Last week I missed a saw and two chisels, and now that brace and nearly all the bits are gone.

160 How busy all the enormous hive within, While Echo dallies with its various din! Some (hear you not their chisels' clinking sound?)

He aims to show that the beauty of such buildings as St. Mark's Cathedral and the Doges' Palace is due to the virtue and patriotism of the people, the nobility of the designers, and the joy of the individual workmen, whose chisels made the very stones of Venice tell beautiful stories.

Then Baron Wrede went with me to the Rittershus (House of Lords or Nobles) in Session, and to the Gallery of Scandinavian Antiquities, which is very remarkable: the collection of stone axes and chisels, bronze do.,

His principal work is making and sharpening the uncouth-looking ploughshares, which look more like flat blunt chisels than anything else.

My offer was accepted, and I gradually accumulated tools of various sortsgimlets, chisels, etc.

They seemed to be talking about chisels.

But think of the fineness of the tools that must be used, the tiny files and chisels in carving the lovely, delicate shells.

They are scattered along the base of a range of beautifully wooded hills about 500 feet above the plain, and the amount of labor and patience expended in their construction is appalling, especially when one considers that the men who made them were without the appliances and tools of modern times, knew nothing of explosives and were dependent solely upon chisels of flint and other stones.

There are lots of people, countless people, made expressly to do whatever is necessary, blunt chisels fit for nothing but shaping grindstones.

While the blunt chisels hack out the redemption of the overworked (and Heaven knows I don't deny their existence), let those who can, preserve the almost-lost art of living, so that when the millennium comes (you see I don't deny that this time it's on the way!)

Michelangelo not only blocked the marble out, but brought it nearly to completion, working the surface with very fine-toothed chisels.

"Messer Danielo had cast them, but they are in such a state as to require working over afresh with chisels and files.

In a window-seat of the room lay a number of chisels and other carpenter's tools.

The word toy seems appropriate enough when applied to skates and quoits, but seems a curious word to designate such articles of distinct utility as hammers, pincers, turnscrews, pliers, saws, and chisels, yet these articles and many others of a similar kind are included in the words "steel toys.

Parterres, rich with flowers and shrubbery, alternate with delightful groves of the Italian pine, acacia and laurel-leaved oak, and along the hillside, gleaming among the foliage, are placed statues of marble, some of which are from the chisels of Michael Angelo and Bandinelli.

Saws and ice chisels, therefore, had been in constant operation, and the men worked with the utmost energy, night and day, taking it by turns, and having double allowance of hot coffee served out to them.

"Out there with ice-chisels!

One thought that nothing but steam-chisels would be capable of cutting it.

If only he were in the carpentry department with Master Brahmin, where there were axes, hammers, chisels, knives, saws, and various pointed instruments.

Their bills are strong and straight, like chisels, so that they may cut and gouge hard wood without breaking them.

Tools for building were given them: to each family were given an ax and a hand-saw, though unfortunately the axes were short-handled ship's axes, ill-adapted to cutting in the forest; to each group of two families were allotted a whip-saw and a cross-cut saw; and to each group of five families was supplied a set of tools, containing chisels, augers, draw-knives, etc.

Then some one said that it would be a good thing to destroy the stone image so that the Griffin would have no excuse for entering the town; and this proposal was received with such favor that many of the people ran for hammers, chisels, and crowbars, with which to tear down and break up the stone griffin.

Mr. Young concludes as follows: "It is proved that the fort at Burghead was raised by a people skilled in engineering, who used axes and chisels of iron; who shot balista stones over 20 lbs.

Close to my heart lay one of the sharp, shining chisels I had taken from the glazier in the bath-room.