smithy
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You can also visit the nearby village to stock up at a general store and visit a smithy to upgrade your weapons.
From The Verge ● Aug. 25, 2022
"A long, long time ago, 1804, our family bought the Wrexham smithy and started doing blacksmithing," he said.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2022
To the usual Burns toolbox of photo pans and archival film, “Hemingway” adds typewriter imagery — keys hammering on pages like irons in a smithy — and animations of manuscript editing.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2021
The philosophical core of the behind-the-scenes passages—the artist’s statement built into the art—describes Beyoncé forging the consciousness of her race in the smithy of her soul music.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 18, 2019
He took Ivan’s staff and the sword into the ember-lit depths of the smithy, and then sunlight spilled in as the front door opened wide.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
The plan was equally straightforward: Community-owned farms would feed everyone and fund additional industries, including apiaries, hatcheries, canneries, smithies, brickyards and even a film studio.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2023
Subtext, allusion, nuance, dramatic irony: these were the smithies upon which mistakes were forged.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 12, 2017
But a large offshore financial centre will typically have 80-120 corporate smithies, the World Bank reckons.
From Economist ● Apr. 4, 2012
Dust comes and settles on piano lids in arts centres, old Bibles in attics, / shelves, rugs, laundries, smithies, abandoned mills .
From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2011
The wolf was still growing, and the gods were in the smithies, forging a new set of chains.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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