We could get a big spanner from the engine room, an' put it on his head," he said.
There was no need to urge them when they floundered into the engine room, and hour after hour they strained and sweated on big spanner and chain-tackle willingly, while the big cylinder-heads and pistons were hauled up to the beams.
They agreed that the human interest was the great thing on a landscape, after all; but they ignored the peasants in the fields and meadows, who were no more to them than the driver on the box, or the people in the two-spanner behind.
The portier was already there, standing at the step of the lordly two-spanner which they had ordered for the long drive to the station.
Mrs. March bent a last look of interest upon the proprietor as their two-spanner whirled away.
The next second he observed the threat of attack, and ducked his head so that the spanner only grazed his scalp.
Mr. Spanner won't mind talking business before you, will you, George?
Even Georgie Spannerceased to scowl under the genial influences of success and Sloman's very decent champagne.
Lucy rattled away bewitchingly, overpowering Mr. Spanner like an embodied brandy and soda.
Spanner went at last--for the Oriental boards claimed him--leaving behind him as nearly definite a promise of the part as a stage-manager can ever bring himself to utter.
I'll bring you one round the next time I'm in the neighborhood," he said, and Winston sat still with the spanner lying idle in his hand when he rode away.
Payne wondered, as he watched him, who had taught the gambler to use spanner and file.
Again, another spanner fell from a great height, actually tearing off a man's clothes, from his waistcoat to his ankle, but leaving him uninjured.
In another instance a spanner fell a distance of 300 feet, knocked off a man's cap, and broke its way through a four-inch plank.
When Whitney went for the spanner Dick knelt down in the road to inspect the machine.
Do you think I could borrow a smaller spanner here, Dick?
It had become a habit with Fernie to place his loaded shot-gun by his side when he went to sleep, and he invariably had a large spanner handy.
With that he flung the spanner at the beast, and disregarding the blood spurting from his crushed thumb, fired the left barrel after the lion, which had bounded away into the darkness.
There was "no spanner to fit the union," and Rattray darkly hinted at further trouble.
A spanner there, Dick: shift those two nuts as sharp as you can.
Knotting a rope round his waist, and holding a spanner in his mouth, Athol dropped lightly upon the rigidly locked wing, gripping the foremost edge in order to save himself from being swept away by the terrific rush of air.
By making the neck square or pear-shaped, to fit into corresponding hole in the fish-plate, the bolt is prevented from turning round when the wrench or spanner is applied to tighten the nut.
The rail is laid across the two arms, and the screw turned round 241 and downwards by means of an iron bar lever used as a spanner or wrench to the nut shown on the sketch.
We're alone here; and if I were that man, do you think I'd let you live to tell the police when a tap from this spannerof mine would silence you for ever?
They think I'm more use at my trade," I replied, making play with the spanner in my hand.
In tightening a nut with a spanner the spanner had slipped.
In a second Jim threw his strength into the balance; the spanner showed signs of slipping round the nut, but the next second it flew round, and the nut gave at last.
Then, he picked up a spanner and unscrewed something, and off she went.
On the air-pump rod R are two pins properly placed, so as to strike the spanner m, upwards and downwards, at the proper times, when the piston approaches the termination of the stroke at the top or bottom of the cylinder.
I saw him working frenziedly with a large iron spanner in his hand; but nothing he could do produced the least effect.
Menzies, the Scotchman, gave a roar of rage at the sight and rushed with an iron spanner at the murderers; but was met by two balls in the face which dropped him dead at their very feet.
There was a saddlebag with spannerand oilcan, but no clue as to the owner.
The spanner caught him on the shoulder, and he grunted in pain, but he kept on moving away from Mellon.
The medic screamed something and lifted the spanner again.
Von Liegnitz grabbed the spanner out of Mellon's hand and swung it toward the medic's jaw.
I'll bring you one round the next time I'm in the neighbourhood," he said; and Witham sat still with the spanner lying idle in his hand when he rode away.
The trouble is you need a bent spanner to get at some of the bolts.
Stephen's methodical, but when I want my spanner it isn't in the box.
The man arrived with the spanner and Alison heard Hall ride away.
In the first place, you might try turning the screw on the spanner a little," he advised.
I might go so far as to point out that if you went into the stable you would find a spanner on the ledge behind the door.
The latter, however, stood quietly still, with his shoulders resting against the wagon wheel, and the spanner in full view in front of him.
Alison disappeared into the stable and came back with the spanner in her hand.
Personally, I think I'd prefer the spanner to your fists if I were the culprit.
But I ne'er used spanner on lad yet, Sir, an ne'er expect to hae to.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spanner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
