pile-drivers

We've had a lot of construction around our house, and the building's been banging around as earth-movers and pile-drivers and such go about their work.

Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On Ulysses 2010

We've had a lot of construction around our house, and the building's been banging around as earth-movers and pile-drivers and such go about their work.

Archive 2010-06-01 Ulysses 2010

And night and day the pile-drivers hammered the big piles down into the mud of San

Chapter XVII 2010

I thought that that honest man Sawyer would choke himself; and as for the bludgeons, they performed like pile-drivers. . .

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

I thought that that honest man Sawyer would choke himself; and as for the bludgeons, they performed like pile-drivers. . .

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

They also didn't want to start off their marriage hovering nine stories atop, unknown to Eddie, of the coming two-year relentless pounding of pile-drivers and jackhammers that would accompany the re-building and expansion of the decaying downtown into one of those Disney versions of the ideal mix of old-time charm and modern convenience, all facade and no heart and soul.

Zelda's Lament: F. Scott and the Priest 2010

Then the three girls in bathing suits assumed their new duty as water pile-drivers.

Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation Stella M. Francis

Just once more he paused, halfway between the headquarters of the East Coast Company's chief engineer and the thudding pile-drivers at the edge of the swamp.

Then I'll Come Back to You Larry Evans

The rhythmic beat of pile-drivers thudded in his ears; raucous echoes of shouted orders floated up from the nearest gang-bosses, and punctuating it all came the intermittent boom of dynamite explosions from far north in the deep cut alongside the river edge.

Then I'll Come Back to You Larry Evans

The company was sending steam-shovels and pile-drivers on limited trains and a first-class laborer could get a private compartment quicker than could a financier.

The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado Logan Marshall