"Monkey wrench" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... will be able to see us. Conseil and I will go to the central companionway. As for you, Professor Aronnax, you'll stay in the library two steps away and wait for my signal. The oars, mast, and sail are in the skiff. I've even managed to stow some provisions inside. I've gotten hold of a monkey wrench to unscrew the nuts bolting the skiff to the Nautilus's hull. So everything's ready. I'll see ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne
... ever-victorious, self-propelled monkey wrench!" she crooned in his ear. Roger looked fatuously over her soft shoulder at Tin Philosopher who, as if moved by some similar feeling, reached over and touched ...
— Bread Overhead • Fritz Reuter Leiber
... turned their attention upon Scraggs, who had dodged below like a frightened rabbit and sought shelter in the shaft alley. He had sufficient presence of mind, as he dashed through the engine room, to snatch a large monkey wrench off the tool rack on the wall, and, kneeling just inside the alley entrance he turned at bay and threatened the invaders with this weapon. Thereupon Hicks and Flaherty pelted him with lumps of coal, but the sole result of this assault ...
— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne
... then for a monkey wrench and then we are all ready to give those greasers the surprise of their lives in case they try an attack upon this side ...
— The Border Boys Across the Frontier • Fremont B. Deering |
