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...ken in upon by the kin- dling of great fires, together with the beating of hammers and picks during low water, after hovering about for a time, they c... ...xcavating the rock, or boring with the jumpers, and while their nu- merous hammers, with the sound of the smith’s anvil, con- tinued, the situation of... ...pola, which had either been blown out by the force of the wind, or perhaps bro- ken by sea-fowl. Having on this occasion continued upon the building a... ...e head-sheets were, all of a sudden, alarmed with the sound of the smith’s hammer and anvil on the beacon, and had just time to put the ship about to ...

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...Kelly thought, his adumbrative gifts useless and squandered. "I don't use, bro" had been Kelly's invariable response to any of his brother's well inte... ...ed as a doused cat. "Well, we'd better be going ... leave you two alone to hammer out things..." Curtis stepped forward, hesitantly spread his arms as... ...y used New Life Incognita by Gracie C. McKeever 186 to ride Gabriel. Li'l bro would walk around the house in just the bottoms of his Fruit of the Loo... ...see you." New Life Incognita by Gracie C. McKeever 319 Tyler's heart trip-hammered in his chest; he felt like he had been shot again. But only this t...

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...h aside, and step across the threshold into the parlor, whence issued that bro- ken and miserable murmur of entreaty. It was not pity that restrained ... ...o, down in his throat. “Anybody think he beat on the door with his biggest hammer!” “Here I am!” said Maule sternly. “Show me the way to your master’s... ...f his memoranda? Clifford’s affair arranged, he was to meet a State Street bro- ker, who has undertaken to procure a heavy percentage, and the best of... ...ound the Seven Gables; and now, during this odd fit of oblivion, the fatal hammer must have fallen, and transferred our ancient patri- mony to some al... ...ely begin to sing, and sigh, and sob, and shriek,—and to smite with sledge-hammers, airy but ponderous, in some distant cham- ber, —and to tread along...

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...ersation, or the vast fortunes of great houses now brought low beneath the hammer of the Civil Code. 66 A Woman of Thirty Should any artist or dreame... ...as about to fling him over with no more concern than if the man had been a bro- ken spar. They were at the very edge when the General looked into the ...

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...d rusty, straight, and well-pointed nail,— bore on it the mark of a recent hammer. In answer to this it was alleged that the blacksmith in extracting ... ...expelled, he burst into tears. The whole story was repeated,—the nail, the hammer, and the lameness; and the moments were counted up, and poor Tifto’s... ...t. I did win a little. I never said I didn’t. But what has that to do with hammering a nail into a horse’s foot? I have always been true to you Lord S... ...rvant, ‘Silverbridge.’ Poor Tifto, when he got this very curt epistle, was bro- ken-hearted. He did not dare to show it. Day after day he told the liv...

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...n’t remember—was he hurt?” The shuddering came again, “His arm—all twisted—bro- ken,” and his voice sank into a faint whisper; Ethel was obliged to sp... ... However, the next minute he thanked her, took the book, and said he could hammer something out of it, though it was too bad to give such an unclassic... ...the drawing-room. The old school-room piano is fit for nothing but Mary to hammer upon.” Flora went away, evidently annoyed, and Margaret’s con- jectu...

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...inks we might go bush bashing. As if, we’ll use your car for that.” “Sorry Bro, it’s not bush bashing, it’s paddock slumming in my car.” I chuckle. St... ...sing out the enemy. Truth is, I was wearing painted overalls armed with a hammer and a sandwich. First lesson in survival; food. Craters formed whil... ...e you to the death.” “I’d like to deflate his ego with a pick axe and jack hammer.” Ali’s fuming. “He thinks he’s the twentieth wonder of the world.”...

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...it fol lowed the plough with Burns; and, high above the noise of loom and hammer, it whispers courage even at this day in ears I could name in Sheffi... ...all cruelty, all re venge, and all evil,—now all good. Then, a bond to be bro ken within the compass of a few—three or four—swiftly passing hours,—n... ...e with which I have for some months past been collecting materials for and hammering away at a new book on America have much astonished me, seeing tha... ..., comes at last, of Heaven and Manchester and its mayor only know how much hammering—my companions in arms know thoroughly well, and I think it only r... ...mulating them in the onward, upward path that lies before us all. Wherever hammers beat, or wherever factory chimneys smoke, wherever hands are busy, ...

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...fe on whom he doted. The former turned their backs on him; the latter died bro- ken-hearted. He went with the stream—it had ever been his failing, and... ...hty or a hundred guests knocking little pewter measures on the tables, and hammering away, with the handles of their knives, as if they were so many t... ... little pompous man, accompanying the word with a knock of the president’s hammer on the table— ’Gen’l’men, allow me to claim your attention—our frien... ...ised the very girl who accepted his offer of a ride, just on this side the Hammersmith suspension-bridge, the very last Tuesday morning we rode into t... ... a portmanteau. Confound that other apprentice in the back shop, how he is hammering!—rap, rap, rap— what an industrious fellow he must be! you have h... ...must be! you have heard him at work for half an hour past, and he has been hammering incessantly the whole time. Rap, rap, rap, again—he’s talking now... ...n the distance, and the foreground presented a miscellaneous collection of bro- ken masts and blue legs sticking up out of the water. Depending from t... ...ter as the broker himself. ‘You had better let him alone, Tommy,’ said the bro- ker, by way of advice to the little greengrocer; ‘he can tell what’s o...

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...fe on whom he doted. The former turned their backs on him; the latter died bro- ken-hearted. He went with the stream—it had ever been his failing, and... ...hty or a hundred guests knocking little pewter measures on the tables, and hammering away, with the handles of their knives, as if they were so many t... ... little pompous man, accompanying the word with a knock of the president’s hammer on the table— ’Gen’l’men, allow me to claim your attention—our frien... ...ised the very girl who accepted his offer of a ride, just on this side the Hammersmith suspension-bridge, the very last Tuesday morning we rode into t... ... a portmanteau. Confound that other apprentice in the back shop, how he is hammering!—rap, rap, rap— what an industrious fellow he must be! you have h... ...must be! you have heard him at work for half an hour past, and he has been hammering incessantly the whole time. Rap, rap, rap, again—he’s talking now... ...n the distance, and the foreground presented a miscellaneous collection of bro- ken masts and blue legs sticking up out of the water. Depending from t... ...ter as the broker himself. ‘You had better let him alone, Tommy,’ said the bro- ker, by way of advice to the little greengrocer; ‘he can tell what’s o...

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... hair, and knocked a hack- ney-coachman’s knock on the table with a little hammer: whereat several gentlemen cried ‘Hear!’ and nodded slightly to each... ... on a too protracted enjoyment of them, the sterner spir- its now began to hammer the floor with their boot-heels, and to express their dissatisfactio... ...ful investiga- tion being instituted, it appeared that the lady inside had bro- ken her lamp, and the gentleman his head; that the two front outsides ... ... character to say, that in conjunction with her estimable husband, she had bro- ken many and many a one. Miss Fanny Squeers carefully treasured up thi... ... Miss Browndock—was taken into partnership by a lady that kept a school at Hammersmith, and made her for- tune in no time at all. I forget, by-the-bye...

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... hair, and knocked a hack- ney-coachman’s knock on the table with a little hammer: whereat several gentlemen cried ‘Hear!’ and nodded slightly to each... ... on a too protracted enjoyment of them, the sterner spir- its now began to hammer the floor with their boot-heels, and to express their dissatisfactio... ...ful investiga- tion being instituted, it appeared that the lady inside had bro- ken her lamp, and the gentleman his head; that the two front outsides ... ... character to say, that in conjunction with her estimable husband, she had bro- ken many and many a one. Miss Fanny Squeers carefully treasured up thi... ... Miss Browndock—was taken into partnership by a lady that kept a school at Hammersmith, and made her for- tune in no time at all. I forget, by-the-bye... ...ually losing a very small brown-paper parcel of tin tacks and a very large hammer, and running about with her sleeves tucked up at the wrists, and fal...

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... is attacked by certain mala- dies, the springs of our physical being seem bro- ken, our energies destroyed, our muscles relaxed, our bones to be as s... ... shoes, standing in the morn- ings in front of my door, those little pious bro- chures, which she, no doubt, received directly from Paradise. “I treat... ...e 184 De Maupassant alone lit up with great flashes five blacksmiths, who hammered upon their anvils with a terrible din. Standing enveloped in flame... ...n they were pounding; and their dull ideas rising and fall- ing with their hammers. Simon entered without being noticed and qui- etly plucked his frie... ...is forehead upon the back of his great hands, which held the handle of his hammer upright upon the anvil. He mused. His four companions watched him, a... ...child out by the shoulders. He returned to his work and in unison the five hammers again fell upon their anvils. Thus they wrought the iron until nigh... ...esounds upon feast days above the jingling of the other bells, so Philip’s hammer, dominating the noise of the others, clanged sec- ond after second w...

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...d weight of his body. If you can imagine a lance, or a battering ram, or a hammer weighing nearly half a ton driven by a cool, quiet mind living in th... ... escaped being caught by the Basking Shark, and the Spotted Shark, and the Hammerhead, and he met all the untrustworthy ruffians that loaf up and down... ...ersmith is a bird who makes a noise ex- actly like the beating of a little hammer on a copper pot; and the reason he is always making it is because he... ...tances), and, picking out the biggest and wildest tusker of the mob, would hammer him and hustle him into quiet while the men on the backs of the othe... ...and brought them down on the ground —one-two, one-two, as steadily as trip-hammers. The elephants were stamping all to- gether now, and it sounded lik... ...ead, O little son of mine! Wheat he gave to rich folk, millet to the poor, Bro- ken scraps for holy men that beg from door to door; Battle to the tige...

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... truncheon grounded; only Fable expecting that he will awaken. Charles the Hammer, Pepin Bow-legged, where now is their eye of menace, their voice of ... ...moke-vapour; unextinguished Breath as of a thing living. Labour’s thousand hammers ring on her an- vils: also a more miraculous Labour works noiseless... ...d tossings that yet await your fragile existence, before it be crushed and bro- ken; as ye fly through hostile countries, over tempestuous seas, are a... .... At rare intervals (as now, in 1775), they will fling down their hoes and hammers; and, to the astonishment of thinking mankind, (Lacretelle, France ... ...s, within doors, instead of patriotic eloquence, there is now no noise but hammering, sawing, and operative screech- ing and rumbling! A profanation w... ... carpenters cease wrenching and knocking at their plat- form; stand on it, hammer in hand, and listen open-mouthed. (Histoire Parlementaire, ii. 23.) ... ...om him unstruck: (Campan, ii. c. 21.) how in the cellars wine-bottles were bro- ken, wine-butts were staved in and drunk; and, upwards to the very gar...

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...oke- vapour; unextinguished Breath as of a thing living. Labour’s thousand hammers ring on her anvils: also a more miracu- lous Labour works noiseless... ...nsight, and even Con- duct, gone now, or fast going,—to confused darkness, bro- ken by bewildering dazzlements; to obstreperous crotch- ets; to activi... ...s, within doors, instead of patriotic eloquence, there is now no noise but hammering, sawing, and operative screeching and rumbling! A profanation wit... ...ry carpenters cease wrenching and knocking at their platform; stand on it, hammer in hand, and listen open-mouthed. (Histoire Parlementaire, ii. 23.) ... ... The industry of all crafts has paused;—except it be the smith’s, fiercely hammering pikes; and, in a faint degree, the kitchener’s, cooking off-hand ... ...roke from head to heel, shall thunder alternating, and ply the great forge-hammer, till stithy reel and ring again; while ever and anon, overhead, boo... ...tille (note, p. 281.).) And now doors fly under hatchets; the Judiths have bro- ken the Armoury; have seized guns and cannons, three money-bags, paper...

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... the rest stood round the blaze, which was soon roaring. Then Joe began to hammer 30 Great Expectations and clink, hammer and clink, and we all looke... ...em, the 31 Charles Dickens smoke to hurry away in pursuit of them, Joe to hammer and clink for them, and all the murky shadows on the wall to shake a... ...her, Pip, he were given to drink, and when he were overtook with drink, he hammered away at my mother, most onmerciful. It were a’most the only hammer... ...re a’most the only hammering he did, in- deed, ‘xcepting at myself. And he hammered at me with a wigour only to be equalled by the wigour with which h... ...nly to be equalled by the wigour with which he didn’ t 43 Charles Dickens hammer at his anwil. – Y ou’re a-listening and understanding, Pip?” “Y es, ... ...an ever write under my name, “I forgive her,” though ever so long after my bro- ken heart is dust – pray do it!” “O Miss Havisham,” said I, “I can do ...

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...altogether; and I have ships to load, and pitch and tar to boil, and iron to hammer, and steam to get up, and smoke to make, and stone to quarry, and ... ...with trembling wool. Also, down among the wheels, of the man with the sledge hammer, ringing the axles of the fast night train; against whom the oxen... ... Goodchild walks out and looks at the Course. It is quite deserted; heaps of bro ken crockery and bottles are raised to its memory; and correct cards...

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...nvulsions of Dame Gossip, that the wisdom of our ancestors makes it a mere hammer- ing of commonplace to insist on such reflections. Many of them, ind... ..., beyond all tongues and trumpets and possible anticipations. Wonder at it hammered on incredulity as she wrote it for fact, and in writing had vision... ...ng at them. So it happened that Lord Fleetwood’s reply to Lord Levellier’s hammer—hammer by post and messenger at his door, one may call it, on the su... ... the man of stainless honour: the one living man of his word. He had never bro- ken it—never would. There was his distinction among the herd. In that,... ...e-wave off the rock. He was respectful for the remainder of the round. But hammering at the system he had formed, in the very next round he dropped fr... ...iday and forget the contrasts of life- palaces running profusion, lodgings hammered by duns; the pinch of poverty distracting every simple look inside... ...ll you not? He has had a blow—the death of a friend, violent death. It has bro- ken him. He wants a month or so in your mountains. I have thought him ... ...l schooner yacht, were no temptation. Nor did Henrietta’s allusions to his bro- ken appearance move his wife, except in her saying regret- fully: ‘He ...

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...hat Vassenka Veslovsky had pulled only one trigger, and had left the other hammer still cocked. The charge flew into the ground without doing harm to ... ... look on Vassenka’s face. On the table lay a piece of stick which they had bro- ken together that morning, trying their strength. Levin took the fragm...

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...nutes, it be- came aware that the congregation would be scanty, and slowly hammered out in low spirits, They won’t come, they won’t come, they won’t c... ... girl had withdrawn, and the old man stood within the door. ‘What! Y ou’re hammer and tongs, already, you two?’ he said, coolly stroking his face. ‘I ... ...strength of pur- pose to face those troubles and fight them, he might have bro- ken the net that held him, or broken his heart; but being what he was,... ...tiltstalking, who knew nothing about it; into whose heads nothing could be hammered about it; who got bored about it, and reported physi- cal impossib... ...en himself to the banks of the Clyde, where he had studied, and filed, and hammered, and improved his knowledge, theo- 189 Little Dorrit retical and ... ...g John making a new epitaph for himself, on the occasion of his dying of a bro- ken heart. In the yard, was the Patriarchal Casby, looking so tremendo... ...crambled and turned from block to block, as though they were ascending the bro- ken staircase of a gigantic ruin, was their way now. No trees were to ... ... ‘mere ditches.’ The house, on a little desert island, looked as if it had bro- ken away from somewhere else, and had floated by chance into its prese... ...likeness, by travelling pencils innumerable, the firm of Doyce and Clennam hammered away in Bleeding Heart Y ard, and the vigorous clink of iron upon ...

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...nutes, it be- came aware that the congregation would be scanty, and slowly hammered out in low spirits, They won’t come, they won’t come, they won’t c... ... girl had withdrawn, and the old man stood within the door. ‘What! Y ou’re hammer and tongs, already, you two?’ he said, coolly stroking his face. ‘I ... ...strength of pur- pose to face those troubles and fight them, he might have bro- ken the net that held him, or broken his heart; but being what he was,... ...tiltstalking, who knew nothing about it; into whose heads nothing could be hammered about it; who got bored about it, and reported physi- cal impossib... ...en himself to the banks of the Clyde, where he had studied, and filed, and hammered, and improved his knowledge, theo- 189 Little Dorrit – Book One r... ...g John making a new epitaph for himself, on the occasion of his dying of a bro- ken heart. In the yard, was the Patriarchal Casby, looking so tremendo...

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... I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I JOE BR JOE BR JOE BR JOE BR JOE BRO O O O OWNL WNL WNL WNL WNLO O O O OW W W W W’S F ’S F ’S F ’S F ’S FANC... ...“So Babie,” said her brother, “you’ve earned your break- fast; I heard you hammering away.” “Like a nuthatch,” was the merry answer. “And Elfie?” aske... ... but tormenting hands busy about him, and his heart going so like a sledge hammer, that the word he would have given his life to utter, would not come... ..., and with a trembling 419 Yonge voice translated the passage he had been hammering over. A word from Mr. Ogilvie gave him the clue, and when that st...

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...ss Grantly as being now subject to 318 Framley Parsonage the auctioneer’s hammer, and conceived that Lord Lufton was bidding against him. There was, ... ...he always does, you know, when she wants to show her good humour. If you’d bro- ken your leg, and she wished to commiserate you, she’d ask you to dinn...

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... ing in a terrible voice. Damian killed him. The bear’s lower jaw had been bro ken, and one of his teeth knocked out by my bullet. He was a huge crea... ...nto his drink to make his stomach ache, and then I went into his field and hammered the ground hard as a stone that he should not be able to till it. ... ...st was working like a blacksmith’s bellows, his heart was beat ing like a hammer, and his legs were giving way as if they did not belong to him. Pahó... ...y. ‘Go quickly,’ said she, ‘and finish the cathedral. Here are nails and a hammer; there is still enough work there for a day.’ Emelyán went into the ...

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...d. It had laid hold of his imagination in boyhood. The echoes of the great hammer where roof or keel were a-making, the signal- shouts of the workmen,... ...d an invite to stay with you at some pretty place. My own establishment is bro- ken up now my wife’s dead. I’ve no particular attachment to any spot; ... ... in the dining-room, where Mr. Borthrop Trumbull was mounted with desk and hammer; but the rows chiefly of masculine faces behind were often varied by... ... an admirer by nature, and would have liked to have the universe under his hammer, feeling that it would go at a higher figure for his recommendation.... ...g. And now had come a moment in which that mould seemed in danger of being bro- ken and utterly cast away. What if the acts he had reconciled himself ... ...ounds a-year, and this is ninety.” Lydgate uttered this speech in the curt hammering way with which we usually try to nail down a vague mind to impera...

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... imprecations of the charioteers were terrible. From the noble’s broidered hammer-cloth, or the driving-seat of the common coach, each driver assailed... ...d-haired diamond- merchant of Trebizond, and his son Simeon, the bald bill-bro- ker of Bagdad, each putting in a claim for their cousin. Ben Minories ...

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...ink you of this epistle, Bucklaw?” said the Master, when his companion had hammered out all the sense, and almost all the words of which it consisted.... ...khard, “an such be the case, I think the wisest thing for us a ‘ wad be to hammer up a match between your young lord and our winsome young leddy up- b... ...e through her tears, and, as she abandoned her hand to him, assure him, in bro- ken accents, of the delight with which she beheld the com- plete recon... ...[Gibbie] the Queen’s cooper for certain? and scarce a chield that had ever hammered gird upon tub but was applying for it?” “Have I heard!!!” said Cal...

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...d. It had laid hold of his imagination in boyhood. The echoes of the great hammer where roof or keel were a making, the signal shouts of the workmen, ... ... in the dining room, where Mr. Borthrop Trumbull was mounted with desk and hammer; but the rows chiefly of masculine faces behind were often varied by ... ... an admirer by nature, and would have liked to have the universe under his hammer, feeling that it would go at a higher figure for his recommenda tion... ...ounds a year, and this is ninety.” Lydgate uttered this speech in the curt hammering way with which we usually try to nail down a vague mind to impera... ...” Bulstrode showed a rather exasperating ability in this conversation. The bro ken metaphor and bad logic of motive which had stirred his hearer’s co...

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... welding 34 Robert Louis Stevenson the fiery iron of his idea under forge-hammer repetitions – an emphasis that is somehow akin to weaknesses – stren... ...thirty, with a black beard and a short jacket; an appointment was made and bro- ken in the de la Porte affair; Tabary had some breakfast at the Prior’... ...was taken away from that agreeable school, and his fellowship of women was bro- ken up, not to be reunited. Called into Scotland to take at last that ...