To make a cupel the space in the ring is nearly filled with the moistened bone-ash, and pressed down by the hand, and afterwards by the die, the latter being driven into the ring by the application of a wooden mallet (Fig.
Then the one man had struck it on the head with the mallet with all the force he could summon.
He won't be able to tell you a thing about how his own cousin was found with his skull crushed in, and the bloody wooden mallet lying beside him--the mallet that this fellow had stolen the night before at a prize fight!
I never saw Langdon after he took that mallet from me.
Her testimony was of the sort that the jury could take either as for me or against me; she established, as an eyewitness, that we had quarreled and that the mallet played a part in it.
Then I stuck the mallet in my pocket, telling every one who cared to hear that I was carrying away a souvenir.
On the way, he demanded the mallet for himself and pulled it out of my pocket.
They said I did it with a wooden mallet which I had taken from a prize fight, and which had been used to hammer on the gong for the beginning and the end of the rounds.
I bribed a fellow to let me sit at the press stand, next to the timekeeper, and worried him until he let me have the mallet that he was using to strike the gong.
Young Houston had gotten a mallet from the timekeeper.
Ask him about the time when he slipped that mallet in his pocket at a prize fight and then went on out with his cousin.
Ten minutes later he stood beside a great Mallet engine, a sleek, glistening grayhound of the mountains, taking from the superintendent the instructions that would enable him to assist, at least, in the propulsion of the motive power.
He has beside him, on his table, a little wooden mallet for the purpose of imposing silence when occasion arises, but this is very seldom the case.
He presented the lodge with three beautifully carved mahogany candlesticks, and the trowel and mallet which he used in laying the first stone of the great cathedral in 1675.
He therefore abandoned his pulpit, and retired to Shepton Mallet to study.
A controversy now raged between the friends of Pope and Bolingbroke, and Warburton and Mallet were the leaders of the several parties.
Sometimes a horn or box-wood mallet is used to start a piece of work.
In larger work the projection is fastened in the vise and beginning at the end is bent around the pin a little at a time using the raw-hide mallet to work it into shape.
When the bungs were all loosened, that trusting man with the mallet meandered slowly away, having paid no attention whatever to the boys who watched him so innocently.
The man with the mallet and the gauger with his stick were familiar figures.
Then a man, with a heavy mallet in his hand, approached the row of casks and began to loosen the bungs.
Down on the wharf the man with the malletwas patiently loosening the bungs again.
The man with themallet must have been a very trusting, unsuspicious man.
But instead of cutting her firewood, he hung his mallet on a beech tree and whenever the wind blew, the mallet made a knocking sound.
When evening came and he hadn't returned, Lenka went out to find him, but all she could find was the mallet going knock-knock on the tree.
All afternoon poor little Lenka hearing the knock-knock of the mallet thought to herself: "There is my dear father chopping wood for me!
The world's literature stands unaffected, though Archdeacon Farrar use it for chapter-headings and Sir John Lubbock wield it as a mallet to drive home self-evident truths.
The position of the meizoseismal area, to which Mallet devoted most of his time, is indicated by the small oval area marked 1 in Fig.
To ascertain the amplitude, Mallet had to rely chiefly on the fissures made in very inelastic walls.
Next to fissures, Mallet made most use of overthrown objects, such as the two gate piers near Saponara, represented in Fig.
Mallet was one of the first seismologists to realise the significance of the earthquake-sound; and he attended closely to the subject, though finding the sound even more elusive of precise observation than the shock.
No building showed the different kinds of evidence on which Mallet relied as clearly as the cathedral church at Potenza, the plan of which is given in Fig.
The horizontal line represents the level of the sea, and the vertical line one passing through the epicentre and focus, called by Mallet the "seismic vertical.
Allowing for the supposed change of direction by refraction at the Monte St. Angelo range on the way to Naples, Mallet finds the mean surface velocity to be 787 feet per second.
Mallet argued that the direction of the wave-path FPA, or its equivalents, the horizontal direction EPL and the angle of emergence EPF, should be discoverable from the effects of the shock at P.
The comparatively high values at Tramutola and Saponara, Mallet imagined might be due to the oscillation of the hills on which these towns are built.
The Winter was first wrote in detached pieces, or occasional descriptions; it was by the advice of Mr. Mallet they were collected and made into one connected piece.
The inconvenience of this method, which left the sculptor to wreak his fury on the marble with mallet and chisel, can be readily conceived.
In the first place, he is the only artist who has handled both brush and malletwith equal excellence.
As I have said, it is the work of a sculptor, accustomed to wield chisel and mallet upon marble, rather than that of a painter, trained to secure effects by shadows and glazings.
The butt-end is truncated, but is not at all battered, so that if a hammer or malletwas used with it, without the intervention of a socket or handle, it was probably of wood.
Both holder and striker sing, and the strokes of the |25| mallet are given in time with the music, the blow being sharp and rebounding, in which the Indians say is the great medicine or principal knack of the operation.
Jones then went aft to a locker near the stern, whence he returned with a mallet and chisel, and went below.
Presently Jones returned on deck and replaced the mallet and chisel in the locker.
These exquisite lines were written by William Collins in 1746; but when Mallet annexed and printed them, without acknowledgment, the unfortunate author was in a lunatic asylum, and therefore quite incapable of protecting himself.
Thomson died in 1748; Mallet had therefore a free hand, a liberty of which he availed himself very fully; lines were altered, new ones introduced, and several verses added for songs and for chorus.
For the occasion the services ofMallet and Thomson were called into requisition.
The most singular circumstance connected with the whole affair is, that the captain whomMallet had directed to follow him, and who accompanied him to Hulin's, saw nothing extraordinary in all this, and did nothing to stop it.
Mallet informed them of the Emperor's death and of the change of Government; gave them some orders, in obedience to which the Minister and Prefect of Police were arrested in their hotel.
Mallet repaired to General Hulin, who had the command of Paris.
The French were too weary of troubles to throw themselves into the arms of, Mallet or his associate Lahorie, who had figured so disgracefully on the trial of Moreau.
Hulin asked to see the order, and then entered his cabinet, where Mallet followed him, and just as Hulin was turning round to speak to him he fired a pistol in his face.
Mallet was loaded with a parcel of forged orders which he had himself prepared.
Mallet then hastily set off with 1200 men to La Force, and liberated the Sieurs Gudal and Laholze, who were confined there.
He recognised General Mallet as being a man under his supervision.
Notwithstanding the general dismay which prevailed in Paris that capital continued tranquil, when by a singular chance, on the very day on which Napoleon evacuated the burning city of Moscow, Mallet attempted his extraordinary enterprise.
On the 22d of October Mallet escaped from the hospital house and went to Colonel Soulier, who commanded the tenth cohort of the National Guard, whose barracks were situated exactly behind the hospital house.
The Emperor, as I have already mentioned, left Moscow on the day when Mallet made his bold attempt, that is to say, the 19th of October.
On the right they found an adjoining chamber, into which the others entered, but Thor remained at the doorway with his mallet in his hand, prepared to defend himself, whatever might happen.
But sleep came not that night to Thor, and when Skrymir snored again so loud that the forest reechoed with the noise, he arose, and grasping his mallet launched it with such force at the giant's skull that it made a deep dint in it.
At last Thor became wroth, and grasping his mallet with both hands he struck a furious blow on the giant's head.
The third, also very precious, is his iron gloves, which he puts on whenever he would use his mallet efficiently.
Mallet regards earthquakes that can be directly traceable to volcanic origin as unsuccessful efforts on the part of nature to establish volcanoes.
Professor Mallet suggested that the source of heat for these local areas of melted rocks was to be found in the enormous mechanical force that is developed by the crushing of the strata in the earth's crust.
The following figures from Mallet give some idea of the extent of this loss, which is generally a matter of a few moments.
Since the time of Mallet many maps have been made to show the distribution of earthquakes.
Mallet states that there is abundant evidence that earthquake shocks, even when not of very great intensity, produce nausea in both men and women.
Coming down to less ancient writers, Mallet refers to a book by Fromondi, published in Antwerp, in 1527, that contains much valuable and interesting information.
Another of the less ancient writers referred to by Mallet is Travagini, who published a book in Venice in 1683.
Suppose you and our daughter was to be married, and was to have a son, and he was to grow up, and was to come down into the cellar to draw the beer, and the mallet was to fall on his head and kill him!
So one evening she had gone down to draw the beer, and she happened to look up at the ceiling while she was drawing, and she saw a mallet stuck in one of the beams.
Suppose we was to be married, and was to have a son, and he was to grow up, and was to come down to the cellar to draw the beer, and the mallet was to fall on his head and kill him, what a dreadful thing it would be!
The lad not being able to answer one of these questions, the Red Ettin took a mallet and knocked him on the head, and turned him into a pillar of stone.
He skitted to the hog pen with a heavy mallet in his hand.
To prepare this rice for cooking after harvested they would burn a trough into a log, they called mortar and with a large wooden mallet they called pessel, and which they would pound upon the rice until hulled and ready for cooking.
Mistress Mallet is the real object of your regards.
There is no doubt in my mind about the cedar tree from which the mallet was made was cut very close to, and perhaps within the present limits of Cedar Rapids.
The hammer-headed sharks (Sphyrna) are odd sharks which have the head mallet or kidney shaped, twice as wide as long, the eyes being situated on the ends of the lateral expansions of the head.
If the wire is of brass it will be necessary to close it upon the mandrel with blows from a lead mallet to prevent it from uncoiling on the mandrel when the end is released, which it will do to some extent in any event.
It is rectangular in shape so that it may be applied to tools held in a corner of the work, where a round mallet could not, if of sufficient diameter, give the necessary weight.
The stonemason's mallet is also of wood, and is disk-shaped, with the handle in the centre, the circumferential surface forming the face.
The mallet is made in various forms to suit the nature of the work and the tools it is to be used upon.
When neither piece can be given motion, one is made to mark the other by being struck with a mallet or hammer, or to avoid damage to the work from the hammer blows, a piece of wood or copper is interposed.
An excellent mallet for the machinist's use, for driving finished work without damaging it, is formed of raw hide secured in a metal eye that receives the handle.
The wedge should be driven first with a mallet and finally with a hammer.
Thus the carpenter's malletis a rectangular block, such as shown in Fig.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mallet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
