Quatremain called to his assistants to bring their mattocks and the iron bar.
He must have passed a frightful night, for the vergers found him in the morning running about Saint Faith's like a madman, and dashing his spades and mattocks against the walls and pillars.
Mattocks stated that the camp referred to was their camp, and that they well knew the ground Ferguson was camped on.
Mattocks and John Boyd down the hill; and Samuel Martin carrying Wm.
I don't exactly know what it is, but I have heard that he who is first-rate at matthew mattocks is thought more of than if he were first-rate Latiner.
But the physicians said that by the urine they could discern no manifest sign of the bustard's pace, nor how to eat double-tongued mattocks with mustard, unless the lords and gentlemen of the court should be pleased to give by B.
So then they would dig up again what the peasants had been burying: and that was the easier because they had left the mattocks and spades which they used lying there.
John and Charles Mattocks were staunch Whigs, ever ready to engage in any enterprise in defence of the freedom of their country, but Edward Mattocks (commonly called Ned Mattocks) was a Tory.
It is said, this extraction of blood so effectually performed by some one of the gallant Whigs on that occasion, completely cured Ned Mattocks of Toryism and caused him never afterward to unite with the enemies of his country.
Captain John Mattocks was one of the brave soldiers who fell at King's Mountain.
All of the brothers were at the battle of King's Mountain, in which Captain Charles Mattocks was killed early in the action when pressing forward with undaunted courage against the enemy.
I don't know exactly what it is, but I have heard that he who is first-rate at matthew mattocks is thought more of than if he were first-rate Latiner.
The first (a dialogue between Quick and Mrs. Mattocks [Footnote: Isaac and Donna Louisa.
The second act ends with a slow glee, therefore I should think the two last lines in question had better be brisk, especially as Quick and Mrs. Mattocks are concerned in it.
I don't think Mrs. Mattockscan do Julia very well.
I stole back, and beheld the old man actually employed asMattocks had informed me.
Then he followed the mattocks into the cab, and told the surly driver to go to Paddington.
There had been no man to meet him, and the mattocks had made their weight felt after the first two miles.
He pointed to the twomattocks which he had placed against the wall.
Between us we had but five musketoons and three pistols, the men carrying, on account of the heat, nothing but their mattocks and spades.
As the depth increased our excitement rose, till at length one of the mattocks struck something that emitted a metallic sound.
Mattocks had climbed nimbly to the upper level, and taking the skull in his fist, turned it about this way and that, curiously.
The men raised their hats, and Mattocks jumped lightly into the grave again, while my uncle returned their salute with the sad sort of smile, a regretful kindness, which he never exceeded, in these solemn precincts.
Him the Augustinian asks: “If the Word of God suffices in the Church, why have you in your sermons appealed for help to the pickaxes, mattocks and spades of the peasants?
A fanatical preacher in the town had appealed to the mattocks of the peasants.
The greatest amount of iron used is employed in forging fetters; so that you may well fear that enough may not be left for plowshares, and that mattocks and hoes may run short.
While his progenitors, those primæval smiths, that wont to hammer out naught save rakes and hoes, and wearied out with mattocks and plowshares, knew not the art of manufacturing swords.
Sacred (imi) axes and mattocks were used in some ceremonies.
The four sable horsemen led the way, and all the yeomen followed on foot, bearing with them such mattocksas they had been able to procure about Selkirk that morning, and away they marched in a body to Aikwood castle.
They had nothing for it but to begin with such awkward mattocks as they had, namely, a score of huge stones; but, to their excessive joy, the doors gave both way at the first assault.
But Cowan had spoken to Forrest, and General Buford had known both the Barretts and the Mattocks all his life.
Just as the Mattocks and the Forbeses were Union, the Barretts were, or had been, Southern in sympathy.
These blunt-pointed mattocks are not so much used at present as picks with a sharp point mounted in the same way, and specially adapted for working in ice or hard frozen soil.
They, however, have mattocks and pickaxes (sikla) of their own manufacture, which are still in use.
The mattocks they carried were the same weight as their husbands' mattocks and the women were going to do the same work as the men.
I met the present scholars marching with military tread, mattocks on shoulders, to the school paddies.
The mattocks and other implements which had been used in the preparation of the paddy or were to be used in getting in the crops and in cultivating, harvesting, threshing and cleaning it were all new.
But the mattocks were at the very bottom of the chest, and had no handles.
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