Sixty seconds, counted by the hammer strokes of his over-burdened heart were required before he could reach the door.
The hammer strokes echoed hollowly about the long shed.
Among other improvements, it had a lighter body and all new action with an improved cam, increasing the hammer stroke by 23%.
With quick hammer strokes, he nudged it into place, then tightened the lugs.
Stretching, Moshart tapped the body of the massive figure and managed to reach its shoulders with his hammer strokes.
It smacked us now, one hard hammer stroke reeking madness.
His words were like hammer strokes, hard and sharp.
I demanded, feeling as if a succession of hammer strokes had struck me on the head.
Mark Anders hardly felt the mighty hammer strokes of the two bullets that smashed into his back.
Justen's hammer strokes were even, steady, splitting the iron along its grain.