For just as we have seen on the old coin the hammerman [Page: 100] and his motto answer to the town and school; so now on its reissue to the renascent local arts and crafts, with their commemoration in this library. ❋ Patrick Geddes (1893)
It was only when the nails had been driven home and the hammerman had climbed down to admire his handiwork that the flaws in this novel form of punishment became evident. ❋ Smith, Wilbur, 1933- (1993)
Then some thinking fellow grabbed the swaying bag of its scrotum, and in the single frozen instant his action afforded the slaughtermen, the hammerman and the axeman swung together. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)
Pointing to a drawing of the old Scotch bawbee, Professor Geddes said it was not a very dignified symbol of the coinage of the world, but let them mark how it had on the one side the hammerman at his work, with his motto "_Beat deus artem_," and, on the other side, a larger legend, with the eagle of the empire and the lamb of Saint John. ❋ Patrick Geddes (1893)
On one side stands the hammerman at his anvil, below him the motto of his guild, ❋ Patrick Geddes (1893)
Blackwell had been up twice; and the second time, Gifford, who was acting as hammerman, had to sit in the bottom of the shaft, pretending to load the half-drilled hole. ❋ Francis Lynde (1893)
They looked with suspicion on the disguised hammerman, who, in his agitation, struck a false blow with the sledge hammer, which broke the shaft in two. ❋ Nasmyth, James (1885)
The smith offered him protection, disguised him as a hammerman, with a leather apron in front, and asked him to lend a hand at his work. ❋ Nasmyth, James (1885)
The stalwart hammerman turned upon his assailant, and, wrenching a dagger from him, speedily overpowered him. ❋ Nasmyth, James (1885)
The Florentine artists took a sheet of gold or of silver and divided the sheet up with great scissors, and then they hammered the cut-out pieces as only a Florentine hammerman could hammer them. ❋ Alexander Whyte (1878)
When cool, the mould was unscrewed, and a bar of cast-steel presented itself, which only required the aid of the hammerman to form a finished bar of cast-steel. ❋ Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 (1863)
A hammerman who might sit for one of Homer's blacksmith heroes, and machinery which effects in a few minutes what an army of such hammermen could not do. ❋ Samuel Sidney (1848)
During the difficult operation of moving the white-red round ball, it was beautiful to see the rapid disciplined intelligence by which the hammerman, with word or sign, regulated the movements of his young assistants, each armed with an iron lever. ❋ Samuel Sidney (1848)
Collot, Convention Representatives succeed one another: there is work for the hangman; work for the hammerman, not in building. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
But such a measure is unthinkable in the UK, the constant awareness of crime and fear of crime is firmly installed into the White South African culture, as I read the story in My Traitors Heart about a black hammerman attacking whites in their beds you suddenly become quietly glad that there are gates and alarms surrounding you. ❋ Unknown (2008)
“Not a whit,” replied Roland; “Gregory the armourer, and every good hammerman, locks himself in when he is about some master piece of craft. ❋ Unknown (2008)
This time the hammerman didn’t manage to strike true the first time, and the poor maddened creature turned in blind rage to charge. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)
