XIV Tropile swam up out of hammering blackness into daylight and pain.
It's the old god Vulcan and a thousand assistants of his hammeringaway on their anvils," said Harry, "and they hammer out a regular tune.
By shouting and hammering with our sticks, we eventually succeeded in attracting the notice of the constable, and pointed out the real culprit, and the pin was then and there found on him.
The outfit reached Julia in the course of time, and found that "Blacky" Potts had set up his shop in a large circular tent, and washammering away briskly on his anvil.
She was hammering away on her typewriter, while Hiram was deep in a mathematical problem, his tongue out and gripped by his teeth.
Meantime the two huge belligerents were hammering stunning blows at each other.
When the hammering business begins we again find a likeness to the Sachs music, but what a dissimilarity from the petty tapping of Mime!
Siegfried plays with him as a cat plays with a mouse, and at last plunges the sword into him--and from a thicket comes the malignant laugh of Alberich, barked to Mime's own hammering phrase.
With her pulses hammering she went up to the desk, took the pen, and signed her name to the register.
The preposterousness of the whole affair kept hammeringat her thoughts.
Frants put down his light, and began again hammering at the boards; almost unconsciously he also began to hum aloud an air which his old master used always to sing when he was engaged in finishing any piece of work.
Will you go on hammeringand nailing till Doomsday?
The wind made such a noise that we heard nothing of the approach to the house; and the first that we knew of anyone's coming was a hammering at the door.
As I came down the stairs, I saw my Cousin Dolly run out into the inner lobby, and her face, in the dusk, was as white as paper; and the same instant there came a hammering at the hall door.
I heard presses open and shut; and once or twice the noise of hammering overhead; and then silence again; but no silence was for long.
Now it began hammering again; he had caught sight of a certain green-painted dinghy down by the harbour, and that particular craft interested him more than all the other rowing boats in the world.
And the Lord hates all that hammering and smithying about at turbines and steam carts and friction cylinders.
Some one was coughing in the thick, rifle-fog near me, and presently I heard Nick swearing and hammering at the door with his gun butt.
He seized the poker, and began hammering at a lump of coal.
To the accompaniment of a steadyhammering she finished her ablutions with a grim and wrathful haste.
Admiral Porter has been hammering away valiantly for years at Congressional thick-heads for the neglect of the navy, but it was not until the late Samuel J.
At first we could not walk at all; our legs were bruised and sore from the hammering on, and the iron pressing on the ankles was so painful that we were obliged to tie bandages under the chains during the daytime.
For the second time I had to submit to the hammering process, and this time the fetter was rivetted to the entire satisfaction of the smith and chief.
Then a light seemed to flash through his brain, and of a sudden he realized something that fired the blood in his veins and set his pulses hammering feverishly.
Instantly there was a loudhammering upon it, and a harsh demand for admittance.
The hammering of heavy feet on the hard trail sounded directly behind him.
The lamp at the street-corner shone on their faces; and close under the light of it Master Stokes and I were hammering one another.
Then that held-fast leg began to throb and throb, and a hundred thousand little hammers began a-hammering all up my backbone, while cold spasms went quivering through me and outer the top of my head.
After a certain amount of hammering he must reply!
It took a year and five months--breathless months of strain and stress--while Germany was hammering East and West on the long-drawn lines of the Allies.
Though MacArthur's troops and planes were hammering hard at the Japs, the devils from the Land of the Rising Sun still held most of New Guinea.
Of course the English-born air ace didn't hear him, because all of the Fortress's guns were hammering death and destruction into the four remaining Zeros.
He answered at once, and his heart started hammering against his ribs as the crisp spoken orders came through from the carrier far below and several miles to the north of his position.
Why was he hammeringthe horses over the head with a stable fork held tightly in his right hand?
I was standing guard on the forest's edge; I crept back, hearing the hammeringand the little bell ringing the Angelus of Tric-Trac.
The cushions of the seats were afire, and a policeman was hammering out the sparks with naked fists.
After some hours of this, when half of those in the German trenches had been made nearly crazy by the incessant hammering and many had been killed, the great push was on.
Anyone can wade in and hammer a foe if he does not care how he is hammered in turn, but often the hammering he gets is more than he can give, unless he studies to shun injury.
Still less agreeable is it to be awakened in the night by the incessant hammering of the Indian miners.
For hammering in eight nails he made me pay half a gold ounce, and at first he demanded twelve dollars.
After wandering half an hour up and down without seeing a light or meeting a soul, I heard a violent hammering at a door at a little distance.
This repeated hammering and demand for soda water at last produced the desired effect.
Not until the beginning of the next year, when General Grant, supplied with almost unlimited men and munitions, began his irresistible hammering at Lee's army, did the final phase of the war commence.
By the blockade of Southern ports, by an overwhelming weight of men and materials, and by relentlesshammering on the field of battle, the North was victorious.
