The use of bronze, moreover, does not seem to go back much beyond the age of Sargon of Akkad; at all events, the oldest metal tools and weapons found at Tello are of copper, without any admixture of tin.
Means, however, were found for hardening the copper when it was used, and copper tools were employed to cut even the hardest of stones.
Even bronze was scarce, and the majority of the tools employed by the workmen were made of copper, which was artificially hardened when in use.
What good would a chest of tools do a carpenter unless he could use them?
The best tools receive their temper from fire, their edge from grinding; the noblest characters are developed in a similar way.
Bud swore a little and got out more tools and went after the magneto with grim determination.
Accustomed as he was to exercising his inventive faculty in overcoming certain obstacles raised by the wilderness in the path of comfort, Bud went to work with what tools he had, and with the material closest to his hand.
However--" With a sigh of resignation Bud got out what tools he wanted and went to work.
Crude tools they were, and crude materials--like using a Stilson wrench to adjust a carburetor, he told Lovin Child who tagged him up and down the cabin.
In default of good masters, the child found excellent engravers at Hamburg; this is the reason that, as a young man, he preferred at first graving tools to the paint brush.
There is always work And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.
Few tools are wanted; the most important are some cast-iron moulds, tongs (fig.
Indeed, in mere style, in the handling of the tools of his craft, Cooper never attained a master's ease and power.
The forest must be cut down and fashioned into a bridge, as well as the tools and the skill at command will permit.
And so, one typically bleak March day, he assembled his dog, a span or two of mules, his scanty farming tools and himself into a box car headed south.
It had a bar, and Joan somehow got the silly idea it was the duty of the bride's father, for this occasion, to stock that bar with tools having an alcoholic content.
He had no more legal right to take her sewing-machine than he would have to attach the tools of a mechanic.
He did it with a little hesitancy, picking his way among the words as one might handle broken glass, or the edged tools of an unfamiliar trade.
It seemed to be an instinct with him to render every kind of service that might be needed, with the gun, or the tools which were all about him.
The work was necessarily slow and tedious, and the principal work of the women was to weave these articles of wear with the simple tools they had.
By the exercise of their ingenuity they succeed in fashioning clothing, tools and weapons and not only do they train nature's forces to work for them but they subdue and finally civilize neighboring savage tribes.
Afterward one may add as many tools as necessity requires and their business permits.
The balance of the tools are the same for work at home or for business.
The tools required and the best method of using same, for work at home or for business.
Sometimes he had a partner and a donkey, or burro, to carry tools and pack supplies.
Many people sold all they had to get money to buy mining tools and food enough to live on till they struck gold.
Shall the Bruce sit tamely down to await the working of the villain oath, and bid its tools go free, filling the whole land with well-trained murderers?
Was not the great Julius Scaliger within an ace of never getting his tools sharpened at all?
Immediately the word comes to "dig in" the men get out their entrenchingtools or "grubbers" and set to work.
The men were turned loose with their entrenching tools and practised "digging in" every day.
They had only thetools and household goods they brought with them, or such things as they could fashion with their own hands.
Abraham's father had been a carpenter, so the use of tools was no mystery to him; and during his trip to New Orleans with Allen Gentry he had learned enough about flatboats to give him confidence in this task of shipbuilding.
Kenite means "smith," and the tribe furnished those itinerant smiths who provided Canaan with its tools and arms.
Will Hopkins can take an axe and a few tools into the green woods in the fall, and sail down the bay in a new schooner in the spring when the ice goes.
He had not nearly enough proper food for his family; clothing was even more at a discount; tools with which to work were almost as lacking as in a cave man's dwelling; the whole family was going to pieces from sheer discouragement.
His neighbors dropped their tools and rushed for him.
The brown men called the stuff wampum, and because of having such poortools it must be an enormous amount of work to make it.
I was puzzled to know how these brown men, who had not tools of iron, could build such a vessel, which would have cost the labor of two Dutchmen, with every convenience for working, during at least ten days.
From the ploughs, from the fields, from the shops they come; their tools turned into implements of war even as Israel faced the Philistines long ago.
One must work with the tools that are to hand," said Rosmore with a shrug of his shoulders.
The hut was divided into a shed for tools and storage, or perhaps for stabling a horse upon occasion, and a larger chamber which served as a dwelling.
After making a fire, Nephi melted the iron ore to get the iron out of it, and then he made tools from the iron.
Nephi had no tools with which to make a ship, and he did not know how he should get along with the work.
I determined to confirm their minds in the latter supposition, and so one day I threw down my tools and refused to do another thing.
Mr. Morey called to me to go and get the tools and come there and take off Hall's irons.
But, unfortunately, England was then ruled by James and Charles, and they were controlled by profligate ministers, who were the tools of the crafty cardinal.
By this union, foreign legislation took the place of the guidance of those best qualified to know the national grievances; the Irish members became, in the British senate, merely the tools of the administration.
None now remained in the House of Commons but some forty Independents, who were the tools of the army, and who voted to Cromwell their hearty thanks.
I have no doubt that a hoe that has had its handle docked and its blade dished by a blacksmith is the best instrument to use, for most other cutting tools have been tried and rejected.
The boy could carry all kinds of cutting tools in a bag, and when you had sized up your hill of corn you could pick out the tool that seemed best in your judgment, and go at it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tools" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: gear; hardware; tackle; thing
