Then in went the punch again, and again the huge hammering commenced, with such bangs and blows, that the smith was wise to have no floor to his smithy, for they would surely have knocked a hole in that, though they were not able to knock the anvil down halfway into the earth, as the giant smith in the story did.

Moreover, this was an incorrigible SMITH.

Mr. Justice Harbottle was suffering torture all round the ankle on which the infernal smiths had just been operating.

Here and there a patriarchal smith still serves a dwindling group of customers and speaks with mingled pride and pathos of his sons, now in the automobile business in the city.

Take, for instance, that of the "Zimmerleute," or carpenter with its supporting arches and little peaked tower; or the so-called "Waag," with frescoed front; then the great wainscoated and paneled hall of the "schmieden" (smiths); and the rich Renaissance stonework of the "Maurer" (masons).

When the services of a skilled smith are at hand, one of the readiest methods of performing this is to draw the edges of the crack together with an ordinary horse-nail.

The people regard the flame as the forge of a spectral smith who here carried on his business after death had removed him from his old smithy in the village.

"To Smiths is the substantive Smiths, plus the preposition to.

Nor were the Smiths unimportant.

Never was a nation so in want of a leader; never was it more plain, that, without a head, the people "bluster abroad as beasts," with plenty of the iron of purpose, but purpose without coherence, and with no cunning smith of circumstance to edge it with plan and helve it with direction.

I should guess, one of the sneering brothers, the vile Smiths; but I have heard no name mentioned.