| 单词 | trowel |
| 例句 | Quickly, he moved the rocks aside and plunged the trowel into the dirt. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z At one house, a man with a wooden pallet called a “hawk” is scraping adobe mud off this hawk with a trowel and smoothing it against a wall. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He brought the knife he used for cutting reeds, and I borrowed a trowel from Mae and Birdie’s garden. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z They carried little silver knives and miniature trowels for sampling the cobblers and pies. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “They should all be seized on the spot! When did you last come up here? I could scrape the dust off their pages with a trowel.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Partly ruinous it seemed, but already before the night was passed the sound of hurried labour could be heard: beat of hammers, clink of trowels, and the creak of wheels. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Bluebirds fluttered high up in the beams where they had nests, and Panky spent a few minutes scraping up their droppings with a trowel. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore a pair of stained olive-green overalls without a shirt underneath, and he had a broad utility belt holding pruning shears, twine, a hand rake, and a trowel. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I grit my teeth and quash an impulse to throw a trowel at it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He found Jean there, kneeling by her flower bed, digging with a trowel. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Ayesha and I grab small trowels to begin digging little holes in the earth where the seeds will go. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Bobby Gene drew the line with the hoe and Cory and I followed with trowels, digging it deeper. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I put my trowel down and stick my fingers into the soil. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He’s got a granola bar in one hand and a garden trowel in the other. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z He put his trowel down and squeezed his waist as he stretched his back. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z When I said one day to my daughter, Katherine, “Drive around, out of town,” and I brought along a trowel and a bucket, she did not ask why. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z We work side by side, using flat-bottomed trowels and occasionally shears to cut the vines and roots that weave through the blanket of dirt. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z She nudged an unopened box of Sal Hepatica a little with the trowel of her extended fingers to align it with the other sempervirents in its row, and then closed the cabinet door. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Taking the trowel the king begins to mortar the long joints of the keystone. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Leaning against the table was a shovel, and on the table was a trowel and a sturdy empty sack. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z A mason with trowel and bucket awaits the king, up on the scaffolding; all the other workmen descend by rope ladders, like a swarm of fleas. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Laborers carried the mortar down the ladders to the masons who would lay the stones on top of each other, troweling a layer of mortar between each stone and each layer of stones. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z I took out my trowel and walked past each blue willow. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z While I dug two small holes with the trowel, Mom asked me how Mrs. DiAngelo was doing. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z I followed, and found her in her old straw gardening hat, a trowel already in one hand and the flat of pansies balanced in the other. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He was smoothing it with his iron trowel. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z He dug a new hole with the trowel, striking the dirt harder than he had to. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I grin and look down, feigning interest in my trowel. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Where my mother changed busses she'd gone into a store and bought him a trowel and four packets of seeds. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I listen to the birds in the garden, the chink of our trowels, the trickling of water from a nearby hose, and mostly to the voices in my own head. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Academic writers often neglect to do this and trowel out massive slabs of visually monotonous text. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Therapy, hah! Unvarnished flattery is what you hand out—and they eat it up with a trowel. Disgusting! Why couldn’t you have gone into law like your father?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She passed the trowel to the fearsome Mrs. Willard, “who stopped the mortar more heartily, and got some of it on her gown.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Don’t you have a feeling that this has all happened before?” inquired Stendahl, setting to work with trowel and mortar and brick now. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He picked up his trowel, slid a thin layer of cement on it, and leveled it on the floor, smoothing and stretching it in arcs that formed half circles, like grey rainbows. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Pots and trowels cluttered a high table at one end. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Reaching for the trowel in his back pocket, he had realized that the textile was still in his hand, and asked if I would mind hanging on to it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He mixed the cement and troweled over the hole. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Then he pulled a jug of water, a small bag of patching cement, a trowel, and a plastic tray from the tar pail. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z There was a pause while Harry continued to pound the resilient pod with a trowel. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z She paused her work, resting her trowel on her knee, and looked at me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a little Oriental girl, with a trowel and a plastic bag of lima beans. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I tell Calvin, “We have to go down six feet? And wide as the tube? And you brought that little-bitty trowel?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z When the bell sounded from the castle at the end of their lesson, the three of them dropped their trowels at once and hurried through the grounds to the edge of the forest. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The girl threw down her trowel and cursed at the sky. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Jean sighed, set her trowel aside, and wiped her forehead, leaving a smear of earth that Matty found very appealing. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Then I grabbed a trowel, tucked it into my waistpouch with my notebook, and headed down to the village. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Well, that was laying it on with a trowel, but OK — he had our interest, anyway. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She muttered to herself as she dug furiously with a trowel. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The trowel she’d been using and a fistful of weeds fell out of her hand. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z He dropped the tulip bulb and buried the trowel in the dirt. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z When he reached the end of the dirt road, Mr. Trepid got out of the car and retrieved his shovel, trowel, and sack from the trunk. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z He does not dib at it and give the trowel back to the mason, but sets to work methodically. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z They got a trowel and buried all the magic rings, including their own ones, in a circle round it. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Papi dipped his trowel into the cement mud in the wheelbarrow by his side and slapped the mud onto a foundation block. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “I wish I had my trowel,” I said. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He grins and stabs his trowel in for another load of dirt. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He climbed a ladder that was leaning against the overhang and settled himself onto the roof with a bucket of clay and a trowel he used to spread it. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z She ducked under the tangled honeysuckle toward the garden path, using her trowel like a machete to hack through some overgrown vines that crowded her jungly little porch. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He was holding a garden trowel and his hands were black with mud. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z When someone lays it on with a trowel, we don’t judge their contribution objectively. Politeness costs nothing, but it may stop people understanding you 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Projects include distilling bathtub gin like the Prohibition liquor guys, making a tube garden trowel like a coppersmith and creating a wooden chest with dovetail joints like a Virginia woodsmith. Cocktails, crafts, rap, Bob Ross, yoga and cats: Great stocking stuffer books 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Red, green, black, white and other submerged colors enter the mix, but the dominant browns that Auerbach troweled on attach the gravity associated with Old Master painting to his own work. 'London Calling' at the Getty and the tension between abstract and figurative painting 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z “You mean, I’m going to cook?” he gasps, in the manner of the Last Emperor handed his first trowel. ‘Downton Abbey’ Season 6, Episode 7: Crash and Burn 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z The wall is slightly irregular, and the trowel marks contract and expand over different areas, creating contrasting passages. The Art of Summer: Painterly Experiences Where They?re Least Expected 2011-08-24T12:01:01Z Laboring to be poetic, it was merely sophomoric, troweling on cliche with such abandon that I found myself wondering if the libretto was deliberately trying to evoke the banality of Marnie’s world. Review | ‘Marnie’ is all too insubstantial at Met Opera premiere 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z The same goes for palette knives, trowels, rags, hands and fingers. Tomory Dodge puts freedom back into the picture at Acme 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The mortar manufacturer might specify using a notched trowel with teeth a quarter-inch tall spaced a quarter-inch apart, which is fine for applying the correct amount. Stubborn hair dye stain on the shower floor? It may be something worse. 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Tuminas's production lays the absurdity on with a trowel, but in doing so absolutely suggests that all these isolated individuals are suffering from one infection. People; Uncle Vanya; Uncle Vanya – review 2012-11-11T00:06:04Z The cartoon, published on Holocaust Memorial Day, shows Netanyahu wielding a long, sharp trowel and depicts agonised Palestinians bricked into the wall's structure. Murdoch apologises for Sunday Times' cartoon depicting Binyamin Netanyahu 2013-01-28T21:04:35Z Reality, in this instance, assumes the fantastical form of an aging, teetering woman in a psychedelic-print dress and Technicolor makeup, applied with a trowel. | 'By the Way, Meet Vera Stark': A Black Actress Trying to Rise Above a Maid 2011-05-10T02:24:41Z The team hiked treacherous rocky hills and dug samples with trowels, or small, handheld shovels. Smithsonian geologist digs up clues to Earth’s beginnings 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z I found it inside a state government office building in Pennsylvania, languishing on a shelf between a gardening trowel and a pipe wrench. The weird afterlife of banned TSA items 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Cream or custard is poured into a chilled metal container and worked with trowels until it freezes to a creamy consistency. Alex Guarnaschelli’s Variation on Summer Corn 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Spread the adhesive with a notched trowel — one with square, not pointed teeth. How to frame and hang fragile tiles 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z You’ll want a wheelbarrow or soil mixing tub, a large trowel, old clothes, and latex gloves, plus thin plastic sheeting, such as a drop cloth. These faux-stone pots make for the perfect spring project 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z “This is a riveted trowel, which we would never use. It should be a welded trowel, because the riveted trowel would break, and break quickly.” Graves and Garbage: The Hard Life of an Archeologist 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Tanya Cooper, the chief curator at the NPG, knows no more of its pedigree, but assumes it was commissioned by a favour-seeking courtier who knew the queen's temperament well enough to trowel on the flattery. National Portrait Gallery buys postcard-sized portrait of Elizabeth I 2013-05-08T14:07:01Z So he color-matched the sand, applied the new mortar and troweled the joints, as with any mortar job. How to blend new and old mortar for a seamless look 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z It’s not clear that your boss’s “should” means you’ll be held back or fired if you don’t trowel on the face spackle. @Work Advice: At first blush, this rule about wearing makeup rankles 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Installers typically trowel concrete on porches and floors to bring up a layer of very fine sand coated with cement paste. The perils of painting a concrete porch that’s never been painted before 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z In the alley, NicheOutside, a garden lifestyle boutique, sells treasures like copper trowels and handmade soaps. New Seattle Marketplaces Satisfy Appetites for Everything 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z There are a few hints of family drama, but mostly, instead of dishing the dirt, they gently tap it with a trowel. Perspective | Meghan and Harry made a fairy-tale escape. They still seem trapped. 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z It's a show you leave feeling mildly improved and with renewed resolutions to buy a trowel. The Secret Garden ? review 2010-12-01T21:29:00Z Inside was a tide table, the coordinates for a spot along the Thames, and a trowel. Possessed: Mystery Worker 2011-04-29T23:33:25Z Using stencils to create the pattern work, she layers in tinted Venetian plaster with a small Italian trowel. Artist Tina Randolph makes dining spaces unique 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Daily Telegraph - Charles Spencer Director Sam Mendes lays on the theatrical goodies with a trowel. Critics divided over Charlie merits 2013-06-26T10:57:40Z I heard the sharp clang of one man banging his trowel and hedge clippers together. 2010-01-15T21:13:00Z The pop diva looked relaxed as she used a trowel to turn the earth. Madonna lays brick for new African girls' academy 2010-04-06T18:43:00Z Inexpensive plastic trowels are fine for a small job like yours. How to frame and hang fragile tiles 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z At other times he carved into the layers of paint he had troweled on, like mortar between bricks or frosting on cakes. Albert Contreras lived an artist's life — twice 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z It was compacted into a large rectangle and the artists started sculpting away from the top down with tools including sticks, trowels, and even dental utensils for the finer parts. Vatican's St. Peter's Square gets 720-ton sand nativity scene 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z If I attempted the same tactic with this as I did with that, it’d be like icing a cake with a trowel. Road-testing this year's Oscars goodie bag! (The loo roll and armpit napkins) 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z They both claim to have been interested in archaeology since they were "old enough to hold a trowel." Netflix's gorgeous "Dig" loses sight of its own discoveries in favor of soapy period melodrama 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z No celebrity guests talking about their favourite trowel. RIP Time Team, you were a national treasure 2013-03-23T06:00:00Z Paul senses the irony is being rather trowelled on, but it's now too late. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – digested read 2013-04-28T16:00:01Z After a period of dry weather, use a sharp planting shovel, a sturdy trowel or a long-handled bulb planter to dig down at least six inches. Reducing garden clutter 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Esbjornson is no exception, layering on the gothic ambience with a trowel. | 'Measure for Measure': Hold Onto Your Morals: Life Is Tough 2011-07-01T02:30:38Z As we chipped away at the soft rock and earthen surface with dull oyster knives and trowels, sweat dripped down our necks. A real Jurassic park lies underground at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Colin Firth's performance is magnificent, at least if you like your acting laid on with a trowel. The King's Speech flies the flag for a stiff upper lip that no longer exists 2011-01-10T11:13:19Z “More mud!” he would shout, as I frantically mixed mortar, which he spread expertly with a large trowel between concrete blocks that seemed to climb skyward like Legos. The Short List: Rants about bad jobs in honor of Labor Day 2013-08-28T22:43:06Z In one song near the end, “S/word and Leviathan,” he protects his right to go loud, constructing a big, echoey pattern played on a lute, with faraway vocals, then troweling electric guitar on top. Music: Playlist: Smash the Windows, Bang the Cowbell 2011-02-20T02:01:57Z When you’re at the store, also buy a pointed trowel and a masonry sponge, the type that works best to remove smears on stones. How to repair a crumbling flagstone patio 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Mine: Wait staff who inquire if I'm still "working" on my meal, as if I'm eating with a trowel in a Carhartt jacket. My unfashionable faux pas at Nordstrom Designer Preview 2012-07-17T02:30:06Z Instead of detailing trowels or grills, Brooks visits some people that he knows on their second mountain. David Brooks’s Conversion Story 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Plaster of Paris and a putty trowel: Both are available at your local hardware store. Done in a Day: Custom Table Lamp 2010-03-25T21:17:00Z If the installer swirls the trowel, as is common, the valleys don’t lead to the drain; one set of peaks and valleys swirls around and blocks drainage from the next set of valleys. Stubborn hair dye stain on the shower floor? It may be something worse. 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z If the adhesive oozed up between tiles, switch to a trowel with smaller notches. How to frame and hang fragile tiles 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z So thickly is this dysfunctional dynamic troweled on to the opening episodes that it not only feels fake, but oppressive. Flesh and Bone: great dancing, shame about the plot 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Whichever product you use, trowel the surface flat, then press in faux-mortar joints that line up with the existing ones on the wall. How to resurface a concrete wall whose topping is crumbling 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z "Connie's Painting" is a square patchwork of heaving gold, red and blue oil paint that Bladen literally troweled on with a palette knife. Creative era of Jess Collins, Robert Duncan brought full circle 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z No Coldplay to tell us when to cry at the celebrity guests talking about their favourite trowel. RIP Time Team, you were a national treasure 2013-03-23T06:00:00Z These are worth putting your trowel aside for: Gardening books worth a look 2014-04-23T04:00:00Z In one photo one son is holding his favorite duck and another son is shirtless, playing with a trowel. Enough With the Selfies. How About a Quarantine Portrait? 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Keshavarz uses a trowel to feed us her ideas about living under a repressive regime when all you required was a teaspoon. Circumstance – review 2012-08-23T21:00:02Z He was on his knees in a flower bed, a trowel in one hand and what looked like a desiccated thumb in the other. Untamed 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z The easiest way to prevent these problems is to clean the feeder regularly with a hand trowel, whisk broom or a shop vacuum to remove spoiled feed and bird droppings. Q&A: bird feeders and shipova 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z If the adhesive didn’t cover the whole back, you need a trowel with bigger notches. How to frame and hang fragile tiles 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Turning her copy over, King pointed to the trowel on the back. Graves and Garbage: The Hard Life of an Archeologist 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Working on just a small area at a time, stuff joints and immediately flatten them with the trowel. How to repair a crumbling flagstone patio 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z We talk of gardens as blank canvases; of priming, designing and composition; of paint put on with a trowel and gardens as living art. Impressionist Gardens; Another World: Dal?, Magritte, Mir? and the Surrealists 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z The Guardian's reviewer complained that "despite fact that the glitz is laid on with a trowel, Strictly Ballroom the Musical takes a long time to ignite". Mixed reviews for Strictly musical 2014-04-14T12:19:47Z I pick up a trowel and try hard to spread the concrete evenly. ?The Vanilla Ice Project? on the DIY Network 2012-01-13T17:00:00Z She chose green paint for a cricket made from a pipe wrench and a mason’s trowel, he said. Greenwood sculptor sees art where others see junk 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Stay away from cheap trowels, which aren’t up to the job. Perspective | Planting bulbs offers a bit of hope for better things to come. Even this year. 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Mixed to a thick slurry, it’s designed to be applied by a squeegee, brush or trowel. The corner chipped off our concrete porch. Can it be patched? 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z I scrabbled away with my trowel, trying to unearth the bones of wild animals – I felt sure that elk and wolves and even mammoths had passed that way. Holloway by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood, Dan Richards – review 2013-07-19T07:00:01Z They are seen carefully inspecting ash and other charred debris on the floor with trowels and removing personal items from a sieve. Israeli archaeologists help find remains of Hamas attack victims 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z He just doesn't trowel on piles of bronze make-up and dye his hair neon yellow to hide it as Trump does. Trump's big payback: The plot for MAGA's revenge should scare voters straight 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z “They hand out candy with garden trowels,” he says. How Disney turned Halloween into a money-making machine 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Cambridge University student Sully Newman travelled from London with his trowel. World archaeologists hunt for lost palace in Scottish Borders 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z Then they bent down with trowels and brushes to sieve the debris through fine mesh screens with holes no wider than one-eighth of an inch. The hunt for bones and closure in Maui's burn fields 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z They are methodically combing through distinct layers of soil and stones with soft-bristle brushes and trowels. First English slave fort in Africa uncovered on Ghana's coast 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z Crews toting shovels, trowels and even smaller tools planned to start searching Monday at the site experts suspect is the Genoa Indian Industrial School cemetery. In search of a lost cemetery, dig begins at a former Native American school in Nebraska 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z Crouching low, Simard pulls a trowel from her pocket and cuts deep into the earth, through layers of moss, duff and debris. With forests in peril, she’s on a mission to save ‘mother trees’ The digging team members went from using shovels to trowels and then their hands as more of the frame was exposed, so as not to damage any of the wood. Florida beach erosion uncovers wooden ship from 1800s 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Complete the set with a sturdy trowel; a deeply cupped form with an offset neck makes for an efficient and satisfying dig. 12 days of holiday gift-giving ideas for the gardener in your life 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z The size of the tile determines the size and shape of the notches in the trowel that spreads the mastic that holds the tile to the wall. Installing a tile backsplash is not as difficult as it seems 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z For almost a century, sleuthing critics have been taking a trowel to the literary past in search of forgotten female novelists. Review | To find great female novelists, stop looking in Jane Austen’s shadow 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z Once more, Simard retrieves her trowel and gently works the tree free of the soil, exposing an expansive tangle of roots entwined with barely discernible threads of fungi. With forests in peril, she’s on a mission to save ‘mother trees’ Watch how they slide the mortar into the joints using the narrow repointing trowel. What you need to know about repointing, the process of replacing old mortar between bricks, blocks or stone 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Only gloves and trowels are needed to remove the particle. Dalgety Bay: How do you clean all the sand on a radioactive beach? 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z The tile manufacturer may have written instructions calling out the size of the trowel notches. Installing a tile backsplash is not as difficult as it seems 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z I avoid toxins of all sorts in the garden, but I am merciless with a trowel, a shovel or a mattock when it comes to plant removal. Sturdy comfrey thrives anywhere — and feeds everything in your garden 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z After a while, Yuri's earphones whine and with a small army trowel, he produces a black lump of ore from the ground. Quentin Sommerville: Is this Ukraine's breakthrough moment? 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Workers trowel the poured mixture of a slab in the factory of IceStone, a manufacturer of recycled glass countertops and surfaces, in New York City, New York, U.S., U.S. productivity drops in second quarter; annual decline largest ever 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z And it’s not as if Eric is hanging up his trowel completely. Perspective | After 48 years brightening area gardens, Roozen’s Nursery has closed 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z The suspects allegedly used small handheld trowels, shovels, rakes and hoes, and used buckets and backpacks to take items away from the site. Missouri man accused of illegal dig at Native American site 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Just last month, the county’s transportation authority threw in the trowel and gave up on widening about 20 miles of the 710 through southeast L.A. A wide median here, a stubby endpoint there — the ghosts of L.A.’s unbuilt freeways 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z I got out of the back seat with a little trowel, dug into one of the planters and put in the ashes. ‘My Father and I Decided We Should Try to Honor Her Wishes’ 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Every spring, about this time, they put on the broad-brimmed hat and the pastel gloves — and, if they’re serious, those neoprene knee pads — and break out the trowel. Perspective | 5 reasons to grow a vegetable garden, beyond the vegetables 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Bearing east, we left the road and began crossing a wide drainage that sloped inward like a trowel. Building the First Long-Distance Hiking Trail in Kurdistan 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z He also suggested taking a trowel "but never leave the toilet paper behind". Snowdonia: Poo on popular paths 'a danger to health' 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Add some peat moss and elemental sulfur to each hole for the blueberries and mix with a trowel. When to prune rhodies, how to move blueberries and more spring garden advice 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Add a nice garden trowel or a pair of gloves, and I’d say holiday giving is a cinch for a long, long time. Everything you need to know about worm composting 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z A detailed analysis of five gardening activities — digging, hoeing, raking, troweling and weeding — found that gardening uses a variety of both upper- and lower-body muscles. Perspective | 5 reasons to grow a vegetable garden, beyond the vegetables 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z To that end, he added, planting is accomplished “with gloved fingers, not trowels.” Would you plant your garden in gravel if it resulted in 80% less work? 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z Other plants with more dense roots will require using the blade of your trowel, shovel or even a sharp knife to split the crown into smaller sections with roots attached. How to propagate your plants at home 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z If the existing tiles are textured, skim the surface with the patch material and trowel it smooth. Perspective | How to deal with damaged vinyl tiles 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Frankly, the only thing I do battle with are slugs and snails, but Tacoma-based gardener/designer Sue Goetz and I cross trowels at 11:30 a.m. The Northwest Flower & Garden Festival returns with all the promising colors, inspiration and hope of spring 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z You’re basically painting or troweling on a thin layer of limestone. The secret ingredient that can keep concrete from crumbling 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z A flat trowel or taping knife is then used to gently knock down the globs to get the right texture. 4 straightforward DIY repairs to try taking on in the new year | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Archaeologists can peer deep beneath the earth or within structures without having to lift so much as a trowel. Is science stuck? The "Great Stagnation Debate," explained 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Scrape off trowel marks with the trowel edge or a wallpaper scraper. Perspective | How to deal with damaged vinyl tiles 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Each was given a small bag packed with trowels, brushes and other tools of the trade — items that are in short supply back home. At Tennessee's Body Farm, Mexican investigators learn how to dig up graves 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z After five minutes, stir it again and begin to apply it using a notched trowel. Dip into DIY with a simple tile job that will test your skills | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Nelson says she finds Black joy when she is authentically herself: outside with her little basket, trowel and boots in an unexplored forest, beach or river. Foraging, gardening, joy — how two Black plant influencers use their platforms 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z In preparing a small garden area for new plants, I used my trowel to loosen the soil to add compost. Rant & Rave: A gardener finds a surprise in the soil: a wedding ring buried 15 years prior 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z A quality trowel is fine for planting small bulbs, but for larger ones, such as daffodils, tulips and alliums, you will need at least a handheld bulb-planter. How to plant bulbs this fall for a beautiful spring garden “It’s like taking a bricklayer’s trowel away,” she said. When Covid-19 Stole Their Smell, These Experts Lost Much More 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z A younger cousin squatted at his feet, pulling away debris with a trowel. Cleanup begins of Haiti town’s earthquake-crumbled homes 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z An hour after watering, use a trowel to dig 6-12 inches and see if the soil is damp throughout a plant’s entire root zone. Seattle’s hotter summers call for landscaping that’s drought-tolerant | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z "Archaeology is really important in so many aspects of our lives, it is not just slightly strange middle aged men like me wandering around with a trowel in muddy pits," he said. Archaeologists dig in over planning reforms row 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z The secret to installing the mosaic tile is to match the size of the tile to the trowel that will be used to put down the thinset. How to successfully DIY a mosaic tile floor 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z But it’s the backyard Eastern redbud that’s the real trowel in the gut. Perspective | Nothing is more beautiful than a redbud in bloom. Why won’t our tree comply? 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z There was a short speech, then trowel in hand she scooped mortar from a pan held mid-air by two assistants and joined two bricks at a 90-degree angle. Why $30m didn't protect Nigerian pupils after Chibok 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z It’s also nearly impossible to bend, a common problem with hand trowels. The plant person's guide to the best holiday gifts 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Love in the Dark trowels on the orchestration, but the song lacks the edge of its predecessor’s big ballads. Adele – every song ranked! 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — The earth where Deshondra Dandridge was digging with her pick and trowel was packed hard and filled with stones where she knelt, searching for the bones of the old church. Beneath a Virginia parking lot rest the bones of an old Black church and, perhaps, its worshipers 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z They knelt on pads and hunched over their work, using trowels to gradually scrape away layers of dirt to reveal pieces from the past. A picture of the past emerges in Portage 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z Use a hand trowel or auger to dig down and determine how well the emitters are accomplishing the task. Just how much water does my garden need? 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Five graves were chosen for excavation, a meticulous process requiring hand trowels, bent backs and dirty knees to reach fragile, rusty-colored remains. Mysteries, skeletons abound under Virginia church’s floor 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z “Lay it on with a trowel” was the consensus, echoing former British PM Benjamin Disraeli’s advice on how to deal with royalty. Malcolm Turnbull on Donald Trump: 'You don't suck up to bullies' 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z “I was going through the sediment with my trowel and all of a sudden I spotted something and went ‘Wow! Neanderthals Feasted on Seafood, Seabirds, Perhaps Even Dolphins 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z So just because a dog might have a head that looks like a trowel, it doesn’t mean he’s ugly by dog-show standards. Siba the Standard Poodle Wins Westminster Dog Show 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Rituals included roaming the countryside with identification books and trowels before pressing their treasure using coffee-table books. Succulent mania: the perfect fad for a rootless generation | Alice Vincent 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z They ran over and saw Toney standing over Knight, stabbing him with a trowel, according to the arrest affidavit. Deputies: Worker fatally stabs Trump-loving boss in fight 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Stainless steel pins serve as markers for the statue’s skin, and the new mix is shaped by hand with trowels. Illinois’ Black Hawk statue repairs are almost finished 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z Harry, 55, bought a trowel and some basic tools and started working as a gardener. Column One: She was a test case for resettling detainees of Japanese descent — and unaware of the risk 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z Immediately, this dynamo of energy fell in love with the slow, methodical process of mixing mortar, troweling, and stacking bricks. Why ambitious people have (unrelated) hobbies 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z The indoor-outdoor floor plan feels light and airy with white oak floors, troweled plaster walls and high ceilings. Designer Kim Gordon sells contemporary beach retreat in Venice for $3.25 million 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z This is a broad-snouted dinosaur, and the researchers describe the reconstructed lower beak shape of the dinosaur like “two trowels laid side to side.” Paleontologists Unveil Shovel-Billed Dinosaur 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z On most days, dozens of trained researchers, armed with brushes and trowels, go through the museum’s debris in search of artefacts. The battle to rebuild centuries of science after an epic inferno 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z The odd lower jaw, which is "shaped like two trowels laid side by side," was also found. Mysterious new duck-billed dinosaur found 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Don’t turn over the soil; just work it with a fork or trowel to remove large root clumps and to ensure it’s loose enough to easily accept water and new roots. Just when your garden has grown all lovely and lush — it’s time to plant fall veggies 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z “I used to hit them over the head with a brick but now I use a trowel because their eyes go …” Mice woke me by running through my hair – I have never been the same since | Brigid Delaney 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z "It's obvious he never held a trowel in his life," Tristan quipped. French Yellow Vest members vow more protests, claim Macron exploiting Notre Dame fire 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z “On the other hand, what really shocked me is Macron saying Notre Dame would be rebuilt within five years. It’s obvious he never held a trowel in his life.” More yellow vest protests despite Notre Dame fire 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z In addition to archaeology, Birmingham also enjoys creating custom trowels and jewelry. Longtime South Texas archaeologist, 82, honored for efforts 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Trump is featured on the front of the mask with the trowel in his right hand and a brick in the other. Trump goalie mask made for youth hockey player draws criticism 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z I don’t know what a trowel is but it couldn’t be as bad as being bludgeoned by a brick and not still dying. Mice woke me by running through my hair – I have never been the same since | Brigid Delaney 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z With use of a trowel and help from friends, she unearthed her class ring and a baby ring that belonged to one of her parents, but couldn’t find a $600 necklace she was searching for. AP PHOTOS: Crosses outside Paradise drive home devastation 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Then, he dropped to his knees and jabbed a trowel into the soil. This spud’s for you: A breeding revolution could unleash the potential of potato 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z He’s created deer antler trowels with turquoise and would donate them for silent-auction bidding at the annual meeting for the Texas Archaeological Society. Longtime South Texas archaeologist, 82, honored for efforts 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Human bone specialist Emma Pomeroy, who joined the University of Cambridge this month, was the first person to see the skull as she was troweling. New remains discovered at site of famous Neanderthal ‘flower burial’ 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z In March 2017, the influential trade publication Publishers Weekly reviewed “Beneath a Scarlet Sky,” saying Mr. Sullivan “lays on history with a trowel in this overstuffed tale of derring-do set in Italy during WWII.” ‘They Own the System’: Amazon Rewrites Book Industry by Marching Into Publishing 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Not knowing what he might hit, he switched to his trowel for more delicate work. Archaeologists find ancient tool in area that can unlock age 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z Working in a hot kitchen, troweling french fries into paper bags, isn’t easy, but a lot of people would consider it easier than helping an adult out of bed and to the toilet. Editorials from around New York 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The small trowels and excavation tools yielded no cremains. Search dogs and archaeologists look for cremated remains amid a wildfire's debris 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z In Kenya, the nomadic Samburu use personal trowels to cover their excrement; the beading on the handle expresses the owner’s status within the tribe. Bowel movement: the push to change the way you poo 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The setup included a scale, a container of labeled cremains from another crematory, a trowel and buckets of an unknown substance as well as bags of dry concrete. More questions raised by testing of funeral home cremains 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z In the 1960s and early ’70s, a narrow range of poured, sprayed and thickly troweled Color Field painting was being advanced as the victory of an establishment avant-garde. Review: The artwork of Adrian Piper makes a stern proclamation: 'Everything will be taken away' - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z Bilhore bent his stocky frame over the loose mix and worked it over with the back of a rusted trowel, smoothing it like icing on a cake. His son died in a road accident, so India's 'pothole dada' fills his family's sorrow with stone and gravel 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z He is still here, next to the Bird's Nest using a trowel to spread cement across a new fence. Beijing Olympics 10 years on: Were the dreams fulfilled? 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Hubbard arrived “still covered in concrete from troweling cement all day,” Miller wrote. Seattle skatepark visionary is mourned, but his company rolls on 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z The two-time Republican presidential hopeful and father of the White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders, used a cement trowel to pave a wall in the community of Efrat as a symbolic gesture of support. Mike Huckabee says he dreams of 'holiday home' in Israeli settlement 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z On a recent morning, Roland Weaver put aside the trowel he was using to seal the foundation of his home, down County Road 7 from the proposed detention site. ICE quest for detention sites puts Trump county on tightrope 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Other scientists, interns with the Maria Mitchell Association, and members the Nantucket Conservation Foundation and the Linda Loring Nature Foundation, set to work with trowels. Conservationists help endangered beetle population 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z In the months after, a team of firefighters, police and archaeologists sifted through tons of ashes, crawling on hands and knees with small trowels and six-millimeter sieves to find remains. A Year After Deadly Grenfell Blaze, One Fireman Is Still Plagued by Doubt 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z She used a trowel to gently place the specially blended stucco in a long section of wall underneath a drain. Experts repair parts of historic battery in Pensacola 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Bricklaying’s most important tools — a trowel, a bucket, string and a wheelbarrow — haven’t changed much over centuries. Bricklayers fend off the robots 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Whereas traditional archaeology excavates with trowels and shovels, this team does minimal digging. Climate Change Reveals Glacial Archaeology Finds in Norway 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Wednesdays at the arboretum are earmarked as workdays, giving volunteers with pent up energy a chance from 9 a.m. to noon to sink a shovel or turn a trowel. Nature University arboretum monthly series begins in Quitman 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Wednesdays at the arboretum are earmarked as workdays, giving volunteers with pent up energy a chance from 9 a.m. to noon to sink a shovel or turn a trowel. Nature University arboretum monthly series begins in Quitman 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Begrimed archaeologists, working under special lights, are using trowels and brushes to sift through the dirt and bones in deep excavations inside the structure of the current church, which dates to 1906. Experts have uncovered remains at the first permanent English colony. But whose bones are they? 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z At this race, humans are holding off the future with trowel and muscle. Bricklayers fend off the robots 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z The masons, mostly young men sporting trendy beards and polarized sunglasses, are using archaic tools for their deliberate work - trowels, brushes, chisels and damp, gritty mortar - plus patience and care. Stonemasons go old-school to repair Colorado monument walls 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z The masons, mostly young men sporting trendy beards and polarized sunglasses, are using archaic tools for their deliberate work — trowels, brushes, chisels and damp, gritty mortar — plus patience and care. Stonemasons go old-school to repair Colorado monument walls 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Every few minutes he scooped a trowel of sand inside, and sat back to enjoy his surroundings. Modern-day prospectors find a little bit of gold and a lot of time outdoors 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Visit the park at 6am towards the end of July, and you will discover hordes of elderly people from the “Senior University”, wearing sunhats and brandishing trowels. Life after the bomb: exploring the psychogeography of Hiroshima 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z For the last three weeks, they’ve used trowels, toothpicks, brushes and their own gloved hands to meticulously search for clues about who these people were, how they lived and perhaps even how they died. Researchers excavate remains from centuries-old cemetery 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z And on sunny beach days when the plastic sand pail and shovel were carelessly forgotten, surf clams made handy, on-the-spot trowels for quick and dirty sand castles. Atlantic Surf Clams: Edible, and Collectible 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z This pig’s lipstick is being applied with a trowel. Opinion | Senate Republicans ready themselves for a massive theft from the poor 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Now farmers need ploughs and trowels, good seeds, access to credit and crop-storage facilities, say the leaders of a local farmers’ association. A possible future for Haiti 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z When other boys showed up for a class project in soccer jerseys, he displayed his love of gardening by wearing a hat and gloves, carrying a trowel and handing out flower-shaped sugar cookies. AP reveals hidden horror of sex assaults by K-12 students 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z To sound the extent of the decay, he whacked it with a trowel, dislodging handfuls of spongy yellow tissue like foam batting. The Tough Immigrant Tree That Represents New York 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Two weeks before the official exhibition opening in mid-April, the artists carved and smoothed the sand with shovels, chisels, painters’ palette knives, pastry wheels, scalpels, masonry levels and garden trowels. Japan’s Sand Museum, a Home to Ephemeral Treasures 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z As artists worked to finish the exhibit, their tools included trowels, duct tape, staple guns and at least five colors of gray paint. Museum creates environmental exhibit based on World War I 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z She uses a metal detector, alongside her eyes and a trowel, to find shards of pottery such as this, painted with a willow pattern. Hunting for treasure at low tide - BBC News 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z They crunch that gravel in the parking lot and burst through the nursery doors, itchy trowel fingers twitching. Perspective | ‘I’ve never seen this before’: Our warm February feels fabulous and frightening all at once 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z The new working class contains many of the traditional blue-collar occupations — truck driver, electrician, plumber — but by and large its members are more likely to wield mops than hammers, and bedpans rather than trowels. Divisions of Labor 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z They also found about 150 wooden tools carved into broad, rounded tips, similar to the shape of a trowel. Ancient underwater garden discovered in Canada 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z She worked three summers in the cave, digging with a trowel. Tennessee State Museum director puts history in reach 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z Spruce wood beams, tables and shelving, as well as Japanese stucco that incorporates troweled hay, sets a warm, earthy tone that contrasts with dark elements painted a color they’ve dubbed “Midland green.” Finally, event planners get to call all the shots at Midland, their new boutique in Culver City 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Don’t say: “Whatever you do, nobody arm Isis with trowels.” Bomb-detecting spinach – the new weapon against terrorist plots 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Equally adept with a pipette and a trowel, she unites the collective insights of traditional plant-based healing with the rigor of modern laboratory experiments. Could Ancient Remedies Hold the Answer to the Looming Antibiotics Crisis? 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Colling was on his knees Saturday at the site on the Fowler Center property, uncovering with trowel and bare hands another large mastodon leg bone. Researchers, volunteers dig up mastodon in Michigan’s Thumb 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z The desk at which Black wrote the book will be among the items on display, as well as the first trowel Black used at Angel Mounds, and other memorabilia. New images, artifacts shed light on Indiana archaeologist 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z She took out her trowel, bent over to brush away pieces of crumbled brick, and began to fill her glass jar with soil. ♦ The Legacy of Lynching, on Death Row 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z The plaster was troweled directly onto the brick walls, making removal difficult. If these walls could talk, they’d probably scream 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z A block from the river, Antônio da Costa tried to unclog a narrow pipe under the street with a trowel and 20 feet of thick wire. Who Is Polluting Rio’s Bay? 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Workers use small trowels and dustpans to scrape millimeters of dirt away, then bag the specimens for later inspection. Paleo dig near Snyder yields interesting artifacts 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z “I tend to favor a quick jab with the edge of a trowel, or the edge of my boot,” she said. The slowest invasion: Non-native snails take over Northwest 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z “We’re going to name thousands of people who were the victims of lynchings,” Stevenson told the group before they received their trowels and jars. The Legacy of Lynching, on Death Row 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z But the look and feel of the film are all director Steven Spielberg, who appears to have slapped on the wonder and astonishment with a trowel. The Verge Summer Movie Guide — updated! 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z They found the knife while digging with a trowel. Early snowbirds? Florida sinkhole yields ancient artifacts 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Chances are her arsenal includes a dinged-up trowel, a dull hand pruner and garden gloves with gaping holes. Mother's Day gifts for gardening moms 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z The name George Mason sounds like a character from an Agatha Christie novel — some daft butler with deeply repressed class resentments who ends up cracking his boss’s skull with a trowel. ASSLaw is the butt of jokes. So what? | Dave Schilling 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z But once here they were back to using trowels and brushes. New evidence of Viking life in America? - BBC News 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Show the same picture to a woman and we will list at least four of the cosmetic items she’s trowelled on before carefully sculpting the sheets and applying her Instagram filter of choice. Men like women to wear less makeup? No, they don't | Martha Mills 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Ivory farmed fewer than 5 acres on the property for five seasons before throwing in the trowel, three for a now-defunct operation and another two solo. 80 percent failure rate dogs $1 million organic farm program 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z This makes gardening easier for everyone, and especially for people who have trouble gripping a traditional trowel. Mother's Day gifts for gardening moms 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z I know that she's a farmer, and that she is holding a trowel in one hand, but I can't seem to find her anywhere. Hidden Folks is the Where’s Waldo? game you didn’t know you wanted 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Mr Trump ridiculed Mr Rubio for applying make-up backstage at the debate, saying it looked like he put it on with a trowel. US election 2016: Five insults traded by Trump and Rubio - BBC News 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z He said that Mr Rubio was a "nervous basket case" who "was putting on makeup with a trowel". US election 2016: Day one of the Republican civil war - BBC News 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z “He was putting on makeup with a trowel. I will not say that he was trying to cover up his ears. I will not say that,” Trump said. Rubio and Trump now at war for the GOP’s future 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z At roughly the same time in Texas, Trump drew cheers after sharing his own backstage encounter with Rubio: “He was putting on makeup with a trowel,” Trump said. Trump wins Christie’s support in race laced with insults 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Use a 1/4 by 1/4 notched trowel to spread the thinset mortar you’ll use to bond the tile to the new mortar. How to lay tile on a fireplace hearth 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Of course any discoveries made by these high-flying cameras will still need to be confirmed by archeologists working on the ground with trowels and sifting screens. Pioneer in Satellite Archaeology Wins Million-Dollar Prize 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Sarah Skinner, an Oregon State student who supervises pit B, says that she wakes up clenching her fists around dream trowels. Fishing for the first Americans 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z They expect to find more items during the next three weeks, as they use trowels, screens and other archaeological tools to excavate the area. Students begin archaeological dig at Bush homestead 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z With the help of a small trowel or a sifting screen, visitors can scour creek beds for prehistoric sharks’ teeth, or the remains of invertebrates like mollusks and Belemnites. New York Today: Unearthing the Region's Hidden Skeletons 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z It’s a job accomplished mostly with hand trowels, rock hammers, dental picks and tweezers. Hill Annex Mine has treasures to share, for now 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z "The pop diva looked relaxed as she used a trowel to turn the earth," he wrote in a 2010 article for the AP about a brick-laying for a girl's academy founded by Madonna. Malawian journalist Raphael Tenthani relished watchdog role 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Combined with the trowels, brushes, scrapers and spoons used by the crew, the site is bristling with tools. Fishing for the first Americans 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z All they have is some old trowels, a few buckets and one yellow metal detector. Where Japanese fight a US military base with kayaks - BBC News 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z For all its beauty and utility, the iPhone lacks the parsimonious perfection of the handaxe, the halibut hook and the bricklayer’s trowel. This Cooper Hewitt Exhibit Shows Why The iPhone 6 Can't Outperform A Million-Year-Old Handaxe 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Try to match the texture of your stucco using brushes, trowel strokes, etc. Before filling cracks, it’s important to first clean stucco 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z You use a notched trowel to spread it on the subfloor. Cold feet? Not with an easy-to-install electric radiant floor heating system 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Davis's crew is quietly intent, and the air is filled with the gentle sound of trowels scraping earth, along with a rock wren's distinctive call. Fishing for the first Americans 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z If mortar is missing, mix some up and place it with a margin trowel. Outdoor Home Prep To Do Before Winter Hits 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z As much as a trowel or pair of pliers, the Tlingit hook is the opposite of the “design-happy” widgets that Evans despised, and that are increasingly omnipresent in our world. This Cooper Hewitt Exhibit Shows Why The iPhone 6 Can't Outperform A Million-Year-Old Handaxe 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Only a fragment remains of the hilt, which disintegrated when a trowel hit it during excavation in “a scatter of shining points of gold”. Child Goldsmiths Went Blind Making Stonehenge Treasures 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z In an industry obsessed with optics, we can’t wait to get the lighting just right and trowel vaseline on the lens for the next closeup. The NFL has made you 'need' to watch Ray Rice beat his wife. That's how the cover-up works 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Or it could happen right now in the sweltering pit at Cooper's Ferry, with the very next scrape of a trowel. Fishing for the first Americans 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z The single scrape of a trowel can reveal, for example, signs of the abrupt extinction of nearly half the world's megafauna some 11,000 years ago. Science and politics: Hello, Governor 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Archaeological discoveries are more likely to be found by technology than with a trowel and a torch, writes classical historian Mary Beard. Are archaeological digs a thing of the past? 2014-05-02T15:57:59Z Her search for the "smoking trowel" eventually led to the Fraser Inquiry, which examined why the building was completed three years late and at 10 times its original estimated cost. The life and times of Margo MacDonald 2014-04-04T14:02:23Z Another walked with a bucket of mortar and a masonry trowel. When the Olympics end, what will become of Sochi? 2014-02-21T14:28:00Z When he tapped the hard layer with his trowel, it sounded hollow. The Thousand-Year Graveyard 2013-12-12T07:15:00Z But as he wandered down Dale Street, a gray-haired man hustled out of his backyard, trowel in hand, to confront Mr. Morse. National Debate on Gun Control Hits Home in Colorado Recall 2013-09-03T00:13:53Z Or whether that password will be written down, and if so, if that paper will be troweled into the repairs underway on the Washington Monument. Congress Will Keep Senators' Tax Reform Wishes Secret—for 50 Years 2013-07-25T14:12:40Z Many hand tools like trowels, weeders or pruners now come with foam rubber or some soft materials. Ask an Expert: Gardening Advice for Aging Bodies, Part 1 2013-06-19T11:00:01Z Scientists studying earthworms get mixed results even when using anesthesia and a scalpel, so sloppy surgery from a rusty trowel won’t do much for a worm’s chances for regeneration. If an earthworm loses its head, will it grow another? 2013-06-03T21:20:43Z Applying finish plaster consisted of three steps: smear the plaster on with a steel Venetian trowel, then sponge it, then compress it. Green Blog: At Last, the Straw Bale House Is a ... Home 2013-01-10T12:39:32Z There he learned to use a hawk and trowel, the traditional tools of the plasterer. Green Blog: In a Lime Plaster Job, a Leonardo Moment 2012-12-21T12:30:00Z On a Thursday afternoon last month, at the DeWitt Clinton Houses in East Harlem, children became the latest troops in that green army, donning garden gloves and maneuvering trowels on the front lawn. Daffodil-Planting Drive Gains Renewed Urgency From Storm 2012-11-16T04:23:41Z Many tools like rakes, trowels and forks come with handles than can be adjusted to fit the length you need for the job. Ask an Expert: Gardening Advice for Aging Bodies, Part 1 2013-06-19T11:00:01Z When the concrete truck showed up, he stood in the gray muck, raking it into place and then, on his knees, smoothing its surface with a trowel in 95-degree heat. The 86-Year-Old Startup Guru 2012-11-13T15:28:37Z Since then, the crew’s shovels and trowels have scraped away cinders and sand to reveal the basement’s contents: Dozens of bullets. Construction Site Offers Fleeting Glimpse of the Civil War Past 2012-11-12T02:46:58Z Then with a steel trowel we pressed all three layers flat. Green Blog: In a Lime Plaster Job, a Leonardo Moment 2012-12-21T12:30:00Z "Have you become one with your trowel yet?" she asked me, demonstrating a Zen-like full-bodied trowel stroke that started from her torso. Green Blog: At One With His Trowel (Sort Of) 2012-10-22T11:19:23Z This weekend, the robot will dig into the ground with its clamshell-shaped trowel, with the aim first of cleaning the mechanism of earthly contamination. Mars rover to scoop sand sample 2012-10-05T09:06:45Z With that, he went to fetch a trowel. City Room: Is That Marijuana Growing From Brooklyn Sidewalk Crack? 2012-09-07T21:58:49Z "They troweled every bit of their energy into these walls," Eric said of the interns. Green Blog: At One With the Earth, and the Clients 2012-09-07T15:22:03Z Obama certainly did instantly seek maximum political advantage and rather laid it on with a trowel. Ex-Seals attack Obama's 'leaks' 2012-08-16T18:03:45Z I took a deep breath and headed back to my section of wall, trying to direct all my neurotic intensity toward becoming one with my trowel. Green Blog: At One With His Trowel (Sort Of) 2012-10-22T11:19:23Z On the beach next to the pool, children flung sand with plastic trowels while their parents flipped through magazines. City Room: For a Second New Pool in Brooklyn, Less Fanfare and No Drama 2012-07-06T21:10:35Z "There are some cases if we know the remains are very deep that it might be appropriate to use machinery, but generally we use trowels and go very slowly and carefully." Digging up the dead 2012-06-26T08:32:08Z The little nun has cursed the trowel that made the church and the mason who built it and the men who worked for him. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z The pleasant duty of planting devolved upon Lady MacGregor, and it was carried out by means of a silver trowel presented to her by the Premier. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z Then we used a footlong wooden trowel called a float to flatten the plaster, working it into the straw and blending it with the adjoining mud already on the wall. Green Blog: At One With His Trowel (Sort Of) 2012-10-22T11:19:23Z The most available instrument is a rather small steel trowel, such as can be had at the hardware stores in a great variety of patterns, and which can be carried on excursions without much inconvenience. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z Haste, mould the dainty wax flakes And ply the trowels swift; Pat, pat—the floors spread wider; Tap, tap—the light walls lift. Nuova or The New Bee 2012-03-26T02:00:41.423Z On one occasion we find on a banner azure a chevron between a hammer, trowel, and plumb. Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. 2012-03-23T02:00:32.397Z A Mahogany Wheelbarrow and a silver trowel on a cart trail’d wi six donkeys, and garded wi ten lazy policemen all sober. Random Rhymes and Rambles 2012-03-21T02:00:31.003Z The hammer of the carpenter, the click of the trowel on the brick were music to my ears. The Making of a Saint 2012-03-16T02:00:25.243Z The only instruments necessary for winter collecting are the sieve, the chisel, and the trowel. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z Yes, we are the safety crew, Spreading with trowel true Fragrant and golden glue, Gumming each crack. Nuova or The New Bee 2012-03-26T02:00:41.423Z If we would please God we must watch every stroke and touch upon the canvas of our lives; we may not think we can lay it on with a trowel and yet succeed. The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z One, who finds himself able, uses his pen, as he might a trowel, solely to procure himself bread, without having reflected on the position in which he thereby places himself. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z For moving small plants the garden trowel is a very convenient tool, but we are inclined to give the preference to the hand-fork. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z The trowel is valuable for prying off the loosened bark from old trees, whether felled or standing, and for digging into the ground or into decaying stumps and logs. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects 2012-03-28T02:00:31.483Z From time to time, along the side of the road, one found the stone-masons at work, their trowels ringing from daybreak till sunset. Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z I had heard that the plant was a root parasite; so it was with much interest and great care I dug about it with my trowel. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z And so the dwarf mounted the high horse, and rode away complacent, with the old hand laying the court butter on his back with a trowel. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z After just a few moments, the tip of his trowel unearths the humerus of a pint-sized tortoise that walked the Southern Cape of South Africa many millennia ago. Human evolution: Cultural roots 2012-02-15T18:20:59.113Z Rome was not built in a day, and the firm trusting confidence which should unite wife and husband requires to be put together brick by brick, with plodding patience for a trowel. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z "Indeed, Miss Daventry, you may lay it on with a trowel." The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z You see, the beastly ground was full of puddles and, just as I stepped forward with a trowel in my hand, I slipped, and---- Grice. Green Stockings A Comedy in Three Acts 2012-01-28T03:00:24.297Z It took Joe a considerable time to clear the stone, though Bobby went to his aid with a trowel; but he got it free at last, and Peggy stooped down curiously to examine it. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z Let this be well rammed down, and then lay over it, with a bricklayer's trowel, a flooring of a compost of cinder-ashes, gravel, quick-lime, and water. Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. 2012-01-19T03:00:19.390Z He gathered up his trowel and rake, and started toward the barn. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z A miniature silver trowel, little larger than a teaspoon, was handed to the Governor, who, holding it in his fingers smoothed down the morsel of mortar and the corner stone was duly laid. A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River 2012-01-11T03:00:29.487Z Bring a trowel and a pail of mortar to my garden to-morrow morning at eleven o'clock sharp. Green Stockings A Comedy in Three Acts 2012-01-28T03:00:24.297Z Montagu was one of those persons who like flattery laid on with a trowel. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z "That hole must be filled up," promptly declared Mrs. James; but first, woman-like, she thrust her trowel deep into it. A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories 2011-12-23T03:00:10.057Z A trowel delicately fringed with velvet was offered to her, together with mortar served in a silver-gilt bowl. Henrietta Maria 2011-12-15T03:00:14.290Z Its tail, which is its trowel, and call bell, and many other things besides, is nearly a foot long, and has no hair at all, and is divided into little scales, something like a fish. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z He was then dressed like a mason with hod and trowel, and so conveyed over the frontier. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Mrs. Bradley, to-day, worked in her long border, weeding, troweling, placing belated labels. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z A Brahmin treats the plume with which he writes, a soldier the weapon that he takes into the field, a mason his trowel, a laborer his plow, in the same way. Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits 2011-11-28T03:00:26.030Z For the picturesque pure and simple, go there! laid on with a trowel so generous that you really get your glut. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z The builder, with a beak for her only trowel, has now completed the mason's work. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z They do not wish to increase the sale of popular-priced articles although their catalogue may be full of them because it costs them more to pack one hammer or trowel than the profits can stand. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z Jenner's face looks like it was sculpted by a plastic surgeon using a trowel instead of scalpel. NBA needs to get back on the court ? for the sake of Kris Humphries 2011-11-18T06:02:09Z The tin-stone is all collected together and washed again in a trough by pushing it up and turning it over with a wooden trowel, in order that the remaining sand may separate from it. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z So, to the moving strains, the procession headed across the lawn, and found a trowel in the tool-shed, and excavated a grave underneath the laurestinus. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z This was fortunate because Mr. Black loved roses, and spent much time poking about among them with trowel and pruning shears. Dandelion Cottage 2011-10-29T02:00:16.960Z The distant chink of trowel and hammer reached them through the haze of the windless summer morning. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z In the sweltering heat of an early July afternoon, Michael R. Waters clambers down into a shadowy pit where a small hive of excavators edge their trowels into an ancient floodplain. Americans: Mounting Evidence Prompts researchers to Reconsider the Peopling of the New World (preview) 2011-10-18T14:45:01.017Z All the foulness as well as all the faith of the Middle Ages are kneaded together with a trowel of gold and of iron. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z Never mind, you were born for them, and of old you handled the trowel well, and built to the plumb. Health Five Lay Sermons to Working-People 2011-10-07T02:00:21.697Z I'm a soldier," said Marjory, brandishing a trowel, "vanquishing my enemies. Dandelion Cottage 2011-10-29T02:00:16.960Z The trowel is used when you wish to dig shallow holes, or loose-earth trenches. Natalie: A Garden Scout 2011-09-18T02:00:30.203Z Monsieur Pantan, more active than his rival, had darted to his knees, his trowel poised for action. The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z The actual planting of bulbs in formal beds may be done with either a garden trowel or dibber. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z As long as you use your instruments to level heads, you will be applauded; then, when you want to take up the trowel, you will be killed.' The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z You could hear the masons and bricklayers—chink, tink, tinkle, as their trowels chipped off the edges—singing away in chorus. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z Jimmy, it doesn’t say one ought to have a trowel and pick for garden work. Natalie: A Garden Scout 2011-09-18T02:00:30.203Z So they had to go home to the garden, get the trowel out of the summer-house where Bevis kept such things, and then dig a few lumps of clay out of the mound. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The trowel is better for the larger bulbs like Liliums, and may of course be used for smaller bulbs if found to be more convenient. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z The workman on the job had not yet tuckpointed the space he had covered, and had left behind some of his material, a trowel and other utilities. The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk 2011-08-05T02:00:44.900Z But without there, below, the ring of the bricklayer’s trowel as he chips a brick has already given them notice to quit. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Norma dropped her trowel and fork and raced after Belle to the gate to watch the private jitney go past. Natalie: A Garden Scout 2011-09-18T02:00:30.203Z The tools which the man had asked for were a hammer, a trowel, and a tub of mortar. The Strange Story of Rab R?by 2011-07-17T02:00:30.943Z “I beg your pardon; my sight is not so good as it was,” said the old man apologetically, as he shaded his eyes with a hand holding a trowel. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z The more viscous the paint, the faster it flows from the trowel. Jackson Pollock, Physicist? 2011-07-06T19:47:44Z He has won his way to handle a trowel; but he is not conformable in all things. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z She did not live to hear the click and ring of the trowel, telling her that a brick wall was taking the place of the plate glass. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z It was wonderful that Henriette should cut even a single sheaf; the condescension of a beautiful princess who used a real trowel and some real mortar in laying the cornerstone of a public building. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z He set down his trowel for a moment to admire his handiwork. City Room: Renovating City Hall, From Floor to Ceiling 2011-06-02T22:25:36Z It was some ordinary border plant, whose identity I now forget; they had made a nice hole with their new trowel, and for its sole benefit they had bought a tin of Concentrated Fertiliser. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z A brick was good or bad; you could tell that by a trowel. The Red Mouse 2011-05-30T02:00:14.700Z While working he cast occasional glances toward the house; and when, the mortar being mixed, he began to lay brick he used the trowel with care lest its clink should awaken Seyd. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z Titiens, as she leaned on the arm of Mr. Fowler, was presented with an elaborately-engraved silver trowel by Mr. Webster, the Contractor. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 2011-05-20T02:00:28.363Z But the lantern stood longer still upon a salient fragment of the razed east end, while the trowel rang, and the mortar flopped, until all lay smooth and glistening in its light. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z The trowel," Balfour continued, "was almost as bright as this when it was dug up, it had been buried so deep, and the fork is of an odd shape. Amy in Acadia A Story for Girls 2011-04-29T02:00:08.307Z There were one or two brief speeches, and Edna Esdale, the youngest member of Form I, handed a trowel decorated with ribbons, a dab of mortar was deposited, and the foundation stone laid. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z Since that time a great number of patterns have been tried, including shovel, trowel and adze types. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z The trowel will be handed to His Royal Highness by Mr. Mapleson, the Director; the plumb-rule and level by Mr. F. H. Fowler, the Architect; and the mallet by Mr. W. Webster, the Builder. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 2011-05-20T02:00:28.363Z And the keystone was actually in one hand, a trowel full of mortar in the other, when the first sound of Georgie's voice drove all else from his mind. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z She had donned old gloves and a clean checked apron, and, trowel in hand, was breaking up the caked earth, preparatory, it would seem, to setting plants. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z Doubtless she had waited until dusk before beginning the actual digging with her trowel in order to decrease the chances of interfering in what must be a violation of the most sacred park regulations. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z The term is applied also to various tools, especially to many kinds of trowels used in plastering. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Not a hickory shaving's difference, whether you showed me a trowel that helped to build Babel, or a snuff-box of Queen Bess. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z Among the books two volumes on Building Construction might have been remarked upon the settle, together with a tattered copy of Parker's Introduction to Gothic Architecture; among the lumber, a mason's trowel and a cold-chisel. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z For answer, he shook himself free of his packages and began to undo them, the ax, the hammer, the big package of nails, the saw, the trowel, the paper bags of seeds, the pickax. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z A considerable mound of soil lay beside the hole over which she had crouched and she brandished a trowel against Kicko’s exuberant importunities. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z The bottle was sealed and placed in the cavity; the architect gave the Queen a trowel to spread the mortar; and the stone was lowered. In the Days of Queen Victoria 2011-03-17T02:00:14.783Z Simultaneously Mr. Tellwright dropped his trowel, and came towards the house. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z There are the girls going out with their trowels, going to poke among those flowers; and certainly, I'll do them justice to say, their garden prospers. The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:53.937Z Two thousand members of the union dropped their trowels because the employers refused to recognize their edict in regard to Saturday pay-day. 30,000 Locked Out. The Great Strike of the Building Trades in Chicago. 2011-02-16T03:00:39.173Z He continued to stare as she fell back to her knees and, with her trowel, refilled the hole she had dug. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z Some even danced with the shovels and cement-encrusted trowels that they used to build the City of Joy. Memo From Bukavu: Fighting Congo?s Ills With Education and an Army of Women 2011-02-07T01:20:37Z He came in, coatless, and, dropping a trowel on the hearth, sat down at the end of the table nearest the fireplace. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z When used in this fashion the wooden handle is laid aside, the pick end becomes a handle, and the intrenching tool is used in the same manner as a trowel. Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition 2011-02-02T03:00:25.187Z But we still see many deserted buildings where the sound of the trowel is not heard. 30,000 Locked Out. The Great Strike of the Building Trades in Chicago. 2011-02-16T03:00:39.173Z For this purpose it is made of about the consistency of mortar and spread on with a trowel in the ordinary way. Asbestos Its production and use, with some account of the asbestos mines of Canada 2011-02-01T03:00:13.163Z This lump of dough is spread out flat on a table, not with a rolling-pin, but with the hands and a flat trowel or shovel. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z Hear the trowels ring; Feel the merry breezes make the scaffold swing; See the skimming swallow brush us with her wing:— Go it with your hammers, boys; time us while we sing. The Two Twilights 2010-12-25T03:00:12.393Z “Try the beef, guv’ner,” says a gentleman in the style of head-dress known as a “deerstalker,” which he wore while he trowelled his dinner into his mouth with the blade of a very wide knife. Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches 2010-12-20T17:11:48.837Z At some point, he cut his finger with a trowel or some other garden implement. Gloves May Head Off ?Garden? Variety Pneumonia 2010-09-07T13:47:00Z The expense, therefore, cannot be great, and as to its mode of use, it is simply laid on with a trowel, like mortar or any similar composition, and when once done is singularly effective. Asbestos Its production and use, with some account of the asbestos mines of Canada 2011-02-01T03:00:13.163Z In Monroe that afternoon, Duncan grabbed a trowel and joined elementary students planting white sage and tomatoes in a courtyard garden. Education Secretary Duncan hits the road for reform 2010-08-29T00:06:00Z Elroy turned to address the old man’s stocking feet, the left one wedged like a trowel: he had lost three toes in Vietnam. Salvatore Scibona: “The Kid.” 2010-06-07T04:00:00Z They go around with brooms and trowels, filling holes with ice and snow like plasterers. Live - Winter Olympics Day 15 2010-02-26T16:13:00Z I was working with a flat mason’s trowel, so I got up and found a board. The Idyl of Twin Fires Another army had preceded them, armed with picks and shovels, trowels and axes. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. The apparatus required is extremely simple: A satchel or large pockets full of small metal or chip boxes, a small garden trowel, and a strong chisel. Butterflies and Moths (British) I'm never happy unless I'm pottering about with a trowel. The Princess Galva A Romance When the soap slides from the trowel it should break short. Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. I got a trowel, and we planted the withered trilliums in partial shade between the maples and the pines, and gave them water. The Idyl of Twin Fires In Herborizing, a good knife and a narrow and strong trowel are needed; but a very strong knife will serve instead of a trowel or small pick for digging out bulbs, tubers, and the like. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools The trowel and chisel do not pack well with a number of small boxes, therefore it is a good plan to fix them in a couple of leather sheaths attached to your belt. Butterflies and Moths (British) Some rose-bushes needed attention, and with a pair of large scissors she was pruning the branches and cutting the weeds away with a garden trowel. The Cottage of Delight A Novel A sample on the trowel should have a slight sharpness to the tongue and be plastic. Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. The levelling off by hand, using a sharp trowel shaped tool, of the splurge after the impression has been made. From Xylographs to Lead Molds; A.D. 1440-A.D. 1921 With a trowel, a palm branch, the symbol of martyrdom, was rudely traced in the yet unhardened cement, and the little company began to disperse. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs Everywhere was heard the din of hammer and saw, or the ring of the mason's trowel, and in every direction Glen could see the city growing, spreading, and assuming new aspects as he gazed. Campmates A Story of the Plains His steel trowel rang like a bell as he tossed the red brick like a ball in his strong, splaying hand. The Cottage of Delight A Novel If the sample clings to the trowel, a slight addition of lye will remedy this defect. Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. Sylvia carried the box down, and a trowel, and set to work in a half-hearted manner, putting in little groups and rows, though she certainly was not enjoying herself. The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story The Rector waved his trowel remotely, and Pauline blew him kisses until she was made aware of protests in the room behind her. Plashers Mead A Novel Full of hope, she gathered up her trowel and her basket of plants and ran towards the house. Harper's Round Table, September 24, 1895 Quite unperturbed, he rang his trowel on the corner-stone till quiet was restored, and then, with a half-jest, appropriately worded, he made the announcement. The Cottage of Delight A Novel With the steam on, the soap is now examined with a trowel which must be thoroughly heated by working it about under the surface of the hot soap. Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. She flung down her trowel, and, walking away to a retired part of the grounds, sat down on a seat under a hawthorn tree and began to cry as if her heart would break. The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story He thought the moment was arrived when Birdwood was sent off on an errand and when the Rector, getting up from his kneeler, began to shake the trowel at him impressively. Plashers Mead A Novel Ahem!” cried Finn, resting one little fist upon her hip,—and stretching out the other—“Tableau—young Druid priestess about to cut the sacred plant with a fern trowel.” Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One His new trowel tinkled softly as he worked in the dead silence on all sides. The Cottage of Delight A Novel The appearance of the soap as it runs from the face of the trowel indicates its condition. Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. The Mayor, having received from the Provincial Grand Master the handsome silver trowel prepared for the occasion, now asked the Prince, in the name of the School Trustees, to proceed with the ceremony. Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888 He’d take the long sides of a cloister, trowel on his stuff, and roll out his great all-abroad pictures of saints and croppy-topped trees quick as a webster unrolling cloth almost. Rewards and Fairies Oh, my gracious!” she exclaimed, dropping her little trowel, for Trevor had come into sight. Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One He was tapping a protruding brick with the handle of his trowel and gently driving it into line. The Cottage of Delight A Novel The kettle is then thoroughly boiled until the mass shows a soft curd and the lye drops clearly from a sample taken out with a trowel or paddle. Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. The stone was then well and truly laid, and his Royal Highness was presented with the trowel. Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888 Now there wasn’t a trick in brick or stone That this young man hadn’t seen or known; Nor there wasn’t a tool from trowel to maul But this young man could use ’em all! Rewards and Fairies There was a man too with a trowel, who did a lot of useful weeding by the roadside. To Lhassa at Last When they reached the wooded hills at the end of the six miles, Anne descended with her basket, her digging trowel, and her tin plant case. Anne A sample taken out at this stage upon a hot trowel should run off in large flakes. Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. Fighting like the Jews, with sword in one hand and trowel in the other, they had no time for cultivating the softer side of human nature. Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series Armed with baskets and trowels, Lorraine and Monica made several expeditions into the country lanes, and came home burdened with spoils. The Head Girl at the Gables One day, seizing a trowel from some tools on the porch, she rushed into the garden and began digging in the flower beds. Molly Brown's Sophomore Days As he rose, Anne saw that he was laden with her dinner basket and shawl, her plant case and trowel, and her straw hat and its contents, which he balanced with exaggerated care. Anne If any old beaver sentinel be swimming about, he quickly scents the man-smell, upends and dives with a spanking blow of his trowel tail on the water, which heliographs danger to the whole community. The Story of the Trapper Thus we say, when any one bespatters another with gross flattery, that he lays it on with a trowel. Folk-lore of Shakespeare She raked, and weeded, and picked up a few dead twigs, and scraped some moss off the path with a trowel, turning her head every other moment to peep through the railings. The Head Girl at the Gables On the opposite side of the fence stood a middle-aged woman with a floppy hat awry on her head and a gardening trowel in one of her gloved hands. Freudian Slip Thumping hammers and clinking trowels were raising uncouth buildings around the central plaza, adding other grotesque monstrosities to those which had already attained perfection in every detail that rebelled against a sense of beauty. The Vision of Elijah Berl The walls were given a coat of plaster and a coat of rough-cast, which was gently trowelled over to smooth the surface slightly. Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) The surface is often simply hand or trowel smoothed. Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436 With sword in one hand and trowel in the other the people pushed the work forward, while over all Nehemiah watched with unceasing care. Training the Teacher Mrs. Richards' gloves and trowel were spotlessly clean. n Fourth Avenue, below Fourteenth Street, Herman met two frightful little men. Freudian Slip They call it "the Enchanted Mesa," this island of ocher rock set in a sea of light, higher than Niagara, beveled and faced straight up and down as if smoothed by some giant trowel. Through Our Unknown Southwest Rough-cast consists of a small quantity of mortar, diluted with water in a tub, to which a trowel of pure lime is added, so as to make it about the thickness of cream. Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) Dr. Grey stepped out of his buggy, and accosted the gardener, who was leaning idly on the gate, holding a trowel in his hand, and lazily puffing the smoke from his pipe. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part You have made a family comfortable and happy for life, and, by my trowel and hammer, I will forever pray for your majesty's reverence! Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 The men dug rifle pits with their trowel bayonets and piled up rocks to protect themselves as best they could, and a sharpshooting fight was kept up from this position all day. The Battle of the Big Hole A History of General Gibbon's Engagement with Nez Percés Indians in the Big Hole Valley, Montana, August 9th, 1877. I don’t mean false, blatant, absurd flattery, such as men often bestow on us when desirous to please, not realising that compliments laid on with a trowel are an insult to one’s intelligence. Modern marriage and how to bear it It is put on thin with a trowel, after damping the wall. Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) He presented the lodge with three beautifully carved mahogany candlesticks, and the trowel and mallet which he used in laying the first stone of the great cathedral in 1675. Old and New London Volume I I saw her troweling there the next morning. Old Crow Pots of colours, painting brushes, Lime and mortar, masons' trowels And high scaffoldings are rising To the dome of the pavilion. The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. The carts were toiling ere the dawn; The mason whistled, the hodman sang; Early and late the trowels rang; And Thin himself came day by day To push the work in every way. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers A botanical collection is more valuable if the roots of the plants are also included; and this will make it necessary for you to have a long trowel. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes "Why, brother," said Wilkes, "you lay it on with a trowel!" Old and New London Volume I Blumenroth, the gardener, digging up a flower-bed with a trowel nearby, put down his implement, and stared at the two cooks sardonically. The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons Being one of the exciting episodes in the career of the famous detective Hemlock Holmes, as recorded by his friend Dr. Watson He looked very wise as he said this, and his wand of office—a dirty trowel—which he held in his hand, gave him tremendous dignity. Jimbo A Fantasy With their trowels they carefully dug up the plants and put them in their baskets to take home. Two Little Women For planting bulbs choose a day when the earth is dry, and make your holes with a trowel. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes "Do you believe them?" she asked, jamming her trowel up to its hilt in the soft earth. His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts The walls and ceilings were covered with the plaster which would dry the quickest, and the paper-hangers entered the rooms almost before the plasterers could take away their trowels and their lime-begrimed hats and coats. Mrs. Cliff's Yacht The girls had brought trowels with them, and now Jack lost no time in digging up the fern and placing it in the corner of one of the boxes. The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields This is what we have to admire,—this grand power and heart of man in the thing; not his technical or empirical way of holding the trowel and laying mortar. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) In 1795 Thomas Twining passed through Alexandria and commented: "What struck me most was the vast number of houses which I saw building ... the hammer and the trowel were at work everywhere, a cheering sight." Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria "That head man of yours is a duffer," she said sharply, pointing a very earthy trowel at the unconscious figure of the gardener, who was busy in the middle distance digging potatoes. His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts Half of the people were on the watch, and the other half held a sword in one hand and a trowel in the other. Men of the Bible "It is our duty to tell this writer," said another, "that he will make more in a week by his trowel than in half a century by his pen." My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. I shall give him stones, and bricks, and straw, chisels, and trowels, and the ground, and then ask him to build; only helping him, as I can, if I find him puzzled. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) "I guess they don't want no more fuss with Clark's Field—after they've got the thing all troweled out fine and smooth." Clark's Field He dropped the trowel and, taking off his work gloves, reached into his pocket and extracted an old pipe. The Unthinking Destroyer His manner was that of wide-eyed innocence laid on with a large trowel. Psichopath He bent forward, made a lunge with his trowel at a solitary blade of grass growing in the bed of bleeding hearts, and after uprooting it, returned with a tranquil face to his garden chair. The Romance of a Plain Man He exchanged the small silver trowel for a larger iron one, which made some of the people smile. Friars and Filipinos An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, 'Noli Me Tangere.' Then the mason rose, and with his trowel tapping the rock said slowly and emphatically,— "I'm laying this wall—and I don't take no orders from you!" Clark's Field He squatted down, picking up the trowel and lazily poking it into the rich soil at his feet. The Unthinking Destroyer And when the brick and mortar were piled by the hands of the unconscious grooms, and when the fatal trowels clanged and jarred around him, he spake not—stirred not—gave no sign. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 Rising to his feet, he came rapidly to the pavement, his trowel still in hand, his outstretched arms trembling with pleasure. The Romance of a Plain Man The young man was still holding the trowel in his hand, his eyes staring with fright at the dead body of a man which was lying at his feet, half buried under the timbers. Friars and Filipinos An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, 'Noli Me Tangere.' The contractor, who had not been long away from the trowel and mortar himself, frowned. Clark's Field He placed the garden trowel and gloves in the hip pocket of his coveralls and tapped his pipe on the heel of his shoe. The Unthinking Destroyer The architect handed him the trowel, etc., inviting him to become "an operative mason for a few moments." The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Instead of a silver vanity case she was laden with a basket of newspapers, string, and a garden trowel, indicating that fern roots would be the vogue shortly. The Gorgeous Girl Ibarra presented the Alcalde with a trowel, upon whose wide silver blade was engraved the date. Friars and Filipinos An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, 'Noli Me Tangere.' He taught her to handle the trowel and to lay stone. Clark's Field Obsidian knives, arrowheads, stone pestles, and broken plaster trowels are often found just below the surface of the soil. Aztec Land Nearly every man has suddenly become a mason or a carpenter, and the hammer, the axe, and the trowel are being plied with the utmost vigor, if not with the highest skill. Three Years in the Federal Cavalry The children themselves learn to line a wall with shining white or colored tiles wrought in various designs, or, with the help of mortar and a trowel, to cover the floor with little bricks. Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook Ibarra offered another silver trowel to the curate, who, after fixing his eyes on him for a moment, descended slowly to the bottom of the excavation. Friars and Filipinos An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, 'Noli Me Tangere.' He indicated the unfinished house with a wave of his trowel, and went on with his work. Clark's Field He took out his hunting-knife and plied it as a trowel. Two Arrows A Story of Red and White When partially dry, a better finish is obtained by lightly troweling the concrete. Rural Hygiene |
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