smithy
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Mr Roberts' father, 86-year-old Albert Roberts, was an apprentice at the family smithy in Little Acton, which closed down in the 1980s.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2022
You move in the direction of clanging metal to find the smithy, or toward little squeaks and nibbles to find rats to squash in the inn’s basement.
From The Verge ● Aug. 19, 2021
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
“Under a spreading chestnut-tree/ The village smithy stands,” “This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2020
Anya pulled the door open a little more, enough to put one side of her face through and see the back of the smithy.
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
Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of Mordor, and its hideous head, founded of black steel, was shaped in the likeness of a ravening wolf; on it spells of ruin lay.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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