He declined a proffered present of tobacco, bought a case of stick tobacco from Van Horn, paying him five pounds for it, and insisted on having it sawed open so that he could fill his pipe.
Having sawed across the board at both ends, it is pried out with a chisel as shown.
Since each pole on a properly constructed line is sawed to the right length and carefully shaped before it is finally inserted in the ground, it is necessary that the holes be dug to as nearly the required depth as possible.
Chestnut, which can be readily sawed and hewed is a very good material for smaller poles.
To remedy this, a couple of gun-barrels had been sawed off and inserted in the hearth, one on each side of the fire place, in the hope that the air from the room below might help to carry the smoke into its proper place, the chimney.
The blade is a long, flat, thin piece of whalebone wedged between the two psarts of the haft, which has been sawed lengthwise for 61/2 inches to receive it.
The haft is a piece sawed out of the beam of an antler, and has a cleft sawed in one end to receive the short broad tang of the blade.
The hilt, as before, is roughly sawed from the solid head of the bone.
There followed days in which hesawed wood and enjoyed his afternoon refreshment, alternating with days in which he was idle and did without it.
A huge pile of wood had been dumped in the yard, which was all to be sawed and split.
Presently he began again andsawed a few inches into the wood; but he grew unbearably warm and stopped to take off his coat.
That meant that the block was sawed through and the claw would soon appear--empty.
The lumber was sawed at Kirkpatrick's mill, a mile and a half from the shanty.
It is certain, however, that the planks for the boat built by Abe and his friends at the mouth of Spring Creek were sawed at the mill of a Mr. Kirkpatrick.
At length, in the first days of October, the Sparrows died; and Thomas Lincoln sawed up his green lumber, and made rough boxes to enclose the mortal remains of his wife's two best and oldest friends.
When at home, he chopped and sawed all the wood that was used in his house.
A considerable amount of lumber sawedby the Indians remained, and this was split up into stakes about two inches square.
She plowed and hoed the crops in the summer and spring, and in the winter she sawed and cut cord wood just like a man.
I remember one time we put on a new roof, and de niggers hauled up de cypress logs and sawed dem and frowed out de clapboards by hand.
Immense piles of sawed and cut firewood are being stored close at hand.
Patiently, silently they sawed and chopped, then carried the wood into the chilly cabin; while one lit the lamp and went for a sack of ice, the other kindled a fire.
After they hadsawed for a while Jerry cried: "Hey!
It seemed to me my head would surely be sawedor chopped to pieces.
When Mother sawed I was not afraid, but when Father began I was in terror, for Father, who is so awfully clever with his head, is so unpractical with his hands that he can't even drive a nail straight.
No, ma'am, for there is a load of good wood at your door, which is now being sawed for your benefit.
All of costly stones, which were sawed by a certain rule and measure, both within and without: from the foundation to the top of the walls, and without, unto the great court.
It had been sawed three parts through in case of accidents, but it upset the pony nevertheless, and he blundered into another, who blundered into the left-hand post, and then there was confusion and dust and wood.
Passing thence swiftly to the back of the seat, and reaching between the splines, I sawed through the silk-faced front on the left-hand side of the coat till the two cuts joined.
New ice, an inch or two thick, or even six or eight inches thick, might have been sawed through; and a passage cut even for a league, should it be necessary.
The distance that had been sawed through to make the channel just named, did not exceed a hundred yards.
I have sawed the bars of your window almost through at the bottom.
A quick, mighty effort, and the sawed iron snapped noiselessly, and bent outward and upward.
When I went back to that college as its president it was not remembered against me that I had sawed wood or driven a plough.
The lath are sawed across in the middle, the lumber into lengths of fourteen inches.
It was sawed and with considerable labor made into a frame and proved quite satisfactory.
Large ones are sawed lengthwise for door posts and window frames.
While this was being finished, Tom and Hank marked off and sawed the log lengths, paying due attention to the necessity of avoiding knots, forks, and rotten places.
The saw was fifty-five feet long, and sawed planks from a pine log three feet thick, at the rate of sixty superficial feet per minute.
The trunks were hauled to the mills and sawed into planks of suitable thickness by gang-saws.
Steam First Drew Coal, then Sawed Wood and then Stone.
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