My pointed trowel is the artist's brush that will stroke and pry uncover and ecpose the old mission wall. From Wordnik.com. [Pony Positive Day Two] Reference
To build yourself, you need to know one end of the trowel from the other have some tools, some spanish & some time in country. From Wordnik.com. [Houses in Lake Cjhapala] Reference
The trowel is the instrument with which these honours -- and these fortunes -- are won. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
General manager Rob McSporran said the company dubbed the trowel "iPood!" and registered it as a trademark in Australia in October 2006. From Wordnik.com. [The Age News Headlines] Reference
The lime made the mortar more plastic and easier to trowel. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Washington's Birthday; a flag for Flag Day; a saw, trowel or spade for. From Wordnik.com. [Games For All Occasions] Reference
Dig down with a trowel or heavy knife and find this storehouse of food. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
The mixed mortar is then applied with a trowel in a workmanlike manner. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Taking the measure of her audience, she laid on flattery with a trowel. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
The stones were rammed and probed around with a trowel to leave no spaces. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
My part consisted in tracing out the walls with the trowel and moving stones. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
And with the side of the trowel, he carefully cut off their heads, one by one. From Wordnik.com. [Tomatoes] Reference
The cement can be forced into place with the hands and then surfaced with a trowel. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Plumbing] Reference
And the Lord said: Behold, I will lay down the trowel in the midst of my people Israel. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
It is mixed with warm water to the consistency of thick cement and applied with a trowel. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Plumbing] Reference
He related instances of the signal success which had followed its application with the trowel. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
Irish lover of liberty that carries the hod or trowel, would leave at once, or compel him to leave!. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
But they waited until he had gone, and then they started with their baskets, trowel, and garden-fork. From Wordnik.com. ['Our Guy' or, The elder brother] Reference
In a trench, a trowel is rather unhandy to work with, while the hands can be used to better advantage. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Plumbing] Reference
A mason may be seen sitting at work on a wall with his umbrella in one hand and his trowel in the other. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
Instead of a liquid grout a stiff grout or semi-liquid mortar applied with a trowel or float can be used. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
He cleared more dust away, not with a trowel, not with his gloved fingers, but with a little nylon brush. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
Then stir up the ground with a trowel, or three-pronged fork, and in August they will be fit to transplant. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
The lining was 10 ins. thick including a ¾-in. coat of 1-2¼ mortar spread and worked smooth with a trowel. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
"'Twas too little," said Jem, "but what can you do with a gintleman that doesn't know a trowel from a spade.". From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
This layer is put on rather wet, floated with a wooden float and troweled with a steel trowel while still wet. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
He did so, and he, very much to his gratification, found himself by my side, with a trowel instead of a shovel in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold the Lord was standing upon a plastered wall, and in his hand a mason's trowel. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
The concrete was wheeled to place in barrows, thoroughly tamped, roughly floated to surface and finally given a trowel finish. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
She wrote in her memoir that she knew how to play the part of a courtier: "When it comes to flattery, lay it on with a trowel.". From Wordnik.com. [Ad Chief Crowned Hotel Queen] Reference
Insert a straw in the burrow and, following it, dig downward with a garden trowel and learn the nature of the earthworm's home. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
The corners of the coping were dressed to a quadrant of about 3 ins. radius with a round trowel like those used on cement walks. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
With a transplanting trowel, make holes deep enough so that the plant will be a little deeper in the soil than before transplanting. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
We talk of gardens as blank canvases; of priming, designing and composition; of paint put on with a trowel and gardens as living art. From Wordnik.com. [Impressionist Gardens; Another World: Dalí, Magritte, Miró and the Surrealists] Reference
Of the other parcels, one was raspberry toffee from Lisbeth, and the other, a curiously shaped one, was from Peter, and contained a trowel. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference
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