Lexicographical Neighbors of Smithying
Literary usage of Smithying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"WO smithying-carle, good master of mine, Teach me this forging craft of thine.
"Teach me the lore of shield and blade, And how the right good swords are ..."
2. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"O smithying-carle, good master of mine, Teach me this forging craft of thine.
"Teach me the lore of shield and blade, And how the right good swords are made ..."
3. The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science, Philosophy by Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Richard Stockton, Caroline Ticknor (1901)
"O smithying-carle, good master of mine, Teach me this forging craft of thine. "
Teach me the lore of shield and blade, And how the right good swords are ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"He took the sword, and said— " Behold thy smithying, Regin!" and therewith smote
it into the anvil, and the sword brake; so he cast down the brand, ..."
5. The Bookmart: A Monthly Magazine of Literary and Library Intelligence edited by Richard Halkett (1889)
"... a smith,' as it is to say 'A smithying-carle was I.' But let it be granted
that in, for instance, the story of Sigurd, it is appropriate and poetical to ..."
6. Epic and Saga: The Song of Roland; The Desstruction of Dá Derga's Hostel by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"He took the sword, and said— " Behold thy smithying, Regin!" and therewith smote
it into the anvil, and the sword brake; so he cast down the brand, ..."
7. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1890)
"... the god of fire and of smithying among the Greeks, is represented by Homer as
lame, walking with the aid of a stick, and panting as he goes. ..."
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