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.

They are then dug out by iron crowbars, trodden into casks, and exported.

The plan was this: while poles were set against the upper portion of the leaf, to force it within the line of the suspended part, handspikes and crowbars, of which a sufficiency had been provided by Joel's forethought, were to be applied between the hinge edge and the wall, to cast the whole over to the other side.

On the morning of the 20th, daylight had scarcely dawned when twenty thousand men, the greater part of whom were armed with some weapon or othermuskets, pikes, hatchets, crowbars, and even spits from the cook-shops forming part of their equipmentassembled on the place where the Bastile had stood.

They abandoned their quarrel without another word, and picking up their crowbars hastened towards the spot where he was waiting for them.

In the meantime, the soldiers, under cover of the musculus, were looting out with crowbars the lowest stones of the enemy's turret, with which the foundation was laid.

At length I made use of crowbars from the wreck.

They were probably used by the ancient masons in order to secure a better hold when finally adjusting the ashlars with small crowbars.

It took three of them to move it without using crowbars; Oliver helped until it was in place.

And he saw, too, in that swift scrutiny, that many of the men had weapons; some had seized crowbars and sledges from a near-by street tool-chest which was being used by laborers; others had sticks; some had stones.

Before the winter became severe, the moss could be cut out from the beds of the snow streams with comparative ease; but now the mixed turf of willows, heaths, grasses, and moss was frozen solid, and had to be quarried with crowbars and carried to the ship like so much stone.

The Lover whispers his mistress that the coach is ready; and she, full of hope and fear, glides down to fly with him over the borders: the Thief, still more silently, sets-to his picklocks and crowbars, or lurks in wait till the watchmen first snore in their boxes.

At a given signal from the foreman, two operatives, stationed at each of the forty lifting points, with crowbars inserted in the holes provided for the purpose, give the screws a simultaneous turn in the same direction.

We therefore requisitioned a few coolies with crowbars, and set forward to attack the boulders.

Kohlhaas then called two men with torches, and, since they had no keys, he had the door broken open with crowbars and axes.

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.

All night he walked up and down in front of the church-door, keeping away the men who brought ladders, by which they might mount to the great stone griffin, and knock it to pieces with their hammers and crowbars.

In a moment the van was surrounded, and crowbars were wrenching at the van door.

Forcing two long crowbars between the joints, he loosened one brick, and then another.

The Master smiled, as he laid his hands on top of the basket and cast his eyes over the equipment there, noting that machine-guns, pick-axes, crowbars, and all were in position.

Down, swiftly down with picks and crowbars.

Emilio and others seconded him, while Rennes and Wallace dug, kneeling, with their crowbars.

So "Out crowbars!" was the word.

Assuming, therefore, that the natives wanted our crowbars, telegraph poles, and pickaxes they had little or no money with which to pay for them.

Armstrong, who, as well as his wife, was deadly pale, and trembling violently, either with cold or agitation, hesitatingly consented, and crowbars being speedily procured, an entrance was forced, and in rushed a score of excited men.