smithy
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You can also visit the nearby village to stock up at a general store and visit a smithy to upgrade your weapons.
From The Verge ● Aug. 25, 2022
Mr Roberts' father, 86-year-old Albert Roberts, was an apprentice at the family smithy in Little Acton, which closed down in the 1980s.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2022
To the usual Burns toolbox of photo pans and archival film, “Hemingway” adds typewriter imagery — keys hammering on pages like irons in a smithy — and animations of manuscript editing.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2021
“Under a spreading chestnut-tree/ The village smithy stands,” “This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2020
There was a garden behind the smithy, and when she saw the rows of low green shoots, a pang went through her as she remembered working with Maesie.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
Under a spreading chestnut tree, the village smithies stand in another season of “Forged in Fire.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2022
Subtext, allusion, nuance, dramatic irony: these were the smithies upon which mistakes were forged.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 12, 2017
But a large offshore financial centre will typically have 80-120 corporate smithies, the World Bank reckons.
From Economist ● Apr. 4, 2012
Dust comes and settles on piano lids in arts centres, old Bibles in attics, / shelves, rugs, laundries, smithies, abandoned mills .
From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2011
The shafts ran down by many slopes and spiral stairs to caverns far under; there Saruman had treasuries, store-houses, armouries, smithies, and great furnaces.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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