trip hammer

Something in her face set his heart going like a trip hammer.

It had stopped him like a trip hammer, better than anything else could have.

In turn, the trip hammer method was later employed by the Chinese.

"I think not," she said, her heart suddenly pounding like a trip hammer.

A pair of clubs hit her helmet like trip hammers.

From a distance he could hear the drapapapapapa of the trip hammers.

The water was required to drive a waterwheel which in turn raised the trip hammers.

His adversary staggered back from the trip hammer blows but didn't fall.

Most types of trip hammers were used, all requiring artificial power to lift them.

Trip hammers were usually raised by a cam and then released to fall under the force of gravity.

Push straight through the quinine until you see something that sounds like trip hammers.

A free hand shot upward, stopped Nobby's stroke with the action of a trip hammer.

The Shadow's free hand stopped Dave's wrist like a trip hammer.

Nicholas's heart was going like a trip hammer.

A trip hammer fist plucked the crook's wrist and stopped it short.

His grip tightened; he shot his body upward like a trip hammer.

A gloved hand drove upward like a trip hammer.

The Shadow's own hands worked like trip hammers.

The Shadow's hand was like a trip hammer; his fist delivered a viselike grip.

His body twisted; his arms worked like trip hammers.

Like a trip hammer, something came up from the very steps themselves, took Harry's ankle and yanked it from under him.

The strong French earthworks was smashed apart as if hit by gigantic trip hammers.

The trip hammer and rolling mill works owned by the Chapmans was completely destroyed.

Stopping as if a trip hammer had pounded it, Kerford's blow only went halfway.

Each time his revolver was met by the clash of an automatic that stopped Wolf's weapon like a trip hammer.