Why, you can make many, many times as much money whittling jack-knife toys as you could make sawing wood!
Peter came back from his wood-sawing one evening and found Buddy astride a rocking-horse.
You'd come up here to-morrow and do a dollar's worth of wood sawing for eighteen cents' worth of eggs, and then give the eggs to the first tramp that asked you.
The Iowa side offered opportunities for corn-husking and wood-sawing and other odd jobs such as necessity sometimes drove Peter to seek.
For instance, when Jonas is sawing wood with my saw, the saw is a bailment from me to him; it remains my property; but he is to use it for a specific purpose, and then return it to my possession.
Neither did he hear any sound of saws sawing timber, or the men shouting to their horses.
All around were woodcutters, some busy sawing timber, some marking the tall forest trees, others carting huge logs and piling them at a little distance.
The men selected by the commandant of the fort were well used to handle the ax; before dusk, many trees had been felled, and were ready for sawing into lengths.
All the while he was sawingaway as if his very life depended upon bringing the ordeal to a successful termination; and possibly Giraffe thought it did.
Giraffe had been working away at his fire-making business pretty much all of the evening, and Bumpus had watched him for a while; but growing tired of seeing the other sawing away as if for dear life, he had finally laughed, and turned away.
They passed on, and told everybody that Henry Speny was down at the Charity Woodyard sawing wood for his food.
You can get two meals and a bed forsawing one-sixteenth of a cord of wood.
The men selected by the commandant of the fort were well used to handle the axe; before dusk, many trees had been felled, and were ready for sawing into lengths.
His defects were a woolly voice and a habit ofsawing the air.
Men who had swooned came to themselves at the touch of a notched bladesawing off a limb;--and they still slew, ferociously and needlessly, to sate their fury.
Two rollers, made by sawingpieces off a broomstick, are taken of sufficient width to carry your stencil easily, and these are fixed as shown in Fig.
An accurate ear will soon enable its possessor to imitate sounds, such as the barking of dogs, sawing wood, etc.
This can be done easily by first drilling a small hole, about an eighth of an inch in diameter, near one corner, and then putting a fretwork saw through it and fixing it in the frame, and sawing the metal away just inside the lines.
Then the gardener monk went out into the garden again and continued to trim off the broken branches, sawing these and cutting those, and thinking all the while about his patient in the cell.
The Indian, "Quinaby," always contracted the sawing of the wood at $2.
He had a monopoly on the wood-sawing business for Mr. Waldo, Wesley Shannon, and other old pioneers.
When I got there the foundation wasn't even begun, and we had a bad time getting laborers, I put in the first day sitting on the ice sawing off spiles.
A good many people think there's nothing in this kind of work but just sawing wood and making money for somebody up in Minneapolis.
Sawing the back of a book to make grooves in which the bands will rest when the book is sewed.
Each evening, from the opening in September until closing time in June, he was at his post, sawing away like the machine he was and as devoid of sentiment.
Let Mona learn to play on that," she had said when Jess first began to teach Mona the art of the bowstrings, "it's more graceful for a girl to do that than sawing across a fiddle stuck under her chin.
Now Jonas approved it very much, but told him that he had better smooth it a little more with his knife before sawing it off.
After he had sawed off one piece, he was going to split it up, but then he reflected that it would be more systematic and workmanlike to finish his sawing first.
Just then, down came the great branch which his father had been sawing off, falling from its place on the tree to the ground.
There was just as much chance of getting out of there till Mr. Hamilcar Janes let us out as there would be of sawing a bar of steel with a chunk of cheese.
With the words he was sawing away busily at the Manila with a fearsome knife he had invested in as part of a sailor's outfit.
Some weresawing stone, some cutting stone, and others breaking stone.
My labor was sawing stone; my food was coarse corn bread and beef shanks and cows heads with pot liquor, and a very scanty allowance of that.
My dear niece," said Miss Linn, slowly and impressively, "sawing wood is not a fitting employment for a little girl who wants to be a lady when she grows up.
It appeared that “Flintergill” had been sawing off the bough on which he was standing.
Still another anecdote says that “Flintergill” was one day seen up a tree sawing off one of the branches.
FANCY WOOD, For Scroll Sawing at the lowest market rate, sent by express or freight to any part of the country on receipt of the price.
It is the greatest mechanical invention in the art of Bracket Sawing ever produced.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sawing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
