But a bulldog would have secured the first convenient hold and would have hung on to that hold, whether it were at his victim's throat or only on the slack of his trousers--until someone should hammer him into senselessness.
Care must be taken to have a clean hammer and to let it fall evenly on the paper.
Heavy, short-handled hammer used for beating books to make the leaves lie closely together.
With a backing hammer the rounding process is continued and the sides of the book forced down over the edge of the press to form a projection against which the edge of the board for the side rests, forming the joint.
Iron plate on which books are placed when it is necessary to hammer down the ends of laced-in bands to prevent them from showing.
If the hammer is not used in exactly the right way the backs of the signatures may be crushed in, the stitches broken, or the paper or bands cut.
As for the bas-reliefs themselves, they are much injured, not so much by time as by some barbarous hand, for everywhere are marks of the hammeror pickaxe.
A hammer touching the walls would have disfigured them; he had only to level the ground, and to make staircases to aid the descent into the grottoes, and enable the visitor to see them in all their beauty.
It will be necessary to strike wrench with a hammer to loosen nut.
Start handle bar bracket holes over ends of fork, seeing that spark control wire housing is on right side of frame head: then drive handle bars onto fork ends, using a rawhide mallet, or a hammer and wood block.
Give sprocket a light but sharp rap with a hammer near outer edge, being careful not to strike the sprocket teeth, and remove sprocket from shaft taper.
Strike wrench with a hammer to make sure sprocket nut is very tight.
His red, rough hands, which have done many a good day's work with the hammer and adze, are half covered by the delicate lace ruffles at his wrists.
The bellows blew, and the hammerclanged continually upon the anvil, while the blacksmiths were repairing the broken weapons of other wars.
In every river a wheel is placed, contrived to lift up a hammer for the purpose of bruising flax.
From the window I perceived in an adjoining fen the Yellow-hammer (Motacilla flava) and some Swallows.
Nevertheless, this old man's was a patient hammer wielded by a patient arm.
And forge me first, twelve rods for its shank; then wind, and twist, and hammer these twelve together like the yarns and strands of a tow-line.
Thus the blessed Behmen saw paradise and had it in his heart as he sat over his hammer and lapstone in his solitary stall.
The Florentine artists took a sheet of gold or of silver and divided the sheet up with great scissors, and then they hammered the cut-out pieces as only a Florentine hammerman could hammer them.
Upon this was perched the old Captain, coat off, white hair rumpled, head almost touching the ceiling, hammer in hand.
He had used a hammer to effect complete penetration, hoping that death would result from his injuries.
In most of these instances, if one were to take a piece of the exhibitionist's stone, he would find that a slight tap of the hammer would break it.
He could produce such rigidity of stature that a blow by a hammer on his body fell as though on a block of stone.
Well, them two gets to blows, and about fifteen others are jumping around ready to pile in when Jimmy Duggan begins to pound on the table with a wooden hammer what they uses in lodges and club rooms.
That young fellow's pal grabs the showman by the legs and pulls him down to the ground and proceeds to hammer him some.
But things are getting worse and worse, for the shoe-maker seems bound to have his part of the fun too; and just as the town clerk is about to sing he begins to work again and to hammer on his last.
Think of a man who will hammer on a shoe when a town clerk is going to sing, and a song that he made himself, too.
He swings his hammerand the black clouds roll around him.
One glorious gleam of sunshine burst in on Phil's world of toil and set his muscles dancing and his heart singing in merry time to the ring of his hammer on the anvil.
He was about to strike again, when he staggered back as if he had been hit by a sledge hammer fair on the chin.
He saw Hanson stoop and pick up a great, heavy, sledge, then spring madly to the back door, swinging the big hammer above his head.
Heap your broken reapers and binders a mountain high, and I'll stand on top of them before nightfall, with my hammer held defiantly to the heavens and shout "Excelsior, the work is done.
A railroad train which carries you at the speed of a mile a minute is in reality a pair of very fast legs, and a steam hammer which flattens heavy plates of iron is just a terrible big fist, made of steel.
Men would drop their hammer and saw, walk out of their shop and take the nearest road to the east to go and kill Turks.
He was the inventor of the hammer and the lever, our first tools, and he did more than any human being who came after him to give man his enormous advantage over the other animals with whom he shares this planet.
Notwithstanding the wealth of their successors peals forth in loud strains which echo on foreign shores, no hammer rings out its cheering notes on anvil of theirs.
The sound of hammer and saw disturbs the midnight hour, while the carpenters are transforming the wooden gun-cases into coffins for the dead.
He tries again, and still thehammer does not fall.
Modoc Frank, one of the guides, happened to have his gun accidentally discharged by the hammer catching as he turned his horse.
The beating of the bleacher's hammer was also heard faintly from afar off.
The distant sound of the bleacher's hammer reached their ears, and reminded him of the sound he had heard in the Yûgao's house.
The custom is to lay the wet linen which is being operated upon, on a smooth stone, and hammeraway at it, with a flat wooden mallet.
It was like an incessant hammer beating upon her strength, shattering her resolve, until only the desire and the sense were left.
