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"Anvil" in a Sentence (18 examples)
Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil.
The cobbler is looking for a new anvil.
Tom bought an ACME anvil.
The stirrup is a bone in the middle ear, between the anvil and the inner ear.
This, then, is Christmas, 1862. Everything is silent in Dreamthorp. The smith's hammer reposes beside the anvil. The weaver's flying shuttle is at rest.
Tom hammered the glowing iron on the anvil.
I am like glowing iron, between the hammer and the anvil.
He swims like an anvil.
Human and elephant, mouse and porpoise, all have three small bones in their middle ear — the hammer, the anvil, and the stirrup.
“Some people like to say I am ‘confined’ to this chair. But they don’t know that I am so free, I actually have wings! Can you see them? Look!” he shouts, casting his anvil aside and flapping his arms manically.
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My heart is as an anvil unto sorrow, Which beats upon it like the Cyclops’ hammers […]
I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor’s news […]
1794, William Blake, “The Tyger,” lines 15-16, What the anvil? what dread grasp / Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
Thus at the flaming forge of life / Our fortunes must be wrought; / Thus on its sounding anvil shaped / Each burning deed and thought!
With an anvil-ding / And with fire in him forge thy will / Or rather, rather then, stealing as Spring / Through him, melt him but master him still: [...]
I Have anvil’d out this Iron Age, Which I commit, not to your patronage, But skill and Art […]
The Family Tang caus’d an Iron Pillar to be erected there of three Rods high, and of a proportionable thickness, Anvil’d out of an intire Piece.
I never started a roguery, that did not come out of thy forge in a manner ready anvilled and hammered for execution […]
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