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It is a mental jack-screw by which we wind ourselves up to a height from which we can look down on lacks in others.— Observations of a Retired Veteran
-- Arrangement of jack-screw.— Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885
The quick-ear'd teamsters and chain and jack-screw men heard not,— Leaves of Grass
Javert, who had come up at the moment of the accident, had sent for a jack-screw.— Les Misérables
"Is there a jack-screw to be had?"— Les Misérables
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