent as much as possible any mud or dirt from getting into the engine with the water.
The tin binding-posts may be nailed or screwed to the block, and if the bare copper wires 1 and 4 be placed under X and Y before they are screwed down they will be electrically connected.
The coils are joined by an iron strap, called the yoke, which is screwed to a wooden base.
The legs, G L, are screwed to C P in such a way that C P is held a little above the table: this allows C S to be tipped to the front or rear to adjust it vertically.
At this the red one screwed up his eyes, and looked and looked, but for the life of him he could not tell what it was.
Illustration: Jacob and The Red One] At this the red one screwed up his face as though he had sour beer in his mouth, for he did not like the sound of the word "condition.
But somehow I dropped off at last, and knew nothing more till break of day; when, looking over the bedside, there squatted Queequeg, as if he had been screwed down to the floor.
It must be the spell; he told me to stay here: Aye, and told me this screwed chair was mine.
I now screwed my eyes hard towards the half hidden image, feeling but ill at ease meantime--to see what was next to follow.
Aye, lad, thou shalt sit here in my own screwed chair; another screw to it, thou must be.
The little face screwed into a knot as she whimpered, "Oh, I got lost, Story Lady.
By to-morrow Nathalie had begun to think it was not at all unpleasant to be a short-time invalid, and she jokingly requested her mother to see that her head was not screwed around from sheer conceit at being the recipient of so much attention.
One great objection to this method is that as the shoe wears it becomes thinner, and if much worn the shank of the "sharp" may be too long, and when screwed home cause pressure upon the hoof and consequent lameness.
When corks are used the wear of the shoe causes a burr to form round the edge of the hole, and before the sharp can be screwed in a "tap" must be worked into each hole to clear the thread.
The back and front must then be secured in position by means of end-pieces nailed or screwed on.
Nails are driven in the two ends of this axle, and the wheel is suspended between supports, glued and screwedfirmly to a base board.
The tramp's little mouth was screwed up in a smile.
The man held a double-barrelled gun cocked in his hand, and screwed up his eyes in the direction of his lean old dog who was running on ahead sniffing the bushes.
I don't hear it," said the sexton, stopping and looking at his wife with his eyesscrewed up.
Stroking his long moustaches covered with dew, he seated himself heavily on the horse and screwed up his eyes, looking into the distance, as though he had forgotten something or left something unsaid.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "screwed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
