I noticed yesterday that he had whittled up his last stick.
At length, however, it was accomplished, and Bill crept in and whittled a pile of fine shavings.
He warmed the remaining half-can of salmon and whittled at his nubbin of bread.
They werewhittled of wood and shaped like lemons with sharper points.
Out came the magic knife and he whittled away at the little sticks; whittled and whistled and smiled all the time.
Then he took the white bits of wood which had been under the bark and he whittled away at the ends.
And as the Toyman whittled sometimes he whistled, and sometimes he sang a funny song in a funny voice.
So they sent a person to get these, who brought them, and Ee-ee-toy whittled them so that they had sharp points.
He first whittled out a cylinder, which exactly fitted the circular hole; then he cut it off, so that its length should be the same as the diameter of the square (see Fig.
The rudder can be whittled from a thin piece of wood, in the shape shown in the figure; the upper part or head is round, and passes up through a hole in the overhang.
We whittled away for over an hour, now and again receiving a little encouragement from the captain, who greatly enjoyed our successive failures.
We thought it over, and tried to study it out; we even took out our jackknives and whittled away at an old broken thole-pin which lay in the bottom of the boat.
The lounging police slip down from their reclining attitudes on the heel-scraped and whittled window-sills.
Our chessmen we had whittled out of soft white pine with our jack-knives.
It varied little, except that he occasionally sawed or whittled instead of painted, or, less occasionally still, boxed some of his wares for shipment.
She wanted a sail for that shingle craft I whittled out for her.
This has a roughly whittled shaft, of spruce, 211/2 inches long, armed at one end with three prongs.
The rod is a roughly whittled splinter of California redwood, 141/2 inches long.
A man one day caught one of these, and whittled out a little box of wood, in which he shut the insect up and tied it up with a shred of sinew, telling Capt.
This shows that the owner attached considerable value to the object, or he would not have taken the trouble to mend it when another could have been so easily whittled out.
This mask seems to have been whittled out of the bottom of an old meat tray, and has a string of whalebone.
For the same reason he dried and carefully preserved in a little box whittled out of a block of wood and tied up with sinew a little fresh-water sculpin (Cottus quadricornis), which he had caught at Kulugrua (No.
The head is of light bluish gray pectolite, and is lashed with a three-ply braid of reindeer sinew to a haft of some soft coniferous wood, probably spruce, rather smoothly whittled out and soiled by handling.
The last is a foot long, and like the one figured is roughly whittled out of the bottom of an old meat tray.
It is simply a rough willow stick, slightly whittled into shape, split and hollowed out like a pipestem.
Each player is provided with a stick about two feet in length; canes or wands may be used as a substitute, but the shorter sticks are better; they may be whittled from branches or bits of wood, and should not be pointed at the ends.
This game is played with a wooden dart about eight inches long, whittled out of wood about the size of a broomstick, pointed abruptly at one end, and sloping gradually to the other.
After several such upsets, I cut a bough from a tree, whittled a toothpick point to it, and prodded Mac to proper speed, while I walked behind and with a string steadied the top-heavy load of freight.
As he spoke, he sat down near the board and whittled a stick, now and then eyeing Coonskin with overdue interest.
They had rolled out a long peeled log on which they lounged while they whittledand talked.
The model is about eighteen or twenty inches long, and looks as if it had been whittled with a knife out of a shingle and a cigar box.
He did not come on board the boat at all, but sat and whittled the head of the post until we backed out and left him out of sight behind.
He found a place sheltered from the wind, whittled many shavings from dead wood, and used his flint and steel until his hands ached, coaxing forth the elusive sparks and trying to make them ignite the wood.
Henry slid forward, recovered a long dead stick, and rapidly whittled from it a lot of shavings.
Crouching in the best shelter that the hanging cliff furnished, he rapidly whittled shavings from the dead wood, until he had formed a heap close to the stony wall.
Its apex is as sharp and round as a well-whittled pencil.
Tom had found Dick there working at his cross, and, after a simple good-morning, had sat down beside him and whittled in silence upon another bit of wood until the doctor appeared on his way to Tracy Park.
There the old man, taking out his knife, whittled a plug and wrapped round it his old red handkerchief.
Hunters had occupied the camp not long before; but they had left scarcely a sliver of anything dry or combustible inside it; they had even whittled and shaved the old bunk beam and plank table in order to get kindlings.
This was spear-shaped, with a barb whittled in it, after the style of a fish-hook, so that a fish once impaled thereon could not work off with the action of the water.
Whereupon, Captain Sam, having whittled the ends of the pieces of spruce down so they would fit snugly into the holes he had made, bent them and inserted the ends in the holes of the three strips of board.
Mrs. Jervis had no empty spool, but she took the largest one she had, wound off the thread on a card, and gave it to him, and he whittled out a beautiful top.
Beside her Mary Ann Martha held a small yellow bowl and made futile dabs with a spoon she had herself whittled from a bit of shingle, trying to get beans into it.
He whittled silently for a time, then as he looked up his glance fell on the stagecoach in the yard, and he turned from it to Jack Hicks.
If the design is to be worked out in line, a chisel, like that illustrated in D (page 285), may be whittled from a pine stick.
Illustration: Simple tools used in pottery] Of the modelling tools needed some can bewhittled from hard wood.
These were rounded to fit the face and a place whittled out for the nose to fit into.
Bob and Ed each took an axe to cut into suitable lengths some of the plentiful dead wood lying right to hand, while Dick whittled some shavings and started the fire.
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