Use steel in a sentence
Sentences starting with steel
- Steel and poison were the weapons then. [4]
- Steel the arm and sharpen the eyes of him whom Thou didst choose for Thy sword! [10]
Sentences ending with steel
- Over the anvil, with a small bar caught in a pair of tongs, hovered Madelinette Lajeunesse, beating, almost tenderly, the red-hot point of the steel. [11]
- The advanced guard was composed of legions of cavalry, heavily armed, looking like moving masses of polished steel. [4]
- Nerves were things unknown to her: she was granite, Janet tempered steel. [9]
- It contents me to think that the solidity of his character and his worth will appear even through the crust of free-and-easy idioms, as they will certainly be seen in his acts;--he was sound at heart and true as steel. [11]
- Only thus do they look whose sharp wit I will answer with still sharper steel. [10]
- Others would succeed them rapidly, coming up the center while their predecessors filed down the sides; so that the whole field was a moving mass of splendid color and glancing steel. [4]
- So, one of the teams wore chain-mail ulsters, and the other wore plate-armor made of my new Bessemer steel. [5]
- And perched upon the Hill of Zoom, My gentlemen beside, I saw the weft shake in the loom, The revel blazon wide, Until a thousand companies-- Serf-lords from out Thogeel Their broadswords brake across their knees, Good captives to her steel. [11]
- The hillsmen clove the besiegers through like a piece of pasteboard, and turning, rode back again through the broken ranks, their battle-call ringing high above the clash of steel. [11]
- His theory is that life is but a game, and it must be played with steel. [11]
Sentences containing steel two or more times
- Why didn't you master me--the steel on the wrist--the steel on the wrist! [11]
More example sentences with the word steel in them
- No one else would have found it so easy to forge the steel coat of mail with the Medusa head in the centre. [10]
- He could not withstand the strength of my fingers--they were like steel upon his throat. [11]
- The steel sung with our quick changes from 'quarte' to 'tierce'. [9]
- Old-fashioned bookcases lined with musty books filled the walls, except where a steel engraving of a legal light or a railroad map of the State was hung, and the Honourable Hilary sat in a Windsor chair at a mahogany table in the middle. [9]
- See, it's bottomed with a steel plate, and the plate is fastened on with little screws. [5]
- Iron, steel, brass, white-metal, and so on. [5]
- The church-tower on which it had once stood erect had been struck by a German shell, but its steel rod had bent and not broken. [9]
- Every note marks where a spur of steel has been driven in. [6]
- I buy them, when other steel companies won't touch 'em. [9]
- And then, when we had cautiously rounded a hummock at the top, my steel helmet was blown off--not by a shrapnel, but by the wind! [9]
- I said it was wonderful, while we were greasing up, but he said that when I came to know these steel spider-webs I would realize that nothing but dynamite could cripple them. [5]
- The great structure was a-tremble from the assault, its footpaths and its roadway overrun with workers, dodging between trolleys and trucks,--some darting nimbly, dinner pails in hand, along the steel girders. [9]
- The air grew warmer and warmer, but no one became restless; all seemed as cool of face and body as the grey gowns and coats with grey steel buttons which they wore. [11]
- You bent that wall back like a piece of steel, and broke it. [11]
- Olive-oil has its value for polishing steel, but butter is the right thing for roasting and frying; so that's enough! [10]
- For writing we used exclusively goose-quills, for though steel pens were invented soon after I was born, they were probably very imperfect; and, moreover, had to combat a violent prejudice, for at the first school we attended we were strictly forbidden to use them. [10]
- His was the type of face which is the glory of the steel engraving,--square and solid, as a corner-stone should be. [9]
- I was only twenty-one, but I was steel to my toes--good for wear and tear. [11]
- I know Italy too, for I've been in Brescia, looking for good steel sword-blades for the Prince and other nobles, I crossed the rugged Apennines and went to Florence to see fine pieces of armor. [10]
- I have come to Washington to get the tariff raised on steel rails; and Watling and other senators we send down there are raising it for us. [9]
- Had he stuck to steel, he would have remained invulnerable. [9]
- It was hard to people this solitude with rushing columns of cavalry, and stir its torpid pulses with the shouts of victors, the shrieks of the wounded, and the flash of banner and steel above the surging billows of war. [5]
- Tom trembled every time a late straggler brushed by them on the street, and half expected to feel the cold steel in his back. [5]
- It happened like this: About a year or more ago, the rats got to pestering my place a good deal, and I set up a steel trap in my back yard. [5]
- When all of this should have been accomplished, there would be scarcely a process in the steel industry, from the smelting of the ore to the completion of a bridge, which the Boyne Iron Works could not undertake. [9]
- Now, for the third time, the bright steel of the axe flashed in the sunshine, and immediately after trumpet-calls sounded and were repeated at short intervals, which still, to her, seemed intolerably long. [10]
- In several of these volumes, to be sure, we may see steel engravings of him, true likenesses all. [9]
- I still remember the tinder box in the kitchen, the steel, the flint, and the threads dipped in sulphur. [10]
- For an instant the tempestuous action, the brilliant, swift play of the sword, the quivering flippancy of the steel, gave Dyck that which almost disconcerted him. [11]
- Its movement over the paper is like the flight of a swallow, while the quill pen and the steel pen and the gold pen are all taking short, laborious journeys, and stopping to drink every few minutes. [6]
- Scattered all about the mighty monolith were sphinxes of noble countenance, carved out of Egyptian granite as hard as blue steel, and whose shapely features the wear of five thousand years had failed to mark or mar. [5]
- He looked at the matter somewhat otherwise in 1863, when the settlement was taking place in a different currency,--in steel and not in gold:-- "Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim. [6]
- The steel of the lantern too--how exquisitely soothing! [11]
- He had married the Gores, but he had sought to bind himself with hoops of steel to the Warings. [9]
- We never saw the gardener light his pipe except with flint, steel, and tinder. [10]
- He could see the flash of the steel as the stone and metal gently clashed. [11]
- It was of the finest steel, heavily plated with silver, richly ornamented with engraved designs, and polished like a mirror. [5]
- Next year, maybe, the Empire Tube Company goes into the business of making crude steel, and many more thousands of tons go from us. [9]
- I, a scamp, The best long-shot in the Touchwood Camp; Muscle and nerve like strings of steel, Sound in the game of bit and heel-- There's your guide-book. [11]
- Hideous sounds tortured the air--crackling, snapping, spitting sounds like the laughter of animals with steel throats. [11]
- As the rider that rests with the spur on his heel, As the guardsman that sleeps in his corselet of steel, As the archer that stands with his shaft on the string, He stoops from his toil to the garland we bring. [6]
- Lacey well knew that here was a foe worthy of the best steel. [11]
- Why brandish in that hand of thine a javelin of pointed steel? [5]
- It is possible that glass was once made as flexible as leather, and that copper could be hardened like steel. [4]
- If he was suspected, and if the law stretched out its hand of steel to clutch him--what an ignominious end to it all; what a mean finish to life, to opportunity, to everything worth doing! [11]
- He would surely succeed in becoming the master of the Protestant princes; but was the steel sword the right weapon to destroy this agitation of the soul which had sprung from the inmost depths of the German nature? [10]
- Gradually, as she stood gazing, she became aware of a beating of feet upon the snow; over her shoulder she caught the gleam of steel. [9]
- They're iron and steel, the Gipsy laws. [11]
- Then, seizing the steel, he raised it to plunge the still glowing point into Valmond's eyes. [11]
- He needed no steel weapons to-day; the victory he sought must be won by his person. [10]
- It was a steel thing with a long pin to it, with which his long cloth outside garment was fastened together in front. [5]
- I felt the steel strike the bone. [11]
- Fierce and tenacious, steel in the cruelty of his desires, fearful in the havoc he had wrought, could he be subdued? [9]
- As for the steel in Brescia--it's worthy of all honor. [10]
- Fifty proofs of steel engravings and lithographs were scattered around, too. [5]
- The hammer and steel clicked on. [11]
- The closely fitting steel chain armour, in which he had ridden out, now hung in large folds upon his powerful frame. [10]
- But who had sought his life with this dainty steel blade? [10]
- For years we sold them steel billets from which to make their plates, and three months ago they serve notice on us that they are getting ready to make their own billets, they buy mines north of the lakes and are building their plant. [9]
- But we couldn't smoke, because we had been heedless and left our flint and steel behind. [5]
- As Fellowes caught sight of the glittering steel he fell back against the piano-stool, making a clatter, his face livid. [11]
- The sun is shining with that hard brightness only seen in the Arctic world--keen as silver, cold as steel. [11]
- Gorges echoed as she passed by, Wild fowl rose with a plaintive cry; On she sped; and the white steel rang-- "Save him--save him for her! [11]
- Before my eyes she flung aloft her beautiful arm with the flashing steel, which glittered in the light of the candles in the many-branched candelabra beside the sarcophagi. [10]
- Her breast labored; she began to feel as if little points of fiery steel were penetrating her side into her lungs. [13]
- Drive tunnels and shafts into the hills; blast out the iron ore; crush it, smelt it, reduce it to pig-iron; put some of it through the Bessemer process and make steel of it. [5]
- All conscience and sensibility, I should say,--a cruel worker,--no kind of regard for herself, seems as fragile and supple as a young willow-shoot, but try her and you find she has the spring in her of a steel cross-bow. [6]
- It does not seem to me a sufficient gain in this situation that we are immensely increasing the amount of steel in the world, or that twenty more people are enabled on account of this to indulge in an unexampled, unintellectual luxury. [4]
- Then ensued a scene of riot and carnage such as no human pen, or steel one either, could describe. [5]
- As straight and rigid as steel rose the delicate spear-pointed silver spruces; the aspen leaves, by nature pendant and quivering, hung limp and heavy; no slender blade of grass moved. [13]
- In the horny right hand was a defiant pike-pole, its handle thrust forward, its steel spike stabbing the ground. [11]
- One shook the raindrops from his richly embroidered velvet cloak and the plumes in his cap, the other from his steel helmet and suit of Milan mail, inlaid with gold. [10]
- 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]
- Small bits, like points of tempered steel, glittered in Stephen's eyes, and his hands following up the mastery he had given them clutched Mr. Hopper's shoulders. [9]
- Iberville forbore to point a moral, but walked to the mantel, above which hung two swords of finest steel, with richly-chased handles. [11]
- Short stories, slender poems, steel engravings, on a level with the common fashion-plates of advertising establishments, gilt edges, resplendent binding,--to manifestations of this sort our lighter literature had very largely run for some years. [6]
- There was a plenty of steel pens on his table with the ink bottle, but he was English. [5]
- It was a pleasant noise as of steel and rock: the work of some lonely stone-cutter of the hills. [11]
- The Carlisle steel people and the Lake Shore road are after the Ribblevale Company, and we can't afford to run any risk of their getting it. [9]
- The bow is ornamented with a steel comb with a battle-ax attachment which threatens to cut passing boats in two occasionally, but never does. [5]
- You could depend on her for every duty; she was as true as steel. [6]
- At each side of the gilded gate stood a living statue--that is to say, an erect and stately and motionless man-at-arms, clad from head to heel in shining steel armour. [5]
- No antagonist worthy of his steel has openly defied him, worthy of recognition by the opposition of a legion. [9]
- The bright steel of Felion's axe, standing in the corner, caught the lad's eye and held it. [11]
- In these days of electric lighting, when you have only to touch a button and your parlor or bedroom is instantly flooded with light, it is a pleasure to revert to the era of the tinder-box, the flint and steel, and the brimstone match. [6]
- But they were not given to understand that by their Commander, Captain Shewell, who had an eye like a spot of steel and a tongue like aloes or honey as the mood was on him. [11]
- Shangois's mare was not fagged; her heart and body were like steel. [11]
- And it is not a thing of rags and patches; it is made of massive steel, and will last a century. [5]
- In various quiet nooks and corners I had the beginnings of all sorts of industries under way--nuclei of future vast factories, the iron and steel missionaries of my future civilization. [5]
- Now the three near the little man began to cut themselves with steel and knives, and one set fire to his jibbeh and began to chew the flames. [11]
- He made a movement towards Krool, who again suddenly shrank, as he would not have shrunk from a weapon of steel. [11]
- Their meeting this morning had been as the striking of flint and steel, and if sparks had come of it how could they help it? [10]
- Tall men-at-arms in morion, breastplate, and steel gauntlets stood as stiff as their own halberds on each side of this dais, but no other creature was near by it. [5]
- There was no mistake about it, it was the hard, shining anthracite, and its freshly fractured surface, glistened in the light like polished steel. [5]
- Somehow, as he met the searching eye of the rector, he was unable to see the man as a visionary, but beheld--and, to do him justice--felt a twinge of respect for an adversary worthy of his steel. [9]
- There are gold men, and tin men, and copper men, and leaden mean, and steel men, and so on--and each has the limitations of his nature, his heredities, his training, and his environment. [5]
- A bevy of men were kept busy cleaning the round shot of rust, and there was not a man on the ship who did not look with pride at the guns, in their paint of grey-blue steel, with a scarlet band round the muzzle. [11]
- He also presented me with a steel helmet. [9]
- But he left me the torch and a flint and steel, so I had light for a space, and I had my blessed tobacco and pipe. [11]
- It seemed a marvel that we escaped being crushed or burned alive in those huge steel buildings reverberating with sound. [9]
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