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Example sentences for "smithy"

Lexicographically close words:
smiteth; smithery; smithes; smithies; smiths; smithying; smiting; smitten; smoak; smoake
  1. Wish you luck, old man," called Smithy as Mason started his motor, "give my best regards to your father.

  2. This won't be the first time you have been bawled out by the old man," replied Smithy with a broad grin.

  3. Leaving them, however, to shift for themselves, the two daring oarsmen continued their rapid course down the stream, amid the deafening shouts of the crowd on Smithy Bank.

  4. Tom Syddall's shop was situated on Smithy Bank, in the immediate neighbourhood both of the Cross and of Salford Bridge.

  5. But no effectual opposition could be offered--the approach to the bridge from Smithy Bank being strongly barricaded.

  6. Heaving a sigh, with which such idle dreams as he had indulged generally end, he left the post of vantage he had occupied, and, with the design of proceeding to Deansgate, tracked a narrow alley that quickly brought him to Smithy Bank.

  7. Jackie" sleeps with his fathers, and the smithy is replaced by a modern cottage, into whose masonry many blackened stones from the old forge were incorporated.

  8. The door of a smithy stood open just ahead, with forge-fires glowing and the hammer ringing on the anvil.

  9. Up in the belfries, as they passed, the bells were clanging until the whole town rang like a smithy on the eve of war, for madcap apprentices had the ropes, and were ringing for exercise.

  10. Yes, yes; the old neighbors who would hang about the smithy used to laugh at him.

  11. The vicarage is opposite the smithy and the inn, and when mother and Kate got there, only a few dragoons were about.

  12. Leaving her to rest in the ale-house, the Colonel had gone on with the horses to the nearest smithy at Milford.

  13. Here, in the "Bull and Mouth," Mother Braggs ruled by day and Master Joe by night, and here beyond a doubt the stranger lady had tarried while her father had gone on with the horses to the nearest smithy at Milford.

  14. Wulf has been to my smithy many times, sometimes about matters of repairs to arms, but more often, I think, to see my son Osgod.

  15. Step Hen and Davy Jones were poking their heads over the edge, curious to know just what Smithy had been saved from.

  16. Smithy had had a taste of real outdoors, and would never be satisfied again to live in that old "sissy" rut.

  17. But strange to say, Smithy was less given to excitement over his exploit than either of the other boys.

  18. Bob White did not have a gun either, since he had let Smithy go off with his; but he did not mean to be caught defenseless, should trouble arise; and back of him he was holding that handy camp hatchet.

  19. Davy Jones; "will wolves be apt to rob Smithy of his hard-earned laurels?

  20. Behind Smithy and Mike came Davy Jones, carrying his little camera, and looking for new worlds to conquer.

  21. The journey was soon resumed; but Thad saw to it that some one else besides Smithy held the leading rope of the tricky Mike.

  22. Smithy was proving one thing, at least; he might never turn out to be much of a hunter; but he surely possessed his father's spirit, when it came to game qualities.

  23. EN#1] One morning the master, Mimer, came to the smithy with a troubled look upon his face.

  24. Quickly, then, he went in search of the smithy of the dwarfs.

  25. Then back to the smithy Siegfried went again; and his forge glowed with a brighter fire, and his hammer rang upon the anvil with a cheerier sound, than ever before.

  26. EN#26] So Brok went back to his brother and his smithy without the head of Loki, but he was loaded with rich and rare presents from the Asa-folk.

  27. EN#3] Be this as it may, however, blind hate and jealousy were from this time uppermost in the coarse and selfish mind of Veliant; and he sought how he might drive the lad away from the smithy in disgrace.

  28. And so, while Siegfried was still a young lad, his father sent him to live with a smith called Mimer, whose smithy was among the hills not far from the great forest.

  29. The days which he passed in the smithy were mirthful and happy; and the sound of his hammer rang cheerfully, and the sparks from his forge flew briskly, from morning till night.

  30. Shall we not go back to the smithy by the great forest, and to the life of ease and safety that may be ours there?

  31. But now the smithy was not merely idealized, it was transformed.

  32. The smithy often glowed with the double fire of its forge and my fancy.

  33. Learn all you can and get a smithy of your own.

  34. A few hours later, Carl Brandow and Hinrich Scheel were riding over the moor from the smithy to Dollan, the same road which they had passed over in the opposite direction not ten minutes before.

  35. I'll stop for Jochen Prebrow as I pass the smithy to-morrow; he can sit on the box with my Fritz, and I'll bring your luggage out to you.

  36. He could not have waited a moment longer; the sight of the deserted smithy had infinitely increased the terrible anxiety which had tortured him all the way.

  37. The smithy was lonely and deserted; several hours must have passed since the bellows, had been used: a thick covering of ashes lay over the dead coals.

  38. He had not seen even the smithy since, and if his brother had not come to Altefaehr once or twice, would have known nothing about how things were now going in Dollan.

  39. Jochen looked after his retreating figure, then took his own little bundle on a stick over his shoulder, and began to ascend the moor, above whose topmost crest the roof of his father's smithy was just visible.

  40. So the youngster set out for the smithy himself, and made a club that weighed five tons, and it took a hundred men to turn it on the anvil.

  41. He could not, of course, with the limited supply of metal in the village, and the still more limited smithy arrangements, manufacture bombs with a metal case; but after some cogitation he found a means of surmounting this difficulty.

  42. Well, the smith couldn't smithy it any bigger with all his men.

  43. So Grumblegizzard went off to the smithy himself, and forged a club of fifteen tons, and it took a hundred men to turn it on the anvil.

  44. The mention of the smithy was received as an inspiration.

  45. The 15th of October approached--as it happened, the Friday before the smithy prayer-meeting.

  46. At the smithy he found about a dozen persons, mostly youths, just come out from the two or three mills which give employment to Clough End, and one rather older than the rest, a favourite prayer-leader in Sunday meetings.

  47. So when it was proposed to him to meet at the smithy on a certain Saturday evening, he agreed.

  48. The Red Brook was leaping and dancing beside them, the mountain ashes were just bursting into leaf, the old smithy was ahead of them on the heathery slope, and to their left the Downfall, full and white, thundered over its yellow rocks.

  49. Looking at each other wildly, the whole congregation broke from the smithy down the hill.

  50. The startled congregation in the smithy scrambled to their feet.

  51. She observed that he was going up to the old smithy on the side of Kinder Low, and in a few minutes she got up and sauntered lazily after him.

  52. So the deserted smithy stood as it were spectator for ever of that younger, busier England which wanted it no more.

  53. It was with something of doubt in my mind, nevertheless, that I presently stepped into the smithy and accosted him.

  54. He was a tall man with a stubbly growth of grizzled hair about his lank jaws, and he was leaning in at that window of the smithy which gave upon a certain grassy back lane.

  55. And so, having watched the old man totter across to "The Bull," I turned into the smithy and, set about lighting the fire.

  56. Or one may close one's eyes and hark to the chirp of the swallows under the eaves, the distant lowing of cows, or the clink of hammers from the smithy across the way.

  57. Long before I reached the smithy I could hear the ring of Black George's hammer, though the village was not yet astir, and it was with some trepidation as to my reception that I approached the open doorway.

  58. Then he covered the fire with coal, threw his apron over Clare's head, and departed, locking the door of the smithy behind him.

  59. He assured himself that the thing would be over in a moment; that the water was quiet, and could not follow him; that presently he would find himself in the smithy by the warm forge-fire.

  60. She had been able so far to quiet him, probably, that he remembered he had the key in his pocket; for they thought they heard the door of the smithy open.

  61. While they stood looking at the house, the thundering at the door of the smithy ceased.

  62. He had heard the little Nibelung men who came to the smithy to talk with Mimer, he had heard them say that whoever should bathe in the blood of Regin the dragon would henceforth be safe from every foe.

  63. Again and again as he crouched in a shadowed corner, Siegfried would stir up the embers of the forge until all the smithy was lighted with a ruddy glow.

  64. Into the dusky glow of the smithy plunged the hero, and swiftly he slew the traitor Mimer.

  65. He knew Ralph, in some way, recognized the men inside the deserted smithy as the trio of guards who had come back after being dismissed by the sheriff.

  66. If it did so, it should have crossed the stream again near where the smithy stands to-day, and this double crossing of the stream may be accounted for by the presence of a shrine and of habitation in the oldest times.

  67. Illustration] From this point it has been commonly imagined that the Old Road must have coincided with the modern Hyde Street, and have followed this line as far as the smithy at Headbourne Worthy.

  68. My groom will take your mare Round to the smithy on the Market Square.

  69. Count Arras," said the Archbishop, "I promised you a gift when last I left you at your smithy door.

  70. Long before midnight the peasants came straggling to the smithy from all quarters, and by daylight the blacksmith had led them over the volcanic hills to the lip of the tremendous pass through which the Hungarians must come.


  71. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smithy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.