At night, us sat round de fire sometimes and de women sew and knit and de men whittle and told things.
Illustration: Yach Stringfellow] "In de long winter days de men sat round de fire and whittle wood and make butter paddles and troughs for de pigs and sich, and ax handles and hoe handles and box traps and figure-four traps.
Whittle shawl, a kind of fine woolen shawl, originally and especially a white one.
LINK [giving a final whittle to the yoke-collar thong].
Pray, are you allowed, in consideration of your nationality, towhittle in Harrow School?
Since the disappearance of the bagpipe, pipe and tabour (called whittle and dub) have been, even within the memory of living men, the accepted instruments wherewith to make music and beat time for the Morris.
Bradford took a leisurely minute to whittle a chewing cube from his pocket plug of hard-times tobacco.
Gridley put a foot on the hub of the buckboard wheel and began to whittle a match with a penknife that was as keen as a razor.
Some are so wedded to it from long custom, that if they have not a piece of stick to cut, they will whittle the backs of the chairs, or any thing within their reach.
A yankee shewn into a room to await the arrival of another, has been known to whittle away nearly the whole of the mantle-piece.
Lawyers in court whittle away at the table before them; and judges will cut through their own bench.
He brought it back and began to whittle shavings all over the hardwood floor of Cotterell Hall.
He had seen men down on the Barmouth docks whittle shavings for hours, and he had copied the habit.
Hard by, a flesher on a block had laid his whittle down: Virginius caught the whittle up, and hid it in his gown.
Tug, just shovel the drifted snow out of the house, or pack it between the bobs under the boat, while I whittle some kindling.
I should think that would answer first-rate," said Tug, "but you had better whittle out your oak stick first.
I remember his showing me a whittle with a crack in it where it had been broken over the head of a reveller by a drunken taborer.
I do not know when playing the "whittle and dub" (as they were called) became extinct as a village art.
I carried small parts of it in my pocket to whittle at when I was out at work on the farm, using every spare or stolen moment within reach without father's knowing anything about it.
This he did repeatedly, and evidently seemed a little proud of my ability to invent and whittle such a thing, though careful to give no encouragement for anything more of the kind in future.
Whittle has been engaged in evangelistic work, giving it all his time, talents and energy.
There were complaints about the water, but these appear to have been chiefly of the peaty colour or flavour, which came from the Whittle Dean part of the mixture.
Gateshead was also supplied by the mains of the Whittle Dean Company.
Let the lower end of the stem extend about four inches below the branches and whittle it down to fit in the hole in the distaff-arm.
Whittle the little hatchet from a piece of wood, cover it with glue, then with sand.
The fairies can readilywhittle or saw out a wooden mining shovel from a shingle or thin box-lid.
Get a piece of nice soft pine 1½ inches in diameter and 10 inches long, and whittleit out to the shape shown in Fig.
The first thing to do is to make the hull; and the easiest way to build one that is light, strong, and watertight is to whittle out, or have sawed out, two tapering pieces of wood as shown at A and B in Fig.
There was nothing remotely resembling a spoon in the camp or the boat, but Dick was handy with his jackknife, and it did not take him long to whittle out a long-handled wooden ladle with which to do the basting.
He vouchsafed no reply, but threw himself down under a scarlet maple and began to whittle a stick, while I went on with my story.
A man who will deliberately choose to whittle lead-pencils for chipmunks and write a book about a moist sand-pile like Cape Cod arouses no sympathy in me.
She had unconsciously posed it, while working the key of the telegraphic instrument under the jack-knife sculptor's eyes, and there had been ample time for him to whittle a fac-simile into the birch.
Oh, I will treat you like two gentlemen--so politely;" and Gerald began to again nonchalantly whittle the birchen pole.
Babes have to fret and cry some, makes them grow," offered the young father who continued to whittle a butter bowl long promised.
For Daniel couldwhittle a broom for her while he sat meditating aloud on his past adventures.
Whittle Harvey, who was a power in his party and among the London cabbies--to whom the London cabby owes his badge V.
Whittle 'Arvey," an etymology at any rate not worse than that of the savant who in his wisdom derived gherkin from Jeremiah King.
