The bishop, trowel in hand, spent hours on the new work.
Masonry seeks to be this beneficent, unambitious, disinterested guide; and it is the very condition of all great structures that the sound of the hammer and the clink of the trowel should be always heard in some part of the building.
The trowel of the Templars is quadruple, and the triangular plates of it are arranged in the form of a cross, making the Kabalistic pantacle known by the name of the Cross of the East.
Work on with the Sword in one hand, and the Trowel in the other!
Therefore it was that the Sword and the Trowel were the insignia of the Templars, who subsequently, as will be seen, concealed themselves under the name of Brethren Masons.
Templars' trowel has triangular plates arranged in the form of a cross, 816-m.
Trowel an emblem of the Degrees of Prince of Jerusalem, 242-m.
Trowel and Sword the emblem of the Templars, 816-m.
Trowel of the Templars is quadruple, making the Kabalist pantacle, 816-m.
Remember always that all Masonry is work, and that the trowel is an emblem of the Degrees in this Council.
Insert a straw in the burrow and, following it, dig downward with a garden trowel and learn the nature of the earthworm's home.
Dig down with a trowel or heavy knife and find this storehouse of food.
Lift them with a trowel or small spade, and keep as much earth on their roots as possible.
Just at the very instant when the "confusion" occurred, a mason, trowel in hand, called for a brick.
This his assistant was so long in handing to him, that he incontinently flew into a towering passion, and discharged from the said trowel a quantity of mortar, which entered the other's windpipe just as he was stammering out an excuse.
And they crowded round to examine the objects in her hand--a dirty earth-stained trowel and a fern.
And gathering up her bundle of living ferns, she walked briskly over the broken ground, then straight across the lawn, waving her trowel at them as she vanished in the shade below the lime trees.
The trowel of fresh mortar is soon spent, either in adding another storey to the turret-shaped edifice, or in cementing into the wall lumps of gravel that give it greater solidity.
The Osmiae and Chalicodomae of to-day are what they were when the first trowel of cement or mud was mixed.
She put on her heavy gloves and brought her trowel from under the front porch, and she and the maid began to dig up the fresh, damp earth on the sunny side of the house.
Miss Ruth still held her trowel in her hand, and her shabby gloves were stained by the weeds she had pulled up.
Rabbits, one of the vestrymen, presented a silver trowel to Viscount Chelsea, to be used in laying the first stone, and to be kept by his lordship as a token of the respect of the parishioners for him.
The sum of money which his work with pick and shovel, with mason's trowel and carpenter's axe has saved the French Government in all these years must be enormous.
He thought the moment was arrived when Birdwood was sent off on an errand and when the Rector, getting up from his kneeler, began to shake the trowel at him impressively.
The Rector waved his trowel remotely, and Pauline blew him kisses until she was made aware of protests in the room behind her.
The surface has been finished with the trowel or hand without polishing.
Magalhaes, that the pottery of the several tribes of the Araquaya River is always made by coiling, the surface being worked down by the hand and water and the aid of a spoon-like trowel made of bamboo.
A curved trowel or a rounded pebble could be used as long as the aperture would admit the hand, but no support excepting the fingers, or an implement shaped for the purpose, could be used beyond this stage.
The question was put to the nobles, the merchants were put to the question, the peasants were knouted and sent to Siberia; still the golden trowel was not forthcoming.
A rake and a hoe and a claw and a trowel and a spade and a heavy line with some pegs to do marking with.
Ethel Brown, on her knees taking up some of the plants with her trowel and placing them in her basket so carefully that there was plenty of earth surrounding each one to serve as a nest when it should be put into Helen's wild flower bed.
She took with her a large basket and a rough-and-ready trowelmade out of the shoulder-blade of a deer.
There are very few noises that cannot find some ear to which they are congenial; and the clink of the mason's trowel is a delight to many good people.
There was nothing to stop him from a good turn to-day among trowel and chisel and callipers; he would see that every man was at his work, and that every stroke of work was truthful.
The trowel is valuable for prying off the loosened bark from old trees, whether felled or standing, and for digging into the ground or into decaying stumps and logs.
The men of the trowel cast significant glances at each other.
What a pity that those men of the trowel are not here to shake their empty heads compassionately at the pious usages of an ignorant but believing people!
The trowel will never attain an ascendency as long as the cross is defended by such brave soldiers, so well trained to combat!
Brethren, our labors in a small sphere are only discontinued that we may resume the work on a grander scale; for the trowel of the Freemasons shall yet build the arch that covers the grave of the greater as well as of the smaller!
You can tell the gentlemen in the city that we in Weselheim shall remain true to the cross: the trowel the Freemasons may keep for themselves.
The noble Earl then received a silver trowel from the Dowager Lady Ward, to whom it had been first presented, and the stone having been lowered to its final resting place, the customary formalities were gone through.
Ten times, twenty times, at every moment, for the least particle of mortar which she lays, she repeats her mensuration, never being quite certain that her trowelis going just where it should.
In our own industries, the plane denotes the joiner, the trowel the mason, the scissors the tailor, the needle the seamstress.
The Halictus has made a trowel of her tongue and licked the wall daintily and methodically in order to polish it.
After directing a rapid glance at the heavy stone hanging over his head and another at Elias and the yellowish individual, Ibarra said to Ñor Juan in a somewhat unsteady voice, "Give me the mortar and get me another trowel up there.
There was heard the noise of the trowel scraping on the stone in the midst of a feeble murmur among the employees, who were congratulating the alcalde on his speech.
He exchanged the small silver trowel for a large iron one, an act which caused some of the spectators to smile, and went forward tranquilly.
Ibarra offered another trowel to the curate, who, after fixing his eyes on him for a moment, descended slowly.
The youth still held the trowel in his hand and was staring with frightened eyes at the body of a man which lay at his feet half-buried among the timbers.
But if the trowel has slain its thousands, the whitewash swab has slain its ten thousands of innocents.
In Herborizing=, a good knife and a narrow and strong trowel are needed; but a very strong knife will serve instead of a trowel or small pick for digging out bulbs, tubers, and the like.
When a sufficient amount of the right mixture has been obtained, it should be spread upon the wire form by means of a small mason's trowel or a large knife.
The simplest is carefully spreading it on with a trowel and smoothing it with the moistened hand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trowel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: buffer; iron; ladle; smoother
