hammers away

Not surprisingly, McAuliffe hammers away on this sore point, leaving Cuccinelli trailing and the story festering.

Then he hammers away with his heavy claw on the softest eye-hole till he has pounded an opening right through it.

In the woods one seldom hears from him anything but the rattling rat-a-tat-tat, as he hammers away on a dry old pine stub.

He hammers away at a decaying basswood and the chips which fall are an inch and a half long.

With one of its stout claws it then hammers away at one of these till it breaks its way through.

But the preacher of a new doctrine has generally a better chance than one who only hammers away at an old one.