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  • Across the lawn, she could see Sean running after Mason Byers, wielding a yellow croquet mallet.†   (source)
  • Mix the chocolate with the sugar, pounding it with a mallet and grinding the two together.†   (source)
  • He looked like he had been fashioned by setting boulders atop boulders; his hands were iron mallets and his face rough-carved out of granite.†   (source)
  • Leave that stuff in the blood and the blood hits the brain like a mallet, bang, a couple thousand times and the brain just gives up, just quits.†   (source)
  • Every year they import twenty-seven thousand scintillating jeweled scuttling crabs from their native planet and while away a happy drunken night smashing them to bits with iron mallets.†   (source)
  • Upstairs, puzzling light-headed over differential equations, Newton's Law of Cooling, independent variables, we have used the fact that tau is constant to eliminate its derivative, Hobie's presence below stairs was an anchor, a friendly weight: I was comforted to hear the tap of his mallet floating up from below and to know that he was down there pottering quietly with his tools and his spirit gums and varicolored woods.†   (source)
  • They hit the ball with the mallet, pock and pock again, and laugh.†   (source)
  • He started with a wooden mallet and lightly tapped the stone.†   (source)
  • Every third archer carried a heavy mallet nnd now they took tums driving their stakes in at a careful angle.†   (source)
  • Da5id has even enhanced the physics of The Black Sun to make it a little cartoonish, so that particularly obnoxious people can be hit over the head with giant mallets or crushed under plummeting safes before they are ejected.†   (source)
  • It showed an elderly stone carver, bent over his workbench, pounding a block of stone with a mallet.†   (source)
  • Gradually every item that was not bolted down migrated to higher ground safely above the sweep of his swinging mallet.†   (source)
  • She'd grown up the daughter of a hay farmer and shake cutter, a man who couldn't get ends to meet; she'd cut thousands of shakes, had hunched over a cedar block with a froe and a mallet, her blond hair hanging in her eyes.†   (source)
  • I couldn't think of how to repay her for this until one day I saw her chasing a mouse down the corridor with a mallet.†   (source)
  • I heard myself scream, "Don't shoot him, don't shoot him," and at that moment Sam slammed backwards as if he'd been knocked over by a mallet.†   (source)
  • I pushed the rare delicacy of potatoes through a colander with a wooden mallet that resembled a bowling pin; a final beating with the mallet turned the mush into mashed potatoes.†   (source)
  • Bobby wrestled a mallet out of my hands and tossed it into a tree, and Stinky stole a wire wicket while Dad's back was turned.†   (source)
  • After a moment of blank staring, I picked up the tiny bowl and mallet I assumed was meant for thread crushing and started pressing.†   (source)
  • Fashionable mothers in large-brimmed hats knock brightly colored wooden balls through narrow hoops with their mallets while their husbands shake their heads and gently correct them with an arm here, an embrace there.†   (source)
  • As the bareback riders galloped up and down the clearing, pursuing the goat skull that served as a ball, they swiped at each other with their mallets and slammed their horses into each other like drivers at a demolition derby.†   (source)
  • I turned around: it was Don, and he was holding a croquet mallet in one hand.†   (source)
  • The Queen of Hearts, a portly, dark-haired woman, picked up a croquet mallet from under her seat and smashed the King of Hearts in the chest.†   (source)
  • The lumps protruding here and there are the tools Grandfather Nakane brought when he came to this country—chisels, a hammer, a mallet, a thin pointed saw, the handle extending from the blade like that of a kitchen knife.†   (source)
  • Doctors came running up from every direction with needles, lights, tubes, rubber mallets and oscillating metal tines.†   (source)
  • A row of Hit-the-Gong machines drew contorted faces and thick necks bulging with veins as men sought furiously and frequently in frustration to prove their manhood, crashing heavy wooden mallets down on the deceitful planks that too often refused to send the little red balls up to the bells.†   (source)
  • When, earlier in October, Browere had gone to Monticello to do Jefferson, the mask had dried so hard it had to be chopped off with a mallet, Jefferson suffering, as he said, a "severe trial."†   (source)
  • Well, this is similar to when he taps your knee with a rubber mallet.†   (source)
  • Above him loomed a grotesque fat man with a forked yellow beard, holding a wooden mallet and an iron chisel.†   (source)
  • Deo looked up at the bronze image of the once famous Danish sculptor; he was clad in a belted tunic, a mallet in one hand, a chisel in the other.†   (source)
  • How she stood pounding maize with that heavy wooden mallet that was taller than her; or sat on her mat, legs to the side, rolling her wicker pan to separate the husks.†   (source)
  • They descended on the cliffs with a vengeance, swinging with bronze mallets and swords and granite boulders.†   (source)
  • The waiter arrived with a towel draped over his mallet-like forearm.†   (source)
  • Bruenor reverently removed the small silver mallet and chisel from the coffer and approached the warhammer.†   (source)
  • Before I use this mallet on skulls.†   (source)
  • Just as I leaped from the bed the headache of a hangover smote my skull like a mallet, and during my struggle with my trousers I was seized by further panic, or I should say, dread: the bell tolled outside and I counted the strokes—it was noon!†   (source)
  • The boy dodged and the mallet clattered the length of the room.†   (source)
  • HORNBECK hands the JUDGE several bills from his mallet, and MEEKER pencils a receipt.†   (source)
  • It sounded as if dozens of strong workmen were hitting the ground as hard as they could with great wooden mallets.†   (source)
  • I felt light-headed, not serious at all, really doing it for a child when I lifted my mallet-the one with the red band that had always been mine.†   (source)
  • Leo pulled a rubber mallet from his tool bag.†   (source)
  • Then the mallet began to rise and descend, destroying the last of Jack Torrance's image.†   (source)
  • The Frenchman staggered, turned to meet the new threat, and took a second mallet below in the chest.†   (source)
  • The OCS cadet tried to leap back and raise his mallet at the same time.†   (source)
  • Jack's hold on the mallet was jarred loose when it hit the floor.†   (source)
  • The mallet whistled fiercely down, smashing into the rug between Danny's feet.†   (source)
  • The mallet was still in his hands, the knife in his broad belt.†   (source)
  • From overhead, the restless booming sounds of the mallet as Jack Torrance looked for his son.†   (source)
  • Jack was crawling after her, using the roque mallet as a crutch or a cane.†   (source)
  • It lurched toward him in a horrible, shambling run, the roque mallet swinging up and up and up.†   (source)
  • The mallet came down again with whistling, deadly velocity and buried itself in her soft stomach.†   (source)
  • Hallorann heard the whisper and began to turn, to duck, and the roque mallet whistled down.†   (source)
  • He was grasping the roque mallet loosely in his left hand.†   (source)
  • She leaped onto his back as his hand closed over the shaft of the roque mallet.†   (source)
  • A mallet with a hard side and soft side.†   (source)
  • One foot kicked the bloody, misshapen roque mallet aside.†   (source)
  • He walked to the chopping block and put his hand on the handle of the mallet.†   (source)
  • The mallet crashed through again, widening the hole, and then a hand appeared, groping for the bolt.†   (source)
  • The mallet rose and fell, rose and fell.†   (source)
  • The roque mallet was lifted as high as the ugly, ripping pain in his back (?†   (source)
  • A loud, hollow boom as the mallet struck the wall.†   (source)
  • And then the mallet was coming down again.†   (source)
  • The mallet fell from them and thumped to the rug.†   (source)
  • Boomings as Jack struck the walls indiscriminately with the mallet.†   (source)
  • The steady, irregular booming sound of the mallet against the walls grew louder.†   (source)
  • He dragged the splintered roque mallet after him.†   (source)
  • He rolled over and stretched out for the handle of the mallet.†   (source)
  • His hand closed tightly around one of the mallet handles, liking its feel.†   (source)
  • He swung the mallet through the air … whhhoooop.†   (source)
  • The mallet slammed down behind her and she threw herself forward, sobbing.†   (source)
  • Then he thumped to the floor, the mallet flying from his hand.†   (source)
  • Then he flung the mallet behind him with a whispered, terrified cry.†   (source)
  • The mallet smashed into the bathroom door, knocking out a huge chunk of the thin paneling.†   (source)
  • The mallet dropped from its fisted hands and bounced harmlessly on the black and blue rug.†   (source)
  • His eyes shone with a familiar blue light that sent a xylophone mallet down the back of my rib cage.†   (source)
  • Horst stopped his mallet in midblow when he saw Roran.†   (source)
  • He picked up a rubber mallet and sighed.†   (source)
  • From within his robes, he produced a file, a chisel, and a wooden mallet.†   (source)
  • Dissatisfied, Max seized a heavy, mallet that was propped near some workman's tools.†   (source)
  • He rushed forward and hit the back of the bow with his steel mallet, breaking the wood in two.†   (source)
  • But his head was ringing as if a mallet had struck it.†   (source)
  • Only instead of a mallet, I'm going to hold this little contraption.†   (source)
  • His host put the mallet and chisel aside.†   (source)
  • Thomas gripped the large mallet in both hands and slammed it into the glowing rock.†   (source)
  • One by one, as though hit over the head with an invisible mallet, the first-years were slumping unconscious in their seats; some slid right on to the floor, others merely hung over the arms of their chairs, their tongues lolling out.†   (source)
  • After weighing the stone, he scrutinized its surface under a jeweler's glass, tapped it gently with a wooden mallet, and drew the point of a tiny clear stone over it.†   (source)
  • As soon as he saw me, he dove for his oversized rawhide bone and proudly paraded it around the room, his body wagging, tail whacking the washing machine like a mallet on a kettledrum.†   (source)
  • Like a sculptor finally dropping mallet and chisel, giving up on a recalcitrant block that will never take the shape he'd pictured.†   (source)
  • The Frenchman's sword knocked the heavy mallet out of Kassad's grip while the dull point of the blade slashed through leather, shirt, and skin.†   (source)
  • The noise of Kassad's mallet striking the knight's armored shoulder sounded precisely like someone bashing the hood of an EMV with a sledge-hammer.†   (source)
  • Kassad was deep into the woods before he stopped, leaned on the mallet, gasped, and considered his position.†   (source)
  • The knight screamed as the mallet came down a final time, almost catching Kassad's hand as the hammer drove the blade through the visor slit like a ten-inch tent peg.†   (source)
  • The small attacker stood astride the knight, pinning the armored man's sword arm with one foot while bringing the mallet down repeatedly onto helmet and visor.†   (source)
  • The Frenchman glanced back once, saw Kassad coming on a full run with a mallet in his hand and his eye full of business, and then the man-at-arms shifted into a higher gear and reached the trees fifteen meters ahead of his pursuer.†   (source)
  • Soon he and the grizzled archer and a younger man who had lost his cap became an efficient killing team, closing in on a downed rider from three sides, Kassad using the mallet to knock the pleading horseman off his knees, then all three moving in with their blades.†   (source)
  • …themselves upon stakes-no matter how hard their human riders implored them to do so-but the second and third waves of cavalry did not stop as abruptly as the first, and in a single mad moment horses were down and screaming, riders were thrown and screaming, and Kassad was out and screaming, rushing at every downed Frenchman he could see, wielding a mallet on the prostrate form when he could, slashing through gaps in armor with his long knife when it was too crowded to swing the mallet.†   (source)
  • Jack screamed her name, and this time when he swung the mallet, a long splinter of wood jumped from the door and clattered off the hardwood planking.†   (source)
  • Her hand seized the key ring just as the mallet whistled down against the door, making it tremble in its frame.†   (source)
  • Beside his daddy, in the other front seat, was a short-handled mallet, its head clotted with blood and hair.†   (source)
  • The mallet rose for the final time.†   (source)
  • Hallorann drew the mallet from the rack and turned toward the flood of white light from the snowmobile headlamp.†   (source)
  • Each time he heard the roque mallet smash into the wall somewhere behind him he wanted to scream aloud.†   (source)
  • The air seemed to be shimmering around him, the blows of the mallet against the walls echoing and re-echoing.†   (source)
  • The roque mallet … has two sides.†   (source)
  • The thing in the hall danced an eerie, shuffling polka, the beat counterpointed by the hideous sound of the mallet head striking again and again.†   (source)
  • He was only four risers from the top, measuring the distance with the rogue mallet in his left hand as he pulled himself up with his right.†   (source)
  • He found himself thinking of the hard wooden whack! of the mallet head striking the round wooden ball.†   (source)
  • "Daddy — " And then the mallet crashed home, striking Danny right between the eyes, closing them forever.†   (source)
  • Except that the cane was no longer precisely a cane; it seemed to be a mallet with some kind of brightly striped handle.†   (source)
  • The mallet wavered wildly in the air.†   (source)
  • The mallet came down against the door in a volley of booming blows that made her flinch and step back.†   (source)
  • If Jack found Danny, he would kill him, beat him to death with that mallet as he had tried to do to her.†   (source)
  • And the flat, whacking sound of the mallet against flesh had been replaced with a hollow booming sound, echoing and reverberating.†   (source)
  • It came to her with sudden numbing reality that he meant to beat her to death with the mallet he held in his hands.†   (source)
  • The whistle the head of the mallet made cutting through the air (roque … stroke … roque … stroke … REDRUM) before it crashed into the wall.†   (source)
  • Suddenly he stopped, looked wonderingly at the mallet in his hands, and asked himself with rising horror what it was he had been thinking of doing.†   (source)
  • He brought the mallet down again and this time she rolled toward him, down the stairs, inside the arc of his swing.†   (source)
  • Do you play it with a croquet mallet?†   (source)
  • He had the roque mallet in one hand.†   (source)
  • But below him, the faint sound of the mallet against the walls went on and on, drifting up through the elevator shaft and the stairwell.†   (source)
  • The mallet descended again, knocking wood splinters into the tub and against the reflecting surface of the medicine cabinet (!†   (source)
  • The mallet whistled through the air.†   (source)
  • The mallet expressed that perfectly.†   (source)
  • Yet instinct made her roll over, roll away, and the mallet whizzed past the side of her face, missing by a naked inch.†   (source)
  • Behind him it was coming, blundering and staggering past the Presidential Suite, the mallet whistling viciously through the air.†   (source)
  • An insane commercial jingle began to run through his mind to the tune: Buy dog food, rowf-rowf, rowfrowf, buy dog food … The steel mallet in the clockwork daddy's hands came down on the boy's head.†   (source)
  • Its hands closed around the mallet again, but instead of aiming at Danny, it reversed the handle, aiming the hard side of the roque mallet at its own face.†   (source)
  • The bloody mallet head, now splintered and gouged in its own right, bashed through the new hole in the door, was withdrawn, and came down again, sending wooden shrapnel flying across the room.†   (source)
  • She ignored the pain and halfwalked, half-shambled through the doorway as Jack came around the far corner and began to lunge his way down toward the open door, leaning on the roque mallet.†   (source)
  • He brought the mallet back for a final whistling downstroke and it was fully launched before he saw that the supplicating face below him was not George's but Danny's.†   (source)
  • The mallet trembled, came down.†   (source)
  • The mallet began to rise again.†   (source)
  • Dimly she saw the mallet rebound.†   (source)
  • She heard the mallet whistle through the air and then agony exploded on her right side as the mallet-head took her just below the line of her breasts, breaking two ribs.†   (source)
  • The mallet head struck her squarely between the shoulder blades and for a moment the agony was so great that she could only writhe, hands opening and clenching.†   (source)
  • Over her shoulder she saw Jack stumble forward, overbalance, and bring the mallet down just before he crashed to the carpet, expelling a bright splash of blood onto the nap.†   (source)
  • He staggered against the silk wallpaper and Jack hit him again, the roque mallet slicing sideways this time, shattering Hallorann's cheekbone and most of the teeth on the left side of his jaw.†   (source)
  • Falling through darkness again, now accompanied by the heavy, pounding thunder that was no longer the boiler but the sound of a whistling mallet striking silkpapered walls, knocking out whiffs of plaster dust.†   (source)
  • Fragments of his dream (it was all jumbled now, fading) recurred, something about George Hatfield and his father's cane, just enough to make him uneasy and, absurdly enough, a trifle guilty about holding a plain old garden-variety roque mallet.†   (source)
  • It raised the mallet again.†   (source)
  • It had a mallet in one hand and it was swinging it (REDRUM) from side to side in vicious arcs, slamming it into the walls, cutting the silk wallpaper and knocking out ghostly bursts of plasterdust: Come on and take your medicine!†   (source)
  • The Shape advancing on him, reeking of that sweet-sour odor, gigantic, the mallet head cutting across the air with a wicked hissing whisper, then the great hollow boom as it crashed into the wall, sending the dust out in a puff you could smell, dry and itchy.†   (source)
  • It was so hard … the hotel kept trying to get into his head … the image of that dark and slumped form swinging the mallet from side to side, gouging the wallpaper … sending out puffs of plaster dust.†   (source)
  • The mallet whickered down.†   (source)
  • The mallet came down.†   (source)
  • Down and down and down and down to — — the hallway, crouched in the hallway, and he had made a wrong turn, trying to get back to the stairs he had made a wrong turn and now AND NOW — — he saw he was in the short dead-end corridor that led only to the Presidential Suite and the booming sound was coming closer, the roque mallet whistling savagely through the air, the head of it embedding itself into the wall, cutting the silk paper, letting out small puffs of plaster dust.†   (source)
  • There was a tiger in the hall, and now the tiger was just around the corner, still crying out in that shrill and petulant and lunatic rage, the roque mallet slamming, because this tiger walked on two legs and it was — He woke with a sudden indrawn gasp, sitting bolt upright in bed, eyes wide and staring into the darkness, hands crossed in front of his face.†   (source)
  • He struck Cuthbert again, this time solidly between the eyes and hard enough so that Roland heard a dull thud-the sound a mallet makes when a scullion taps a keg of beer.†   (source)
  • It took all of his effort not to reach in his tool belt, grab a mallet, and whop Hazel and Frank upside their heads.†   (source)
  • This corpus had also given Carrie endless nightmares in which the mutilated Christ chased her through dream corridors, holding a mallet and nails, begging her to take up her cross and follow Him.†   (source)
  • "Oi've seen girls 'oo won't buckle down given the old pick-and-mallet to the brain to cure their ills.†   (source)
  • When he got frustrated, which happened about every five seconds, he could hit stuff with his mallet, and the other crew members would figure he was working, not throwing a tantrum.†   (source)
  • He felt as if every part of himself had been beaten soundly with a wooden mallet and then a pair of clumsy men had used him as a target for knife throwing.†   (source)
  • Without hesitation, for he knew that he had little time for such intricate work, he set the chisel on the mithril and solidly tapped it with the mallet.†   (source)
  • Don dropped the croquet mallet.†   (source)
  • He swung the mallet against the bronze, over and over, until his eardrums nearly ruptured from the deafening ring.†   (source)
  • I take the mallet and knock it against the ball, and the ball rolls far out into the Winterlands fog.†   (source)
  • Trying to sort through his mixed emotions, the dwarf put the silver mallet and chisel back into their golden coffer and replaced the scroll in its tube, though the parchment was blank again and the magical runes would never reappear.†   (source)
  • I didn't hear any noise of feet — only voices and this frightful thudding and thumping — like a mallet.†   (source)
  • Eugene could hear all day as he worked at his meticulous watches the glad mallet of the man who cracked the crabs.†   (source)
  • A boy near Thomas said, in falsetto, "My name is Bear Meat," and without a word Thomas turned on him, picked up a wooden mallet from the nearest bench and flung it.†   (source)
  • The two men with mallets were oblivious to the pandemonium around them.†   (source)
  • Leaning against it was one of the roque mallets from the equipment shed.†   (source)
  • (this game isn't croquet though the mallets are too short this game is) (WHACK-BOOM!†   (source)
  • Lining a Peg-Board against one wall were dozens of wrenches, saws, screwdrivers, and rubber mallets.†   (source)
  • I briefly considered picking up one of the mallets and yelling, I found your hammer!†   (source)
  • They brought forth scintillating jeweled scuttling crabs, which the Vogons ate, smashing their shells with iron mallets; tall aspiring trees of breathtaking slenderness and color which the Vogons cut down and burned the crabmeat with; elegant gazellelike creatures with silken coats and dewy eyes which the Vogons would catch and sit on.†   (source)
  • No, it didn't really matter, except that looking at the racked mallets with the single missing member had a kind of fascination.†   (source)
  • One of the rogue mallets was gone.†   (source)
  • (If it wasn't for Danny, I would take great pleasure in grabbing one of those mallets, opening the cowling, and just pounding until) He let his pent-up breath escape him in a long slow sigh.†   (source)
  • (the white rabbit had been on its way to a croquet party to the Red Queen's croquet party storks for mallets hedgehogs for balls) He touched the key, let his fingers wander over it.†   (source)
  • He slipped one of the short-handled mallets out of the front rack and held it up in front of his face, like a knight bound for battle saluting his king.†   (source)
  • In the corner was a stack of shuffleboard weights and a roque set — the wickets banded together with twists of wire, the brightly painted balls in an egg-carton sort of thing (strange hens you have up here, Watson … yes, and you should see the animals down on the front lawn, ha-ha), and the mallets, two sets of them, standing in their racks.†   (source)
  • Four beats, and swing your mallets as you have never swung them before in all your lives, for we have a new king.†   (source)
  • They take turns with their mallets.†   (source)
  • If I even see you bringing a croquet set up in here, the trees seemed to say, I will make you eat the mallets.†   (source)
  • Oliver entered the shop and asked a big bearded man with a wooden mallet for a job.†   (source)
  • I shall be free to enter the garden where Fenwick raises his mallet.†   (source)
  • Ruthie sprang at her, slapped her, pushed her, and wrested the mallet from her hands.†   (source)
  • Ruthie scowled fiercely and her hands tightened on the mallet.†   (source)
  • Suddenly she advanced on them, mallet in hand.†   (source)
  • The pig-tails gripped her mallet tightly.†   (source)
  • For a moment she stared at them, and then she flung down the mallet and ran crying for home.†   (source)
  • Yesterday, passing the open door leading into the private garden, I saw Fenwick with his mallet raised.†   (source)
  • Or, he would find his father in the workroom, bending over a trestle, using the heavy wooden mallet with delicate care, as he guided the chisel through the mazes of an inscription.†   (source)
  • His mallet descended; the vision broke.†   (source)
  • So would yours be if they held a mallet and chisel all day.†   (source)
  • There I was immediately set to calking, and very soon learned the art of using my mallet and irons.†   (source)
  • Friant, Michel, Roguet, Harlet, Mallet, Poret de Morvan, were there.†   (source)
  • This wooden mallet is the cork, and I'm the professor of musical glasses—tap, tap!"†   (source)
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