He got one hand disengaged, and then the other; and presently stood free, with his good mattock once more in right serviceable relation to his arms and legs.
A few motions of hand over hand, and he swung himself and his mattock into the passage beside Lina.
As he went out, he caught up his mattock and took it with him.
Next he tied his mattock to the end of the rope, dropped it, and let it hang.
When at length he thought he might venture, he shouldered his mattock and crept up the stair.
A blow or two of Curdie's mattock drove the shattered lock clean from it, and telling Lina to wait there till he came back, and let no one in, he walked out into the silent street, and drew the door to behind him.
In a few minutes he discovered, to his great relief, that, from the projection of the pick-end of his mattock beyond his body, the fall had loosened the ropes tied round it.
As to the dogs, ever since the death of their two companions, a shadow that looked like a mattock was enough to make them scamper.
But he stood quietly facing them, with his mattock on his shoulder; and the magistrate wishing to examine him, and the people to see him made an example of, the soldiers had to content themselves with taking him.
With the helve of his mattock tight in his grasp, he sank into a dreamless sleep.
In half a minute the first of the invaders was down, his head crushed by a mattock in the hands of a bee-tormented native.
To put it plainly, he was loafing, with the handle of his improvised mattock supporting his weight.
He began to get furious, talked incoherently, swung the iron mattock backwards and forwards, and sung stanzas of the "Zechlied.
Then he looked at the corpse, and, in a paroxysm of madness, struck the mattock into its white bosom, accompanying his action with wild oaths.
Every man who can handle brush and mattock is expected to be at the head of a fire in time of trouble!
And to Wade, struggling with blistered hands to drive his mattock through roots and vegetable mould to the mineral earth, appeared Prophet Eli on his ding-swingle.
We took this mattock and this spade from him As he was coming from this churchyard side.
True, they saw by his mattock over his shoulder that he was nothing but a miner boy, yet for a moment the truth told notwithstanding.
He took his mattock and, going again into the long passage, lighted a candle end and proceeded to examine the rock on all sides.
As he went out he caught up his mattock and took it with him.
Then he laid a stone on the end of the rope that it should not forsake him, called to Lina, whose yellow eyes were gleaming over the mattock grating above, to watch there till he returned, and went cautiously in.
In a few minutes he discovered, to his great relief, that, from the projection of the pick end of his mattock beyond his body, the fall had loosened the ropes tied round it.
When Curdie saw the dogs coming he heaved up his mattock over his shoulder, and was ready, if they would have it so.
Curdie caught it in his left hand, and heaved his mattock with the other.
At the end of some two hundred yards or more of battling with the boughs, she stopped, and pointed to a pit, with a mattock lying on the heaped earth close by.
I can tell you that at once," she said quickly; "I have but just dug it with a mattock I was so lucky as to find by a stopped earth on the bank yonder.
He struck his mattock sharply into the soil, bent it to one side, and in the hole thus opened thrust a tiny tree.
Your crew will work in pairs, one man carrying the trees in a pail of water and inserting them in the ground, while the other man carries the mattock and opens the holes.
A mattock is more practical, I believe," said Tom.
This is what Jerry wanted that mattock for, I bet!
They both wondered if the fugitive had ventured out of his cave to find the mattock and box of food they had left for him the evening before.
The boy had been caught because he tried to get the mattock Ruth and Tom had put out for him.
A little climb brought them to the plateau where they could see all that was going on near the rock on which Ruth and Tom had left the mattock the evening before.
But toward night the blacksmith concluded his iron wouldn't make a mattock but 'twould make a fine ploughshare.
So my neighbor, wanting a mattock, concluded that he would go over and strike till the mattock was done.
It all came from the wedding of a railway contractor, who sprang from the wedding of a spade and a clod--and probably called himself Mattock at his birth, no shame to him.
Mr. Mattock listened attentively the first half-minute, after which it could be perceived that the orator was besieging a post, or in other words a Saxon's mind made up on a point of common sense.
Mattock and shovel made short work of it; twenty feet of superincumbent mould pressed down alike the saint and the sinner.
Emanuel Saddleton was fat and scant of breath, the mattock was heavy, and the saint walked too fast for him: he paused to take second wind at the end of the first furlong.
Oh, never mind the lantern, Emanuel; you'll not want it: but you may bring a mattock and shovel.
The whole countryside must know very well the state of affairs between Alexander Mattock and Drew Rennie.
There had been plenty of good clothing--the right sort for a Mattock grandson--and the usual bounteous table set by hospitable Kentucky standards.
But how he had longed in those first lonely weeks of learning to be a soldier to find one of his own--not of the Mattock clan!
Alexander Mattock might have considered his grandson an interloper at Red Springs; certainly the old man never concealed the state of his feelings on that subject.
Mr. Mattock was in town when Judge Hagerstorm told him .
Melanie Mattock Rennie was my dearest friend for all of her life, your father, my cousin.
Murray Mattock had firmly agreed with his father concerning the child who was the result of a runaway match between his sister Melanie and a despised Texan.
Then, as he sighed and looked, he was ware of two coming towards him with pick and mattock on their shoulders.
So the youth went back into his house and set him down, and watched how all day long the two toiled apart with mattock and pick, smoothing and levelling, lifting stones out of the way, and hewing down brambles and tangled trees.
While the fox hung over one shoulder, his mattock balanced it on the other.
The man, startled by this sudden attack, threw fox and mattock to the ground, when, turning round, he espied the live animal making off at full speed.
So the following morning, when the Harvester had completed his work at the cabin and barn and breakfasted, he took a mattock and a big hempen bag, and followed the path to the top of the hill.
The first time he wanted the mattock he realized that he had left it lying where he had worked.
The Harvester gripped the mattockand stood motionless.
Then he took the same bag and mattock and going through the woods in the opposite direction he came to a heavy growth in a cleared space of high ground.
Betsy was too tired to return that day, so he planned to dig his ginseng with something else, finish his work the following morning, and get the mattock in the afternoon.
The Harvester gripped the mattock and advanced to the bed.
The Harvester straightened and leaned on the mattockto fill his lungs with fresh air and as he delightedly sniffed it he commented, "Nothing else has much of a chance since I've stirred up the cabbage bed.
When his work was finished, he stood before the oak, scraping clinging earth from the mattock with which he had cut roots he had been compelled to remove.
Then the Harvester took his mattockand began to dig.
He lifted a weighted mattock and scraped the earth from it, sniffing it delightedly the while.
The Brewer-maidens then with a puremattock turned the first sod and dug the holes for the four corner posts.
The spear which he carries is indicative of warlike prowess and political sway, while the mattockgiven to him by one myth points rather to agricultural development.
Grub ax or axe, a kind ofmattock used in grubbing up roots, etc.
Slate ax or axe, a mattock with an ax end, used in shaping slates for roofs, and making holes in them for the nails.
Brains and blood had oozed from the hole in the skull in which yet stuck the pointed end of the mattock sunk deep within.
Hastening to his home he sought out an old battered mattock and a rusty spade.
Aunt Marianna had insisted that he accept part of the Mattock estate, even though his Kentucky grandfather had left him penniless.
Too independent, too defensive always—Alexander Mattock had made him like that.
No scalping was done here or at any other place after the red men had left the Mattock cabin.
They settled along the east shore of East Okoboji, some two or three miles from the Mattock cabin.
Instead the party carried the body to the Mattock place where it was interred.
The Indians selected as a site for their camp a spot directly across the trail which led from the Gardner cabin to the Mattock cabin and from thence became the highway of communication between all of the cabins of the settlement.
To make the destruction more complete, fire was set to the Mattockcabin which was soon in ruins.
Plans decided upon by Gardner, Luce, and Clark were also to be told to the Mattock people so that they might have ample opportunity to prepare for the proposed concentration of the settlers.
Of the party that took the trail route to the Mattock cabin from Howe's, H.
At the Mattock cabin the dead were found widely scattered through the clearing and along the trail toward the Granger home across the strait.
So sure were the two men that the Indians were friendly that they did not consider the fact of their presence worth mentioning as they passed the Mattock cabin.
There is a discrepancy between the number of bodies disinterred in the vicinity of the Mattock cabin and the number of people reported to have been killed there.
Across the strait at the Red Wing or Granger cabin, Carl Granger, who for some reason remained at his cabin when the others crossed to the Mattock home, was brutally slain and scalped.
From here they crossed the east lake to the Mattock cabin, which they found in ashes; while the clearing around the cabin was strewn with the bodies of the slaughtered members of the family.
They were to make their way first of all to the Mattock cabin, since it was nearer the Indian camp.
With the Mattock family had also come a Robert Madison, who was about eighteen years of age.
About mid-afternoon a number of shots were heard in the direction of the Mattock cabin.
If not, then it is a case of digging graves all my life till I get over-scant of breath for texts and mattock together.
The strokes of the mattock echoing through the night made the Kazi's son smile as, about an hour after midnight, he crept alone to the tomb.
The next instant the thud of the mattock began again.
After the barmecidal feast he took his mattock and went to the graveyard--not to dig, but solemnly to consider which of Suttu's two enemies should have his services.
His first step was to clear the long cliff-garden, which had been allowed to drop out of cultivation from the day when he had cast down his mattock there and run away to sea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mattock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
