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  • Basalt turned in time to see the derro charge straight into the Fire - forge's trap; two sturdy spear shafts shot out, knee high, from either side of the passage.

    Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003

  • His sweating certainly wasn't from the forge's heat.

    And Other Tales Of Valdemar Lackey, Mercedes 1997

  • His heart began to beat faster, pounding inside his chest like a forge's trip hammer, and a trickle of sweet-tasting water seeped between his lips.

    The Veiled Dragon Denning, Troy 1996

  • A ragged woman crouched in a hopeless heap against the forge's rough stone wall, clutching a babe in her arms, and a spindly girl buried her face in the woman's skirts.

    Lord of Chaos Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1994

  • Basalt turned in time to see the derro charge straight into the Fire - forge's trap; two sturdy spear shafts shot out, knee high, from either side of the passage.

    Flint the King Kirchoff, Mary 1990

  • "In the forge's dust and ashes, in the tissues of the loom."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various

  • Till darkness fell, and the smithy then with its forge's clear deep light

    The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various

  • In the forge's dust and cinders, in the tissues of the loom.

    Nuremberg 1912

  • Belated amid the thicket, his forge's glimmering light,

    The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865

  • With matted beard, and swathed in a bristling shark-skin apron, about mid-day, Perth was standing between his forge and anvil, the latter placed upon an iron-wood log, with one hand holding a pike-head in the coals, and with the other at his forge's lungs, when Captain Ahab came along, carrying in his hand a small rusty-looking leathern bag.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

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