Under Arab chiefs they would have overcome all Eastern Europe, had it not been for the hammer of Charles Martel, which crushed them on the field of Poitiers.

The Colonel opened the half-closed door and looked out, as Jack pushed aside the table, tore away the red curtain, hammered at the sash, then, desperate, set his shoulder at it and forced the whole thing out.

One facetious class-mate, standing close to the sink, offered to sell him by auction; and hammering on the stones with the fragment of a bat handle, knocked him down for threepence to another joker, who said he'd do for a pen-wiper.

Wood pitched for one inning and was hammered in every direction by the New York players, who ran riot on the field.

The great wheel below the flume rolled all day, throwing over its burden of diamond drops, and tilting the ponderous hammer with a monotonous clatter.

And when it isn't, what's the good of havin' it hammered into us how near we are to freezin' to death."

"I stopped a-past and borried the nails and the hammer from Jeff Dawes; I mighty nigh pounded my thumb off knockin' in nails with a rock an' a sad-iron last week.

Knapping-hammer, hammer for breaking stone.

You'll be hammered to a pulp, Pen.

But though the little bag was parched and dry, 'twas not so easily torn, and at last I struck off the corner of it with the sharp edge of my hammer against the bucket.

One bold sinner asserted, that before they reached their destination, they would have all his enthusiasm hammered out of him.

Nor is it a mere supposition to imagine that a body may exist wherein the other obvious qualities of gold may be without malleableness; since it is certain that gold itself will be sometimes so eager, (as artists call it,) that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself.

His eyes flashed with indignation as he flourished the ponderous hammer over his head, as though it had been a small swordwhen, striking the metal he held in the forceps, a round, well-formed shield fell from the stroke.

As it swung up we all three sprang back, I with my pistol levelled, and the carpenter with the hammer above his head.

Her tiny face seemed too small for the visitation of such suffering as burned and hammered behind the high white brow, and yellowed and drew tight the skin upon the cheeks.

Only in taking leave of this morning stage, throw your eyes back with us, Christian reader, upon this truly heathen meal, fit for idolatrous dogs like your Greeks and your Romans; survey, through the vista of ages, that thrice-cursed biscuit, with half a fig, perhaps, by way of garnish, and a huge hammer by its side, to secure the certainty of mastication, by previous comminution.

" Jessie felt the irregular beat of a hammer inside her bosom.

"No; I have smaller hammers than that.

All you need do is just slip off some or all of your clothes, take the necessary amount of luggage in your hand, and float up in the air" In his emotion he dropped the tack-hammer within an ace of my head.

The hammer down heave, Till the cover it cleave: For not till we shatter the wall of its cell Can we lift from its darkness and bondage the Bell.

Then there was more hammering around the sufferer's feet, and more shrill wailing.

Now above all things Millie hated breaking coal and filling scuttles, and I knew that she would not be carrying a coal-hammer without a very special reason.

At first I thought that they were tied there, but as I looked harder I saw that they were secured by a great nail which was hammered through the foot of each.