This young woman mounts a lager-beer cask, and stops the buzz of conversation by bringing her mallet down with a smart rap upon the head of the nearest bald-headed gentleman.

Each player carries a mallet with a very long handle.

And two or three young girls dropped mallets and ran over.

M. I'll drown the mallet in the deepest lake, That served my hand on this accursed pile.

Then Michael Angelo flung down his mallet.

Young Dick he held his mallet high, And struck the wedge quite bold, Until it made the wood quick fly Like feathers with no hold, Blown by the wind quitecold!

And then, finding he could not possibly intercept her, he hurled his mallet with all his might and main, and out it shot in a gracious curve within a foot or so of Master Skelmersdale's head and through the glass lantern of the conservatory.

I lifted the little mallet, but I did not strike it, and they all became still.

Old Cupid carried the Wallingford's ensign, and a sort of harlequinade had been made out of marlinspikes, serving mallets, sail-maker's palms, and fids.

And, taking the mallet and chisel, he completed the monk's inscription with the supplementary legend: "SERVED HIM RIGHT.

"Children always get the best of it at croquet,when they know anything at all," said Imogen Thoresby discontentedly, throwing down her mallet.

"Good heavens!" cried the Curate, or (as some say) something much more manly, and ran, whirling his croquet mallet and shouting, to head off the chase.

"Certainly," says Jeremy Taylor, "it is a less temporal evil to fall by the rudeness of a sword than the violence of a fever: and the axe" (to which he might have added the ship-carpenter's mallet and the crow-bar) "a much less affliction than a strangury."

Slight girl as she was, she wielded for eight or ten hours a day a leaden mallet weighing four pounds and a half.

You all know what consideration Williams bestowed on the hammer, or the ship carpenter's mallet, which is the same thing.