The place before is full of the sound of the hammer tapping the silver on the marlingspike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of John Coleridge Patteson]

And that hapless son of Ham, who happened to be just crossing the main-deck, heard a marlingspike, which by ill luck was lying at hand, flying past his ears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth] Reference

We took the wrong road, and in turning about split one of our shafts, but Braisted served it with some spare rope, using the hatchet-handle as a marlingspike, so that it held stoutly all the rest of the way to Stockholm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland] Reference

He drew out a small marlingspike which he carried in a sheath at his hip, and, bending over the flagstone, felt for the notch; found it, inserted the point, and began to prise, glancing, as he worked, over his shoulder at the windows of the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayor of Troy] Reference

A marlingspike! for if his equipments be no better than thine own, my worthy prisoner, there is little need to quarrel about their ownership.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pilot] Reference