"Mallet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wine we need: 1st. clean bottles. 2d. good corks, which must first be scalded with hot water, to soften them, and draw out all impurities, and then soaked in cold water. 3d. a small funnel. 4th. a small faucet. 5th. a cork-press, of iron or wood. 6th. a light wooden mallet to drive ...
— The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines • George Husmann
... the doctor, of course, the thing was entirely devoid of pain. It made much the same noise the dentist makes with his mallet, only it went on and on, until perhaps ...
— The Devolutionist and The Emancipatrix • Homer Eon Flint
... him busily hewed and hammered Mallet huge and heavy axe; Workmen laughed and sang and clamored; Whirred the wheels, that into ...
— Tales of a Wayside Inn • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
... them, and with mighty force clench them with the mallet about his hands: rivet him close ...
— Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes • Aeschylus
... the new poets was lyrical or descriptive, rather than dramatic. The divorce between literature and the stage had not yet, indeed, become total; and, in obedience to the expectation that every man of letters should try his hand at play-writing, Thomson, at least, as well as his friend and disciple Mallet, composed a number of dramas. But these were little better than failures even at the time; and while "The Seasons" has outlived all changes of taste, and "The Castle of Indolence" has never wanted admirers, tragedies like "Agamemnon" and "Sophonisba" have been long forgotten. An imitation ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers
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