1915 examples of hammering in sentences

"These floaters that lie with deck almost awash will stand more hammering than a mud fort.

By this time, also, he understood all the particulars as to how a shoe is made, and had indeed done a few stitches himself, a good deal of hammering both of leather and of hob-nails, and a little patching, at which last the smallness of his hands was an advantage.

I suppose that the end of all our hammering and yawping will be something like the point of view of Jimville.

It was broad daylight, the storm had ceased, and a woodpecker was hammering loudly on a hollow shell over their heads when they started up, wondering vaguely where they were.

He had caught the sound of some one chopping or hammering there.

They are made of respectable metal which will stand a good deal of calm hammering, and absorb a considerable quantity of virtuous moisture.

After I'd hiked it a little way, I could hear the fellows talking and sawing and hammering, and I knew they were all busy working.

labor, work, toil, travail, manual labor, sweat of one's brow, swink^, drudgery, slavery, fagging^, hammering; limae labor [Lat.]; industry, industriousness, operoseness^, operosity^. trouble, pains, duty; resolution &c 604; energy &c (physical) 171.

Hammering, the barking of dogs, and the crying of children are horrible to hear; but your only genuine assassin of thought is the crack of a whip; it exists for the purpose of destroying every pleasant moment of quiet thought that any one may now and then enjoy.

And what is so kind as the cruel goad, Forcing us on through the rugged road? Work! Thank God for the swing of it, For the clamoring, hammering ring of it, Passion and labor daily hurled On the mighty anvils of the world.

" (Ungrateful young scoundrel, so to describe my two-hours-a-day of brain-hammering, and the free run of my library.)

The first sound that either heard in the morning was Babe hammering upon their bedroom door.

The panther followed and prowled about all night, but the villagers, hammering at their doors with sticks, scared it from its meal.

The large rivets passing through thimbles, sometimes used as stays for water spaces or boiler shells, are objectionable; as, from the great amount of hammering such rivets have to receive to form the heads, the iron becomes crystalline, so that the heads are liable to come off, and, indeed, sometimes fly off in the act of being formed.

" Again they came to a great house filled with young men and women who were all working hammering iron.

Well, we take up our march again presently, and, led by a monotonous hammering, proceed toward the sound.

Ah, Ernest, your hammering is worth more than mine!" Harry's surprise was not merely for the money earned.

It spoke in parables; in the hammering of spears and the awful cap of Phrygia.

A hugely banked entrenchment overhung the chalk pit, in which stood the house, a monstrous squat Egyptian shape that Cossar had built for his sons when the Giant Nursery had served its turn, and behind was a great dark shed that might have covered a cathedral, in which a spluttering incandescence came and went, and from out of which came a Titanic hammering to beat upon the ear.

In the latter case, if a married woman, and she tells her husband, she gets a hammering, and should she disclose the delinquent, there will probably be a fight, and hence she usually keeps her mouth shut; if a single woman, or of any paedomatronym other than his own, no one troubles himself about the matter.

Hopeless of hammering American ethics into the brain of an Oriental, Kirby set off at a new angle.

But she was hammering on a sore point.

Stephen kept hammering and prying, and Ruth held on to all he gained, until they slipped the wedge along gradually, to where the board was nailed again, to the middle joist or stringer.

"Am I a smith?" answered the young man; "I promise you, I should think little of myself if I was not as much above him, (pointing to Shanty, who was hammering at his horse-shoe, with his back towards him,) as the sun is brighter than the stars.

In the meantime, work went on as before the woman had come in, nor was a word spoken, till Shanty, looking up from the horse-shoe which he was hammering, remarked in his own mind, that he wondered that the little one stretched on the woman's knee, was not awakened and frightened by the noise of the forge; but there the creature lies, he thought, as if it had neither sense or hearing.

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