Word: chiselling
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...injured by the broken glass, for blood stains were left on the window sill and the floor. He apparently went into the hall from the room where he entered the building, and went immediately to the third floor where he tried to pry open the outer door with a chisel or screwdriver having a blade five-eighths of an inch wide at the end. Other marks were left which may contribute toward the identification of the perpetrator. Falling to get into the exhibition room the person retraced his steps and left the building by the window through which he entered...
...Blashfield said that during the period of the Renaissance from 1250 to 1500, Italy was continually a battle-field, yet through all this strife the artists flourished. Hardly ever have chisel and brush been busier; in the midst of war, beauty began to take its shape...
...department which makes a man preeminent in that department. Certainly no man has been more suggestive than Emerson. Moreover we Americans ought not to like to see Emerson's intellectual proportions measured by a British foot-rule, or to see his literary reputation hacked by a British cold-chisel, even in the hands of the great apostle of "sweetness and light...
...chisel is lying ruined...
...General Average" fund, happened upon a very neat piece of workmanship. The room was the recitation-room of a Professor in Metaphysics. A sort of little drawer had been fitted in the back of a seat in such a manner that the work could hardly be detected; applying a chisel, it was opened, a penny and piece of paper were found; the latter bore the following: "Transmittendum. Whereas our instructor is fully persuaded he does not exist, he must 'see through a glass darkly', therefore I most respectfully request the finder to present this money to him for the purpose...