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Sentences starting with nails

Nails and rivets were with difficulty got to hold in the sides of the old Indianian. [9]

Sentences ending with nails

I don't want your carpenter; only send me down a hammer, a wedge, and a few strong nails. [10]
Flushed from the terrible exertion which she had just made, with tangled, dishevelled locks, gasping and moaning, Cleopatra, as if out of her senses, tore open her robe, beat her breast, and lacerated it with her nails. [10]
He had that stunned look of a person that's been shot in the back with a kag of nails. [5]
We had already seen a large piece of the true cross in a church in the Azores, but no nails. [5]
I would not like to be positive, but I think we have seen as much as a keg of these nails. [5]
Then I must first comfort Cousin Maud for this untoward scene, and suffer her to rub my wrists with wine and spirit of balm, forasmuch as they tingled like fire and were scratched by the hapless wight's nails. [10]
In some Italian church-paintings, even by the old masters, the Saviour and the Virgin wear silver or gilded crowns that are fastened to the pictured head with nails. [5]
His hitherto puckered brow became smooth as a sign of pleasure, and with a slight smile he began to examine his nails. [2]
You're as tough as nails. [11]

More example sentences with the word nails in them

I suppose it would be a real treat to a camel to have a keg of nails for supper. [5]
If the Rowens woman should hook Dudley, she felt as if she should gnaw all her nails off for spite. [6]
Their halberd staves were covered with crimson velvet, fastened with gilt nails, and ornamented with gold tassels. [5]
They have, also--which was far more interesting to me--a piece of the true cross, and some nails, and a part of the crown of thorns. [5]
To-day they were to trim the grape-vine, so Kit mounted half-way up a short ladder, and began to snip and hammer away, while the old gentleman, with a great interest in his proceedings, handed up the nails and shreds of cloth as he wanted them. [12]
And he's begun to have his nails manicured. [9]
The Gate was studded with thousands of nails, which fastened to its massive timbers relics of the faithful, bits of silk and cloth, and hair and leather; and here from time immemorial a holy man had sat and prayed. [11]
Then they drove splinter after splinter under his nails, and he shrieked with the pain. [5]
Mr. Braham having seated himself, deliberately surveyed the entire house, made a remark to one of his assistants, and then taking an ivory-handled knife from his pocket began to pare his finger nails, rocking his chair backwards and forwards slowly. [5]
One dealer had preempted a large space on the pavement, where he had spread out an assortment of bits of old iron, nails, pieces of steel traps, and various fragments which might be useful to the peasants. [4]
Out of this place she got the crown of thorns, the nails of the cross, the true Cross itself, and the cross of the penitent thief. [5]
We find a piece of the true cross in every old church we go into, and some of the nails that held it together. [5]
Be sure to pick your way among the timber, for all the rusty nails are upwards. [12]
When she thought of that, she shuddered and clenched her white teeth, and doubled her fists so tightly that her nails cut the flesh. [10]
Besides, she could not conceal from herself that she had drawn the nails from the planks of her wrecked ship of life with her own hand. [10]
There would be more profit, more silver nails for the church door, and more masses for his soul. [11]
Then he sat lost in thought, and bit his nails, for the sake of having something to chew. [10]
After folding and laying it down beside him, he bit the nails of all of his ten fingers with extreme voracity; and taking it up sharply, read it again. [12]
One more moment later a long array of stage-planks was being hauled in, each with its customary latest passenger clinging to the end of it with teeth, nails, and everything else, and the customary latest procrastinator making a wild spring shoreward over his head. [5]
Dubarre noticed that just above where the glasses stood on the shelf a crucifix was hanging, and that red crystal sparkled in the hands and feet where the nails should be driven in. [11]
Bilibin attentively examined his nails, and many of those present appeared intimidated, as if asking in what they were to blame. [2]
What do you here know even about colouring the eyelids and the lips, curling the hair, and treating the nails on the hands and feet? [10]
For this reason her sandals were so made that when she stood or walked they protected only the soles of her feet, and her slender white toes with the roseate nails and their polished white half-moons were left uncovered. [10]
One of us held the iron drill in its place and another would strike with an eight-pound sledge--it was like driving nails on a large scale. [5]
I had often heard that these reptiles were in the habit of eating off sleeping sailors' toe nails down to the quick, and I would not get in the bunk any more. [5]
Strange to relate, he obtained equally wonderful effects with Tractors of lead and of wood; with nails, pieces of bone, slate pencil, and tobacco-pipe. [3]
After being removed from the ice the flesh-tints quickly faded out and the rosy nails took on the alabaster hue of death. [5]
The shrines were frequent along the roads--figures of the Saviour nailed to the cross and streaming with blood from the wounds of the nails and the thorns. [5]
Then Mr. Duncan's finger nails whitened as his thin hands clutched the rail, and a sense of a pending event was upon Wetherell. [9]
First, she had down from the garret a capacious trunk, of solid wood, but covered with leather, and adorned with brass-headed nails, by the cunning disposition of which, also, the paternal initials stood out on the rounded lid, in the most conspicuous manner. [6]
There was a cross in the left boot-heel made with big nails, to keep off the devil. [5]
He said he could lift a keg of nails with his teeth. [5]
Her glance suddenly caught a sjambok lying along two nails on the wall. [11]
It had originally been grey, and its bill was as straight as a sparrow's, but when the Saviour hung upon the cross, it pitied him, and with its little bill strove to draw the nails from the wounded hands. [10]
Besides, there hung along two nails on the wall a telescope, relic of days when he sailed the main. [11]

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