armury

Updated: May 19, 2025

All the surrounding cottages were more or less scenes of the same operation; the scurr of whetting spread into the sky from all parts of the village as from an armury previous to a campaign. Peace and war kiss each other at their hours of prepara- tion sickles, scythes, shears, and pruning-hooks, ranking with swords, bayonets, and lances, in their common necessity for point and edge.

Thomas Hardy - Far from the Madding Crowd