watch-spring

A watch-spring, in which you will have cut teeth, and which will form a saw.

Les Miserables 2008

In this box he hides a watch-spring, and this watch-spring, properly handled, cuts good-sized chains and bars of iron.

Les Miserables 2008

Iron ore may think itself senselessly tortured in the furnace, but when the watch-spring looks back, it knows better.

Archive 2005-08-07 Candace 2005

Iron ore may think itself senselessly tortured in the furnace, but when the watch-spring looks back, it knows better.

Poetry in Iraq Candace 2005

I sat motionless for a while and then my whole body moved like a suddenly unrolled watch-spring, and I was thrown backward on the wall.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

I sat motionless for a while and then my whole body moved like a suddenly unrolled watch-spring, and I was thrown backward on the wall.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

I sat motionless for a while and then my whole body moved like a suddenly unrolled watch-spring, and I was thrown backward on the wall.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

I sat motionless for a while and then my whole body moved like a suddenly unrolled watch-spring, and I was thrown backward on the wall.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Again and again and again she struck, and each time her head came with a whack on the matting of the veranda and she gathered herself together like a watch-spring.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

This was followed by a knee-length petticoat with a similar scrolled handwork, a watch-spring crinoline, and two flounced petticoats.

Sweet Dalliance Lisa Bingham 1994