Anvil bangers

Usage examples of smiths.

It may well be you can’t count on the Smiths, considering this latest development.

And every one of the Families, excepting the Smiths, had had a chance to deal with me directly on its own turf.

Green pins for those as might move either way, depending on what happened over the next few days-the Smiths, and the Wommacks.

Their behavior had grown more and more odd, and the Attendant set to watch had told her half an hour ago that every one of the other Families was arrived and safely settled in the Castle, but no sign of the Smiths and no word from them.

But it was a satisfying turnout, and when the Smiths did arrive they’d take up a goodly number of those empty spaces.

They were so determined, these Smiths, to have all their cake, frosted and frilled on the shelf, while they savored it to the last bite.

All over the Hall, the Smiths and their staff were standing-to do what?

Why the Smiths had come late-to call even more attention to their foolish selves and their ridiculous plan, and to avoid the consequences of coming so unhandily late in the alphabet.

Why the Smiths had so rudely shut their Castle doors to Responsible when it had been their turn to show her hospitality on her Quest-they’d been afraid that she would see something that would give their scheme away and lose them the advantage of surprise.

And bitterest of all was the thought that nagged at her, that if she’d stayed home till the Jubilee and passed her time at her magic-instead of taking off on that fool Quest all around the Kingdoms-she might well have discovered what the Smiths were intending.

Say you’re a family with Smiths in all directions, living here in Brightwater, then what?

The Farsons had a kind of elegant devious charm that was more dangerous than any of the right out front stupidities the Smiths had carried through.

Finding a color not taken by any of the other eleven Families, now that the Smiths had added purple to their traditional silver and gold and brown, had seemed impossible.

Every Castle on this planet-always excepting those fool Smiths, and I don’t doubt they were up to something as wouldn’t bear the light of day or they’d of been in on it too-every Castle put on some kind of to-do for the `daughter of Brightwater’!

I don't know how many smiths there were working metal at their anvils, but obviously Ilfor was an important person to have charge of so many.