In their own free circles, by their quiet hearth, Rearing him a bulwark steady as the Earth: On their mighty anvils, with a giant's skill, Bending stubborn iron to his lightest will: Prosperous and happy, free in heart and soul, These send forth my glory to the furthest Pole.

the brown air precipitates his flight: On their eternal anvil, here he found The brethren beating, and the blows go round.

IX The court-house clock in the centre of the town clanged the hour of tenhammered it out lavishly and cheerily as a lusty blacksmith strikes with prodigal arm his customary anvil.

[Footnote 4: a dissyllable: stithy, anvil; Scotch, studdy.

The crash and din of mighty steam hammers and giant anvils, the flame and flash of roaring blast furnaces, the rumbling of great railway trucks trundling raw and finished products in and out, chimneys of dizzy height belching forth monster coils of Cimmerian smoke, seem to transport one from the prosaic valley of the Ruhr into the deafening realm of Vulcan and Thor.

Fixing a kind of movable anvil behind the convict's back, the fetter that encircled his neck was brought with its joint upon it, and half a dozen blows of the sledge riveted the captive inextricably to the main chain and to his twenty-nine comrades.

This stone was surmounted by a ponderous anvil, in which the blade of a sword was deeply sunk.

above the ground, care being taken to let the end under repair rest on a portable anvil, which is supplied with the necessary appliances.

[Footnote 4: a dissyllable: stithy, anvil; Scotch, studdy.

In front stands the old brown anvil set upon a gnarly maple block.

Seated in the motor-trucks cobblers mended boots and broken harness; farriers on tiny anvils beat out horseshoes.

He is impenetrable, as an anvil hard, as constant as Job.