29 Verbs to Use for the Word chiselling

And he took the chisel and cut it in the rough in the stone, a cat with nine tails coming from it, and there it was complete when they came out from their dinner.

Never use a chisel or a file on a valve.

Mr. Lyman said that the man swung the sledge over his shoulders as if splitting iron, and struck many blows before he succeeded in parting the ends of the iron at all, the bar was so large and stubbornat length they spread it as far as they could without driving the chisel so low as to ruin the leg.

I laid the chisel by the body, went to the window, pulled in the rope, carefully got the centre, adjusted it through the stanchion, and with a last look at the dead man, got out of the window, a rather nerve-trying business, and began to lower myself.

" On the table lay a narrow-bladed chisel, the lower portion of the bright steel discoloured with the dark stain of blood.

" With that, he slipped into my hand a chisel, a file, and a saw.

" "Much more likely 'tis some device to alarm us," said Oliver, seizing the chisel, and Miss Euphemia followed him as he went hurriedly up the front staircase.

This was not difficult to do, and, trying one side after another, he got the chisel down so far that he could use it as a lever.

He inserted the chisel with maladroit hands.

The young men who did it left by accident a chisel marked with the letter M., which led to their discovery.

' Ratsey was always kind to me, and had lent me a chisel many a time to make boats, so I stepped in and held the lantern watching him chink out the bits of Portland stone with a graver, and blinking the while when they came too near my eyes.

Long before he had reached the depth of which he wished to make the spool, he had learned to manage his chisel with some nicety.

The next piece which occupied Michelangelo's chisel was a Sleeping Cupid.

By this time, the Indian was at work with his knife, and he soon passed the chisel in to the prisoner, who seized it, and commenced cutting into the logs, at a point opposite to that where the Tuscarora was whittling away the wood.

Andy picked up a chisel dropped by the cook.

If these contrivances are of the best kind and cannot be opened from the outside with a knife-blade or piece of tin, the burglar puts a chisel or jimmy under the lower sash and gently presses it upward, when the baby screws come out as easily as if they were babies' milk-teeth.

Every atom of genuine old work of this kind is deeply interesting, representing as it does the rude chiselling which hands that have long been dust in the village churchyard wrought with infinite pains.

There, where the oaks are and the Shepherd's seat, Sing as thou sang'st erewhile, when matched with him Of Libya, Chromis; and I'll give thee, first, To milk, ay thrice, a goatshe suckles twins, Yet ne'ertheless can fill two milkpails full; Next, a deep drinking-cup, with sweet wax scoured, Two-handled, newly-carven, smacking yet 0' the chisel.

It has the air of careful preservation which distinguishes some of the great royal residencessuch as Windsor, for instance, to which it has often been compared; its finish and completeness suggests the modern chisel.

By way of bringing matters to an understanding, the Indian thrust the chisel through the opening, and, moving it, he soon attracted Willoughby's attention.

As I have said, it is the work of a sculptor, accustomed to wield chisel and mallet upon marble, rather than that of a painter, trained to secure effects by shadows and glazings.

It was quite by accident that I touched and caught up the chisel lying on the window-sill.

" A long pause ensued during which Max stood before the duke, a noble figure of manly beauty worthy the chisel of a Greek sculptor.

Tools for building were given them: to each family were given an ax and a hand-saw, though unfortunately the axes were short-handled ship's axes, ill-adapted to cutting in the forest; to each group of two families were allotted a whip-saw and a cross-cut saw; and to each group of five families was supplied a set of tools, containing chisels, augers, draw-knives, etc.

To the eye, our Hero's tomb was just such a block of spotless marble seen against a background of black, with just such a fair figure recumbent upon it, whose palms and lids and draping the chisel of an artist seemed to have folded and closed and hung,all idealised again by the magic of the magnesium-light.

29 Verbs to Use for the Word  chiselling