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Something molten rushed through her, pouring over every crack and fracture still left gaping and open. Not to hurt or mar - but to weld.
To forge.
cast-iron erection, on
heavy bonecrushing armor-smashing blades.
I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
I'd like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the side of a white oak tree. I know the handle has long since rotted away with time. Perhaps the rusty frame of a coal-oil lantern still hangs there on the blade.
He says tools but somebody will mention the cutting edges of things and one will see billhook, scythe, fauchard, debris, wood chips and sketches all entangled like words in summertime, when crickets and corn, lives and vines, sunflowers and stormy hours touch and quench one another.
A knife. A silver knife, like the one that had cut out Alice's heart.
Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.
Silence took one of the burlap sacks from her pack and handed it to William Ann, then removed her hammer. It wasn't some war weapon, like her grandfather had spoken of. Just a simple tool for pounding nails. Or other things.
Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the act which fathered the tool, and between the cracking of a marrow-bone and the riding down town in an automobile lies only a difference of degree.
Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.
A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will.
Because it is on the anvil of pain that the gods forge heroes.
Scorpions like holes. We had to put our arms in the holes to dig out the smelting residues. We always performed critter checks before an excavation, but one morning, I put an arm in and felt a sharp pierce. When I brought my hand out, it was red and already swelling.
The miser is counting his gold pieces, unaware of Death, who holds two clear symbols: an hourglass and a pitchfork."
"Why a pitchfork and not a scythe?"
"Because Death reaps but the Devil harvests
Push out a bayonet. If it strikes fat, push deeper. If it strikes iron, pull back for another day.
The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoe
As he does for a polished mirror for the King.
What kind of archaeologist carries a weapon?
thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.
It was a chef's knife," I said, holding my hands about a foot apart. "And a very large one."
"That's what she said," Ethan murmured.
Gentlemen, I give you the Whittle engine.
An olive, with a pit ...
La Griffe, "The Claw." Simple and small. The index finger goes through the hole near the blade. Favored by climbers and boaters.
And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.
A most mechanical and dirty hand. I shall have such revenges on you...both. The things I will do, what they are, yet I know not. But they will be the terrors of the earth
A foot of steel looks as if it has been transformed into warm butter and gouged by the fingers of a child,
A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.
In order to walk the path of the edge of the penknife the patience of the Saint Job is needed. In order to walk the path of the edge of the penknife the tenacity of the well tempered steel is needed.
Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
workin' in a coalmine
All this is, is a nine hundred dollar hammer.
If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses
A mighty oak can be felled by even the tiniest of insects when one allows them to continually gnaw at it. (Callie's Mother)
This town of Sheffield is very populous and large, the streets narrow, and the houses dark and black, occasioned by the continued smoke of the forges, which are always at work: Here they make all sorts of cutlery-ware, but especially that of edged-tools, knives, razors, axes, &. and nails
Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they of
iron or of gold.
Cavanaugh's knife, Ernest Emerson's CQC-7W. The hook at the top opens the blade as the knife is drawn from a pocket.
Men not men, but animas of coal and iron and clay. Fauna of the elements, carbon, iron, silicon: elementals. They had perhaps some of the weird inhuman beauty of minerals, the lustre of coal, the weight and blueness and resistance of iron, the transparency of glass.
Dig until you hit rock. Then take out that jackhammer and go a little deeper.
And the poor beetle, that we tread upon,
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies.
Why use a sledgehammer when a butterfly net will suffice?
A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel.
An axe without a blade is just a stick.
Consider the rock from which you were cut, the quarry from which you were mined.
I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface and exit through it.
his abuse
makes her an anvil
without spark
People coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.
men crown the knave and scourge the tool that did his will
A hole in my Sam.
LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
Carpenters don't make their saws and hammers, tailors don't make their scissors and needles, and plumbers don't make their wrenches, but blacksmiths can make their hammers, tongs, anvils, and chisels
I reached out for something else and found it: the red croquet mallet, just occurring there on the ground like some easy device, some plot element stashed there for the big finale.
It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.
Tell me what it is, or prepare to eat harpoon.
This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.
anglepoise lamp.
No small thing, a bee's sting When it enters the heart Not so benign, the growing vine When it tears stone apart
With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.
Who was the first that forged the deadly blade? Of rugged steel his savage soul was made.
A faint tickling on the back of his right hand caused Eragon to look down. A huge, wingless cricket clung to his glove. The insect was hideous: black and bulbous, with barbed legs and a massive skull-like head. Its carapace gleamed like oil.
Beg pardon? I detected large deposits of vanity. Vanity is the softest of bedrocks to sink shafts into.
I'm just a tool, I'm just a big, hard tool.
Its wounds are as fresh as the wounds of the men who carved
The moon was sharp enough to draw blood from a stone
Who would sharpen a point aginst the darkness of the world?
The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.
What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school; For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.
Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil.
[Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage,
Vingt fois sur le metier remettez votre ouvrage.]
For all your years prepare,
And meet them ever alike;
When you are the anvil, bear
When you are the hammer, strike.
The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.
a noose will serve. Ser Alliser,
The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.
Soldering iron, Max."
Tim cauterised the severed veins. Medical instruments were often just precision variations of the same tools handymen used.
The medium of exchange in a gold mine is the pickax.
To take off the collar required a blacksmith. He
The hardest stone to cut and carve is within us.
strung a small white stone with a hole in it. 'This is more precious
So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
Handle your tools without mittens.
Dark accurate plunger down the successive knell
Of arch on arch, where ogives burst a red
Reverberance of hail upon the dead
Thunder like an exploding crucible!
i have a headache i bet thtat hammer will work
But which is the stone that supports the bridge?
What has 32 legs and 1 tooth?'
What?' we all asked.
A West Virginia unemployment line.
The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.
A bad workman blames his tools.
Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
Iron might weep, but it did not break.
Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
The axe is the most important bush tool there is. Outside of fire, nothing may contribute to your comfort and leisure than a well chosen axe.
WORK BY PUSHING TEETH;
Allow the hammer of pain to split open the stone armor of your hardness; exposing the tenderness and beauty of your sweet spirit and sacred heart.
You must strike in measure, when there are many to strike on one Anvile.
The strongest of metals is forged under the most violent of conditions, my lord. It is buried deep in the hottest coals and then beat and pounded until it is bent into shaped. Then it becomes the strongest, most lethal of weapons. A thing of absolute beauty and force
The guillotine is the masterpiece of the plastic arts
Its click
Creates perpetual motion
("The Head")
Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry clamor. Now shape the sole! now deftly curl The glassy vamp around it, And bless the while the bright-eyed girl Whose gentle fingers bound it!