Eh! they are good 'uns. There's a trowel, too.

This is ... Working glove and trowel. One of a gardening club's basic tools

Many species of mosses, and then all sorts of lichens just plastering the tree.

My bricks, being second hand ones, required to be cleaned with a trowel, so that I

Such sayings themselves grow harder and adhere more firmly with age, and it would take many blows with a trowel to clean an old wiseacre of them.

Venturing one day to substitute deeds for words, he turned up his cuffs, seized a plasterer's board, and having loaded his trowel without mishap, with a complacent

I admired anew the economy and convenience of plastering, which so effectually shuts out the cold and takes a handsome finish, and I learned the various casualties to which the plasterer is liable.

At length the winter set in good earnest, just as I had finished plastering, and the wind began to howl around the house as if it had not had permission to do so till then.

The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato, and making a snug bed even there of some hair left after plastering and of brown paper for even the wildest animals love comfort and warmth as well as man, and they survive the winter only because they are so careful to secure them.