Just as the dog again laid Puss low, a tremendous shower of pitchforks fell, beating on everything with dreadful effect.
I noticed several immense caldron kettles of boiling oil, upon the rims of which little devils sat, with pitchforks in hand, and poked down the helpless victims who floundered in the liquid.
Below her in the wood was a load of hay: a man and a boy, with pitchforks in their hands, were running towards her.
Besides, I don't like the way they handle those pitchforks they've been using to handle the hay with.
They must have been recruited from the fields near by, for they were carrying all manner of pitchforks and such tools that looked dangerous when held in the hands of aroused tillers of the soil.
Their pitchforks were then given back to them, and they departed, rejoicing.
She took one of the pitchforks to help defend the scaling of the fort, in case it should be undertaken.
Two tenants, Teddy and Will, stood on the dirt heap with pitchforks in their hands.
Teddy and Will stood by with pitchforks unrelaxed.
Then, the next morning, Uncle Solomon and Uncle John took their pitchforks and went over to the field and spread the grass out evenly, so that it would dry better; and they left it until the afternoon.
Then Uncle John lifted little John out of the cart, and Uncle Solomon and Uncle John both stuck their pitchforks into the haycock and lifted it right up and pitched it over the side of the cart, so that it fell into the cart.
It is on Walpurgis Night and Midsummer Eve that they ride through the air astride ofpitchforks and churn-dashers.
His pursuers were dressed as witches and wizards and provided with the indispensable crutches, brooms, and pitchforks which make up the outfit of these uncanny beings.
As he rose to his feet, several men were in sight on the top of the hill, with pitchforks in their hands at the sight of whom the Indians fled in the direction they had come.
The men with the pitchforks soon disappeared from the hill continuing on to the hay-fields, and Joseph found himself alone, affording him a good opportunity to reflect on his escape and situation.
Davy pushed his way eagerly through the crowd, expecting to see Gobobbles; but the white object proved to be the Cockalorum hemmed in by a ring of pitchforks sticking in the ground, and with his feathers more rumpled than ever.
Davy and the Goblin rushed out, and were just in time to see Gobobbles go by like a flash, with a crowd of people armed with pitchforks in hot pursuit.
She defended the wolf against the peasants, who had returned to strike him with their pitchforksand pikes, as they believed him dead.
It was haymaking time and French women and children were tossing the hay on wooden pitchforks during hot days which came between heavy rains.
Quickly the enemy discovered their whereabouts and laid down a barrage fire which, with deadly accuracy, plowed up their old front line and tossed it about on the pitchforks of bursting shells.
Not only the muskets and pikes but the scythes and pitchforkswould have been too few for the hundreds of thousands who, forgetting all distinction of sect or faction, would have risen up like one man to defend the English soil.
Several had brought their pitchforks and their rakes and consulted one another, terror-stricken, under the trees.
The cattle and the Spaniards came over the ice; and the sheep on reaching the hedge were already beginning to nibble at the leaves, when Korneliz broke through the bushes; and the others followed with their pitchforks into the light.
They armed themselves withpitchforks and spades; and the women remained near the church with the priest.
Moreover, it is the custom for fellows with pitchforks always to go with the carts wherein condemned criminals, and more especially witches, are carried to execution.
While some of the bystanders kept tossing the blazing mass, others hoisted portions of it on pitchforks or poles and ran hither and thither, holding them as high as they could.
Accordingly, on a day appointed they met, lighted a large fire, placed the best calf in it, and standing round the blazing pile drove the animal with pitchforks back into the flames whenever it attempted to escape.
By this time men were running all over the Park with loaded pistols and guns in their hands, while others carried pitchforks and ropes to try to lasso the panther for they really wished to capture him alive if they could.
While the goats had been talking to the kids, several men with rakes and pitchforks in their hands had come up behind them and formed in a semicircle.
Dey was made out of wood, so was de rakes, pitchforks an' some of de hoes.
Den we took depitchforks an' tossed de straw up an' about, an' dat let de wheat go to de bottom on a big cloth.
Then the bell began to ring, and the peasants came out of their doors, armed with pitchforks and clubs: noisy crowds collected.
Again there followed a short whispering between my brother and the domestics; whereupon the latter seized pitchforks and began to toss down the hay from the wain.
Above the workhouse about six men armed with pitchforks met us.
Their other weapons were thirteen pitchforks and twelve axes.
Muskets and pitchforks did not seem of much use against these.
Yet she had been taken by a party of landsmen, with muskets against cannon and pitchforks against pistols.
His people were armed for the most part only with pitchforks and with spades.
I first tried to force back the lock, and broke two pitchforks in the attempt.
The gentleman looked at his broken pitchforks and gate, his scattered hay, and burning wood, and his glance was not a pleasant one.
I, for instance, am always willing to hear a concert or an opera, but I admit, that when sometimes the boys and girls at work in the field sing until the pitchforks and harrows ring, that is the only music for me.
Others, hearing that Rzeslewo wished to make an onslaught on Jastrzeb manor, seized pitchforks and pulled out pickets from the fences.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pitchforks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
