The woodman was visibly commoved, but answered nothing.
All that while, the woodman continued to observe her furtively, many low thoughts of fear and greed contending in his eyes.
The woodman was still staring at his guest; at the wreck of the rich dress, the bare arms, the bedraggled laces and the gems.
Nothing, perhaps, could better show the confidence in himself and weapon than the inattention which the native-born woodman usually exhibits to these points.
Finally, the poorwoodman came to understand that seven generations had passed since he bade farewell to his dear ones in the early morning.
One day the woodman wandered farther than usual into the forest.
For many hours the poor woodman tried in vain to reach his home.
But it was not this which caused the woodman to stand spellbound.
There is saffron in the khichri,' remarked the woodman casually.
Away went the woodman in great glee to tell his wife how the bear had agreed to bring half a ton of wood in return for a share of the khichri.
So the woodman and his wife got the khichri, the wood, and the coveted pears, but the poor bear got nothing but a very bad stomach-ache from eating unripe fruit.
Perhaps; if it was a very big load,' answered the woodman craftily.
So she bade her servant inquire if the woodman had anything else to sell, and he replied that he had a wonderful flying palanquin, which he would show to the Princess, if she wished it, when she walked in the garden at evening.
The woodman was for gobbling it up as soon as ever it was ready.
Illustration: The woodman talking to the bear] 'Do you think your wife would give me some too, if I brought her a bundle of wood?
The deed is done: the Tree is low That stood so long and firm; The Woodman and his axe are gone, His toil has found its term; And where he wrought the speckled Thrush Securely hunts the worm.
An universal silence reigns In rugged bark or peel, Except that very trunk which rings Beneath the biting steel-- Meanwhile the Woodman plies his axe With unrelenting zeal!
The woodman rims the bark near the foot of the tree, and again six feet above, and slashes it perpendicularly; then, with a blunt stick, he crowds off this thick hide exactly as an ox is skinned.
The Scarecrow is solid gold, and so is Tiktok; but I don't exactly know what the Tin Woodman is, because the Nome King said he had been transformed into something funny.
Then magnificent gold medals set with precious stones were presented to each of the twenty-six officers; and the Tin Woodman was given a new axe studded with diamonds; and the Scarecrow received a silver jar of complexion powder.
Then the Tin Woodman embraced her--very gently, for he knew his tin arms might hurt her if he squeezed too roughly.
I would be quite content," said the Scarecrow to Tiktok, "were only the Tin Woodman with us.
Yet the Tin Woodman did not appear to them, nor could they imagine which among the thousands of ornaments was their transformed friend.
Then came the Scarecrow on the Sawhorse, with the Tin Woodman and Tiktok marching side by side just behind him.
The Fate of the Tin Woodman [Illustration] Dorothy obeyed.
The Tin Woodman at once pursued his army and cried "halt!
Why, your impossible stories about animals that can talk, and a tin woodman who is alive, and a scarecrow who can think.
That was an idea for the Tin Woodman to follow, and he also crossed in safety while the great hammer was in the air.
Once," said Dorothy, "I knew a man made out of tin, who was a woodman named Nick Chopper.
While doing this she told them now useful Tiktok had been to her, and both the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman shook hands with the machine once more and thanked him for protecting their friend.
The Tin Woodman might carry it with his axe and hatch it; but after all I may as well keep it myself for a souvenir.
A woodman hath come hither but now, having found in the forest Messire Bertrand's hunting-knife lying by a slain wolf; but of my young lord himself saw he nought!
About this time young Woodman was laid up in the bedroom at the top of the house, and Harry had to keep the fire in and the kettle steaming all night.
Harry liked Woodman the best of the boys, partly because he had a variety of complaints but never uttered one.
Woodman shut his book, keeping, however, a finger in the place, and got up awkwardly.
Harry loved a word of praise from anybody, like many a better man, and Woodman was as much above the average boy in sense of humour as he was below him in the ordinary endowments.
So Woodman and he walked to the far side of the ground, and only watched the game for a few minutes, from a safe distance; yet it left as vivid an impression in Harry's mind as the finest cricket he had ever seen at Lord's.
Harry used to feel sorry for little Woodman on these occasions.
The new master was much too human, and perhaps as much too unsuited by temperament for his work, not to have favourites from the first, and Woodman and Gifford were their names.
It was Harry's first sight of Woodman since the scene in the schoolroom, and it was destined to be his last in life.
Woodman was apparently fast asleep, but, on being questioned, he won Harry's heart by confessing without hesitation or excuse.
Harry, smiling; and Woodman was back on the floor and aboard his whaler before the new master realised that this was hardly the way in which he had been instructed to treat the boy who was always reading.
Woodman made his reappearance in the upper schoolroom.
After a time the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman came along and sat beneath the tree, paying no heed to the mutterings of the gray dove.
As long as you care to read them I shall try to write them, and I've an idea that the next one will relate some startling adventures of the "Tin Woodman of Oz" and his comrades.
So the Emperor of the Winkies--who is the Tin Woodman and has a very tender tin heart--punished me by denying me any communication with beasts, birds or fishes.
The Tin Woodman took a small oilcan from his tin pocket and carefully oiled his tin joints with it.
And just then the Tin Woodman discovered Cayke's dishpan, which was on the ground quite near to him.
The old woodman replied, 'It is true that my welfare and advantage certainly consist in doing so, but who knows how he will treat thee; if he should put thee to death, then what shall I do?
FIRST KNOWN WHEN LOST I NEVER had noticed it until 'Twas gone,--the narrow copse Where now the woodman lops The last of the willows with his bill.
A herd of deer were grazing quietly just before me, a woodman was eating his dinner in the shadow of an oak; but it was not upon deer or woodman that I looked, but at the house that stared at me across the undulating sea of grass.
Shalt thou be ever a woodman in these thickets, and a follower of Jack of the Tofts?
The next day Captain Ellerey, a band of horsemen with him, meets a woodman in the forest toward Breslen, and by him sends me word that my servant is gradually starving behind his cellar door, of which the woodman gives my the key.
He is the poet who entreated the woodmanto 'spare that tree.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "woodman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: backwoodsman; cracker; forester; frontiersman; mountaineer; piny; ranger; woodsman
