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For a few seconds there followed an awful struggle great wings beating mightily downwards, beak hammering, and fangs meeting the hammerings with audible clashings. It seemed that the bird could not quite lift the beast, and that the beast could not quite retain connection with solid earth. And then the bird rose, slowly, strainingly, with her vast pinions winnowing the air with deep "how-hows!"
By the time the ship, to which every one has ere this become attached, is so far advanced as to have all her spars on end, the artificers will have completed their hammerings, sawings, and nailings, and the main-hold will have been stowed with water-tanks.
Kennet has preserved for us the "rank relation," as he calls it; not, he adds, but "we have had divers hammerings and conflicts within us to leave it out." These studies of polemical divinity, like those of the ancient scholastics, were not to be obtained without a robust intellectual exercise.
And, as Margaret said: "If they do manage to cut through, they must come up head-first, and, in such emergence, what chance would they have against us?" So I relieved Buckwheat from deck duty, placed him on watch over the cabin floor, to be relieved by the steward in Margaret's watches. In the late afternoon, after prodigious hammerings and clangings in a score of places, all noises ceased.
How he hated the whole thing the dampness which mildewed his shoes and rusted out his nettings; the day heat which kept him bathed in clamminess; the pestiferous insects; the forest with its voices like sobbings and hammerings and demoniac chatterings; the food he had to eat; the company he had to keep; the chiefs who bored him; the girls who derided him; the beachcombers who nauseated him; the white sands, the blue waters, the smells, the sounds, the routine of existence with one day precisely like another the whole thing of it.
When he went away...but she stopped suddenly. Not looking at him, she said that sometimes one felt lonely even though there was a great deal to do, as there always was in a town like Polchester. Yes, Morris said that he knew that. And that was really all. There were long pauses in their conversation, pauses that were like the little wooden hammerings on the stage before the curtain rises. Mrs.
Not only were there violent knocks, hammerings, groanings, and sounds of footsteps in the ceilings and walls, out strange sights frightened the servants out of their wits.
The noises as from a great city swelled strident: shouts, hammerings, laughter, rumble of vehicles, cracking of lashes, barkings of dogs innumerable betokening a thriving mart of industry.
Baby having been made to disgorge his too sharp repast, the talk ran on to other things, Miss Prue giving much valuable advice on "How to live on ten dollars a week;" but the sage maxims were so interspersed with hammerings, hunts, and hurry, that I fear much of their value was lost on Sara.
The letter had lain on the chest of drawers in the passage; he could have seen it for himself, had he troubled to look. Maurice waved her away. He was staring at the envelope; he believed he knew the handwriting. His heart beat with precise hammerings. He laid the letter on the table, and took a few turns in the room before he picked it up again.
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