David Means

As a story writer, you have work with sharp but relatively small tools, the picks of metaphor, the shovel blade of images, the trowel of point of view, and then you delicately lift and brush in the revision with love and care knowing that one slip, and you might damage an extremely delicate thing.

American Writer

Elliot Perlman

I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing their children or students. Dialogue can humanise the story and make it go down somewhat more smoothly.

Australian Author

Tony Robinson

Digging sand is a bit like digging water. You take your trowel out and it all fills back up again, so there are a whole lot of different techniques that are required.

English Actor

Emma Tennant

I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other.

British Novelist

Simon McBurney

The repeated action of working and playing acts like a trowel that uncovers a hidden structure under the earth. It is an action that deepens and develops.

Benjamin Disraeli

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

British Statesman

P. G. Wodehouse

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

English Writer

Trowel is associated with professional construction or masonry work.

Construction Use

A trowel is not just for spreading, but also for applying materials like mortar.

Material Application

Shape of the trowel's blade is designed for efficient spreading and shaping.

Specific Design

In gardening, trowels are ideal for moving dirt and potting plants.

Gardening Specific

Trowels can also be used to remove weeds from the garden by their roots.

Weeding Tool

Trowels often have comfortable handles to make gardening tasks easier.

Ergonomic Handle

When used as a verb, it describes the physical action of applying or shaping.

Action Oriented

Troweling is often aimed at achieving a smooth, even surface or consistency.

Even Application

Troweling can also impart texture to a surface, such as in concrete finishing.

Finish and Texture

 or whether or not you're a male or a female so especially when the females are in easter's when they're ready to have a baby then the males are regularly going to be could i groom you how's it going you know laying it on with a trowel all of the kind of like you know this is the chimp equivalent of bringing flowers is

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