"Marlinespike" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to the right shop, Mister Edgar," replied Baldwin, with a gratified look. "I taught you to swim when you wasn't much bigger than a marlinespike, an' to make boats a'most before you could handle a clasp-knife without cuttin' your fingers, an' now that you've come to man's estate nothin'll please me more than to make a diver of you. But," continued Baldwin, while a shade clouded his wrinkled and weatherbeaten ...
— Under the Waves - Diving in Deep Waters • R M Ballantyne
... said I, 'these weeks ago, just as far as ever it will get; and that's as far as a rat can gnaw into a marlinespike. . . . Come out of this into fresh air,' said I with another look round on our images repeated in the mirrors. 'There are too many Farrells and Foes here. When I ran the game, at Versailles that afternoon, it had a certain dignity. . . . But, you! . . . Your primal curse, ...
— Foe-Farrell • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... if Cap'n Shad caught me tellin' tales out of school he'd go to work and turn to and bust me over the head with a marlinespike," said Mr. Chase, with the air of one ...
— Mary-'Gusta • Joseph C. Lincoln |
