He refused, however, to obey the order to put down his dagger when he approached the Roman monarch, and he nailed it firmly to the scabbard.

Our excavations in 1915 yielded a mass of rough potsherds, a few Inca whirl-bobs and bronze shawl pins, and also a number of iron articles of European origin, heavily rustedhorseshoe nails, a buckle, a pair of scissors, several bridle or saddle ornaments, and three Jew's-harps.

The food receptacles were provided by boring holes in a 2 by 4 inch timber securely nailed to the floor immediately outside of the exit doors.

It is probable that 'tight-nailing' results more often from fine punching of the shoe than from any fault in the pitch of the hole.

Remove this board; get a head from another barrel of the same size; place it properly upon the top; put some good hoops around the ends, nail it all up tightly, and you will find that you will have a very good barrel.

" Renshaw complied with his request; but as Nott proceeded to gravely nail down the fastenings of the hatch, he turned impatiently away to complete his examination of the ship.

the descendant of the Bourbons, the regenerator of France lying thereunrecognizable, horrible and loathsomein a rough wooden coffin hastily nailed together by a village carpenter.

An even deeper hush than that which hangs over the well-to-do quarters of all Arab towns broods over these silent thoroughfares, with heavy-nailed doors barring half-ruined houses.

All the scuttles had been hermetically nailed up.

The Better Job If I were running a factory I'd stick up a sign for all to see; I'd print it large and I'd nail it high On every wall that the men walked by; And I'd have it carry this sentence clear: "The 'better job' that you want is here!"

If your Honor would give the order, mayhap we might nail down the coffin lid now and make a start.

That, in itself, was child's play to him; the matchboarding was but lightly nailed on; the fastenings came away in a moment under the skillful application of his instrument; the window sash behind was not even bolted, for the bolt had perished with time and had not been replaced.

If your Honor would give the order, mayhap we might nail down the coffin lid now and make a start.

Within Papeete fish were mysteriously nailed to the trees at night, and over each was a card with the letters, "I. W. W." Again a meeting of the council of state was called, and at it M. Lontane revealed the meaning of those cabalistic letters and the leadership of Kelly.

Was the skull nailed to the limb with the face outward, or with the face to the limb?" "De face was out, massa, so dat de crows could get at de eyes good, widout any trouble.

Curving, pearly nails with flecks of white in them, a light low laugh, a sweet low voice!

Her two hands were out, ingenuously, pretty little pink-nailed hands which had done little in this world beyond adorn charmingly the extremities of two soft round arms.

Tests have shown that the weakest wood properly nailed into a container is more serviceable than the strongest wood poorly nailed.

These ragged boards, sparingly nailed across the window sockets, gave the houses the air of wearing masks and of squinting at us through narrow eye slits.

Time flies when opening boxes that have been stoutly nailed and hooped over the nails.

The same lie travelled to Bonn, Sigmaringen, Potsdam, Bremen, and was successively nailed down by the Volkszeitung.

I'll sure nail him like you said; but if he goes for his gun I don't want you plantin' no cucumber seed on my restin'-place.

As the winter was very severe that year, and as for several days a great quantity of snow had fallen, the children came to the master's house warmly wrapped and bundled up, with fur caps pulled down over their ears, double and triple jackets, knitted gloves and mittens, and good, thick-nailed boots with strong soles.

Every successful new medium has traded off its artifact-ness the degree to which it was populated by bespoke hunks of atoms, cleverly nailed together by master craftspeople for ease of reproduction.

There was an inviting plank all ready, with sticks nailed on it transversely to prevent the feet from slipping.