For want of which a kingdom was lost

Usage examples of nail.

Its prominent feature is an intense itching, so aggravating that, in many instances, the skin is torn by the nails.

She had lovely hands, Jill thought, slender and graceful, with long fingernails that had been stained a tasteful orange-red with annatto seeds and polished to such a glossy perfection that Jill found herself hiding her own calloused fingers and bitten nails in her lap.

It was aplace of beauty and we had polluted it with our presence, nailing up the doors, planking over thewindows.

Yet even worse was the knowledge that that pain would accompany his entire final journey down into eventual unconsciousness, and with itan added traumawere the images burned into him: almost forty hours of being driven on foot up Aren Way, watching each and every one of those ten thousand soldiers joined to the mass crucifixion in a chain of suffering stretching over three leagues, each link scores of men and women nailed to every tree, to every available space on those tall, broad trunks.

My nails had already been lost, my work aboard the argosy having proved too great a task for their loose, rotten condition.

I have a gimlet and some nails in my pistol pocket, Baas, that I was using this morning to mend that box of yours.

He glanced up at the beakless marlin hanging from a new nail on the wall.

He wondered mournfully, as Nurse Duckett buffed her nails, about all the people who had died under water.

She is buffing her nail polish with her fingertips, a nervous gesture of hers.

A receptionist in the lobby was buffing her nails under a huge portrait of His Majesty.

Char was caught under his nails, and dried blood crusted in his knuckles.

In a frenzy of scraping nails and barking, Sadie ran to Cavin, who stood there in his interstellar body armor, regarding Sadie with a hint of amusement curving his mouth as the little dog told him who was boss in the house.

We certainly find it preferable to nailing everyone into place with clientship and patronage for the benefit of those lucky enough to born to the right parents.

He clung to the wall of the staircase, his nails digging between the bricks to keep from falling.

Then I could nail him on the cohabitation provision and terminate the support payments.