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Sentence Examples They are both innately skilled, whether working metal with a hammer and anvil or wood with a carving tool. A thundercloud, with a distinctive upper anvil shape, results from air which is moist and unstable rising by convection. The top of a cumulonimbus cloud is often capped by cirrus, which is why the anvil of a thundercloud is often brilliant white. The winds from above cause the head of the storm to tilt, and this creates the anvil at the top. Sawing with hand secateurs on larger branches is unpleasant and ineffective and large parrot-beak or anvil loppers will be needed. After a few minutes, he lifted the piece of metal off the anvil with a pair of tongs and plunged it into a bucket of water near by. A cumulonimbus has drifted over the spires of downtown, where it hangs like a vast gray anvil. The smithy, with its anvil, fire and bellows, was a place of relentless toil and sweat. A small anvil and riveting hammer are of the types used in clockmaking and were made in Lancashire. But till this very day, the forge and anvil are used by blacksmiths to mold and carve the general shape and desired balance of a weathervane. Anvil pruners and loppers have a cutting blade that comes down on an anvil, cutting a stem as if it were laid on a chopping block. Rather, imagine the work of a blacksmith with his heavy hammer and anvil and a thick leather apron, smoke billowing from the forge. The smith looked up from the sword he was pounding on an anvil with a huge hammer, and wiped his eyes. Using long-handled tongs, he holds the metal in the forge until it heats to a dull red or straw color, then quickly moves it to the anvil. A head cold hit me like an anvil last week, and that usually means I'm going to feel too dopey or muddled to write a review. Proto-humans gathered around an anvil to make tools, butcher meat, and to eat. As the Smith forged iron, with his hammer and anvil, so the development of the blast furnace required control over fire-processes. Amateur meteorologists will recognize the cumulonimbus, a thunderstorm cloud characterized by the anvil shaped top. That will make sure all the available energy from the firing pin strike compresses the primer mix between the cup and anvil. Shapes were created by bending the hammered bars around angles on the anvil. Show More Sentences The tapestry of life bent around him, its threads flowing, bending to his will like iron before a blacksmith's anvil. In his youth he struck many a telling blow from the hammer on the anvil and now he is keeping an important part of our culture alive. When alarmed they utter a sharp metallic clinking sound rather like that made by a hammer striking an anvil. Their first few tools consisted of an engine block which was used as an anvil and some self-made hammers. Look at a map, though, and you'll see that Crimea resembles an anvil tenuously attached to the rest of Ukraine by a thread. Their priming mixture, primer cup and anvil are encased in a battery cup that forms its own self supported metallic pocket when inserted into the shell's primer pocket. If you notice that the blades are not well settled, set them thanks to the X knurl for the forming anvil and the Y knurl for the cutting anvil. The anvil chorus is a heavy, rough, working world, and Manrico cannot understand why he feels so out of place there. The third roller is joined to an anvil divided into three sections, each having a hydraulic jack that activates the opening to eliminate stones that are too large. A short metallic sound, reminiscent of the sledge hitting the anvil, signals the presence of a force that is about to change the shape of things. When the thundercloud reaches the cumulonimbus stage and hits the tropopause, the jet stream tugs the cloud into a recognizable anvil shape. My anvil pruning shears will prune the bushes and shrubs only. With its toughness and intractability, the Shield has served as the anvil on which the Canadian personality has been forged. The apparent site of the leak was identified as the side wall of the fifth convolution from the anvil end of the bellows. The blacksmith's skills are shown in the anvil and the hammer. The sound waves bounce off your eardrum and are made louder by three tiny bones: the hammer, anvil, and stirrup. The bark was pounded, softened and stretched over a wooden anvil until it was thin and papery, yet still strong. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk. Japan's brutal occupation and the struggle against it was the anvil on which modern China was shaped. The Democratic convention in Chicago collapsed in riots and confusion.1968 was the anvil that shaped the political legacy of the sixties. The cutting head with curved anvil keeps the branch close to the central axis of the cutting head. Show More Sentences And I am afraid that in this way the intergroups will unfortunately be placed between the hammer of plenaries and the anvil of constituencies. The establishment of Pakistan's National Human Rights Commission is on the anvil. The cutting head with straight anvil allows for easier access to branches that necessitate cutting. There are bellows, a barrel for water, coal burning in a large fireplace, and a small anvil. The effect is angular and heavy, the accents on each beat sounding as though something were being forged on an anvil. A sound stimulus rattles the tiny hammer, anvil and stirrup bones that lean against the oval window at the entrance to the cochlea, thus setting the cochlear fluid in motion. Murmelstein was stuck with a thankless and impossible job, caught between the hammer and the anvil, as he tells us. If we had these rules, everybody would have known what was going on at JPMorgan Chase long before the anvil dropped on their head. That old anvil putter is locked away in a safe in his son's garage. If a component was fairly large, he might have to modify his hearth to accommodate the work, and certainly needed to draft in help to control the hot metal on the anvil. In the simplest case, the metal is compressed between a hammer and an anvil and the final shape is obtained by turning and moving the work piece between blows. All you need is a plenishing hammer, the anvil, a few metal punches, files, tin-snips for cutting sheets of silver up to make rings and that's it. There they became the anvil and the hammer, minute bones that transmit sound from the eardrum to the stirrup bone and, ultimately, to the inner ear. There was a loud ring, as a hammer on as anvil, and a shower of sparks. For cleaning, I liberally spray Lysol or Clorox disinfectant onto the blade and anvil, and then vigorously work to remove all plant sap using 600 grain sandpaper for metal. Also on the anvil are a Braille slate, abacus for mathematics, geometry set with raised numbers and an alphabet plate to enable the visually impaired to learn to write. A training project for the physically challenged is also on the anvil. The din of the forge grows louder, hammer clangs on anvil as more and more people arrive weary of war, drawn by the light, ready for a new day of peace. Second, the Commission was insistent that the model it proposed should be not only theoretically persuasive, but should have been carefully tested on the unforgiving anvil of practical experience. The same wire crimper, insulation crimper and anvil are used on both styles. Show More Sentences In my more pessimistic moments I wonder if trying to contribute to improved practices within the federal government isn't a little like attempting to fine-tune an anvil. The hot shoes were re-worked on the anvil with hammer and brush, and then applied to the hoof in a plume of steam to kill all of the bacteria. He hammered them out on his anvil to fit himself. Test height 0-500 mm, loads 20-3000 kgf, adjustable anvil, motor-driven. It was the anvil on which the new nation was forged. Other historians point to the arrival of British gunboats in the 1830s, when industrialising Europe collided with ancient China, as the dawn of China's modern age. With the metal just the right colour, he drew the two broken pieces out of the fire with large pincers and placed them carefully on a heavy, steel anvil. The able calloused hands guard the secrets of the solder, know by heart every twist and turn on the anvil and transform, as if by magic, the best that nature has to offer into authentic functional pieces of art. Caught between the hammer and the anvil, the pressure of public opinion in the constituency and the duty to respect the human rights of all, the legislator is not in an enviable position. On some days, the sound of the anvil in the village smithy can once more be heard, if an old blacksmith is forging horseshoes or nails or making a new rim for a cart or a metal fitting for a plough. Tradition has it that Handel, after being surprised by a rainstorm in the country, took refuge under the sloping roof of a joyful blacksmith who heartily whistled or sang this sublime air as he merrily hammered on his anvil! Tie an anvil to Carl Lewis' track shoes, strap Linda Tripp on his back and place him in a broom closet, then tell him to sprint. This is the epitome of social-democratic reformism-the notion that the bourgeois state need not be smashed on the anvil of proletarian revolution but can be reformed into serving as an instrument of social transformation. On the other hand, the main contributors of soldiers, namely Brazil, Argentina and Chile, which only sent a low-level delegation to the UNASUR summit, are caught between the hammer and the anvil. Various configurations are available for automatic or manual evaluation, with automatic turret or swivel system, and with motorized or manual anvil height adjustment. He then takes one of the rods out of the fire, and resting it on the anvil, draws out the nail by a few skilful blows, and cuts it off from the rod by means of a hack-iron. He invented also pincers, hammers, iron crows, and the anvil, or stith. In groups of modern chimpanzees that crack nuts with a stone hammer and an anvil, juvenile animals spend several years learning the technique from experienced adults. Zowie, what a walloping those Browns got in New York yesterday! A few more like that and the blow-up in Washington, then watch the anvil chorus in St. Louis. Many of the terms are endearing, such as anvil zits, cloud streets, horse latitudes, knuckles, mamma clouds, steam clouds and, of course, graupel. They are a blacksmith with a small anvil, a plate layer with a fish-bellied rail, a miner with Stephenson's safety lamp and an engineer with a locomotive. Show More Sentences He will at last prevail, if only we have the grace to recognise Him, to seize the opportunities which, out of these excandescent heats, fly off as sparks from the anvil. Standing a core on edge on an anvil stone, he or she hits the exposed edge with centripetal blows of a hard hammer to roughly shape the implement. New this year from Bodek and Rhodes is Anvil style 176, a washed brushed twill cap with a contrasting sweatband, under-bill and tape seams, and silver buckle closure. Yes, we had the Anvil Chorus and Slaves Chorus, but also a long Musorgsky scene and powerful Shostakovich and Prokofiev. Operation Anvil opened on 24 April 1954, after weeks of planning by the army with the approval of the War Council. He focussed on the tunes from his latest CD Tunesmith Retrofit and delivered great versions of The Anvil, Big Shaky and the lovely tribute tune to Dave Van Ronk, Macdougal. Examples from Classical Literature We had a broadax and we drove it into a block of wood and used it for an anvil. From his perch on the blacksmith's anvil he spoke between the puffs of his post-prandial pipe. In the middle of this chamber, two smiths, with hammers, stood beside an anvil. He had struck four-eyes squarely on the flat nose, and it felt as if he had slugged an anvil. Down the shaded street the metallic rhythm of the anvil was breaking through the contrabass of the surf. But over the anvil, in the smoke of the smithy fire, there was a work of Regin's hands. He sat down on the anvil with his heart beating, and began to recall the picture. My heart was pounding until in my own ears it sounded like an anvil chorus. It is a process much the same as fullering except in place of the fuller you use the edge of the anvil. Place the point of the cold stem on the anvil and strike on the hot corner. A distant clang, as of a stricken anvil, iterated from the barren mountain beyond the forest. In anatomy the term anvil is applied to one of the bones of the middle ear, the incus, which is articulated with the malleus. Rotha could hear the thick breathing of the bellows and the thin tinkle of the anvil. They went back to Dr. whiting who was chained across the anvil. Then the youth seized the axe, split the anvil with one blow, and in it caught the old man's beard. He beat it out on the anvil and fashioned a peace pipe on its handle. In front stands the old brown anvil set upon a gnarly maple block. Some weak framed blacksmith, perhaps, whose delicacy of muscle might have suited a tailor's shopboard better than the anvil. He liked to make things, and fix things, and whang away at his anvil. Where Reading were vulnerable to the slick, incisive pass, Wolves could offer only the blacksmith's anvil and hobnailed boot. Show More Sentences He was a real sleight-of-hand man, and the anvil was his orchestra. The pace of the horses was so fleet that their steps resounded like the blows of a blacksmith on his anvil. The bellows blew, and the hammer clanged continually upon the anvil, while the blacksmiths were repairing the broken weapons of other wars. One half expects to see him fashioning a gorget or a sword on his anvil. After fullering the stock it is placed on the anvil and squared up. This fullering is done on the bottom fuller, which is placed on the anvil. The blade of a jeweled sword was sunk deeply into the anvil. Now the reality was in my hold, I only felt that I was dusty with the dust of small coal, and that I had a weight upon my daily remembrance to which the anvil was a feather. Top right, a horseshoer examines a hot one while working at the anvil. Destiny's Anvil is at once a sharp-eyed examination of the seamy underside of America's elections and a freewheeling yarn in the grand Southern tradition. Anvil Point, with her huge holds and massive midships crane, was built to handle tanks and is earmarked by the MoD for service in the Middle East. Find more words! 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