| 单词 | mattock |
| 例句 | I had dug trenches and hacked at roots with mattocks. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Watching while they opened up the rocky hillside ground with pick and mattock and brought to light a great bolus of serpents perhaps a hundred in number. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I hunted around in the shed behind the inn and found a sort of mattock, and went down toward the stream to try and dig some worms for bait. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Nathan slammed the mattock to the side of the metal fence post until it wiggled like a loose tooth. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z But this discomfort was worth it because when he gripped the mattock, a digging tool that looked a lot like a spear, his blisters thanked him by not erupting in pain. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z My preferred tool for planting in tight spots is the mattock, especially if the soil is on the poor side. Perspective | Planting bulbs offers a bit of hope for better things to come. Even this year. 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z They pulled down my walls with their sledgehammers and mattocks, and fought me with guns, bows and arrows. The Swimming Pool by Jekwu Anyaegbuna 2013-03-16T09:01:08Z A shovel works in good soil, use a mattock in heavier ground. A once-famous, long-lost corn variety returns from the dead 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Using a small ax called a mattock to loosen the dirt, he uprooted several with a gentle tug, depositing them in a plastic grocery bag. Foraging for Ramps With the King of Appalachian Smoked Pork 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z A sharp shovel and a mattock are useful tools for the job. Globe artichoke, one cool delicacy for the home garden 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z A sharp shovel and a mattock are useful tools for the job. Globe artichoke, one cool delicacy for the home garden 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Officers found two men, believed to be aged in their 40s, with injuries thought to have been caused by a mattock, a type of pick-axe. Hospital stabbings: Two victims were attacked with axe 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z 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 “That’s a constant battle,” Osborne said with a cheery wave, heading down the trail, mattock in hand. In praise of winter buds 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z If you have compacted soil, heavy clay or soil embedded with stones, try a pick-like mattock. How to plant bulbs this fall for a beautiful spring garden Form a trench with a mattock and lay the edging in a way that most of it is buried. Gardening expert weighs in on fall veggies, what to plant in a wet, shady strip and more 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Martin was sawing an AK-47 in half, and preparing to turn it into a mattock—an old-fashioned hoe with prongs on one side, which is used for breaking up clods of earth. God, Guns, and Country: The Evangelical Fight Over Firearms 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z She lit a home-rolled cigarette and, getting to work with a mattock, tried to ignore the weather. Disabled and scraping by in the underground economy 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z He is given his white clothing, his loincloth, and a small mattock for digging his own latrines. The Scrolls from the Dead Sea 1955-05-06T04:00:00Z “It can’t possibly not be true,” replies Harding, “It’s like the old English word ‘mattock’.” Wazzock: the perfect insult to throw at Donald Trump 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z She can appear as a fierce temple guardian, her hefty pick mattock hanging like a threat from her backpack. The fierce angel who tends Amir's Garden in Griffith Park 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The mattock that Martin was making was going to be a gift for Rainey, which she would use in the small garden behind her house. God, Guns, and Country: The Evangelical Fight Over Firearms 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z But her next disability check was three days away, and she didn’t have enough roots, not nearly enough, so down the mattock went again. Disabled and scraping by in the underground economy 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z As the depth increased our excitement rose, till at length one of the mattocks struck something that emitted a metallic sound. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z The Abbé Sérapion provided himself with a mattock, a lever, and a lantern, and at midnight we wended our way to the cemetery of ——, the location and place of which were perfectly familiar to him. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z Here the shovel and the mattock, the plough and the harrow, go forth to ease the labors of the husbandman. Ex-President John Quincy Adams in Pittsburgh Address of Welcome, by Wilson McCandless, and Mr. Adams Reply; together with a letter from Mr. Adams Relative to Judge Brackenridge's "Modern Chivalry." 2012-02-18T03:00:15.167Z The sturdy peasant is lord of his own rugged farm, and insists on tilling it in his own primitive way, breaking the soil with 366 rude mattock more often than with plough. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z She brought down the mattock and came up with a palm-size root the dirty white of ivory. Disabled and scraping by in the underground economy 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z To one he left his mattock, to another his working clothes, and to a third such utensils as were necessary for him in that situation. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z At last Sérapion's mattock struck the coffin itself, making its planks reëcho with a deep sonorous sound, with that terrible sound nothingness utters when stricken. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z We were one and all heavily laden, for, in addition to our arms and ammunition, each man carried a week's supply of provisions and an axe, or mattock. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z The miners dig out the latter material with a broad mattock, while they dig the former with a pick. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z Kelley then unlocked the door of the charnel, and brought out a pickaxe and mattock. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z The Sub could hear them distinctly as they vigorously plied mattock and shovel in throwing up entrenchments on either side of the demolished fort. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z He grubbed up the earth in forty places with a small mattock he had made on purpose at the village blacksmith’s. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z "Egad! 'tis warm work," exclaimed my father, leaning on his mattock as the first part of the task was completed. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z As he went out, he caught up his mattock and took it with him. The Princess and Curdie 2011-07-06T02:00:49.480Z A large piece of the granite was chipped off, but the mattock snapped in twain. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z After some pause, a miner stepped forward with a mattock in his hand; and, while the others played a serious tune, he set himself to represent the action of digging. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z A heavy and terrible knocking reverberates upon the door, and, as in a hellish dream, it seems to me as though I had received a blow from a mattock. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z Here, as far as one could judge, the rock presented an unbroken wall, so our amazement was unbounded when the seamen were ordered to attack the cliff with their mattocks. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z In a few minutes he discovered, to his great relief, that, from the projection of the pick-end of his mattock beyond his body, the fall had loosened the ropes tied round it. The Princess and Curdie 2011-07-06T02:00:49.480Z “I will strike the first blow,” he added, rising and seizing a mattock. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z "Ah," exclaimed Aunt Margaret, "how true it is, that, as a quaint old poet says, 'We dig in dross, with mattocks made of gold'!" Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time 2011-05-30T02:00:12.077Z Many a buried jewel sleeps In the long-forgotten deeps, Far from mattock and from sound; Many a flower wafts aloft Its perfumes, like a secret soft, Within the solitudes, profound. The Flowers of Evil 2011-05-15T02:00:07.523Z "A man with a mattock!" he exclaimed; and as a seaman ran forward with the required article, he gave the order, "Dig here". The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z He took his mattock, and going again into the long passage, lighted a candle-end, and proceeded to examine the rock on all sides. The Princess and Curdie 2011-07-06T02:00:49.480Z The defence of the forts, of the redoubts, of the accessory positions, required thousands of men, experienced officers, a war with the mattock as well as the musket. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z They are usually small figures of blue or green porcelain, with a mattock painted under each arm, and a basket on the back. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The poet takes the mattock from his hand, and with a blow severs the root, “At which the poor Old Man so long, And vainly had endeavoured.” The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z Even in peace the peasants around Assisi lived in constant disquiet, ready to fling down their mattocks and flee to the protection of the city walls. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z At it he rushed, hitting vigorously at its edge with his mattock. The Princess and Curdie 2011-07-06T02:00:49.480Z “Every man who can handle brush and mattock is expected to be at the head of a fire in time of trouble!” chirped the “Mayor of Castonia.” King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z The great anxiety of the Republican man-at-arms in Spain is to turn his sword-bayonet into a sickle, and his rifle into a mattock. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z Strong as he was, he sometimes paused, laid his head upon his mattock, and panted like a chased deer. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. Don’t wipe your mouth when you have been to return picks or mattocks. The Parson O' Dumford Finding, however, nothing worse than an ox-hoof, he restrained himself, stepped back a pace or two, shifted his mattock to his left hand, and struck him a little smart blow on the shoulder. The Princess and Curdie 2011-07-06T02:00:49.480Z He was standing leaning upon his mattock at the head of the little grave which he had destined for the child of Dol�res Garcia. The Firebrand The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave; 10 The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm; These are the bugbears of a winter’s eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes In our garden work, he seizes shovels and mattocks almost as large as himself from the bigger boys, and whacks away joyously with them. Mothering on Perilous We each took a mattock and a small cask, being, moreover, well armed with crossbows and muskets. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. It must have been a bit of stone that flew from my mattock. The Princess and Curdie 2011-07-06T02:00:49.480Z "Well, better get it over!" he said, dropping his mattock and starting out towards the door. The Firebrand The mattock totter'd in his hand; So vain was his endeavour That at the root of the old tree He might have work'd for ever. The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes First, parched lands of sage; the grub hoe and the mattock clear the way, and then the plow. In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making Comrades, we often hear men talk of the happy day before them when they shall leave the army and throw off the knapsack, and give up the musket for the mattock. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II He caught sight of the sign of an inn however, and laying down his mattock, and telling Lina to take care of it, walked up to the door of it and knocked. The Princess and Curdie 2011-07-06T02:00:49.480Z Nothing was heard for the next ten minutes but the measured stroke of the mattock, and the deep breathing of the night workman. The Firebrand Two of the boys appeared with an old mattock and shovel. Si Klegg, Book 3 (of 6) Si And Shorty Meet Mr. Rosenbaum, The Spy, Who Relates His Adventures And she sticks by their three hundred and twenty acres and does what she can with a mattock and a grubbing hoe. In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making It took but half a day’s work to make this cider press, and the only tools used in its construction were an ax, a mattock in lieu of adze, an auger, and a jackknife. Our Southern Highlanders The vines were young, and the ground was not heavy, but the day was warm, and he wielded the mattock rapidly, stooping now and then to jerk out a refractory root with his hands. Stories of the Foot-hills You forbear to hurry me, even as you would shrink from rudely jostling or pushing forward the mattock which slowly digs into a grave,—removing human mould and crumbling coffin, searching for the skeleton beneath. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part "Boys," ordered Si, "a couple of you look around the house and see if you can't find a mattock and shovel." Si Klegg, Book 3 (of 6) Si And Shorty Meet Mr. Rosenbaum, The Spy, Who Relates His Adventures He lay upon the bench, and gasped, apparently unable to speak; he looked to Vanderhoek, and pointed to an instrument in the shape of a mattock—shaking his hand, and muttering indistinctly, "Haste! haste!" Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III The only truly effectual method of destroying noxious shrubs, is by grubbing them up with a mattock. Soil Culture Again shovel and small mattock came into play and the volume of fire redoubled. The Boy Allies with the Cossacks Or, A Wild Dash over the Carpathians The heaving soil was turned over using harrows, mattocks, and ploughs. Letters from my Windmill What could a mattock and shovel be wanted for but to dig their graves? Si Klegg, Book 3 (of 6) Si And Shorty Meet Mr. Rosenbaum, The Spy, Who Relates His Adventures I hesitated to say more; the orbless socket—the torn stump of the arm—the limpets that clung to her skin—the bosom pierced by Vanderhoek's mattock, were all before me, and shook my soul. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III The mattock, the coffin, and the melancholy grave admonish us of our mortality, and that, sooner or later, these frail bodies must moulder in their parent dust. Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason together with the Ceremony of Installation, Laying Corner Stones, Dedications, Masonic Burial, Etc. A spoon is not what you want; you want a mattock. Dr. Sevier But there was a great heap of leaves that they had cleared away, and heavy cakes of the baked crust that the mattocks had pried up. The Boy Scouts Book of Stories After them came the strangers that inhabited Athens, carrying mattocks, instruments proper for tillage. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) He began to get furious, talked incoherently, swung the iron mattock backwards and forwards, and sung stanzas of the "Zechlied." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III A mattock, a gun and a cradle warred against old associations. The Belovéd Vagabond Axes, mattocks, shovels, rakes, and watering cans lay scattered on the ground: these were worn out tools: they had not served their purpose for many a day. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas The earth was baked and hard; the mattock rang on it, and among the noises of their work they did not hear us. The Boy Scouts Book of Stories The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature Then he looked at the corpse, and, in a paroxysm of madness, struck the mattock into its white bosom, accompanying his action with wild oaths. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III Father Serapion procured a mattock, a crowbar, and a lantern, and at midnight we set out for the cemetery, whose plan and arrangements he knew well. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century The excavation is renewed when the earth is still themselves, when they are the damp soil in which the mattock is buried. Germinie Lacerteux Then he followed the mattocks into the cab, and told the surly driver to go to Paddington…. Anthony Lyveden As they passed the foot of the stairs, Macloud picked up a mattock. In Her Own Right The continued fresh air seemed to strengthen him far more rapidly than it did me, and I perceived that he now made violent struggles to lay hold of the mattock. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III “It’s fifteen years since I’ve been at ‘a killing,’ and I feel as if I were ten years old again,” Noland said as he watched the hard earth give way under the mattock Luther wielded. The Wind Before the Dawn He had come to Charleston to buy the mattocks and picks—no, it was Jupp the negro who had come to buy them. The Ghost Girl There had been no man to meet him, and the mattocks had made their weight felt after the first two miles. Anthony Lyveden The mattock and the plow Will take the place of Pan and Satyr now. Conservation Reader While whittling the handle of his mattock he noticed that a wood-pigeon picked up the shavings in its mouth and carried them to a certain spot. The Cornwall Coast At the village of Novalese, now in ruins, the party took mules, to aid their ascent, and marroni, long-handled mattocks, or pick-axes, to prevent their falling on the dangerous declivities of the snow. Notes and Queries, Number 79, May 3, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc He pointed to the two mattocks which he had placed against the wall. The Pools of Silence In the field, cracked handles of pick mattocks, shovels, and hand axes should be wrapped with cord. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition The crew climbed out of her on to the ice armed with pickaxes, pincers, mattocks, and saws, and merrily endeavoured to cut a passage. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century The gardener was there with four or five labourers, and planks, and barrows, and mattocks, and heaps of undistributed earth and gravel were spread about. The Vicar of Bullhampton He holds an apple in his left hand, and a mattock in his right. The Care of Books As he passed through Frankfurt he hoisted banners with the crucifix, flails, and mattocks, to incite the lower classes to revolt; he had failed to bend the powers above him, he would fain stir Acheron. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 If the blade of the mattock is deformed, it should be straightened in a vise. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition Pressley, unlashing a mattock and shovel from his pack, did not notice him. A Tar-Heel Baron They still used to say in the country districts: "The spindles must follow the mattock," but it was only by force of habit. The Story Of The Duchess Of Cicogne And Of Monsieur De Boulingrin 1920 I left him sharpening his mattock when I set out. Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk The cunning knave was marching off with his mattock, when the cavalier, recovering from his surprise, quickly seized him by the higher shoulder. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 Do not use the side edges of the shovel blade as a mattock, for this will deform the blade. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition When at college, for he has been at college, he carried off everything before him as a Latiner, and was first-rate at a game they called matthew mattocks. The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' Next day, at dawn, with a mattock and a pick, they made an attack on their fossil, whose covering cracked. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life It was cold the week the barn was raised, and the mattocks had heavy work gouging out frozen earth to be heaped into the bank leading up the back. Blind Man's Lantern The blows had ceased, and the mattock was now in requisition. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 With a sharp stick I began digging into the red clayey soil, but soon encountered so many roots from near trees that I gave it up, deciding to return next day with a mattock. Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers With the small mattock in his right hand, he would loosen the fine mineral earth lodged in the cavity within which he worked, as occasion required, or else detach the metallic incrustations lining its sides. Iron Making in the Olden Times as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean And they went on with their work, Bouvard on the tips of his toes, trapping with his mattock, Pécuchet, with his back bent, digging with his pick. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Where the soil is too rocky for the ploughs to work, men with mattocks break it up. Chatterbox, 1906 We see the tearing up of the hillside with the mattock, the accumulation of soil, the gathering out of the stones, the construction of the winepress and the watch-tower. The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 I tried removing the soil a couple of paces away with the mattock, but found it slow work. Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers The woodman said: "Do you want wood? give me a mattock." Italian Popular Tales Jim Hill as a boy fought the battle of life with ax, hoe, maul, adz, shovel, pick, mattock, drawshave, rake and pitchfork. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen At the feet of one of the personages were laid a mattock, a horn lantern—from which the candle had been removed—, a crowbar, and a bunch of keys. Rookwood At last S�ra-pion's mattock struck the coffin itself, making its planks re-echo with a deep sonorous sound, with that terrible sound nothingness utters when stricken. Clarimonde I concluded to stop, and come again the next day, armed with a shovel in addition to the mattock. Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers The smith said: "Do you want a mattock? give me some coals." Italian Popular Tales Together they managed to heave up the stone, and then Dousterswivel with a mattock and shovel proceeded to dig. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Drawn by the peace and seclusion of this shadowy, green world, he laid aside his mattock and wandered to the edge of the hazel thicket. Followers of the Trail Beldār means one who carries a bel, a hoe or mattock. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II That store of mice I am bound to see, I thought, and then fell to with the heavy mattock. Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers He felt as a poor man might, who had lived in pinching want, and had suddenly found a great treasure of gold, at the stroke of a mattock in his field. Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset When well-tossed mattocks did the ground prepare, Being fit-broken with the crooked share, And seeds were equally in large fields cast, The ploughman's hopes were frustrate at the last. The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) Though he rarely carried a gun, he always bore his mattock or something which could be used as a weapon in case of need. Followers of the Trail With this they make ploughshares, mattocks, axes and sickles. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II I don’t know exactly what it is, but I have heard that he who is first-rate at matthew mattocks is thought more of than if he were first-rate Latiner. The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" When Paullinus went back to the hut he found a rough mattock. Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset In a moment, a thousand mattocks, of the size of an Indian's thumb-nail, were employed in preparing him a grave. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 With one blow of the mattock, which he always carried for digging, the head of the big snake was crushed and its poisoned fangs buried in the earth. Followers of the Trail They then call out to the dead man, ‘Come, your house is being burnt,’ and walk home striking a mattock and sickle together. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Brains and blood had oozed from the hole in the skull in which yet stuck the pointed end of the mattock sunk deep within. The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) Only they cast the corn into the ground, breaking a little of the soft turf with a wooden mattock or pick-axe. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 Then, as he sighed and looked, he was ware of two coming towards him with pick and mattock on their shoulders. The Silver Crown Another Book of Fables Then they put on old flannels and a blazer, wrap a towel round their neck, light a cigarette, pick up a mattock and stroll to Hyde Park. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 22, 1920 The mattock totter'd in his hand So vain was his endeavour That at the root of the old tree He might have work'd for ever. The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language Everywhere the Negro dropped the mattock, left the ploughshare, poised himself at erect stature, passionately saluted Old Glory, answered "Here am I!"—counted fours, and away! Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights After undressing his victim, Hradzka used the mattock to finish him, and then to dig a grave. Flight From Tomorrow In this emergency, to feed the very people to whom we had given refuge, we were obliged to yield to the plough and the mattock our pleasure-grounds and parks. The Last Man Weeds with the long tap root like burdock and yellow dock can be eliminated best with a mattock. If You're Going to Live in the Country Of course, we carried a machete and a mattock apiece, though the latter was but little use, and, if either of us should find any spot worth dynamiting, we agreed to let the other know. Pieces of Eight There the young man marched, ran, leaped under the weight of his arms, fenced with his sword, hurled the javelin, wielded the mattock, and then, covered with dust and with perspiration, swam across the Tiber. History Of Ancient Civilization Then, his work finished, he threw the mattock into the brush and set out again, grimacing disgustedly and scratching himself. Flight From Tomorrow The steady sound of the mattock in a neighbouring field was the only token of the common bustling world that lay close around the curious isolation of the hour. The Mormon Prophet So we will make another excursion, and this time we will take with us a pick-axe or mattock, a shovel or two, a sharp stick, a quart or half-gallon pitcher, and several buckets of water. The First Book of Farming The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep, damp vault, the darkness, and the worm. Familiar Quotations The Gateses turned out, and all their neighbours, with hoe, mattock, axe, and sacking, trying to beat, cut, or scrape a "break" wide enough to check the flames. The Killer To do this, the mulch was turned back and the surface for a space of three feet all around the tree was loosened by hoe or mattock, and the mulch was then returned. The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm Rust-eaten axes, wedges, mattocks, and saws recall the struggle to clear a wilderness. New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America The most economical method of planting is for one man to make the holes with a mattock. Studies of Trees This you have a thousand mattocks and pickaxes lifted up to demolish. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) For in from the barns and fields came running first the servants from the stables, armed with mattocks and muck-forks, and then the farm-hands with their scythes and reaping hooks. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. The roadman straightened himself and leaned upon his mattock; the huswife shut the back door, and the dog crept into his barrel. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary The sexton nodded his head, and began to ply his mattock vigorously. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest "Bring the mattock," said the Doctor, cautiously uncovering the light. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 The ground is turned up with the mattock, and the seed planted by dibbling between the stumps of trees. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. Of hard, unmeaning face, down which ne'er stole A gentle tear; with mattock in his hand, Digs thro' whole rows of kindred and acquaintance By far his juniors! Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations Vincent was so terribly particular about how ladies dressed, he thought to himself, as he moved forward, mattock in hand. The Brimming Cup "Yes; pickaxe, mattocks, and a crowbar; a lantern, and so forth," said the doctor. Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood They cast the corn into the ground, breaking a little of the soft turf with a wooden mattock. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Find me a pickax, or a mattock, and put it right here on this rock. Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box Straight ev'ry matron at the door is seen, And pausing hedgers on their mattocks lean. Poems, &c. (1790) Wherein It Is Attempted To Describe Certain Views Of Nature And Of Rustic Manners; And Also, To Point Out, In Some Instances, The Different Influence Which The Same Circumstances Produce On Different Characters He jabbed ineffectually at the earth with the mattock, using a short tight blow with a half-arm movement. The Brimming Cup He was glad to work on it with the digging mattock of the farmer. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People It goes on like this: ‘5 mattocks; 4 digging picks; 4 head chains; 1 axe; sledge and wedges; also hooks, eyes, and hasps for hard wood.’ Children of the Mist They both wondered if the fugitive had ventured out of his cave to find the mattock and box of food they had left for him the evening before. Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box Here or not here, with mattocks in your hands Set forth immediately to yonder hill! The Seven Plays in English Verse There was no doubt about how Vincent looked, as though he thought Mr. Welles, exulting over a blow with a mattock, an old imbecile in his dotage. The Brimming Cup No longer was the farmer content with mattocks, hoes and flails. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People If History, however, contemptuously relegates the Moundbuilders to the mattock of the antiquarian, she is still "Philosophy teaching by example." Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 "Good! here's either one you want—pickax or mattock," were the words he whispered to Ruth. Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box The men were compelled to get a mattock to loosen its jaws. Over Strand and Field "Here, let me have the mattock," he said, taking it out of Mrs. Crittenden's hands, "I want to try it myself." The Brimming Cup The mattocks they carried were the same weight as their husbands' mattocks and the women were going to do the same work as the men. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People Many's the poor devil they've deluded into the charcoal business, who otherwise might have made his fortune with a mattock. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I "A mattock is more practical, I believe," said Tom. Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box The hoes, mattocks and axes rose and fell feverishly. The Rules of the Game Suddenly he caught the knack of the upward swing, and had the immense satisfaction of bringing the mattock down squarely, buried to the head in the earth. The Brimming Cup May: Returning home with the dim moonlight glinting on the edges of our mattocks. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People We were early on the move this morning, and soon saw several parties of threes and fours washing in the bed of the river, or exploring the mountain gorges with their shovels and mattocks. California Four Months among the Gold-Finders, being the Diary of an Expedition from San Francisco to the Gold Districts A little climb brought them to the plateau where they could see all that was going on near the rock on which Ruth and Tom had left the mattock the evening before. Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box The principal means of sustenance were cattle-keeping and the cultivation of the soil with plough and harrow, mattock and hoe, and watering the ground when necessary with artificial canals. A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 Thus they ar necessitate to do in the winter, when it freizes so that they most break it wt great mattocks and axes, and sell it in the faschion we have named. Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 June: Boundless wealth stored up by gracious heaven: dig it out with your mattock, take it away with your sickle. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People His first step was to clear the long cliff-garden, which had been allowed to drop out of cultivation from the day when he had cast down his mattock there and run away to sea. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales The boy had been caught because he tried to get the mattock Ruth and Tom had put out for him. Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box Yonder among the fields are churches, demolished by war; and already men are coming with mattock and masonry to raise the walls again. Light Two men were left with a single mattock to cut out and improve the exit, while the rest of us reconnoitered the thickety motte across the river. Reed Anthony, Cowman He struck his mattock sharply into the soil, bent it to one side, and in the hole thus opened thrust a tiny tree. The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol I myself seized a mattock, and in obedience to my incoherent and agonised commands, he worked as he had never worked before. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 4 If Pope had been a contemporary, Mr. Saintsbury, I imagine, would have stunned him with a huge mattock of adjectives. Old and New Masters Stocks sang in a voice like the scraping of a mattock over flint; one saw that he had been piously raised. The Purple Heights And indeed it was necessary, for there was old stuff left that almost required the mattock before they could get to the stone floor of the stable. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes I wish you would take a mattock," he said to the man nearest him, "and grub out all the plants in the trail. The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol My next was a sense of the particular burlesque of my situation; I burst out into laughter, in which the whole house joined; and throwing down my mattock, rushed off the stage. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 He described as the very last act of modern barbarism for the woman to be made "to shriek for a hold of the mattock herself." Popular Law-making One mattock missing in the lookout cabin—and the girl; such a slender whip of a girl! Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life I hear the mattock in the mine, The ax-stroke in the dell, The clamor from the Indian lodge, The Jesuits' chapel bell! Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 "Come out-of-doors," he said, picking up a mattock. The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol "Twibil; an instrument with two bills, or with a point and a blade; a pickaxe, a mattock, a halberd, a battle-axe." The Grammar of English Grammars Windows creaked and doors swung wide, and the workmen stopped in the garden-plots to lean upon their mattocks and to look. Master Skylark Quatremain called to his assistants to bring their mattocks and the iron bar. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire As the five were thus trudging along, one after another, they met two laborers with their mattocks coming from work; and the parson called out to them to set him free. Grimm's Fairy Stories Your crew will work in pairs, one man carrying the trees in a pail of water and inserting them in the ground, while the other man carries the mattock and opens the holes. The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol As he went out he caught up his mattock and took it with him. The Princess and Curdie They ran with pikes and mattocks to the mountain, and searched till evening to find the opening by which their children had disappeared, without being able to find it. The Red Fairy Book They were very badly suited for handling the mattock, shovel, and hand-barrow. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography On inquiry, however, Ravenswood found that the man of the last mattock was absent at a bridal, being fiddler as well as grave-digger to the vicinity. The Bride of Lammermoor I don’t exactly know what it is, but I have heard that he who is first-rate at matthew mattocks is thought more of than if he were first-rate Latiner. The Romany Rye In a few minutes he discovered, to his great relief, that, from the projection of the pick end of his mattock beyond his body, the fall had loosened the ropes tied round it. The Princess and Curdie Thus the Hebrews "had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads." Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers The Harvester stopped for lunch, carried food to Belshazzar, and started straight across country, his mattock, with a bag rolled around the handle, on his shoulder. The Harvester Let a slave follow a little behind with a mattock and make trouble for the birds by hiding the seed; for good management is the best for mortal men as bad management is the worst. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica The chief implements were a wooden plough of simple and light construction, a hoe or mattock, and a light harrow. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 At it he rushed, hitting vigorously at the edge with his mattock. The Princess and Curdie And he laid the shovel and mattock on the floor. Les Misérables Then, with swift strokes of his light mattock, he lifted the roots, crammed them into his sack, whistled to Belshazzar, and going back to the wagon, drove away. The Harvester But instead of a sword, he himself too a mattock in his hands, and ordered others to be distributed amongst his best warriors, while the ranks were filled up with their wives and concubines. The Art of War One skull is like another, and is as lightly split with a mattock. Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship Finding, however, nothing worse than an ox hoof, he restrained himself, stepped back a pace or two, shifted his mattock to his left hand, and struck him a little smart blow on the shoulder. The Princess and Curdie He was a sort of laboring man, who wore a waistcoat with large pockets and carried a mattock under his arm. Les Misérables Then he took the same bag and mattock and going through the woods in the opposite direction he came to a heavy growth in a cleared space of high ground. The Harvester Other instruments, such as planes and hatchets, were rudely fashioned, and bands of steel were made into saws and chisels; and from the iron, mattocks, shovels, pickaxes, hammers, nails, etc., were manufactured. The Mysterious Island I can tell you that at once," she said quickly; "I have but just dug it with a mattock I was so lucky as to find by a stopped earth on the bank yonder. The Forest Lovers He caught sight of the sign of an inn, however, and laying down his mattock, and telling Lina to take care of it, walked up to the door of it and knocked. The Princess and Curdie I must choose between the pen and the mattock. Les Misérables The Harvester gripped the mattock and advanced to the bed. The Harvester Then the Giant got his mattock and his lever, and made a way through the rocks, and came after them again. Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland At the end of some two hundred yards or more of battling with the boughs, she stopped, and pointed to a pit, with a mattock lying on the heaped earth close by. The Forest Lovers He took his mattock and, going again into the long passage, lighted a candle end and proceeded to examine the rock on all sides. The Princess and Curdie "Give me your mattock and wait a couple of minutes for me." Les Misérables The Harvester gripped the mattock and stood motionless. The Harvester The liver, like a double-tongued The rocky bones, like a goose- mattock. wing. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 The daughter-in-law went to the stables, the son took his mattock and cleared the little gutter in front of the door which the mud had obstructed. Jean-Christophe, Volume I There was also a noise of hammers and saws, mattocks and trowels. Historical Miniatures Shelves all round the walls shone with pewter and copper dishes, cups, kettles, and vessels and implements of all household varieties, and ranged round the floor lay ploughshares, axes, and mattocks, all polished up. Grisly Grisell When his work was finished, he stood before the oak, scraping clinging earth from the mattock with which he had cut roots he had been compelled to remove. The Harvester He puns upon the twofold meaning of this word, which signified either "a mattock" or a bird called a "hoopoe," according to the context. The Captiva and the Mostellaria A servant, who had come up with a basket of cold refreshments, was now despatched to a neighbouring forester's hut for a mattock and pick-axe. The Antiquary — Volume 01 Nero himself thereupon grasped a mattock and by throwing up some of the soil fairly compelled the rest to imitate him. Dio's Rome, Volume 5, Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form By Herbert Baldwin Foster They were as skilful with the plough and mattock as they were in steering a boat or hunting a deer or pursuing a whale. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 08 Great Rulers He lifted a weighted mattock and scraped the earth from it, sniffing it delightedly the while. The Harvester We found our four friends in a space of the churchyard from which the tombstones had been temporarily removed, engaged, not with mattock and death's head, but with spirit-level and measuring-cord. October Vagabonds The mattock tottered in his hand; So vain was his endeavour, That at the root of the old tree He might have worked for ever. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 We had store of tools and mattocks, I mind me. Beltane the Smith The natives for miles round come with picks and mattocks, and cut as much of it as their donkeys can carry to market. Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns The first time he wanted the mattock he realized that he had left it lying where he had worked. The Harvester On his head was a wide hat of rough straw, and across his shoulder a mattock. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography A mattock and shovel lay by the verge of the grave. The Monastery Look at Icarius, the first to whom he gave the vine: beaten to death with mattocks by his own boon companions! Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 Emmanuel Saddleton was fat and scant of breath, the mattock was heavy, and the Saint walked too fast for him: he paused to take second wind at the end of the first furlong. Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers Betsy was too tired to return that day, so he planned to dig his ginseng with something else, finish his work the following morning, and get the mattock in the afternoon. The Harvester Swedenborg is retrospective, nor can we divest him of his mattock and shroud. Representative Men Barren fig-tree, thou hast heretofore been digged about; God's mattock has heretofore been at thy roots; thou hast heretofore been striven with, convinced, awakened, made to taste and see, and cry, O the blessedness! The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works Now," Malcolm said, "I want the rest to bring mattocks and shovels and to accompany me along the road. The Lion of the North A tale of the times of Gustavus Adolphus Beyond them in the highway men were delving with shovels and hacking with mattocks. The Landloper Over his shoulder he carried a mattock, and in the wagon were his clippers and an ax. The Harvester We were startled and drawn together by a dull, hollow sound that followed the blow of a mattock; the iron had struck a skull, and the body was soon uncovered.... Percy Bysshe Shelley In the meantime it was decided to remove the stumps by dynamite, as trying to yank them out by stump pullers or by mattock and plow was both slow and brutal. Three Acres and Liberty So my neighbor, wanting a mattock, concluded that he would go over and strike till the mattock was done. David Crockett His Life and Adventures A little girl turns up the soil with her mattock, the others dip a branch in the horn and sprinkle the inside of the hole saying, ‘Rain! rain!’ The Golden Bough Then the Harvester took his mattock and began to dig. The Harvester They had wooden mattocks and hoes made from the shoulder blades of deer, from tortoise shells, or from conch shells set in handles. The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America Two of them, after some rummaging, which not a little alarmed Brown, produced a mattock and shovel, another took a pickaxe from behind the straw on which the dead body was extended. Guy Mannering The iron was heated, and my neighbor fell to work, and was striking there nearly all day; when the blacksmith concluded that the iron wouldn't make an axe, but 'twould make a fine mattock. David Crockett His Life and Adventures At a signal from Captain Nemo, one of his men stepped forward and, a few feet from this cross, detached a mattock from his belt and began to dig a hole. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea The only suggestion of martial surveillance was an Indian soldier, whose musket, reposing on the ground near Mrs. Markham, he had exchanged for the rude mattock with which he was quietly digging. The Crusade of the Excelsior At the end of March they begin to break up the earth with mattocks, which they buy from us for the skins of beavers or otters, or for sewan. Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 Then there should be a mattock and a shovel apiece for every waggon, and on every beast of burden a billhook and an axe, always useful to the owner and sometimes a boon to all. Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus Then I took a mattock and dug a hole outside the house till I came to water, which in Tenoctitlan is found at a depth of two feet or so. Montezuma's Daughter Here, dressed in diving suits, pick and mattock in hand, my men go out and dig this carbon fuel for which I don't need a single mine on land. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Another time he started off with me and some other workmen to root up trees, but he grazed his neck with a mattock. Creatures That Once Were Men He had worked diligently in the same place where his ancestors had wielded the pick, the crowbar, and the mattock. The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern It still contained a considerable number of tools, such as mattocks, shovels, and pick-axes. Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space Pardieu!" said Athos, "it was hardly worth while to distribute ourselves for twenty fellows armed with pickaxes, mattocks, and shovels. The Three Musketeers If so, then we may rejoice that this strong delver at the mine of natural knowledge was left free to wield his mattock in his own way. Faraday as a Discoverer James was just patting the ground under the tree with a mattock when I rode up; Sapt was standing by, smoking his pipe. Rupert of Hentzau The bustle of the old days will soon begin with the blows of the pick, and mattock, blasts of powder, rumbling of wagons, neighing of horses, creaking of machines! The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern One might well believe that it had been pierced by the hand of man, that the pick and mattock had emptied it in the working of a new vein. The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern On the discovery of the new field, all the old colliers had hastened to leave the plow and harrow, and resume the pick and mattock. The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern |
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