Word: chiselling
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Something decidedly odd is going on at the old mansion. The crackle of splintering wood emanates from the broken windows. A bathroom sink of heroic proportions has been plunked down on the overgrown lawn, and a man is chipping at a graffiti-painted wall with hammer and chisel. "Alllll right! " he says with a smile. "This stone is so wet it's going to come right off with a jackhammer...
While one diver, armed with a hammer and chisel, began chipping away around a copper ingot, trying to loosen it from concreted sediment, another culled the bottom, scooping sand with one hand and drawing it into a suction tube held in the other. Suddenly, something metallic flashed in the dim light filtering through the water. It was a piece of gold jewelry that had remained hidden from sight for 34 centuries. In the next several minutes, the team members uncovered more jewelry, a quartz bead, broken arrowheads and pottery shards, which they stored in a red-and-white plastic container...
Twenty-four-hour security from the Cambridge Police Department and a private agency hired by the business association prevented would-be riders from using the slide until a team of 25 Cambridge schoolchildren could chisel and hammer the structure apart...
...long cotton-picker's sack and brought him out here to the piney woods in the northwestern corner of Alabama and buried him in a hole 3 ft. deep. Then he got a rock, and with a hammer and a screwdriver and cold chisel he etched out a cross and Troop's name and the date of his birth and the date of his death. Now 48 years later, 160 coon dogs are buried in the cemetery, and every year in September their owners come out to recall their handsome deeds and to eat barbecue. That is precisely what...
Tigers and temples and the Taj Mahal. Maharajahs and turbaned warriors and old men ritually wandering penniless in order to purify themselves and become holy. Snake charmers and bear tamers and wizened artisans using the simplest of tools to chisel out tiny, intricate talismans of beauty. Images of India, crossroads of the exotic East, have lingered in the Western imagination. During the past decade or so, they have been, more than ever, images from India's subjugated past, particularly from the British Raj of The Man Who Would Be King, Heat and Dust and Gandhi, of The Far Pavilions...