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He also tweeted, “I am hammering people to get to Claire”—Senator Claire McCaskill—“to get to WH”—White House—̶to get to Nixon.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 28, 2014

I am hammering away at a bit of a story from the old affair of the diablerie at Woodstock in the Long Parliament times.

From Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) by Wragg, H.

There is much ignorance to be removed, much suspicion, much misunderstanding of me as a foreigner, and I am hammering away as hard as I can.

From James Gilmour of Mongolia His diaries, letters, and reports by Gilmour, James

I am hammering at your heart in each of your pulse beats.

From The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play by Rae, John

While I am hammering on the anvil, you sleep on the mat, and when I begin to eat after my toil, you wake up and wag your tail for food.

From Aesop's Fables A New Revised Version From Original Sources by Weir, Harrison