Nails

Examples

• Sometimes I would meet him in the neighbourhood lounging about and biting his nails. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He made experiments, and at last succeeded in rendering the copper negatively electrical by the use of small pieces of tin, zinc, or iron nails. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Such a workman at the rate of a thousand nails a-day, and three hundred working days in the year, will make three hundred thousand nails in the year. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If Miss Mowcher cuts the Prince's nails, she must be all right. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Their bodies were smaller and lighter in color, and their fingers and toes bore the rudiments of nails, which were entirely lacking among the males. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• As nails,' added Charley Bates. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Then, when you don't want to bite your nails, bite them, make yourself bite them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• We left the mules, sharpened our finger-nails, and began the ascent I have been writing about so long, at twenty minutes to six in the morning. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I suppose it would be a real treat to a camel to have a keg of nails for supper. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We find a piece of the true cross in every old church we go into, and some of the nails that held it together. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He could only bite his nails and puff away to the next Defaulter. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• 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. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He laid the washing-book on the table, and taking out his penknife, began to trim his nails. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Practically all railroad rails, iron girders and beams for buildings, nails, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• You say they are marks of finger-nails, and you set up the hypothesis that she destroyed her child. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The output of cut nails for the same year was 2,106,799 kegs. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Miss Murdstone gave me her chilly finger-nails, and sat severely rigid. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• They reckoned time by months, and in the earlier period kept a ru de tally of the years by driving nails into a statue of Janus, the ancient sun-god. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Be sure your sponge is free from sand and grit, and also avoid scratching with the finger nails. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• They were dropped into the stream, the current turned on, and five or six kegs of nails or bundles of wire were raised each trip. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Meyler examined my hand and nails attentively, and then called me by my name. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Their helmets hung on nails driven into the wall and their rifles leaned against the plank wall. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The nails weighed 200 pounds to the keg, so there were lifted each time, from 1,000 to 1,200 pounds from the bed of the river. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Teeth and bones and nails need a constant supply of mineral matter, and mineral matter is frequently found in greatest abundance in foods of low fuel value, such as lettuce, watercress, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Large quantities of shoes were made at reduced prices, but complaints were made as to the nails penetrating into the shoe and hurting the feet. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I am getting old, Tom, and have lost nearly all my nails. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He set up a line of his own in his father’s basement at Port Huron, making his batteries of bottles, old stovepipe wire, nails and zinc that he could pick up for a trifle. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Her hand fluttered from its chair-arm and lit on his with a clutch of little pale nails like bird-claws. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• In 1897 the wire nails produced in the United States amounted to 8,997,245 kegs of 100 pounds each, which nearly doubled the output of 1896. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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