Thus bellows roared and hammers rang until the sun was high and the Tinker, returning the half-forged billhook to the fire, straightened his back and wiped the sweat from sooty brow with sooty hand.
Leave your irons and hammers awhile and come with me--let us go.
Suddenly the noise changed, and it sounded as if countless iron hammers were descending on the roof; the rattling, pounding and rumbling created a furious din.
Conscience hammers at me, as if with a thousand fists, and yet does not destroy me!
Bring the heaviest hammers we've got too, some of you.
In the meantime, Phil and Constant, armed with hammers and nails, and bits of board which they from time to time sawed or cut to fit spaces, were busy at the leaks.
After some hours' hard labour came the time for rest, and they all flung their hammers to the ground and trooped out of the cave.
Their heads were bigger than their little bodies, and their hammers twice the size of themselves, but the strongest men on earth could not have handled their iron clubs more stoutly or given lustier blows.
Hammers and saws were dropped into tool-boxes, and painters pulled themselves out of their overalls.
The movement of the cotton crop was just beginning to be perceptible; but otherwise almost the only sounds were from the hammers of craftsmen making the town larger and preparing it for the activities of days to come.
It carried my mind instantly to the throbbing theme of the Niebelungs, onomatopoetic of the little hammers forever busy in their underground work.
The music is "conjured" by the aid of two small hammers corked with leather, like those of the khong-vong.
The performer strikes the bells with two little hammers covered with soft leather, producing an agreeable harmony.
They had an extra supply of candles, chalk for making a course mark, sample bags for such pieces of ore as might interest them, and the prospectors' picks and hammers when they started out.
We've got just seven hundred left between us on the day we bring the drills and hammers back, throw them in the corner of the cabin, and say 'We're on a dead one.
As the hissing flight of shells hammers and crushes the gaping end of the cave with its thunderbolts, daylight streams in through the clefts.
The fresh smell of pines hung about the track, and the clash of shovels and ringing of hammers mingled harmoniously with the deep-toned roar of the rapids.
The clang of hammers and rattle of shovels rose from the gorge, sharply distinct at times, but melting when the throb of the river swelled and a gust roared among the trees.
After the roar of activity at the bridge, where the hammers rang all day and often far into the night, he found his new surroundings strangely pleasant.
He heard the ring of the riveters' hammersand the clang of flung-down rails.
Smiths used trip hammers powered by water mills which turned an axle with cams on it.
Fulling became mechanized as heavy wooden hammers run by water- power replaced feet trampling the cloth covered with soap or fuller's clay.
On either side there were two wooden hammers hung on horizontal rods to give the shuttle and to and fro action.
The twohammers were bound together by two strings attached to a single handle, so that with one hand the shuttle could be driven either way.
The forge hammerswere worked at first by levers and later by water wheels.
The box had been placed in the storeroom on the upper floor of the tower, and the boys took up screw-drivers and hammers to open it.
The stocks were broken, the hammerswrenched off, and the barrels twisted and bent.
The right arms of all these men, perhaps twenty in number, rose and fell in concert, with a slow and measured stroke, uniting the sounds produced by the twenty stone hammers upon the basins into one loud clang.
Sebastien Erard, a celebrated French maker, introduced many improvements in the action and devised what was called then the "celeste" pedal, by which the hammers struck a strip of leather interposed between them and the strings.
It consists of a number of strings stretched across a shallow box, which acts as a resonator, and set in vibration by two little hammers in the hands of the player.
When the hammers clattered more furiously and the skeleton became partly clothed, there were cries of encouragement from the women.
There was a constant thudding of ax-heads on wooden pegs, a sharper ringing of hammers on heavy nails; curt orders broke through the clatter of boards and the persistent crunch of saws.
In the meantime cold chisels had cut into the cell padlocks, and sledge hammers completed the job.
In the meantime, a number of the vigilantes had attacked the iron-grated door with sledge hammers and crowbars.
The detective pulled back the hammers of his shot gun, and watched the men through the window.
And around the bows and along the side The heavy hammers and mallets plied, Till after many a week, at length, Wonderful for form and strength, Sublime in its enormous bulk, Loomed aloft the shadowy hulk!
As I approached the ferry, the ringing of many hammers attracted my attention.
Today a thousand hammers are welding the ribs of these huge sea-monsters; and cannon balls are being moulded by the ship-load.
With one of its stout claws it then hammers away at one of these till it breaks its way through.
First it puffs out the sides of its neck, and then it hammers its beak three times upon the ground.
He begins by extending the substance towards the edges, thereafter advancing towards the middle; he then does as much on the other side, and finally hammers the centre.
Forge hammers are very frequently mounted as levers of the first kind, with the centre of motion about one-third or one-fourth of the length of the helve from the cam wheel.
When the hammers are down upon the nipples after discharging the gun, the ends of the safety pins press against the inner sides of the hammers.
The rotatory cam passing round, the wedge lever is relieved, when springs instantly throw back the hammers; another cam and wedge-lever now brings the second pair of hammers to act upon the other two sides of the nail in a similar way.
At r two parallel hammers are placed, with cast-iron heads and wooden helves.
The heads of the tilt-hammers for steel weigh from one and a half to two hundred pounds.
The black slag of the reverberatory furnace is broken by hammers into small pieces, and mixed in proper proportions with the coal cinders that fall through the grate of the reverberatory fire.
The melting, agglutination, and refining of the metal to fit it for the heavy hammers where it gets nerve.
We have chisels and hammers and what not, and there is a tree growing yonder that is as hard as iron!
Strong screw steamers with all appliances to repair damages of every kind; and steam ice-hammers as well.
In a "grand" piano the treading of the left pedal shifts the hammers so far to one side that instead of striking three strings they will strike only two.
In the pianos of fifty and more years ago there were only two strings to each tone, and when the hammers were shifted by the treading of the left pedal they struck only one string.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hammers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
