| 1. | The anvil of my sword, and do contes. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | Then from his anvil the lame artist ros. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 3. | The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 5. | Then the youth seized the axe, split the anvil with one blow, and in it caught the old man's beard. - from Grimms' Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm |
| 6. | Now the reality was in my hold, I only felt that I was dusty with the dust of small-coal, and that I had a weight upon my daily remembrance to which the anvil was a feather. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 7. | 'If you are stronger, I will let you go--come, we will try.' Then he led him by dark passages to a smith's forge, took an axe, and with one blow struck an anvil into the ground. - from Grimms' Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm |
| 8. | What is needed is a little anvil two inches square, and a lamp burning spirits of wine to soften the wax. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 9. | Ye know only the sparks of the spirit but ye do not see the anvil which it is, and the cruelty of its hamme. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 10. | Forged on the eternal anvils of the god. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 11. | Before, deep fix'd, the eternal anvils stan. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 12. | fastened iron anvils to her feet, and hung her from the sky, an. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |