Mistaking the axe for his rival's defiance, the moose arrives on the scene in a mood of blind rage that sends the chopper up a tree, or back to the shanty for his rifle.
If the bark of a tree has been nibbled around, like the line a chopper might make before cutting, the trapper guesses whether his coming has not interrupted a beaver in the very act.
CAKE Break the coconut into pieces, pare these and put them through a foodchopper or grate them.
The evidence of thechopper was very untrustworthy, especially when I had heard of Goujon's careless habits--losing shovels and leaving coal-scuttles on stairs.
Nothing more likely than for the chopper to be left lying about, and a criminal who had calculated his chances would know the advantage to himself of using a weapon that belonged to the place, and leaving it behind to divert suspicion.
Susan, who was seven, was putting raisins, a few at a time, into a meat chopperscrewed down on the kitchen table.
George, three years old, was turning the handle of the chopper to grind the raisins.
A chin-chopper is when a big stiff pokes out his jaw at you and then, before he knows what you're doing, you up and push him one under the chin with the inside of your hand.
Only I know some stiffs I'd like to try a chin-chopper on.
Then, while a growl expressive of astonishment as well as anger went up, the chopper scraped up part of the stew with red soil and fir twigs mixed in it.
No one said anything for several minutes, and then the big chopper once more approached his victim.
There was a burst of laughter; and the assembly broke up when Cassidy hustled the chopper off the field.
In a few minutes he hurled the chopper off his feet, and a hoarse clamor went up, through which there broke a shout: "The Kid has him!
As Stirling had once said, when they want a chopper in that country they make him chop, and facility in posing is of very little service when one is called on to grapple with virgin forest or stubborn rock.
The man was evidently in a state of apprehension, and he shrank back a little when a big, grim-faced chopper ladled out a great plateful of the burnt stew from a vessel on the stove.
The chopper awoke to the realization of three stone walls and an iron grating in front.
On the first public day at the Royal Academy, Mr. Sargent's portrait of Mr. Henry James was damaged with a chopper by a militant suffragist.
The chopper has already made a big cut in the tree, and I doubt if Lane could have done the work any quicker.
The chopper seized one of the spears, and rushed after the old one.
The chopper attacked the other side of the tree, and seemed to deal his blows with even more vigor than before.
Any blacksmith can make the chopper at little cost.
Illustration: The Chopper Consists of a Rod Handle to Which Blades are Attached by Riveting or Welding] Sharpen one edge of each blade and curve the metal slightly.
In whichever capacity the chopper plies his axe, he is pretty sure to bring no sentimentalism to his task.
When thechopper comes to his work in the morning, he finds traces of nightly visitors to his white island that have drifted to its shores out of the gray sea of woods.
During all this time, Marmaduke had been wandering about the grove, making observations on his favorite trees, and the wasteful manner in which the wood-chopper conducted his manufacture.
The wood-chopper was amazed at the military array, but the sheriff eagerly availed himself of this powerful reinforcement, and commanded his assistance in putting the laws in force.
The nerves of the wood-chopper were not so easily shaken, and he took his aim with the utmost deliberation.
The wood-chopper had nothing fierce or even brutal in his appearance; the character of his expression was that of good-natured vanity.
Notwithstanding the long practice of Natty, it was commonly supposed that the steady nerves and the quick eye of the wood-chopper rendered him his equal.
The wood-chopper seemed now entirely sensible that his reputation depended on his care; nor did he neglect any means to insure success.
The wood-chopper was seen broiling his supper on the coals as they lost sight of the fire, and when the boat approached the shore, the torch of Mohegan’s canoe was shining again under the gloom of the eastern mountain.
While the affair appeared trifling, the wood-chopper seemed disposed to take sides with the weaker party; but, when the firearms were introduced, his manner very sensibly changed.
Hiram did not give the wood-chopper time to change his mind, but the oath was administered without unnecessary delay.
The wood-chopper seemed now entirely sensible that his reputation in a great measure depended on his care; nor did he neglect any means to ensure his success.
The wood-chopper had exerted his art, and felt a proportionate degree of disappointment at his failure.
In making timbales the meat put through the chopper in this way, and then pounded, will sometimes do without being passed through a sieve.
I did not know what their intention in landing might be, so shook the chopper at them to warn them off.
I then, lest they should be afraid to approach, threw my chopper as far behind me as I could, sending it clattering among the boulders nearly up to the cliff.
Donald laughed and flipped a quarter over to the cashier, then turned and handed ten dollars to a wiry little chopper standing in line.
A skilful chopper will scarcely ever miss a heap when felling the timber, besides it saves a great deal of labour in piling the limbs.
Flaker knew that the women cut the prongs with a chopper, but a chopper was a woman's tool.
So Chew-chew chopped the roots with a stone chopper and laid them upon hot stones.
But by using a piece of Captain Fyter here and a piece of Nick Chopper there, I finally got together a very decent body, with heart and all the trimmings complete.
My tin heart is almost as useless to me, for it is hard and cold, so I'm sure the red velvet heart of my friend Nick Chopper is a better guide.
Nick Chopper and the Tin Soldier had managed to scramble up without assistance, but it was awkward for them and the Tin Woodman said: "I don't seem to stand straight, somehow.
Well, I was too clever for them," said she, giving a sudden laugh that caused such a breeze that the wobbly Scarecrow was almost blown off his feet and had to grab his friend Nick Chopper to steady himself.
If I succeeded, I would have an assistant to help me with my work, and I thought it would be a clever idea to put to some practical use the scraps of Nick Chopper and Captain Fyter.
With a blow of the chopper he struck off a lump of the frozen wine, and then fell to, eating perhaps as a man might be expected to eat who had not had a meal for eight-and-forty years.
It has a hammer on one side of the head, and a cutting blade like a small chopper on the other.
The Michaelmas Daisies of the Novae Angliae section make root tufts too close and hard to be cut with a knife, and here the chopper of the plasterer's hammer comes in.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chopper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bicycle; bike; chopper; cycle; iron; motorcycle; pig; wheel
