My grandfather felt certain that he would see her at the service to honor the blacksmith.
Later on, in the village, Luka and Jovo would praise the blacksmith for his strength and resolve.
Out of the corner of his eye, the blacksmith saw Luka drop his pitchfork and break for cover.
In reality, at that moment, the blacksmith stood stone still, staring at the yellow thing in the bracken.
He probably would not have hated them had he known what is easy to guess: that the blacksmith was terrified.
There was only one gun in the village, and for many years it had been kept in the home of the blacksmith.
Like his companions, the blacksmith did not know what to expect.
Climbing up Galinica, knee-deep in snow, the gun a dead weight against his ribs, the blacksmith was convinced that this was the end for him.
Over and over, they would tell the villagers about how the blacksmith had fired, how the bullet had struck the tiger between the eyes, sending up a tremendous rusty spurt.
My grandfather did not know what to make of his encounter in the smokehouse, but his throat was tight when the blacksmith emerged from his house with the gun under his arm.
Since he was taken on by Mrs Munday, the cat, who was named after the beer of a similar name, has lived at the Horse and Jockey public house before moving to The Blacksmith's Arms, both in Ravensden.
The blacksmith felt his organs clench as the first of the dogs, the bravely stupid, half-blind shepherd, reached the tiger and immediately went end over end as the big cat lashed at and then pinned him with all its enormous weight.
Mother Vera came out after him with a coat in her hands, cuffing him across the ear and forcing him into it, while the blacksmith and the fishmonger and the man who sold buttons propped Vladisa up in the snow and gave him water.
The blacksmith had the ramrod out and he was shoving it into the muzzle, pumping and pumping and pumping furiously, his hand already on the trigger, and he was ready to fire, strangely calm with the tiger there, almost on him, its whiskers so close and surprisingly bright and rigid.
But when the smoke had cleared and the noise of it had died down in his ribs the blacksmith looked up to discover that the tiger was on its feet and moving swiftly to the frozen center of the pond, undeterred by the ice and the men and the sound of the gunshot.
At the outset of WWI, the village blacksmith, John Hugill, nailed a lucky horseshoe to the door of his forge.
No one would guess that they had not even buried the unlucky blacksmith, whose brain was eventually picked over by crows, and to whose carcass the tiger would return time and time again, until he had learned something about the taste of man, about the freshness of human meat, which was different now, in snow, than it had been in the heat of summer.
They were followed by the World Famous Old Blacksmith's Shop Centre in Gretna Green and the capital's Royal Botanic Garden.
Wolf Hall followed the life of Thomas Cromwell from his impoverished beginnings as the son of a violent blacksmith, to his meteoric rise in the court of King Henry VIII.
Erol Gurban is a blacksmith in the old market, specialising in the skewers used to grill kebabs.
It's a huge towering dark cloud, shaped at the top like a blacksmith's anvil, and responsible for sudden downpours.
Cromwell is the robust, working-class son of a blacksmith, from Putney, on the Thames, now a member of Parliament enormously astute, but not schooled like Cranmer, who would seem to have the social advantage here.
Mantel is clearly fascinated by Cromwell: Both the historical figure, the son of a Putney blacksmith who rose to become Earl of Essex, and her fictional creation.
Archaeologists said the objects probably belonged to a blacksmith who had hidden them away for later use.
He was built like a blacksmith, powerful through the neck and shoulders.
Across the street from the Vereins Kirche, The Pioneer Museum showcases 10 other preserved buildings from the immigrant era, including a blacksmith shop, a one-room schoolhouse and a bathhouse.
It's an industrial process any blacksmith would recognize except for the quality, speed and scale.
The company has pledged to work with Blacksmith to improve conditions.
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