My grandfather's arm, levering a floor board, skin hanging from his biceps cord, holding while I nailed.

They had laboured without cessation, breaking up rock, levering out boulders with crowbars, and doing a sort of rough-and-ready levelling, and by the night of the 24th the track was reported passable for guns.

Behind the windfall he lay down, levered a cartridge into the chamber, and trained his rifle on the bridge head.

Then these three, that had robbed the Law of its due and proper victim, still sinned on for what was still their friend, and levered out the marble slabs from the sacred sepulchre of Paul, Archbishop of Alois and Vayence.