On arriving at Glendive Creek we found that Colonel Rice and his company of the Fifth Infantry, who had been sent there by General Mills, had built quite a good little fort with their trowel-bayonetsa weapon which Colonel Rice was the inventor of, and which is, by the way, a very useful implement of war, as it can be used for a shovel in throwing up intrenchments and can be profitably utilized in several other ways.

Said the Master, "One may hardly carve rotten wood, or use a trowel to the wall of a manure-yard!

I hereby grant Carte blanche of mortar, stone, and trowel.

Nadaud has resumed his trowel, and is a mason in London.

The royal hand had covered them with the stone, duly tapped by the silver trowel amidst the hurrahs of the loyal populace, in which the prisoner heartily joined.

shovel, trowel, spoon, spatula, ladle, dipper, tablespoon, watch glass, thimble.

J.M.W. The Japanese Mason Without haste, gathering scrape of the trowel, slap of cement, reaching for a block, setting and tapping it level, turning with the wheelbarrow, graceful, sweating, freed of every moment.

The blade was broad, trowel-like, but the point drawn out several inches, so as to look like a skewer.

At the same moment every worker on the walls flung down his trowel or hod, every slave of the palaces stopped grinding or scouring or drawing water or carrying faggots or polishing the miles of tessellated floors, so that, when the tyrant's heart stopped beating, at that very instant life ceased to circulate in the huge house he had built, and in all its members it became a carcass for his carcass.

"Why should folk be glum," said Keezar, "When Nature herself is glad, And the painted woods are laughing At the faces so sour and sad?" Small heed had the careless cobbler What sorrow of heart was theirs Who travailed in pain with the births of God, And planted a state with prayers, Hunting of witches and warlocks, Smiting the heathen horde, One hand on the mason's trowel, And one on the soldier's sword!

So it occurred to me that I had forgotten my trowel," he said.

He put the trowel, absent-mindedly, in the tea basket, and took the seat arranged for Jarvis.

1 Come listen, ye students of every degree; I sing of a wit and a tutor perdie, A statesman profound, a critic immense, In short, a mere jumble of learning and sense; And yet of his talents though laudably vain, His own family arts he could never attain. 2 His father, intending his fortune to build, In his youth would have taught him the trowel to wield.

" Colonel Jenkes, fully impressed with the value of these archeological discoveries, detailed a man to superintend the exhumation, who proceeded to remove the earth from the mould, which he reached through a layer of charcoal, and then with a trowel excavated beneath it.

The square, the line, the trowel, were not wanting, and the hammer was lying in front of the chair.

He helped in the building of the new structure of Lincoln's Inn, when, having a trowel in his hand, he had a book in his pocket.' "PETER RAMUS, one of the most celebrated writers and intrepid thinkers of the sixteenth century, was employed in his childhood as a shepherd, and obtained his education by serving as a lacquey in the College of Navarre.

Four medals, bearing the same inscription, two of gold, and two of silver gilt, having been placed at the corners of the stone, which was then lowered, the Due de Sully presented the silver trowel, while two of the attendant nobles alternately offered the hammer and the silver trough containing the mortar.

I dreamed a dream last night, and in my dream I was walking along the bund and came upon an elderly gentleman laying Naples yellow on a canvas with a trowel.

A coating of tar laid with a trowel over the exposed parts of the body will be found the best protection, especially as the new Armour Company's patent hermetically sealed bear-proof visor will be found too hot for comfort in summer.

Hence the trowel, we are informed, was the most important, though of course not the only, implement in use among the master builders.

It is in the same way that in Masonry the plumb represents rectitude, the level, human equality, and the trowel, concord or harmony.

In the farce, which was called Le Francois a Londres, was introduced a character they called that of an Englishman, (Jack Roastbeef,) who pays his addresses to a nobleman's daughter, in a box coate, a large hat slouched over his eyes, and an oaken trowel in his handin short, the whole figure exactly resembling that of a watchman.

But if the trowel has slain its thousands, the whitewash swab has slain its ten thousands of innocents.

The tailor's shears, the mason's trowel, and the carpenter's edge-tools are evening everything in Christendom to one dead level of uniformity.

The hand of a "higher civilization," with its spirit-level, pick, plane and trowel, is upon it with the grip of a Samson.