In them I see resolve, a resolution to do or die, a determination to conquer a frozen wilderness and wrench from it its golden treasures.
Oh, they couldn't get away with the engine very easily, but there's a whole lot of brass and copper fittings which they could unscrew orwrench off.
I tore with all my might at the bronze arms, and strove to wrench them apart, but I could do nothing.
I never thought about money except when I wanted to pay oldWrench or Dance for something he made for me.
All at once a thought struck Vane, and he jumped up, thrust a pair of pliers, a little screw-wrench and a pair of pincers into his pockets and went out again.
Crumps, from the dairy, Graders the baker, and John Wrench the carpenter, all were there, and it seemed a wonder to Macey where all the lanterns had come from.
No sooner was Tom upright than the donkey gave the whole of his skin and muscles a wrench sidewise, which felt as if the seat was being dragged away.
After lying still for some minutes, his reasoning powers began to act, and overcoming the disinclination to move, consequent upon his being so horribly stiff, he gave himself a wrench and turned right over on his other side.
But he seemed to give himself a wrench directly after, to speak out plainly and with decision.
I looked and saw that where Xodar had applied the thoat oil the face was white, as white as mine, and then Xodar seized the black hair of the corpse and with a suddenwrench tore it all away, revealing a hairless pate beneath.
Even as the lad fell, the one German soldier who still remained in the room, picked up a heavy wrench and sprang forward.
Jack grappled with this antagonist, and, by a quick twist of the arm, whipped the wrench from his opponent's hand.
He had fired just a moment before the wrench would have crushed out his friend's life.
And brushing the Scot aside, he caught the bridle, and sought to wrench it from Fletcher's hand.
It was unfortunately her wounded hand with which she had sought to cling, and with an angry, brutal wrench Sir Rowland compelled her to unclose her grasp.
Wrench succeeded Elliston at Bath, and played in the same parts, and with something of the same manner.
A very judicious actor (in most of his parts) seems to have fallen into an error of this sort in his playing with Mr. Wrench in the farce of Free and Easy.
The original man stands above us, and wishes towrench us from our old fixtures, and elevate us to a higher and clearer level.
What Nature does not reveal to thy spirit, thou wilt not wrench from her with levers and screws.
On the other hand, it is a wrench to give up my nice home.
Nevertheless every time the wrench was as keen as ever.
My poor horse suddenly faltered, giving a wrench to my back, and bringing my heart into my mouth when it almost sat down behind.
I know it would cost you a wrench to take me, a greater wrench than to take the least and the unworthiest of your own people.
You can't wish off any strange wrench on this guy!
One of us took your wrench last night, and if this is the same size and shape, why isn't it the same wrench?
Well, when you flashed that monkey wrench I thought it was a revolver sure enough.
Simply because I was using the little patent Bird monkey-wrench last in our shop, and should have put it back in the toolbox belonging to the aeroplane.
And all because I didn't put that little wrench where it belonged!
With a wrench and a glitter, he flourished a blade above his head.
Heywood, his face white and anxious in the failing light, fought at full stretch, at the last wrench of skill.
Fore-legs sank floundering, were hoisted with a terrified wrench of the shoulders, in the same moment that hind-legs went down as by suction.
All it needs is to have the monkey wrench taken out of the pit.
A wrench was jarred loose and fell into the flywheel pit," explained Neale.
The mule driver had succeeded in getting the monkey wrench out from under the flywheel, and the craft could move under her own power once she was afloat.
I hope it does hold, for it doesn't seem as if we were going to get that monkey wrench out in a hurry.
Immediately it started off with a roar, and Bert threw the wrench he had been using into the air, and deftly caught it again.
With a mighty wrench he dragged him from the saddle.
Dick and Tom were still busy with oil can and wrenchwhen Bert emerged from his dressing-room.
But this was a minor thing, and with the aid of a wrench he soon set matters right.
When a boat of this kind once springs a leak, due to a severe wrench of the shell itself, it is a difficult matter to remedy it, without structurally strengthening it.
The Professor, who had been intently examining the tree to which they were hitched, said: "I can find no evidence of any undue wrench which might show that they had gotten away by their own exertions.
It seemed that every blow against the boat would wrench it to atoms, but if any part had given way it was not apparent.
With a quick wrench Frank tore himself away, and the next instant he had grappled with his opponent and they swayed back and forth, each putting forth every ounce of his strength in the effort to master the other.
Sometimes it caught in a bush, and the resulting wrench almost caused him to swoon.
One sudden wrench and I tore myself from my captors and raced wildly up it.
New depths of love in measure unsuspected, Ties closer than I knew, were round my heart; And half I thank the wrench that has detected How thoroughly and deeply dear thou art.
I continued to struggle in desperate hopelessness with single hand, in vain endeavor to wrench loose that awful grip upon my shoulder.
Even as I grasped the lower jaw, seeking vainly to wrench it loose, I heard the girl scream in sudden afright.
By the time Thompson decided that in common decency he should offer to lend a hand and thus was moved to rise and approach the disabled car she had the jack under the front axle and was applying a brace wrench to the rim bolts.
Even as he gripped her, Maud had stiffened with a sharp cry; and now she was struggling, trying to wrench herself free.
The advance from Toryism to Whiggism is not such as to involve a very violent wrench of the moral and intellectual nature.
Such as it was, it was the only wrench from which Macaulay suffered.
