The white flame flared higher, like an explosion of dazzling sunlight revealing the trampled dirt underfoot, where the polished steel of four anvils fixed on blocks took on a reflection of silver sprinkled with gold.
On hills uplift from Space and Time, Upon the peak of Solitude, With stars to give my furnace food, On anvils of black granite crude I forge austerities of rhyme.
The men who own and till the soil, who drive the mills, and hammer out their own iron and leather on their own anvils and lapstones .
And the tiny brown elves danced gleefully around the spinner, and the thousand little anvilsrang out a merry chorus to the music of the singers.
Seven orbs within a spacious round they close, One stirs the fire, and one the bellows blows; The hissing steel is in the smithy drown'd, The grot with beaten anvils groans around.
More than once she provoked him to blows; and once to worse than blows,--for her lord and master swung her aloft in the clouds, securing her wrists in golden handcuffs and hanging anvils to her feet.
His forge in Olympus was furnished not only with anvils and all other implements of the trade, but with automatic handmaidens of silver and gold, fashioned by Vulcan himself.
When he awoke and found out what she had done, he was so angry that he hung her from the heavens by a golden chain, and tied two heavy iron anvils to her feet.
Dost thou forget When thou didst swing suspended, and I tied Two anvils to thy feet, and bound a chain Of gold that none could break around thy wrists?
XVII Thus, as they are, on foot the warriors vie In cruel strife, and blade to blade oppose; No marvel plate or brittle mail should fly, When anvils had not stood the deafening blows.
More force those shields, those helms, those breast-plates show Than anvils underneath the sounding blow.
In every division they heard the anvils of the armourers, the measured tread of the sentries, the neigh and snort of innumerable steeds.
There was Henri, Sire de Ferrers, whose name is supposed to have arisen from the vast forges that burned around his castle, on the anvils of which were welded the arms impenetrable in every field.
Charley Anvils had an ax in his hand, and cut down the first two fellows that came up to him, but he was floored in a minute with twenty wounds.
Charley Anvils had eighteen wounds, but, except losing two fingers, is none the worse.
He took my advice; and Charley Anvils made a very good job of it, so that he could bring it under his arm when hanging at his back from a rope sling, and fire with one hand.
The ringing of the anvils shattered into a thousand dissonances as I kicked over a workbench and half-finished Toys crashed in confusion to the floor.
Tiny hammers pattered on miniatureanvils in a tinkling, jingling chorus of musical clinks and taps.
Then he went in and found fifteen smiths making the anvils ring.
Then he went in and found twenty-five smiths making the anvils ring.
But he had gone early to his forge and anvils to a broad cavern in a floating island where with the blast of flame he wrought all manner of curious work; and she all alone was sitting within, on an inlaid seat facing the door.
Then go to the sea-beaches where the bronze anvils of Hephaestus are smitten by sturdy hammers, and tell him to still the blasts of fire until Argo pass by them.
There are stone hammers and stones used as anvils in the ironsmith's shop.
The anvils of the smithy, numbering four or five, are large rocks set solidly in the earth.
Hard stones are still sometimes used for anvils and perhaps they were, at one time, the only anvils they possessed.
It resembles the small anvils used by jewellers, and it is interesting to note that, as M.
Déchelette points out, these small bronze anvils correspond to those mentioned by Homer, which were also portable and used by goldsmiths.
And, in the workshop, all through the next day, The anvils had another tune to play.
Stone anvils gave place to bronze ones, and of these the most remarkable is that from Wollishofen (=Fig.
The smithy was also the patriotic center of the district, as a blacksmith's shop must be as long as anvils can take the place of cannon for saluting purposes.
Yates learned all these things as he sat in the blacksmith's shop, for they were still in the month of May, and the smoke of the echoing anvils had hardly yet cleared away.
Where two anvils were to be had, the cannonade was much brisker, as then a plug was not needed.
Each of the sleeve-contact anvils is connected through the coil of the line relay to another common wire 2, which connects with the live side of the common battery.
Ignoring at first the pilot relay and the pilot lamp, it will be seen that each of the tip-spring anvils of the jacks is connected to a common wire 1 which is grounded.
The stones in which they occur may, however, have been used asanvils or mortars on which to hammer or pound; or the cavities may have served to steady objects of bone, stone, or wood in the process of manufacture.
The anvils and hammers used in Patagonia[842] in working silver are generally of stone, but the latter are not perforated.
The same use of stone hammers and anvils for forging iron prevails among the Kaffirs[49] of the present day.
In Germany, as already[843] incidentally remarked, anvils formed of basalt were in frequent use in the sixteenth century.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anvils" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
