cork-screw

If they had their way, only they would be permitted to set foot on many of these public lands armed only with a cork-screw and a cutting board in one hand and a copy of Mine Kampf in the other!

Some Political Notes 2008

The ritual passing of the DNA, momma's cork-screw curls, his granddaddy's lower lip, ah buh-lieve thuh chil'ren ah thuh future.

'Super Sad True Love Story' 2010

And cork-screw stapled trip-wire to snare among the briars and iron warp with bramble weft with meadow-sweet and lady-smock for a fair camouflage.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

And cork-screw stapled trip-wire to snare among the briars and iron warp with bramble weft with meadow-sweet and lady-smock for a fair camouflage.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

"Are these toys which I have in my hand also cutting instruments?" asked the King, showing them a cork-screw, a turn-screw,and a steel for lighting.

Archive 2009-06-01 elena maria vidal 2009

Like you know, a cork-screw landing, flak jackets and sniper fire in Bosnia?

Report: Hillary Won't Quit Race 2009

He explained magnetism as the result of cork-screw shaped particles that spew forth from the poles of the earth and flow from north to south, causing magnetized needles to align with their flow.

René Descartes Hatfield, Gary 2008

I didn't know whether to put a pick-axe through my speakers, or twist a cork-screw into each of my ears.

Holiday Spirit Matthew Buckley 2008

His companions were timber-dealers, yeomen, farmers, villagers, and others; mostly woodland men, who on that account could afford to be curious in their walking-sticks, which consequently exhibited various monstrosities of vegetation, the chief being cork-screw shapes in black and white thorn, brought to that pattern by the slow torture of an encircling woodbine during their growth, as the Chinese have been said to mould human beings into grotesque toys by continued compression in infancy.

The Woodlanders 2006

It took me two hours daily to curl my hair in ten thousand little cork-screw ringlets, which waved over my shoulders, and to get my moustaches well round to the corners of my eyelids.

Burlesques 2006