Make, create, frame, fashion, mold, shape, form, forge, fabricate, invent, construct, manufacture, concoct.

And, besides, if some one did know the Comte intimately enough to forge his handwriting and to blackmail me, why should that some one have waited all these years?

The floor, half of hard worn boards half of cinders, the smoky rafters of the roof, the confusion of implements on the benches, the guns in the cornershow all of these things form the subdued background for the flaming forge and the square chimney above it.

At one side of the forge you will see the great dusty bellows and you will hear its stertorous breathing.

As he draws it down and lets it up again with the peculiar rhythmic swing of long experienceheaping up his fire with a little iron paddle held in the other handhe hums to himself in a high curious old voice, no words at all, just a tune of contented employment in consonance with the breathing of the bellows and the mounting flames of the forge.

He turned from his forge, set his hands on his hips and looked at me a moment with feigned seriousness.

This he had made at his forge, and I suppose it had taken him twice as long to make the special tool as it had to mend the parts of my rake; but when I would have paid him for it he would take nothing save for the mending itself.

He made nearly all of his tools with his own hands, he built his own chimney and forge, he even whittled out the wooden gun which stands for a sign over the door of his shop.

" A sort of serenity seemed, indeed, to come upon him: his family lie on the quiet hill, old things and old times have grown distant, and upon that anvil of his before the glowing forge he has beaten out for himself a real place in this community.

The town is better for having stood often looking into the fire of Carlstrom's forge, and seeing his hammer strike.

I could do so, for amongst the stock-in-trade I had purchased from the tinker was a small forge, with an anvil and hammers.

It has always struck me that there is something poetical about a forge.

About twenty minutes after sun-set these splendid shooting rays disappeared, and were succeeded by a fine, rich glow in the heavens, in which you might easily fancy that you saw land rising out of the ocean, stretching itself before you and on every side in the most enchanting perspective, and having the glowing lustre of a bar of iron when newly withdrawn from the forge.

My comb is the pattern of a forge fire, and the voice of the furrow rises to my throat!

THE PHEASANT-HEN Other strokes, which sound like a human Angelus after the divine CHANTECLER The forge-hammer.

I mind when he used to come in on Saturdays from the forge, I always had a hot pudding for him.

"He must have a barren wit, that in this scribbling age can forge nothing.

In each town these several tradesmen shall be so aptly disposed, as they shall free the rest from danger or offence: fire-trades, as smiths, forge-men, brewers, bakers, metal-men, &c., shall dwell apart by themselves: dyers, tanners, fellmongers, and such as use water in convenient places by themselves: noisome or fulsome for bad smells, as butchers' slaughterhouses, chandlers, curriers, in remote places, and some back lanes.

Antony Benevenius in a hypochondriacal passion, "cured an exceeding great swelling of the spleen with capers alone, a meat befitting that infirmity, and frequent use of the water of a smith's forge; by this physic he helped a sick man, whom all other physicians had forsaken, that for seven years had been splenetic."

Nothing can prevent it; on the anvil of a common suffering, persecution will forge the common affection of the tortured peoples.

The sound of the rattling of the blows and helmets was as if the forge of Vulcan had been thrown open.

The whole structure waslike a forge below, and a palace above.

"We'll forge on ahead and hunt Kent up before we arrest tramps for bike-lifting.

A man who has worked at a forge in the backwoods is not likely to be finicking in his ways, or dependent upon servants for looking after his raiment.

"The iron was a piece of a flat bar of the ordinary size from the forge hammer, and bent around the ankle, the ends meeting, and forming a hoop of about the diameter of the leg.