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How to use anvils in a sentence

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Ground or pecked stone tools include hammerstones, anvils, cobble manos, metates, and a possible net sinker.
Here, among heavy industrial machinery, anvils and workbenches, Gibb and his assistant, Fiona Liddell, make miracles happen.
Hammers and anvils were arrayed in neat lines while stocky men in the background sweated over their jobs.
Their guitars hammer away like sledges to anvils while the rhythm section is hot enough to melt steel!
People sold fish and fruit, and some dirty-faced men hammered metal over anvils after thrusting their work into a hearth.
The miners and refiners have steel and ore, the blacksmiths have forges and anvils.
Thousands of stone hammers, anvils, crucibles, metal objects, and pieces of ancient metallurgical debris were also recovered.
There the smiths beat the metal on anvils on top or in huge furnaces.
Rocks are crushed between rotating hammers and steel anvils.
Although the small shop houses a grinder-buffer, drill, bench sander and electric saw, most of the tools are primitive looking hammers, mallets and anvils.
Naval Academy, can recall the gear issue process and marching back to the barracks carrying a seabag which felt like it was loaded with anvils.
They may establish sites where rocks or similar items are available as natural anvils on which the animals habitually break open the shells.
These discarded shells may accumulate around the anvils in sizable middens, sometimes for generations.
West African chimpanzees also use stone hammers and anvils for cracking nuts, as do capuchin monkeys of Boa Vista, Brazil.
Likewise, the rocks or anvils used to polish the axes are rare in Britain but common in France and Sweden.
Corvids feeding extensively on pine seeds, including the Pinyon Jay and Clark's Nutcracker, wedge entire cones into anvils to extract the seeds.
The presence of stone hammers, and in particular of pitted anvils, suggest that nut processing was carried out near the hearth and may have involved the use of nut roasting.
Consider that the use of stone hammers and anvils for nut cracking extends through only a limited number of neighboring chimp communities in West Africa.
Examples from Classical Literature
Some varieties will crack better with a hammer than with a cracker of the Hershey type with standard anvils.
The bones of the bison and of the wild horse are both utilized in the bone anvils of the closing Mousterian culture at La Quina.
Where two anvils were to be had, the cannonade was much brisker, as then a plug was not needed.
Early were hammers ringing on anvils in the Dragon Court, and all was activity.
From every little niche and corner came the sound of clinking anvils.
There was blazing of forges and clanging of anvils all through the land.
There were eight splitters and fencers, besides Charley Anvils, the blacksmith, and two bullock drivers.
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