I met Oly out in the orchard, where he was chopping kindling for the school's stove, a job we all took turns at.
She let me get away without doing my chores, rising early to milk the cow, bringing in the eggs from the henhouse, even chopping the kindling.
I'd already done my morning chores, bringing in the coal, chopping kindling, taking care of the milch-cows and making my bed.
Outside, beneath the glare of torches and hastily strung incandescents, a weary army toiled stubbornly, digging, gouging, chopping at the foot of the towering wall of timbers which stretched across the Salmon.
Once again the endless thawing and chopping and gouging of ice began, but the more rapidly the encroaching edge was cut away the more swiftly did it bear down.
There was ample evidence that the menace was thoroughly understood, for the whole day shift was toiling at the ice, chopping it, thawing it, shoveling it away, although its tremendous thickness made their efforts seem puerile.
About the year 1868 a war party of Osages made a raid on the aboriginal inhabitants of the county and murdered and scalped several squaws who were chopping wood near the Blue.
When the bottom of the kettle gave way as a result of the many thumpings of the wedge, a new plan was devised--that of chopping a hole in a log and making a crude wooden kettle which better stood the blows of the wedge.
Make forcemeat balls by chopping a large cup of meat very fine; season with a saltspoonful each of pepper and thyme; mix in the yolk of a raw egg; make into little balls the size of a hickory-nut, and fry brown in a little butter.
Now cut part of the jelly into rounds with a pepper-box top or a small star-cutter, and arrange around the mold, chopping the rest and piling about the edge, so that the inner platter or stand is completely concealed.
In the morning Roos made his "camp shots," which consisted principally of the farmer chopping cordwood on the main deck, building a fire in the galley stove and cooking breakfast.
On this conglomeration of submarine breakers the cloven waves leap and foam--in calm weather, a chopping sea; in storms, a chaos.
At night, however, it came on to blow again, and by next morning we were once more hove-to with more sea, and the wind chopping about and making it break in a far more dangerous way than it had done on the previous day.
Claus Pieper the peasant stood in his yard chopping wood, and on seeing me he flung the axe out of his hand so hastily that it stuck in the ground, and he ran towards the pig-stye, making the sign of the cross.
It is well known that weight is an essential quality in all chopping instruments, and the deficiency of iron has therefore to be made up with wood.
It has taken us twelve hours to clear the intricate, and gusty approaches to Manilla Bay, the wind, occasionally meeting us with such force, accompanied by such a chopping sea, that we sometimes made no progress at all.
I have heard it described as chopping with one foot in the grave and other on a bit of orange peel; but it's not quite that bad.
The corn is splendid in the old elm lot, and then the Major has been chopping down your old sugar camp, where we worked when you came home from old Hewitt's.
Defn: A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a block of wood, for various domestic uses, as in making bread, chopping meat, etc.
Chopping and changing I can not commend, With thief or his marrow, for fear of ill end.
I guess we could, but there's two concerned bush ranchers just started their chopping over yonder.
I'll do any chopping that's wanted, and be glad when I get you out of this," he said.
Chopping trees, quarrying rock, and following other useful occupations of the kind.
He would show him a score of things such as go to make good scouts, and teach him how to "hit the knot squarely in the centre," when chopping wood, to begin with.
And now, there's one great lesson for you in chopping wood, just as there is for every beginner.
The afternoon was hot and still, and she could hear Forster and his hired man chopping in the bush.
I want you to think of the oat crops cut green and half-grown, and the men who raised them mending their clothes with flour-bags and measuring out their groceries by the cent's worth, after spending half a lifetime chopping out the ranch.
The trail had been made by lumbermen or prospectors, who had provided a bridge by chopping a big fir so that it fell across the chasm.
If he hadn't taken me up, I might have been chopping trees in the snow, instead of enjoying a holiday in England and, to emphasize the contrast, staying at a house like this.
And loud above this inward din he heard the sound, so well remembered, as of an axe striking repeatedly against a tree, the terrible chopping noises of a bull-moose, not two hundred yards away.
Luckily, the axe was lying by me, just where I had tossed it down after chopping the last heap of logs.
The boys never doubted it; though the responding sound they caught was only a repetition of that far-away chopping noise, which resembled the heavy thud of an axe against wood.
A tree he was chopping had by some means twisted around in falling, so that the settler was caught under the heavy limbs.
Bob did not try to discourage him, for he knew that when some of this enthusiasm had died away his turn at the chopping would arrive.
But I didn't get nothing in the wood-chopping contest," Gus complained.
His heavy cleavers with their hickory handles, his meat saws, hog hooks, scrapers, chopping block and sausage machine were the best that money could buy.
Next we come to the chopping block, an old log on which we chopped firewood into the right size.
The last day of our chopping was colder than ever.
These were made by cutting down a tree or clearing away the undergrowth here and there, and "blazing" the trees along the passage by chopping off a portion of the bark as high as a man could reach with an axe.
At first he found employment chopping up old wood for use in stoves.
Father commenced chopping cord-wood and he said I could draw it as fast as he could chop it.
Father and I continued our chopping until we connected the two clearings.
Then he knows something of the anxieties and hardships of a life in the woods: the walking, the chopping and sweating, the running and the dodging like Indians behind trees.
At such times, when we went to our chopping or work, we watched them, to see which way they went, and listened to the bell after they were out of sight in order that we might know which way to go after them if they didn't return.
Meanwhile the mouse ran on and on until he arrived at another country, where he saw a grain merchant chopping up sugar-canes; only as he had no blanket or cloth to lay the canes on, he chopped them up on the ground, and so they got dirty.
When he had finishedchopping up his sugar-canes, he gave it back to the mouse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chopping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
