194 examples of auger in sentences

And he had no auger!

"What did you do with the auger?"

Was that the auger?"

"I can return the compliment by saying that it isn't every lady who could throw a clumsy thing like an auger from a moving cab over a wide roadway and a stone wall and land it in a river.

Now who bought this auger?" "Martinez.

" "And you held the curtain hangings back while he used the auger?"

Take, for instance, so small a thing as the auger used at the Ansonia.

The assassin, then, was a friend of Martinezthat is, the Spaniard had considered him a friend, and, as it was of the last importance that these holes through the wall be large enough and not too large, this friend might well have seen personally to the purchase of the auger, not leaving it to a rattle-brained billiard player who, doubtless, regarded the whole affair as a joke.

This was one thread to be followed, a thread that might lead poor Bobet through weary days and nights until, among all the hardware shops in Paris, he had found the particular one where that particular auger had been sold!

"The job's done, he found the auger.

"You gave the auger to Gibelin?

"See here," he said abruptly, "what have you done with that auger?" "Put it in the department of old iron," rasped the other.

AUGER.

For example, the first time you answered 'hole' when I said 'auger,' but the second time you answered 'hammer.'

He was the first to fasten things together with glue; he invented the plumb-line and the auger; and he showed seamen how to put up masts in their ships and how to rig the sails to them with ropes.

But the instrument of any art is so adapted to that art, that for any other purpose it must seem unfit; thus with an auger we bore, and with a saw we cut wood; but we split stones with wedges, and wedges are driven with heavy mauls.

The Grossest old farmer, with his back bent double by rheumatism, contrives to bore some auger holes in an old box and fasten it on the side of the barn, or set it up on the pole of his hayrick; while the thrifty villager provides a beautiful home for his blue-backed petsa real summer hotel, mounted on a tall post above a flower-bed, with gables and little windows under the eaves.

They accordingly went to the Captain and asked him for a sharp saw, a mallet and chisel, an auger, two iron bolts, and two very long ropes.

That pill-wrangler couldn't tell the difference between an auger-hole riffle-board and a porous plaster if there wasn't a label on the box. Jeeminnetticus!' says Hadds, 'when he mixes coffin varnish for a man you'd think he was scramblin' eggs. Come on, Washy,' he says, 'while you got the price.

His bill an auger is, His head, a cap and frill.

Amos was boring holes with an auger, and the farmer was cutting the holes thus made into a square form with a chisel.

You may think different, but I'm not afraid of any man in your outfit, from the gimlet to the big auger.

George explained to that auger, who, not wishing to offend us, consented.

An auger had been added to the meager outfit, and long after the sea had leaked through the hole bored through her bottom, and swallowed her, and the insurance had been paid, the truth leaked out that the captain had received instructions, which had been fulfilled.

This hole to be made sloping upwards with a large auger, and that under a large arm near the ground.

194 examples of  auger  in sentences