1 I shall have a hammer, a chisel, and some pincers in my pocket.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAV... 2 The handle of a hammer, the blade of a cold chisel, and the antennae of a pair of pincers were visible, protruding from the man's pocket.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ... 3 Fauchelevent, hardly able to draw his breath for trembling, seized his cold chisel and his hammer, and pried up the coffin lid.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI... 4 Marius heard him lay something heavy on the table, probably the chisel which he had purchased.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVI—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLIS... 5 At the same moment he extended his arm, and laid the glowing chisel which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh.
6 Something was at work on the other side of the wall; the prisoner had discovered the danger, and had substituted a lever for a chisel.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27. 7 The young man, in reply, took up the chisel, bent it into the form of a horseshoe, and then as readily straightened it.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber. 8 Rather, you are a vehicle but shapen and fitted with the axe or chisel of some handy peasant of Yaroslav.
9 After a few more turns of the lathe he removed his foot from the pedal, wiped his chisel, dropped it into a leather pouch attached to the lathe, and, approaching the table, summoned his daughter.
10 The chisel had made three or four of these attempts at embellishment over his nose, but had given them up without an effort to smooth them off.
11 It was evident that a chisel or strong knife had been thrust in, and the lock forced back with it.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires 12 His finely chiselled nostrils quivered, and some hidden nerve shook the scarlet of his lips and left them trembling.
13 She crouched on the floor like a wounded thing, and Dorian Gray, with his beautiful eyes, looked down at her, and his chiselled lips curled in exquisite disdain.
14 The sodden eyes had kept something of the loveliness of their blue, the noble curves had not yet completely passed away from chiselled nostrils and from plastic throat.
15 There they lay in their triangular oaken vaults, each mariner a chiselled muteness; a score of lamps flashing upon his hooded eyes.