"Hammer in" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... component, every note of this great harmony, has a special meaning for the engineer; moreover, the smallest dissonance is detected at once, even though he be almost ready to doze. So finely attuned to the music does the ear become that the dropping of a hammer in the stokehold, the rattling of a chain on deck, the rocking of a barrel in the stores, makes one jump. It is the same with the eye. It is even the same with the hand. We can tell in an instant if a bearing has warmed ever so slightly ...
— An Ocean Tramp • William McFee
... near the door, with the saw in one hand and the hammer in the other, very much in the attitude of listening. At Matthew's approach, he commenced feeling the teeth of the saw, as if ...
— Round the Block • John Bell Bouton
... the left representing a mother surrounded by three children; she holds a large Bible, which the children are reading. The group at the right represents a blacksmith standing at the side of an anvil,—a large hammer in his right hand,—engaged in conversation with a farmer, who holds a rake. The costume of the village girls should be white dresses, decorated with flowers, and garlands on their heads. The gentlemen should be dressed in light pants, white vests, ...
— Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants • James H. Head
... been dignified and correct in his behavior, and a merciful misadventure of Mrs. Bundercombe with a policeman three days previously, which had led to her being arrested with a hammer in her satchel, had finally resulted in her being forced to partake of the hospitality of Holloway for the period of fourteen days; in fact, everything just then with me was couleur ...
— An Amiable Charlatan • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... that you use when you want to keep things in place—keep 'em from fallin' down. There's two kinds. One you must hammer in, ...
— Martha By-the-Day • Julie M. Lippmann
... them with a violence that made hideous din in that narrow space. "You two men wade across here to me or I'll come after you with an ax in one hand and a hammer in the other! Damn you, ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
... men and ocher-colored folk. There seemed to be a mystery somewhere. One imagined them gathering at night in secret to begin their real un-understood life. At times it seemed impossible that it was the same world. Surely the sun that struck like a hammer in Jamaica could not be the gracious warm planet that gilded the gorse of the Antrim glens. And up the Baltic in mid-winter it was bleak as a candle, and even then in Antrim it had a great kindliness. Nor were the winds the same. The hot puffs of the Indian ...
— The Wind Bloweth • Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
... begins with the words "How to Make" is perhaps the most distinctive product of the present-day publishing house. No other type of book can so effectively win to a love for reading a child who seems indifferent to books; who, as a boy friend of mine used to say, "would rather hammer in nails than read." The "How to Make" books tell such a boy how to hammer in nails to some purpose. I happened to see recently a volume called "Boys' Make-at-Home Things." With much curiosity I turned its pages,—pages illustrated with pictures of the make-at-home things of the title,—glancing ...
— The American Child • Elizabeth McCracken |
