Now," says the soldier, "take that sack from the nail and lay it on the anvil and let me see how the blacksmiths of this town can set about their work.
And let them bring with them an iron anvil and the two heaviest hammers in the forge.
The servants asked no questions, but hurried to the smithy, and the two blacksmiths came running, with anvil and hammers.
It was just the same at the anvil as everywhere else.
John despised Sam because he did swear, and would sit on the anvil whenever his master’s back was turned.
Anvils: An anvil weighing about one quintal or six arrobas.
Stamps for the tithes: Stamps for branding the tithes, for those which were sent are out of order; also a small anvil and hammers, for marking the fifths.
A hollow made in the ground is the furnace in which they place the nozzle of their portable bellows, and they hammer the iron on a small anvil fixed in the earth.
A workman is extracting the cake of spongy iron from the ashes of the furnace; another is hammering on the anvil a piece of iron drawn from the furnace in order to forge it into a bar.
There is only one loophole, and the attorney-general himself is to guard that--the path round Anvil Rock.
It might be well for you to meet me to-morrow at Anvil Rock.
The main object was for him to be near by when his men should need him, and that purpose would be best served by his waiting in the shadow of Anvil Rock.
How can those murderous scoundrels have known that the attorney-general would ride to Anvil Rock alone?
She only realized that she must reach Anvil Rock before Philip Alston could pass it on his way to Cedar House, or turn into another path.
It's a dangerous task that he has taken on himself, notwithstanding that the posse guarding the swamp should be in hearing of his voice by the time he reaches Anvil Rock.
Two horsemen were now in sight and they were spurring straight toward Anvil Rock.
Dense earth-clouds were thus massed about the base of Anvil Rock.
Her long black hair, fallen away from its fastenings, streamed in the wind; but she gave it no heed except to toss it out of her eyes so that she might see the pony's head, and try to look beyond toward Anvil Rock.
This was only to see that she was going straight toward Anvil Rock by the shortest road.
These thoughts were an open book which Philip Alston read with another queer smile, while thanking him for the promise to come to Anvil Rock.
Some large dark form moved among the shadows around the base of Anvil Rock.
And so, talking to Toby, and chuckling as if Toby made telling replies, the good man and his good horse vanished in the earth-clouds round Anvil Rock.
This projection serves a double purpose: it gives a point of attachment for the quartz needle, and on firing the bow it forms a resisting anvil on which the string of the bow impinges.
The centre (approximately) of the diamond-cut circle of the glass was laid on this anvil so as to rest evenly upon it, and the upper surface (i.
Then, using a bit of waste iron as an intermediary anvil or punch, knock off the least bit from the point, so as to expose a fresh natural surface.
The two men resumed their hammers at this point in the conversation, and became silent as long as the anvil sounded.
He dreamt that he was at the forge again, and that he and Dove were trying to smash their anvils with the sledge-hammers--bang and bang about But the anvil would not break.
Soon he was busy wielding the fore-hammer, causing the sparks to fly about himself and his comrade in showers, while the anvil rang out its merry peal.
While this lasted,--while the numerous hammers were going and the anvil continued to sound, the situation of things did not appear so awful to the only two who were aware of what had occurred.
The block of timber for supporting the anvil was fixed in the same manner, but the anvil itself was left to depend on its own weight and the small stud fitted into the bottom of it.
Passing this platform, the captain and Ruby threaded their way through a mass of workyard debris until they came to the building from which the sounds of the anvil proceeded.
No one on board had the least idea that the tide had swept them so near the rock, and the ringing of the anvil was the first warning they got of their danger.
There was no need to enquire the way to the forge, the sound of the anvil being distinctly heard above all the other sounds of that busy spot.
Each one of these is now cut into 150 pieces, each of which is beaten on ananvil till it is about an inch square.
The blanks, as the steel before it has teeth is called, are laid on the anvil and struck with the chisel, which rests obliquely on the blank, each blow raising a ridge or tooth.
In the heat of noon the only sounds to break the intense stillness are the metallicanvil cry of the aforesaid coppersmith bird, and the never-ceasing call of his brain-fever brother.
Goujet was expecting her, his arms and chest bare, whilst he hammered harder on the anvil on those days so as to make himself heard at a distance.
This thundering of Dedele and Fifine upon the anvil was for her, this forge roaring and overflowing was for her.
One sett is held in a hole in the anvil face, the "anvil chisel," the other is handled and struck with a sledge.
But its limitations inanvil work lie in the tediousness of the operation, when the part to be reduced is very much less in diameter, and very much longer, than the original piece of bar.
In such cases economy is secured by using dies of a very cheap character; or, by employing such dies as supplementary to anvil work for effecting neat finish to more precise dimensions than can be ensured at the anvil.
A piece of work to be punched is supported either on the anvil or on a ring of metal termed a bolster, laid on the anvil, through which the burr, when severed, falls.
Sand alone is generally dusted on wrought iron, but steel requires borax applied on the joint while in the fire, and also dusted on the joint at the anvil and on the face of the latter itself.
The bear and the man that strike alternately a wooden anvil with a ditto hammer are scarcely less exciting to the infantile mind; but, being of wood, they are steady boarders permanently attached each to his ward.
The boy at theanvil listens open-mouthed, clutching the bellows-rope.
To stand--like the anvil beneath the blows of the hammer--and firmly resist the force of a repeated temptation is grand and heroic.
The town which sprung up was first called Anvil City; but the Government postal authorities, looking at the map, found Cape Nome in the vicinity, and the post-office was named after the Cape.
The anvil battering, the trial by fire, the hard blows, proved him base metal.
Among the "Lucky Swedes," who leaped in a few months from poverty to wealth by the discovery of gold in Anvil Creek, three form a typical illustration.
I was battered as hard as any one on this anvil of the Northwest; but to-day I feel nothing but gratitude for the severe experience.
II THE ANVIL The first two great gold camps of the Northwest were very different, although largely composed of the same material.
They are pliable metal, and the Anvil of the Northwest is shaping them into vessels and implements of usefulness and honor.
Men such as I have just described were pure metal, and the heavy blows they received on the anvil only made their characters more beautiful and efficient.
In our rolling mill we did not have an anvil on which the "bloom" was beaten by a trip-hammer as is done in the Old Country.
The anvil, symbol of his trade, is a musical instrument and is heard in the anvil chorus from Trovatore.
The "squeezer" which combines the functions of hammer and anvil did the work instead.
In some places the water was first heated by plunging pieces of hot iron into it, and the child was given a little of the water to drink, besides being bathed in it, the anvil part of the ceremony being omitted.
While lying on the anvil all the tools are, one by one, passed over the child.
The roar of the artillery battle flared up and died down by spells, but the steady throb of the Anvil Chorus followed us down the wind for some minutes after another bend in the stone wall cut off our view of the singers.
In fact, Peter was attempting to hammer out more things than one, upon that study of his; for in Scotland they call a smith's anvil a study, so that he ranks with other artists in that respect.
I want ter put his head on my anvil thar, an' beat the foolishness out'n it with my hammer.
The answer deft I can scarcely miss: Who would not shrink from the ardent kiss, That the hammer to the anvil gives, When his trade the smith laborious drives?
Now more iron the crew on the anvil threw, No flame they for this required; And though black and cold, they hammer’d it bold, Till they gave it the form desired.
I see the smithy with its fires aglow, I hear the bellows blow, And the shrill hammers on the anvil beat The iron white with heat!
Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought.
