2862 examples of nailing in sentences

These, I wedged up, slantwise, against it, from the floor, nailing them top and bottom.

By the clever management of her Tacks she succeeded in completely Nailing the Cambria.

Society's Saviors All adown the ages society has made the mistake of nailing its Saviors to the cross between thieves.

From the time of getting on the rocks she had leaked considerably, and a large quantity of stores had been destroyed or damaged, there being at one time four feet of water in the hold; but by nailing battens and tarred blankets over the open seams the leaks had been greatly reduced.

The hangman has a receipt to mar all his work in a moment, for by nailing the wrong end of a scutcheon upwards upon a gibbet all the honour and gentility extinguishes of itself, like a candle that's held with the flame downwards.

He picked me for fifty bucks by nailing a dollar I tossed up at twenty yards.

These had been converted into a ladder by the nailing across of rustic rounds.

One day I was with him, and we saw a tinner nailing a new leader or tin water-spout to the side of a house.

"His blood be on us and our children" cried the people and they roughly dragged Him away, and beat Him, and made Him carry a heavy cross of wood up Mount Calvary where they crucified Him, by nailing Him to the cross.

The nailing business was growing harder, he was growing old, and his family large.

Yes, he was a pretty clever pig; nor was that allthe nailing business had become better, by a half-penny a thousand, than when I was with them in the summer; and Josiah could now earn ninepence a day.

I cannot forbear therefore thinking that Sin and Death are as improper Agents in a Work of this nature, as Strength and Necessity in one of the Tragedies of Eschylus, who represented those two Persons nailing down Prometheus to a Rock, for which he has been justly censured by the greatest Criticks.

But I received another shock when I beheld my tormentor nailing pieces of wood over all the holes in the chest.

"For rebellion, the punishment is burning them, by nailing them down to the ground with crooked sticks on every limb, and then applying the fire, by degrees, from the feet and hands, burning them gradually up to the head, whereby their pains are extravagant.

The Panorama was then partly in outline, and we had to catch its identities through a maze of scaffolding poles, planks, and stages; while the immense domed area re-echoed with the operations of scores of artistes of every grade, from the upholsterer nailing up gay draperies, to the heavy blow of the carpenter's mallet.

Nailing its colours to the mast, it sank beneath the waves to the cry of 'Long live the Republic!'" "The Avenger!"

The Veitchii clings to the wall without nailing, and produces a profusion of lovely leaves which change colour.

All gloried in hanging from the breast-gear of their horses, or nailing to the doors of their houses, the heads of their enemies.

Coquetilla begs me not to think of nailing Women upon their Knees with Manuals of Devotion, nor of scorching their Faces with Books of Housewifry.

So he went on nailing down the cover to the pine box, and thinking as he nailed what a nice kitchen cupboard the box would make when once it was safely landed at his home in the prairie, and wondering, too, how his motherwho was not very fond of musicwould bear the sound of the piano and if Ethie would be willing for Melinda Jones to practice upon it.

Out of these strips we made a good pump by fixing a valve at the end and nailing a piece of green rawhide on a pole, which answered for a plunger, and with the pump set at forty-five degrees it worked easily and well.

" Then, after a good deal of whispering, giggling, and consulting among the elder ones, the little boys were dismissed; and in the meantime Mr. Nicholas Swan, who, standing on a ladder outside, was nailing the vines (quite aware that the governess was going to have a reception which might be called a warning never to come there any more), may or may not have intended to make his work last as long as possible.

The believer, in going about this work of nailing his sins to the cross of Christ, and of improving Christ's death, resurrection, and constant intercession, for the obtaining of pardon, would not think of going alone, or of doing this in his own strength; for of himself he can do nothing.

When with a weak and defective repentance and faith thou art carrying away thy sins to Christ, and nailing them, to his cross, let the imperfection of thy faith and repentance go with the rest, and leave all there.

A newer race of sceptics has found something infinitely more exciting to do than nailing down the lids upon a million coffins, and the body upon a single cross.

2862 examples of  nailing  in sentences