You were all too busy making whittles for the lazy crape-men of Oxford, bouncing priests, whose eyes were so closed up with fat, that they could not see Destruction till she had them by the throat.
One hunter whittles the willow sticks that are to make the camp fire.
But when his mind grasps the solution of the problem, when the plan is formed, he instantly reverses the stick, and whittles from himself.
It has been observed that Grant whittles two ways--from and towards his body.
When he is maturing a plan, solving a problem involved in his operations, he whittles towards himself, as if to concentrate within him some invisible magnetism floating in the air around him.
He climbed on the wall of the churchyard and looked down, standing in the very spot which had been occupied by the Whittles an hour before.
The Hailey Compton school children, who might have found amusement in helping their elder sisters to hold the horse or in watching the Whittles waving the signal flag, preferred to gather at the mouth of the cave.
Gladys undertook to do this and promised to stand waving her arms in full view of the Whittles when the time came for the arrival of the boat.
The deadening tyranny of a hundred years of law and order had tamed and cowed the Bunces and Whittles of to-day, but deep down in them was the old spirit.
He whittles it to a nicety in the regular top shape or any variation of it that he chooses, so long as he can coax and whip it into spinning and humming and singing.
The Indian cuts down slender, limbless ones and splits them into convenient lengths, then whittles them flat, like boards, about two to four inches wide, and seasons them before they are fully finished.
In the meantime the husband whittles out his bolo sheath or his lance shaft, or occasionally goes off on a fishing expedition or a hunt, if the omens are good.
I thought, Dick," said Dave, "only Sam Whittles was here.
They bear a bundle of roots, whose thick, pink hide mother whittles off with the butcher-knife and sets to steep.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whittles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
