"Nail down" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the kind might be done; so I ran my thumb-nail down each wire stay," came the answer. "And it turned out just as ...
— Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines - The German Spy's Secret • Charles Amory Beach
... face, and he does not do it! Hey! A box on the ear for every man who says "ouch!" when he cuts his finger! No man has any right to do that now, for here stands a man who—ugh!—self-praise stinks!—But what did I do when our neighbor started to nail down the cover ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IX - Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig • Various
... what it was in her mind which made her so cheerfully indifferent to his presence. She filled that last box while he stood there in the doorway, stood off to survey her work critically, and then picked up a hammer that lay on the table and prepared to nail down the lid. ...
— Once to Every Man • Larry Evans
... enough one, said Flask, the carpenter here can arrange it easily. Bring it up; there's nothing else for it, said Starbuck, after a melancholy pause. Rig it, carpenter; do not look at me so — the coffin, I mean. Dost thou hear me? Rig it. And shall I nail down the lid, sir? moving his hand as with a hammer. aye. And shall I caulk the seams, sir? moving his hand as with a caulking-iron. Aye. And shall I then pay over the same with pitch, sir? moving his hand as with a pitch-pot. Away! What possesses thee to this? Make a life-buoy of the coffin, ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville |
