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While Tremaine, Duncan and Quinn were nailing down the theoretical case for the Kuiper belt, Jewitt and Jane X. Luu, then his student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, began looking for hard evidence.

From Scientific American • Oct. 15, 2014

And then followed a series of dull thuds, as if they were nailing down a coffin-lid, and Ráby shuddered, but not this time with the cold.

From The Strange Story of Rab R?by by J?kai, M?r

In agonized haste he hammered and nailed slate together as if he were nailing fast the universe which otherwise would crumble to pieces in a quarter of an hour.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various

He would rather have that than flabby silence, as if he were nailing into dry-rot.

From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

Upon the roof of the balcony was maintained an evenly sonorous monotone of drubbing, as if innumerable fairy carpenters were nailing on the shingles.

From Bressant by Hawthorne, Julian