"Crowbar" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the valve in the outlet pipe, and made a motion as though prying on a crowbar. He wanted to indicate that he needed some sort ...
— Joe Strong, the Boy Fish - or Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank • Vance Barnum
... left the chamber and descended into the inclosure called the Pleasance, a spot grassed down like a lawn. Here stood Somerset, who, having come down from the tower, was looking on while a man searched for old foundations under the sod with a crowbar. He was glad to see her at last, and noticed that she looked serene and relieved; but could not for the moment divine the cause. Paula came nearer, returned his salutation, and regarded the man's operations in silence awhile till his work led him to ...
— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy
... for setting are merely cuttings or branches of the vines. These cuttings may be 5 to 10 inches long. They are inserted into the ground in a hole made by a crowbar or stick. They are usually planted at distances of 12 to 18 inches each way, and the vines are allowed to cover the entire ground as with a mat. In three years a good crop should be secured, if the weeds and wild growth ...
— Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) • L. H. Bailey
... lady, Fromkin wouldn't let me get in with a crowbar. He'll never be able to pronounce his t's right, and when he's dressed up he looks like a 'bus-boy at Mouquin's, but he can see a bluff farther than I can throw one—and that's somewhere beyond the horizon, as you'll admit. Talk it over ...
— Roast Beef, Medium • Edna Ferber
... a number of heavy timbers, such as are used for shoring in mines. And among the timbers lay a pick and a crowbar and the ...
— Dave Porter in the Gold Fields - The Search for the Landslide Mine • Edward Stratemeyer
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