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1. I dug around with the trowel as best I could, to a depth of about a foot
2. , and his trowel in the other, the enemy was so close to him
3. Then I opened the door and there you were, standing with the trowel in your hand and a smile on your face
4. old man stood up, a trowel in one hand, and spinach in the other
5. “”Luigi, bring me a trowel and some sample bags over
6. Once he gave her a trowel
7. He must have been completely faithful, in every nook and cranny of his slightest thought, to give her a trowel; and she had received it with an enthusiasm which surprised him
8. The trowel fell from her hand, clattered across the pavement and clanked against the step, out of reach
9. Without the trowel the work would be tedious—and dirty—as now she’d have to dig with the screwdriver
10. that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or trowel of the Egyptians, or the pen of
11. The musical ringing of Bundy's trowel, the noise of the carpenters' hammers and saws and the occasional moving of a pair of steps
12. I believe he had been knighted himself for storming the English grammar at the point of the pen, in a desperate address engrossed on vellum, on the occasion of the laying of the first stone of some building or other, and for handing some Royal Personage either the trowel or the mortar
13. containing two hundredweight, and he used to have to dig it out of these barrels with a trowel, and put it into a metal tank, where it was kept covered with water, and the empty barrels were returned to the makers
14. Lay it on with a trowel
15. He is robed as a grand elect perfect and sublime mason with trowel and apron, marked made in Germany
16. But she had been observed almost immediately on her return by some people of scrupulous character and great influence: they had seen her idling in the churchyard, restoring as well as she could with a little trowel a baby's obliterated grave
17. “My Terra Firma ranking is too abysmal to say out loud,” I said, laying on the false modesty with a trowel
18. He dropped the tulip bulb and buried the trowel in the dirt
19. He dug a new hole with the trowel, striking the dirt harder than he had to
20. When he had lain there some time, he was told to get up, and a white leather apron, such as the others wore, was put on him: he was given a trowel and three pairs of gloves, and then the Grand Master addressed him
21. He told him that he should try to do nothing to stain the whiteness of that apron, which symbolized strength and purity; then of the unexplained trowel, he told him to toil with it to cleanse his own heart from vice, and indulgently to smooth with it the heart of his neighbor
22. This silence was broken by one of the brethren, who led Pierre up to the rug and began reading to him from a manuscript book an explanation of all the figures on it: the sun, the moon, a hammer, a plumb line, a trowel, a rough stone and a squared stone, a pillar, three windows, and so on
23. And buried in the limestone and steel of her robot body was her terror and crying out, walled in, with someone tapping the trowel on the exterior wall, the job finished, and, ironically, it was her own hand she saw before her that had wielded the trowel, set the final brick in place, frothed on the thick slush of mortar and pushed everything into a tightness and a self-finished prison
24. “Don’t you have a feeling that this has all happened before?” inquired Stendahl, setting to work with trowel and mortar and brick now
25. Sticking the trowel firmly into the earth, he began to dig a small trench
26. "Have you another trowel? I could give you a hand, then we could clear off quick
27. My bricks, being second-hand ones, required to be cleaned with a trowel, so that I learned more than usual of the qualities of bricks and trowels
28. Such sayings themselves grow harder and adhere more firmly with age, and it would take many blows with a trowel to clean an old wiseacre of them
29. Venturing one day to substitute deeds for words, he turned up his cuffs, seized a plasterer's board, and having loaded his trowel without mishap, with a complacent look toward the lathing overhead, made a bold gesture thitherward; and straightway, to his complete discomfiture, received the whole contents in his ruffled bosom
30. “He must first receive the trowel,” whispered one of the brothers
1. Smoke troweled across the sky
1. Whilst Lemoss drank the soup the others fetched spades and forks, trowels and various other things which seemed to all fit neatly into his cart
2. We stopped at the edge of the excavated area where Matt and Tim were on their knees, trowels and brushes in hand
3. trowels striking the bricks,
4. Workmen in aprons, standing on scaffolds, were laying bricks, pouring mortar out of vats, and smoothing it with trowels
5. trowels, and the creak of wheels
6. But leave your trowels and sharpen your swords!'
7. And there were hams and strings of onions hanging from the roof, and against the walls were gum boots and oilskins and hatchets and pairs of shears and spades and trowels and things for carrying mortar in and fishing-rods and fishing-nets and sacks
8. All the gaunt wrecks, the blackened skeletons of houses that stared so dismally at the sunlit grass of the hill, would presently be echoing with the hammers of the restorers and ringing with the tapping of their trowels
9. My bricks, being second-hand ones, required to be cleaned with a trowel, so that I learned more than usual of the qualities of bricks and trowels