anvil's

And on my own means: with an anvil's weight of books in my bag at all times.

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The anvil's mute, and dustmotes fill the mouldings,

EMPTY RAILS 2001

The anvil's mute, and dustmotes fill the mouldings,

Empty Rails 1999

I knew, as I withdrew my leather apron from my pack and laid out my tools on the anvil's pedestal, that I did not look as much a smith as he.

Black Horses For The King McCaffrey, Anne 1996

When the cross-section matches the template, he sets the circular die-almost like a round-bottom swage with a square base-into the anvil's hardie hole, and places the metal in the forge once more.

The Magic Engineer Modesitt, L. E. 1994

Dorrin shifts his grip on the sledge, following Yarrl's gestures as the older smith moves the metal across the anvil's. horn.

The Magic Engineer Modesitt, L. E. 1994

Yarrl watches the iron until it reaches cherry red, then deftly turns it onto the bottom swage set in the anvil's hardie hole.

The Magic Engineer Modesitt, L. E. 1994

Setting aside the plate-thickness chunk, he retrieves the piece fullered to the proposed thickness of his shield and sets it on the anvil's cutting edge.

The Magic Engineer Modesitt, L. E. 1994

No, it was a longing to do violence, to stop that smile on Makepeace Smith's face, to stop it forever against the anvil's beak.

Prentice Alvin Card, Orson Scott 1989

And there near by is the rock, baked dry as the grass, and flat as an anvil's face.

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne