What is "smithies"

Usage examples of "smithies".

Villages and estates had each their own aroma of sweat and mold and damp wool, cesspits and rotting meat, women's holy blood, manure, all the lingering smells of human activity in the smithies and tanneries, the butcheries and the bakeries rolled into a fetid whole.

Smiths who've been hiding their secrets on island smithies in an unbroken line stretching back to the days when Rome had not yet found the means to conquer Britannia.

Saxons give such blades as this mystical powers, having no smithies capable of producing such weapons and precious little gold with which to buy them.

It was on Bride's Mound the smithies had built their reputations and their trade, not daring to profane the Mother's body with their anvils and hammers and glowing forges or the glass houses where Bride's silica-rich sands gave birth in turn to the lustrous glass for which the whole complex of hills and caverns had been named.

The labyrinth's pattern could be clearly seen across the wide, marshy floodplain, and smoke from the smithies rose black against the sky from Bride's Mound.

But you're wise to worry, for it's the Tor and the smithies they want, there's no mistaking that.

Other slaves who sweep and clean the cathedral meet at times with those who carry weapons from the smithies, and this information they have given us.

They have brought in slaves who work the smithies and armories and in the tanneries, so the children reported.

Those who get water from the river and bring it here have spoken now with those who get water for the smithies, and of those in the smithies some carry weapons to the cathedral, where the chieftain sits in his chair and oversees all.

And in his halls the smithies were idle, and the axes rusted, and their name was remembered only in ancient tales of Doriath and Nargothrond.