First Lagus meets him, drawn thither by malign destiny; him, as he tugs at a ponderous stone, hurling his spear where the spine ran dissevering the ribs, he pierces and wrenches out the spear where it stuck fast in the bone.
Himself among the foremost he grasps a poleaxe, bursts through the hard doorway, and wrenches the brazen-plated doors from the hinge; and now he hath cut out a plank from the solid oak and pierced a vast gaping hole.
When the hose are all put together a man is sent along the whole line with a pair of wrenches to tighten such of the coupling-joints as require it.
A, in a repair unit with the artillery, might estimate too many hammers and too few wrenches, but Machinist X, miles away in some base shop, might call for too many wrenches and too few hammers.
He looks distractedly round him, wrenches open the door, and a moment later the street door is heard to shut with a bang.
Then, with a warning motion towards the door, she wrenches herself free, and stops beside the picture, trying desperately to appear demure.
Then, placing his hand on the knob, he turns it without noise, and wrenches back the door.
He goes to the door, wrenchesit open and goes out.
So he wrenches away this shield against which his sharpest arrows were blunted.
Once upon a time Solomon had composed the following somewhat startling proverb, "It is a wise fellow who wrenches forth the serpent's fang.
It's a wise fellow who wrenches forth the serpent's fang," shouted he.
Special wrenches are required for turning the Index Nuts A and Lock Nuts C, and if these wrenches are kept by the one who has charge of the settings, no unauthorized person can change same.
But now the boat is head to the seas, she meets them as they rush on with all their force, and she wrenches and jerks at the cable with a power that threatens to tear her to pieces.
Time after time the snapping and rending of her breaking timbers are heard; at each heave she wrenches and cracks and groans in all directions--she is breaking up fast.
It was nearly night when we completed the chipping and applied two chainwrenches to try and screw the thing apart.
Just as we were about to drop the wrenches and start to chisel through the metal some one suggested that we try to unscrew it as a left-handed screw.
Use only wrenches furnished with the machine, because they fit the bolt heads properly and because they are the correct lengths to put on the proper tension.
A plate attached to the machine with hooks upon which to hang the wrenches is provided upon the most modern machines and this helps the operator to keep them together and in order.
The one poverty is the impoverishment that lays hold of every soul that wrenches itself, in self-will, apart from God.
I turned to Milllington instantly, ready to catch the pleasant bit of humour he usually let fall when he began to dig out his wrenches and pliers, but his face wore a glare of anger.
Once, I remember, and I shall never forget the date, we went three miles before Millington stopped the car and got out his wrenches and antiseptic bandages and other surgical tools; but usually the noises began inside of the block.
Adjustable wrenches that may be opened and closed to suit the varying sizes of nuts are represented in Figs.
In all wrenches the location of contact and of pressure on the nut is mainly at the corners of the nut, and unless the wrench be a very close fit, the nut corners become damaged.
Wrenches for rotating a tap are divided into two principal classes, single and double wrenches.
The various forms of wrenches employed to screw nuts home or to remove them are represented in the following figures.
I hide it and me in my room and twist my hands together and walk my floor, and a hurricane of helpless bitter trifling woe shakes and wrenches me.
Slight iron bars cross the window; he is strong; he wrenchesat them manfully.
The place was a bedlam of women's shrieks, and the curses of fighting men, and the crash of overturning furniture, and of clubs and monkey-wrenches on human heads.
For work around plows, cultivators, harvesters, and other farm machines, a case of S wrencheswill be greatly appreciated.
Monkey-Wrenches are the handiest of all farm wrenches, but they were never intended to hammer with.
At least two pipe wrenches are needed and they should be adjustable from one-quarter-inch up to two-inch pipe.
The reason for having so many wrenches is to save time when in the field.
Monkey-wrenches come first in the wrench department.
Manufacturers include wrencheswith almost all farm machines, but such wrenches are too cheap to be of much use.
When the bolts have square heads, this practice is not objectionable, because with two wrenches a nut can be twisted off over the riveting, but a great many bolts have round heads and very short, square shanks.
Farmers have never appreciated the value of light, handy wrenches to fit all sorts of nuts and bolt heads closely.
Where one dog gives the other a go-by when both are in their full speed, and turns or wrenches the hare.
When a dog wrenches or ricks a hare twice following, without losing the lead, it is equal to a turn.
From his own bug, beside the Gomez, Milt got a tool kit, and with considerable brilliance as a pitcher he sent a series of wrenches at the agitated stern of the bear.
Six wrenches and a screwdriver and a one-lung pump!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wrenches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
