| 单词 | cleavers |
| 例句 | By the time I arrived, I had enough anger to fend off a thousand flying cleavers. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of every day, the butchers lovingly cleaned and stored their knives and cleavers, the tools of their trade. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A union representative tried to sway the packers: “These men will be on the killing floor of the packing plants. They will have cleavers and knives.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z On the outheld hand of the colossal seraph, ghosts stood guard with cleavers, and some with meat hooks on chains. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A couple of feet across from the women, behind yellow, featherless chickens hanging from hooks, men in bloody aprons raise their cleavers and cut into slabs of beef with the precision of many years’ practice. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So, when the alarm went off at seven, I dreamed I was back in that car, stuck in the river, sitting behind Screaming Ned as he sharpened his meat cleavers. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Having drawn gleaming, sharp knives, meat cleavers and tomahawks, the tsotsis began carving the man as he howled for mercy. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She heard her own echoing cry of “Go!” and felt the terror bearing down, cleavers and meat hooks and the face of her own grandmother—Azareen’s grandmother—twisted in unfamiliar hatred. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The waiters came out of the kitchen with meat cleavers, toasting forks, iron pots and frying pans to arm everyone. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z They would swarm over them with their knives and cleavers and meat hooks. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But he went to work with two cleavers chopping the onion up into the meat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Nathaniel Mann, 31, is overseeing the production of 12 bronze tuned cleavers, to be used in a show called Rough Music. Meat cleavers revive vigilante music 2014-03-21T05:01:01Z A musician is using specially crafted meat cleavers to reproduce music - a tradition that is up to 300 years old and once made by groups of vigilantes. Meat cleavers revive vigilante music 2014-03-21T05:01:01Z Rappers are holding babies, or weapons, or ice cream, or cleavers. Celebrating the Fast-Moving, Bug-Eyed, Wily World of Hip-Hop Mixtape Covers 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z We’re essentially using razors and glorified meat cleavers to slice up the organs on cutting boards. Autopsies are nothing like “CSI”: My second career dissecting the dead 2014-01-25T13:00:00Z In the office, two cleavers are stuck forebodingly into the wall, an installation by Barry Le Va, the influential sculptor who died this year. This Modest New York Apartment Holds One of the Best Art Collections in Town 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z Do you think the snuggly babies with the meat cleavers send the right message to the impulsive bed-sharer, or scare well-intentioned people away from getting the information they need to bed-share safely? Motherlode Blog: A Controversial Campaign Against Co-Sleeping 2011-12-06T18:13:28Z "I found a 17th Century composer who made a satirical piece of music, and he made tuned bronze meat cleavers for the performance," he said. Meat cleavers revive vigilante music 2014-03-21T05:01:01Z I’ve never known the quality of the chicken to change, though, apart from the desirable variations from bite to bite that you get when chicken is spiced, smoked and hacked with cleavers into irregular bits. To Find New York’s Best Jerk, Follow the Smoke 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Four meat cleavers and a trio of open books float around him, offering both the means of slaughter and, presumably, a choice of recipes. Review: Seattle artist creates entire worlds with paper and scissors 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z How she acquired the cleavers: They were part of the supplies purchased in New York’s Chinatown for the free kitchen, used for cutting the vegetables. Woodstock Keepsakes and Flashbacks 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z There was nothing but this storm, this flat plain, this gray, the lightning clacking like falling cleavers on a cutting board. I hiked the Colorado Trail for nearly 500 miles. I was awed by the mountains the whole way. 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Distinctive radial ridges called “cleavers” reach from high on Rainier right into the surrounding backcountry. Six of the best US national trails – chosen by experts 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z The poet James Merrill said that if poems are chopsticks and radishes and sashimi on a plate, prose is fish guts and cleavers. A Poet Laureate Sends News From the End of Life 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Her mother, Ann, gave her honeysuckle flowers to suck on hot days and often added pineapple weed to lemonade or cleavers and violets to tea. Ready to discard your Christmas tree? You could eat it instead. 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Like sitcom employees, the Clyde’s cooks complain about how busy they are, and they look busy, smacking cleavers through heads of lettuce, slapping turkey slices onto waxed paper, and lavishly squeezing sauces all over them. Good vs. evil in a sandwich shop: Why 'Clyde's' is a delicious bite of L.A. theater 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Kinmen is now known for the production of meat cleavers carved out of strewn artillery shells. Eisenhower’s explosive Taiwan visit hints at what Pelosi’s could bring 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z Brandishing bloodstained cleavers, two men warn Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi about inflaming religious tensions in India and vow to avenge acts of blasphemy. Brutal killing in India stirs fears of escalating religious violence 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z In a fiery speech, he urged members of Israel’s Arab minority to “get your cleavers, axes or knives ready.” Israel Captures 2 Palestinians Suspected in Deadly Ax Attack 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z But the winter season was just underway, and the 24-year-old with hands the size of meat cleavers and a lot to prove was undeterred. Trouble lurks for Afghanistan’s beloved ‘goat grabbing’ national sport 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Several of the images show blood and other fluids splattering as workers – many of them without gloves – hack animals apart with cleavers, long knives or scissors. Asian wet markets still ‘filthy’ despite coronavirus pandemic, PETA video shows 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z He bought garbage bags and two meat cleavers shortly after she went missing, and her DNA was found on one of the cleavers in her apartment, they said. Life term imposed in 2017 murder, dismemberment of woman 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z Cooks’ cleavers were chained to benches, as police rules demand, to prevent potential stabbings. Battered but Resilient After China’s Crackdown 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z A tall, sleek, metal-and-glass table, like something from a science lab or hospital operating room, is festooned with eight meat cleavers suspended on elegant chains, four dangling from either side. Review: Nayland Blake turns bunnies and shoes into meditations on sex, power and prejudice 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z We should be alert not only for troops pouring across the border, but also for thugs with cleavers. Opinion | In Hong Kong, Playing Tennis With Tear-Gas Grenades 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z In one video he dramatically flicked open a fan made of four cleavers; that got 5 million views. How a welder with a useless invention — a meat cleaver cellphone cover — became an accidental viral video star 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z “There was no proof that Mr. Lolos ever used any garbage bags or any meat cleavers,” Lisboa said. Life term imposed in 2017 murder, dismemberment of woman 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z Over time, the ancient innovators rejected bulky hand-axes and cleavers, instead opting for sleek flakes of stone meant for cutting and tipping spears. These Tools Upend Our View of Stone-Age Humans in Asia 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z The burned flint tools were more elegant than the heavy cleavers earlier in the Stone Age, McPherron said. Oldest Homo sapiens fossils discovered in Morocco 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Flashing cleavers reduce the chickens to their constituent parts. Some of the best Hainan chicken in town is in an Arcadia mall 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Police located the car at Harrison’s grandfather house where they found and confiscated five knives, including two meat cleavers. 2 men arrested for alleged creepy clown hoax 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z Nearly two dozen atheist writers, publishers, members of religious minorities, social activists and foreign aid workers have been slain since 2013 by attackers wielding meat cleavers and machetes. Attackers take hostages at Bangladesh restaurant 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z In most of the killings, a group of young men cut their victims down with meat cleavers and machetes before fleeing the scene. Questions rise over Bangladesh jailing 11,600 in crackdown 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Most of the attacks have a shared pattern — a handful of young men wielding knives or cleavers surround their target and hack the victim to death. Police say a 75-year-old Buddhist monk has been killed in a monastery in southeastern Bangladesh 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the brutality continues, usually by a handful of young men wielding knives or cleavers to hack their targets to death. Bangladesh professor under 24-hour armed guard after threats 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Posing as couriers, the men entered his apartment in a quiet Dhaka neighbourhood and hacked him to death with meat cleavers. Is violent extremism on the rise in Bangladesh? - BBC News 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Since 2013, attacks characterised by the assailants’ use of machetes and cleavers have claimed the lives of secular bloggers, authors, journalists, academics and teachers of a supposedly liberal bent. Bangladesh's pluralism is at risk if Sheikh Hasina does not stop extremists 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Police said that in each of the attacks unidentified assailants hacked the victim to death with machetes or cleavers. Bangladeshi academic hacked to death 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Jogeswar Roy, 45, was attacked by two assailants armed with pistols and cleavers at his home in the temple on Sunday, police say. Bangladesh Hindu priest beheaded 'by Islamic State' - BBC News 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z One of the pieces of art shows Trejo, wearing an apron, holding two cleavers. Danny Trejo talks vegan tacos at the new Trejo's Tacos on La Brea 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z The two North South University students who received the death sentences included Faisal bin Nayeem, who the court said hacked Haider with meat cleavers in front of his house in Dhaka. World Digest: Dec. 12, 2015 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Pushed to the limit, a small group of Uighurs armed with cleavers set upon a coal mine and its Han Chinese workers, probably in revenge for an abuse, an injustice or an expropriation.” Beijing, Xinjiang and the Press 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z "Pushed to the limit, a small group of Uighurs armed with cleavers set upon a coal mine and its Han Chinese workers, probably in revenge for an abuse, an injustice or an expropriation." China expels French journalist for terrorism coverage 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z Last year, a group of assailants armed with cleavers and knives attacked passengers at a train station in Kunming, killing 29 and injuring more than 100. Killing of hostages complicates China’s approach to Islamic State’s terrorism 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z On one of the brick walls, there was an artfully arranged display of cleavers. Defending Real Barbecue 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Israeli security offices said that roughly half of the Palestinian dead were assailants, many of whom used knives and cleavers to attack Israeli citizens. Israel, Jordan Move to Calm Tensions in Jerusalem, Says Kerry 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z Any country would do the same to deal with "people wielding knives, meat cleavers, axes, trying to kill people on their streets," he said. Israel's Netanyahu urges talks to calm Jerusalem violence - BBC News 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Significantly, however, they discovered the presence of two types of weeds in current crop fields: corn cleavers and darnel. Archaeologists find possible evidence of earliest human agriculture 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Three meat cleavers were recovered from the two suspects, both students at Islamic schools, police said. World Digest: March 30, 2015 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Two suspects were captured and three meat cleavers were recovered, Sarker said. Blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh's capital 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Then, in swift, precision choreography, the team moved in with their knives, cleavers, hammers and pincers. An inside look at the first pig biobank 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z The combat system is equally finicky, relying on a scavenged array of baseball bats, table legs and meat cleavers to use against the zombies. ‘Dying Light’ review: Born to run . . . errands while battling zombies 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The bloodshed on Nov. 18 — when two Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem entered a synagogue and killed worshipers using meat cleavers, knives and a gun — shocked the nation. Will the Druze relatives of an Israeli hero be sidelined by the ‘Jewish state?’ The men killed five people—four worshippers and one police officer—at a synagogue, using a gun and meat cleavers. Har Nof Attackers Bodies Will Not Be Returned to Family Two Palestinian men attacked the West Jerusalem synagogue with a gun and meat cleavers before being shot dead. Israel demolishes attacker's home 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Two Palestinians armed with a pistol and meat cleavers killed four rabbis in West Jerusalem before being shot dead. PM's vow in 'battle for Jerusalem' 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z Four people were killed in Jerusalem’s Bnei Torah synagogue on Tuesday morning by two suspects armed with guns and cleavers, according to Israeli Police. Jerusalem Synagogue Attack - Live Updates The paper also faced backlash for its editorial independence earlier this year when its chief editor Kevin Lau was fired and later injured by attackers wielding meat cleavers. China Vs. Hong Kong's Press 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z No customers were browsing the exquisite wares, everything from plain $10 cleavers to a $500 silver blade with a decorative inlaid handle that takes one craftsman 15 days to produce. Uighur tool, talisman now feared after knifings in China 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Eyewitnesses described attackers using curved swords and meat cleavers to stab people at random. Four charged over Kunming attack 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z In 1996, however, triad members who, Mr. Chan said, mistook him for a crime world figure cracked his skull with cleavers, leaving his left arm permanently weaker. A ‘Modern-Day Knight’ Who Helped Fleeing Tiananmen Activists 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Eight men and women, armed with swords and cleavers, left 29 people dead and 130 injured at the main train station. Kunming attack fires up party meeting 2014-03-06T15:26:48Z And the choice of weapons - swords and cleavers. Shock and anger after Kunming brutality 2014-03-03T05:39:37Z Eyewitnesses said the attackers used curved swords and meat cleavers to stab people at random. China vigil for knife attack victims 2014-03-03T04:12:42Z Han Chinese protesters later used cleavers and rocks to attack Uighur neighborhoods. China Orders Security Crackdown After Riots in Restive Region 2013-06-29T10:30:53Z Han Chinese protesters later marched on Uighur neighborhoods, some attacking homes with bricks and cleavers. Violence Erupts Anew in Volatile Western China Region 2013-06-28T19:51:42Z Crowds of Han Chinese residents then marched through Uighur neighborhoods, demanding vengeance and attacking residents with rocks and cleavers. 27 Die in Rioting in Ethnically Divided Western China 2013-06-26T07:12:36Z Witnesses reported seeing the soldier struck by a car, then set upon by two men wielding long knives and cleavers. Man accused of killing British soldier appears in court 2013-05-30T12:02:00Z The soldier — Lee Rigby, 25 — was run down by a car on the sidewalk outside an army barracks, then attacked with meat cleavers. British Soldier’s Killer Had Ties to Al Qaeda, Government Says 2013-05-27T01:35:04Z One of the two men hectored a gathering crowd, gesturing with his bloodied hands while still grasping two heavy cleavers. Anti-Muslim Threats Rise in Britain After Soldier’s Killing 2013-05-25T16:30:11Z Yesterday at about 2:20 p.m., two young men armed with long knives and meat cleavers decapitated an off-duty soldier on an ordinary street in the London borough of Woolwich. Welcome to Woolwich 2013-05-23T12:37:00Z The Woman Who Stood Up to the Woolwich Butchers One woman faced down the two alleged killers who used cleavers and carving knives to hack a soldier to death in London. The Lady and the Butchers 2013-05-23T10:55:00Z Witnesses recounted seeing the suspects — armed with meat cleavers and possibly a firearm — rushing toward police when officers arrived on the scene. U.K. Emergency Committee Meets After Attack 2013-05-23T11:35:28Z This was London today, where two men wielding what were called "meat cleavers" by witnesses slashed a man in the middle of the street, near a primary school. Man With Bloodied Hands Rants After London Machete Attack (VIDEO) 2013-05-22T19:24:00Z Corn cleavers, a flower found in arable fields, has undergone one of the most dramatic declines of any plant species and now only survives at the Rothamsted research station. 10% of UK wildlife 'endangered' 2013-05-22T03:00:37Z Police in southeastern Chittagong city fired on Islamic activists who attacked them with iron rods, meat cleavers and sticks. Bangladesh Police, Islamic Activists Clash; 27 Die 2013-05-06T13:18:33Z She saw two men nearby with cleavers and carving knives. The Lady and the Butchers 2013-05-23T10:55:00Z Wan, a stocky man with often garish sartorial taste, is said to be unable to straighten the middle two fingers of one hand after being mangled by meat cleavers in a street fight. After long jail term, gaming gangster faces less violent but still murky Macau 2012-11-30T07:43:03Z The butchers, with marrow-bones and cleavers, brought up the rear, and in comparison were tuneful. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Hogarth, in his delineation of the marriage of the industrious apprentice to his master’s daughter, introduces a set of butchers coming forward with marrow bones and cleavers. Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects 2011-12-02T03:00:21.090Z A drink made by steeping cleavers, or hyssop, in boiling water may be given at discretion. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z Alas! these stars are all extinguished; and the remains of ancient British harmony are now confined to the manly music of the marrow-bones and cleavers. The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times 2011-10-23T02:00:21.883Z The herbage is made up of tall grasses, composites and, in the spring, the all-dominant cleavers, Galium. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Volume 11, Number 4, December 1919 2011-10-07T02:00:22.027Z In a country where gun ownership is severely restricted, all of the attacks involved assailants wielding knives, meat cleavers, and other tools for hacking and slicing. Axe-Wielding Farmer Goes on Killing Spree in Central China 2011-09-14T18:20:44Z He examined Pan carefully; there were no signs of a fight on him—nothing but cleavers or the seeds of goose-grass clinging to his coat. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The boatmen were Norsemen, sir--audacious-looking fellows, with large cleavers and shaggy caps. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z From table 1 it may be seen that quackgrass, alfalfa, wild lettuce, and cleavers were common. Natural History of the Prairie Vole (Mammalian Genus Microtus) [KU. Vol. 1 No. 7] 2011-06-01T02:00:28.617Z A shouting, jeering rabble accompanied the cavalcade, making uproar with marrow-bones and cleavers, tongs, gridirons, and kettles, and 'some half-score of barking and yelping curs swelled the din. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z Packs of men patrol at night, roaming the streets with weapons ranging from meat cleavers to metal pipes. Egyptians Face Food Inflation by Day, Roaming Looters at Night 2011-02-01T13:26:33Z Pan raced and circled round to find the game, and returned with his back covered with cleavers which stuck to his coat. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z It was the fifth attack since March, all involving middle-aged men using knives, cleavers or tools. China's School Killings and Social Despair 2010-05-13T23:21:00Z They include not only quartz hand axes, but also cleavers and scrapers, all of which are in the Acheulean style. 2010-02-15T22:08:00Z Chimps use cleavers to chop food By Matt Walker Editor, Earth News For the first time, chimpanzees have been seen using tools to chop up and reduce food into smaller bite-sized portions. 2009-12-24T11:07:00Z In February, too, the roads are no longer edged with dead white grass, but show the fresh green of wayside plants—cow-weed, nettle, dock, and cleavers. Springtime and Other Essays He handled his cleavers as lightly as a drummer his sticks, whistling a waltz the meanwhile to keep himself in time. Black Forest Village Stories The Arkansas and Texas troops, especially, carried enormous knives, that might have made a Malay's blood run cold, but in the end those huge weapons did duty far oftener as cleavers than as bayonets. History of Morgan's Cavalry She is welcomed by an enthusiastic body of butchers with marrow-bones and cleavers; while among the crowd waiting to receive her we notice Orator Hunt and the other popular leaders of the day. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. Ms Koops found stone and wooden cleavers, as well as stone anvils used to fracture the large fruits. 2009-12-24T11:07:00Z A squadron of horsemen next paraded the town on horses, ponies, and donkeys, with the marrow-bones and cleavers, and rung most dolorous music. Forgotten Tales of Long Ago Some of the rock cleavers which divide glaciers stand several thousand feet in height, veritable fences. The Book of the National Parks The antique fireplace and the ancient mantelpiece were forced to keep company with meat blocks and butchers' cleavers. Duffels Before him was a glass counter wherein were displayed knives and cleavers and scissors and other cutlery. Stubble The cleavers were clearly used to pound the fruit, rather than the fruit pounded upon the stones. 2009-12-24T11:07:00Z A performer on the bass viol, and a herd of butchers armed with marrow-bones and cleavers, form an English concert. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency The greater diversification of the other sides of the mountain with extruding cliffs, cleavers, and enormous rock masses tends strongly to scenic variety and grandeur. The Book of the National Parks The setting sun had thrown a mantle of rose pink over the ice of the glaciers and the great cleavers of rock which buttress the mighty dome. The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier' A heap of long-bladed bread knives, French knives, carving knives and cleavers lay in the center of the table. Gambler's World "And it's the first time wild chimpanzees have been found to use two distinct types of percussive technology, i.e. movable cleavers versus a non-movable anvil, to achieve the same goal." 2009-12-24T11:07:00Z The company of journeymen butchers, with their marrow-bones and cleavers, appear to be the most active, and are by far the most noisy of any who grace this solemnity. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency A band of music, with marrow-bones and cleavers and a set of hand-bells—clearly all of them under the direction of the Drum—then struck up the dance at Meg's wedding. Charles Dickens as a Reader Church, parson, clerk, beadle, glass coach, bells, breakfast, bridecake, favours, marrow-bones, cleavers, and all the rest of the tomfoolery. The Cricket on the Hearth And now the bark is sailing up the Thames, with bells ringing, bonfires blazing, and "bones and cleavers" clashing. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series Also equal parts of cleavers, maidenhair, and elder blows, steeped in warm water for two or three hours and drank freely when cold forms an excellent drink in erysipelas, scarlet fever and measles. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada It was formerly the custom for butchers' assistants to provide themselves with marrow-bones and cleavers for musical effects. Charles Dickens and Music The first plan is the one adopted by burrs and cleavers. Science in Arcady A deputation from the marrow-bones and cleavers waited on Lord Stanley at the Treasury. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841 It was played on by a thick piece of wood and produced sounds infinitely less harmonious than "marrow-bones and cleavers." Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa Perhaps you have heard of the phrase 'musical as marrow-bones and cleavers'; this is the origin of it. Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. A complete band would consist of eight men, with their cleavers so tuned as to give an octave of notes. Charles Dickens and Music The men who play the bells have got scent of the marriage; and the marrow-bones and cleavers too; and a brass band too. Dombey and Son Geese and cranes, chicory, mildew, thistles, cleavers, caltrops, darnel and shade are farmer's enemies. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Bonfires blazed from one end of the kingdom to the other, and the streets of the metropolis were redolent of marrow-bones and cleavers. Canadian Notabilities, Volume 1 The grating sounds were increased by balladsingers, marrow-bones and cleavers, and the vociferous throats of men who seemed to imagine that, if they were but sufficiently noisy, they could not fail of being victorious. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Having armed themselves with spits, knives, and cleavers, from a cook's shop, they hastened out of Capua. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 But, my lord, in the midst of a parcel of Billingsgate fishwomen, in the midst of a circle of butchers with marrow-bones and cleavers, I am afraid these accomplishments would be of little avail. Four Early Pamphlets Sweet-scented be the cowslips which approach his nostrils! lovely and rosy the milkmaids that greet his eyes, and animating as they are noisy the marrow-bones and cleavers that salute his ears! The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 A tremendous noise of cleavers and pans came from the kitchen. The Fat and the Thin Marrow bones and cleavers; principal instruments in the band of rough music: these are generally performed on by butchers, on marriages, elections, riding skimmington, and other public or joyous occasions. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue He could feel the mighty cleavers of the lion striking near his hind legs and pulling the sand from under them. Eben Holden, a tale of the north country There was a tremendous noise of cauldrons and cleavers, and the odour of cooking spread through the whole house. The Fat and the Thin |
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