Now it's cannon balls and axes and disks -- if a "lapstone" be a disk -- it's a flat stone, at any rate. ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)
"lapstone," quite as Mr. Symons called a spherical object a "cannon ball": bent upon a discrediting incongruity: ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)
This object of worked stone, or this shoemaker's lapstone, was made of ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)
The lady stands in the centre of the stage, and rests her unslippered foot on a small box, while the knight of the lapstone and hammer is engaged in taking the measure of her foot. ❋ James H. Head (N/A)
They were visited by Dr.H. Johnstone-Lavis, the correspondent to _Nature_, whose investigations had convinced him that the object was a "shoemaker's lapstone." ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)
Master's vineyard, she could slip on her bonnet and shawl and just run into the preaching service close by, and gather strength and encouragement from the earnest prayers and humble exhortations of those men whom God had found in the quarry, at the loom, in the mine, or at the lapstone, and sent forth Sunday by Sunday into the villages to preach a homely gospel to the poor, and comfort to His flock. ❋ F. Jewell (N/A)
I do not remember the words, but they were gross: the chief _fun_ seemed to consist in the chorus, -- a sort of _burring_ noise being made with the lips, while the doubled fists were rubbed and thumped upon the thigh, as if the cobbler's lapstone had been there. ❋ Various (N/A)
One of them procured somewhere an old lapstone, and breaking it into small fragments, selected one as the specimen to be subjected to the intended victim for testing. ❋ Edwin Eastman (N/A)
"Work, work, work, from weary chime to chime"; tramp behind the plough, hammer on the lapstone, beat the anvil, drive the plane, "from morn till dewy eve"; but when the dewy eve comes, ah! ❋ Various (N/A)
At every halt of the wagons a shoemaker would be seen searching for a lapstone; a gunsmith would be mending a rifle, and weavers would be at their wheels or looms. ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)
In earlier times the shoemaker used to go from house to house with his lapstone, waxed end, awl, and other tools. ❋ Eva March Tappan (1892)
You will see, for instance, that extraordinary linguist, the ` ` learned blacksmith, '' who ought to have been a teacher of languages; and you may have seen lawyers, doctors and clergymen who were better fitted by nature for the anvil or the lapstone. ❋ Unknown (1891)
As I was anxious to find out the writer, my post-rider, one day, divulged the secret, stating that he had dropped the letter in the manner described, and that it was written by a Quaker lad, named Whittier, who was daily at work on the shoemaker's bench, with hammer and lapstone, at East ❋ Grimke, Archibald H (1891)
Oh! but it was hard for the little man, the heavy lapstone and all this thumping and pounding to make a shoe. ❋ Grimke, Archibald H (1891)
It was only a momentary glance, but a hammer ceased tapping upon a lapstone, and a tall man straightened up suddenly and very straight, as he untied his leather apron. ❋ William Osborn Stoddard (1880)
In ecstasy at that prospect he flung up his arms, and his lapstone rolled into the ❋ Unknown (1879)
Keezar of mischief when he declared that his magic lapstone which Agrippa had torn from the tower at Nettesheim -- gave him a vision of the time when men would be as glad as nature, when the "snuffler of psalms" would sing for joy, when priests and Quakers would talk together kindly, when pillory and gallows should be gone. ❋ Unknown (1879)
Thus the blessed Behmen saw paradise and had it in his heart as he sat over his hammer and lapstone in his solitary stall. ❋ Alexander Whyte (1878)
Guy 1: (concerned) What's up, dude?
Guy 2: ([grimacing], eyes [watering])...[lapstone]... ❋ Dr Winterbourne (2009)
