| 单词 | cordwood |
| 例句 | They strip •out the backseats and stack the migrants like cordwood, one on top of the other. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z They had been packed in, and now were being tossed ashore, like so much cordwood. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z High dune grass hid the paths up to the houses—in fact, almost hid the chopping block one man was using to split his cordwood. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Ishmael saw where she had worked with the wheelbarrow at bringing cordwood from the shed to the kitchen door; there were splinters around the wood block where she’d cut kindling. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z ‘We are fighting, partly, for just that. Because a man is a private is no reason he should be treated like cordwood.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the screen marched old photos of Nazi concentration camp victims, corpses stacked like cordwood, and dead-eyed survivors. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They drink to much, quite often during the day, to cope with crises stacking atop one another like cordwood. "Dead to Me" is the ideal fantasy for being mated in captivity 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Porthole windows, echoing the cordwood, float like soap bubbles along two of the facades. The Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership in Kalamazoo 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z A heap of bacon stacked like cordwood attests to the popularity of those excellent rashers: rigid, smoky and peppery. In Ballard, burgers meet fish and chips for a happy 'fast-food' meal 2012-07-27T16:22:03Z I’m reminded of a project by Gang a decade ago, just before Gilder got underway: a small social justice center at Kalamazoo College in Michigan that involves concave facades with cordwood masonry and porthole windows. Wonder and Awe in Natural History’s New Wing. Butterflies, Too. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z When New Yorkers hear the word brisket these days, they tend to think of brick pits, stacks of cordwood, neon Shiner Beers signs, and Willie and Waylon singing in the background. Where Pastrami on Rye Rubs Elbows With Falafel and Baklava 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z A three-foot pile of dry cordwood sat in a campsite a few feet from the river. On a Canoe Trip Along the U.S.-Canada Border, Solitude and Shooting Stars 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z That history, lending romance to traditions of participatory democracy, was one reason Ms. Gang inclined toward cordwood masonry, along with the beauty and performance of the wood, which, unprocessed, retains and collects carbon. The Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership in Kalamazoo 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z It feels good to see those big Chinook, stacked in the windows like cordwood, Mahovlich said. Big salmon run at Seattle’s Ballard Locks is wowing visitors 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z “They were in there like cordwood,” he said. Portraits from inside the wild, messy, overheating and confounding economy of 2021 There are places in Iowa where old turbines are just stacked like cordwood on vacant land. Wyoming coal mines eyed for disposal of old windmill parts 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z “For my part, I’ll be slinging enough hot lead to stack you commies up like cordwood,” he wrote. Dozens charged in Capitol riots spewed extremist rhetoric 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z “For my part, I’ll be slinging enough hot lead to stack you commies up like cordwood,” he wrote. Dozens charged in Capitol riots spewed extremist rhetoric 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z “But this president seems to pile them up like cordwood and take joy in it.” A President Whose Words Have Not Aged Well 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z “I saw dead cows stacked up like cordwood,” Mr. Pfaff said. ‘Not as Wisconsin Nice as We Used to Be’: The Divisions in Dairyland 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z After loggers felled the large trees, smaller ones became fuel for locomotives, and the eastern slopes of the Sierra are so dry that there are still stacks of cordwood left over from the eighteen-eighties. A Trailblazing Plan to Fight California Wildfires 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z During that protest, community members built a cordwood house and a cabin on the land in hopes of hindering the development, only to watch as their work was bulldozed and members slapped with trespassing charges. 'Our land is our home': Canadians build tiny homes in bid to thwart pipeline 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z He piled up statistical accomplishments like cordwood: Eight All-Pro sections, 12 Pro Bowls, 20 years in the league. Paul Tagliabue Yearns for Hall of Fame, but Concussions Tarnish Legacy 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Then gasoline became cheap and hybrids began stacking up like so much cordwood on dealership lots. Video Review: Ford Fusion Hybrid Combines Savings and Style 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Both men remember the sickening smell of bodies mixed with sulfur and the sight of dead Marines, “stacked like cordwood,” as Tedder puts it. 2 Gastonia men recall fighting to survive Iwo Jima 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z One witness recalled seeing coffins stacked “like cordwood,” according to a history of the cemetery by Robert M. Poole. Arlington Cemetery commemorates 150 years as the nation’s military burial ground Over the years, Mr. Dershowitz and his partners piled up their accusations like so much cordwood. Gotham: After Seeing His Family Crumble, Vindicated Whistle-Blower Has Little to Smile About 2014-03-11T01:12:59Z In a recent evacuation with a possible onboard fire at a U.S. airline, attendants took bags from exiting passengers and stacked them in a galley like cordwood, said Ms. Nelson, a United Airlines flight attendant. Baggage-Toting Fliers Threaten Emergency Evacuations 2013-07-09T01:49:31Z Wutty hurried us along until we came across hundreds of four-foot lengths of yellow vine stacked like cordwood near a truck. Death of a Forester 2012-08-27T05:00:00Z The goats and heroes stacked up like cordwood after the Nationals had defeated the Milwaukee Brewers, 11-10, in 11 zany innings. Morning pixels: The Nats are tied for MLB’s best record 2012-07-30T13:09:05Z The goats and heroes stacked up like cordwood after the Nationals had defeated the Milwaukee Brewers, 11-10, in a zany conclusion to a series the Nationals took three games to one. Nationals vs. Brewers: Washington wins a wild one in Milwaukee, 11-10, in 11 innings 2012-07-29T22:58:00Z Their particular — and, frankly, peculiar — building method is called cordwood masonry. Cordwood Masonry Gains New Fans 2012-07-19T02:17:15Z Against the Colorado Rockies’ beleaguered pitching staff, they stacked hits and homers like cordwood. Nationals vs. Rockies: Washington sets high with 21 hits; Gio Gonzalez gets 10th win 2012-06-27T04:21:32Z When we got down to the platform where the first balcony opens it seemed to me that people were stacked up like cordwood. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z Sometimes barricades of cordwood were built hastily on the stairs or across the entrance to one of the halls. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z He was a thrifty farmer for his times, and quite an extensive dealer in cordwood and hoppoles. Memoirs of Mrs. Rebecca Steward 2011-12-24T03:07:54.433Z A cordwood wall looks the same inside and out: the logs go all the way through. Cordwood Masonry Gains New Fans 2012-07-19T02:17:15Z When you have helped Frank up, you can take the extra team and haul in the cordwood. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z Cracked on the head with a length of cordwood while swimming. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z They fell and strip hemlock trunks and remove the bark in sheets, which are piled to dry and be measured like cordwood, and later shipped to the tanneries. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z By replacing the log bunk with a platform the truck can take out all the smaller marketable material, such as shingle bolts, poles and cordwood. Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 2011-09-10T02:00:27.273Z For most cordwood practitioners, Mr. Roy said, “it’s a means of building the kind of house they want for an affordable price.” Cordwood Masonry Gains New Fans 2012-07-19T02:17:15Z Harding was kept fully occupied; for there was cordwood to be cut, there were building logs to be got ready, and the fitting up of the new house kept him busy at his carpenter's bench. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z After filling in the raft proper with solid logs of spruce and cedar, he began heaping cordwood upon it. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z The game and timber on a reservation should be regarded as Government property, just as are the mules and the cordwood at an army post. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z A great many other uses of the motor truck for logging and scientific forest utilization are being recognized, as example, for transporting pulpwood, veneer stock, cordwood, rosin and turpentine, and other forest products. Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 2011-09-10T02:00:27.273Z If you can manage the labor yourself, and shop for supplies in the Dumpster, a new cordwood home can be built for just $20 a square foot, he said. Cordwood Masonry Gains New Fans 2012-07-19T02:17:15Z In the winter, and winters were very cold in the Neck then, she went into the woods and cut enough cordwood to keep them warm. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z The very worst of them—haughty-headed combers that would have sent the skiff sky-rocketing—simply dissolved against the logs and died in hissing anguish in the tangle of cordwood. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z Upon his arrival at Oregon City in 1853 he took a job of cutting cordwood, which lasted through the winter. The Mountains of Oregon 2011-07-17T02:00:38.297Z Good straight trunks of oak and chestnut are put aside for special uses; the rest of the larger stuff is cut into cordwood lengths of four feet. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z Mr. Roy’s proselytizing aside, something about the look and economy of cordwood seems to be making a few new converts. Cordwood Masonry Gains New Fans 2012-07-19T02:17:15Z Farther inland men turned to the forests where they cut cordwood and railroad ties. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z That was when he found that his old denim jacket had gone over with the cordwood. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z The road into which she ventured was merely a track leading into a place where cordwood had been cut. The Corner House Girls' Odd Find Where they made it, and What the Strange Discovery led to 2011-05-31T02:00:34.950Z The long rows of cordwood for cooking and heating were to be seen on any post of the period. Hermann Stieffel, Soldier Artist of the West 2011-05-10T02:01:00.297Z William H. Tishler, a professor emeritus of landscape architecture at the University of Wisconsin, has traced some of the earliest cordwood structures back to the hardscrabble settlements of the mid-to-late 19th century. Cordwood Masonry Gains New Fans 2012-07-19T02:17:15Z It was not the opportunity to swindle a widow out of her homestead which tempted us, nor even the cordwood, but a single sentence almost at the bottom of the description. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z There was plenty of cordwood left, and the galley stove was in good condition. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z I hoisted a length of cordwood upon my shoulder and passed aboard. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z He started for the steamer, and when about half way on the dock two men stepped from behind a pile of cordwood and both fired their revolvers at once, both bullets taking effect. A Child of the Sea; and Life Among the Mormons 2010-12-30T03:00:27.140Z This theory is fitting, to the extent that cordwood building can seem to progress in geologic time. Cordwood Masonry Gains New Fans 2012-07-19T02:17:15Z At the BWP Bats factory, piles of billets 37 inches long and 2¾ inches in diameter lie stacked like cordwood. BWP Bats, a Boutique Bat Maker in Pennsylvania, Takes Its Swings 2010-03-23T20:40:00Z The prevailing formation is that of upended cordwood, but there are endless weird stratifications and lamiations, with here and there queer nuclei that suggest sulphur crystallizations. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z And so all through the cold weather they made cordwood. The Land of Strong Men He was endeavoring to split some cordwood, but he rarely could hit twice in the same place, all his correlations being bad. The Broken Gate A Novel Mr. Flatau, the cordwood expert, led two workshops on the farm. Cordwood Masonry Gains New Fans 2012-07-19T02:17:15Z He gathered the sticks of cordwood from the floor and piled them neatly to their stacks again. The Brain I had only to “crab-step” back along the runway—a couple of planks laid over the cordwood—and be ready for the next stroke. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z Finally, by the aid of capstan-bars, boat hooks, axe handles, and cordwood, the boat's officers and crew managed to pry the mass apart and drag out one belligerent at a time. Bring Me His Ears Drinkwater was obliged to throw overboard a load of cordwood to make room for the rescued passengers and crew and their possessions. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 YOU could say that Mr. Roy wrote the book on modern cordwood. Cordwood Masonry Gains New Fans 2012-07-19T02:17:15Z The chairs was mostly chunks of cordwood put on end, or slabs, just rough, and the beds was built like scaffoldin'. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 He was clambering up over the logs like a wet cat before either Ike or I, teetering across the crooked, wobbly cordwood, had stumbled half the distance to the “stern.” Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z As it was, the day’s work brought him nearly three thousand dollars, money on the spot; no back subscriptions to worry over, no cabbage or cordwood in exchange. Claim Number One A story was current of how he had once manhandled four drunken lumberjacks, in spite of peavies and sticks of cordwood. The Peace of Roaring River Except that this summer, Mr. Roy and his younger son are building a 20-sided cordwood home in much the same style. Cordwood Masonry Gains New Fans 2012-07-19T02:17:15Z They are no more edible than cordwood or hemp ropes. Under the Maples He was overdue with a raft of logs and cordwood he had contracted to take down below Hell Gate, and was just about to get to work building it. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z Empty cartridge cases were strewn about and a pile of unused ammunition was stacked up like cordwood. The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone With one stop for wood at a yard where the natives had piled up enormous quantities of cordwood, the boat tied up after making perhaps sixty miles. Young Alaskans in the Far North Friends turned up for cordwood work parties; any excuse, from a solstice to a wedding anniversary, would do. Cordwood Masonry Gains New Fans 2012-07-19T02:17:15Z Grubs, flies, worms, ants, things soft and slimy and things grim and armored, were piled side by side like cordwood. The Raid on the Termites Along the Gulf front human bodies are floating around like cordwood.” Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror Keep my horses hauling cordwood through the winter, and the only team I have in the stable is ordered by a drummer for to-morrow.” Prescott of Saskatchewan They can put in a lot of time cutting dry cordwood.” On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland In the end, though, he loves the look of the cordwood. Cordwood Masonry Gains New Fans 2012-07-19T02:17:15Z She was seated in state behind him on one of those hand-sledges the farmers use for hauling cordwood. At Good Old Siwash But the most characteristically European spectacle I saw was a woman unloading a great hay-wagon of huge cordwood at a Railroad station, and pitching over the heavy sticks with decided resolution and efficiency. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. There’s a shack where two fellows cutting cordwood camp.” Prescott of Saskatchewan When it grew dark and the monoplane had not returned, he made a fire of cordwood and during the long evening renewed it constantly. On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland If you can bring a cordwood house into the world, giving birth is easy. Cordwood Masonry Gains New Fans 2012-07-19T02:17:15Z In the first place, cordwood was phenomenally scarce in Jonesville, and anyway, people had a vicious habit of hindering the cause of education by sawing it at the wood-yards with a steam saw. At Good Old Siwash The arches and posts carried 4-in. lagging filled behind with cordwood. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Small logs were strewn about it and among them stood tall piles of cordwood. Prescott of Saskatchewan In addition, several large ricks of cordwood standing at the edge of the clearing gave sign that the men had not been idle during the spring. On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland As Mr. Roy said, “If you can stack wood, you can build a cordwood house.” Cordwood Masonry Gains New Fans 2012-07-19T02:17:15Z Grant up a palmetto tree, while in the background were a large number of deceased Northern invaders neatly racked up like cordwood. Cobb's Bill-of-Fare That is, as the pressure from above increased, owing to the workings being carried deeper, stronger stays and supports were necessary than cordwood or saplings supplied. The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account The work never slackens, except in winter, when you sit shivering beside the stove, if you’re not hauling in building logs or cordwood through the arctic frost. Prescott of Saskatchewan Then, in the autumn, being backwoodsmen, they took a contract to cut cordwood, and all that winter worked together up the river at Sawmill Bottom, cutting timber. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands The Roys bundled the house in cordwood masonry walls made from salvaged cedar rail. Cordwood Masonry Gains New Fans 2012-07-19T02:17:15Z The Commission has secured from the Pennsylvania R. R. a special tariff on blighted chestnut cordwood so that this product may be profitably shipped from greater distances than before. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912 By attacking that with the heaviest sticks of cordwood after the brute is killed, we should be able to pound our way through in a very few seconds. Messenger No. 48 There was a huge fireplace at each end of this room, in each of which a fire of four-foot-long fir cordwood crackled and snapped. Masters of Space Most of these refugees were in the church there, which they had surrounded with a wall of cordwood in dread of attack. Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police Many farmers are making a good deal of money with this Machine in employing the dull months of the year in selling cordwood. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside In a few flying leaps I returned to the road again, and armed myself with a stick from a pile of cordwood. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know On our way down we built breastworks of cordwood along the bulwarks of the boat. Troublous Times in Canada A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870 It probably would be thirty or fifty feet higher, but the top could only be used for posts, cordwood, and similar uses. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters It is also much easier to cut and handle ties, cordwood, or other timber which may later be taken from the cut-over areas if the slash is out of the way. Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods The boy at the right in the picture is sawing up cordwood in a buck frame. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside I ventured through the gate, swinging my cordwood stick. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know We jolt across the bumpy field, strike into the back wood-road, and turn off upon an old stumpy track over which cordwood was carted years ago. The Hills of Hingham Here the fish lie piled like cordwood, or overflow from casks, for economical buyers. Russian Rambles He picked up one, and McKenna took the other, while Walters piled the five flat hardwood cases into his arms like cordwood. Murder in the Gunroom You can very easily use our machine in this way if you have cordwood on hand that you wish to saw up into suitable lengths for firewood. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside In the front yard of one of the houses I observed some fresh stumps and stacks of cordwood and an old man busy cutting down with an ax a magnificent shade-tree. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 She saw Givens stagger; heard the heavy piece of cordwood thud to the floor; saw Givens plunge backward through the door to land in the big drift outside. The Trail Horde The evil pointed head, heavy but alert, and with a suggestion of fierce strength out of all relation to the slender body, was watching me from between the sticks of cordwood. Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists In fact, it held four or five such sticks of cordwood, which, you can imagine, made a good fire. Injun and Whitey to the Rescue He must chop off the branches, cut and split the main trunk, and either make sawlogs or cordwood lengths. Outdoor Sports and Games So the tree stands, not mere lumber and cordwood, or an obstacle to be gotten rid of by fire, but an embodiment of life unexhausted for a thousand years. Among the Forces But during the night I sent them out for wood, and when they re-entered the cabin they attacked me—Link with an axe, and Givens with a piece of cordwood. The Trail Horde There was not much cordwood to be taken to the city, and most of the lumber from the mills was now being freighted in scows. Jess of the Rebel Trail It is also the main fuel supply for domestic uses, although fir and yellow pine cordwood is extensively used when the cost of transportation is not too great. A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 There was a bluff a few miles off, but they hadn't a tool of any kind to cut cordwood with. Ranching for Sylvia He wore wooden shoes, and was holding the cordwood fast between his knees, rolling his hat nervously in his big hands. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women He held a heavy piece of cordwood in one hand, and as he entered the door he paused for an instant, plainly blinded by the light and the snow. The Trail Horde Arrived at 451 she approached the house through a yard strewn, with wood chips and piled with cordwood. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 We've insisted on chopping and piling the tops like cordwood, and cutting up the down trunks of trees, and generally 'parking' the forest simply to get the idea into people's heads. The Rules of the Game Nor could I believe that the full amount of cordwood allowed officers was consumed when fires were infrequent. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment We were dumped into it—not like sardines, for they fit comfortably together, but more like cordwood that is thrown together without being piled. Three Times and Out He and his brother had to go and cut cordwood, both summer and winter. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 February and March gave an interval for cutting cordwood, cleaning ditches, and such other incidentals as the building and repair of the plantation's railroad. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime It's all very well to talk about how nice it would be to chop up all the waste tops and pile them like cordwood, and to scrape together the twigs and needles and burn them. The Rules of the Game I 've always hated old Sam Briggs," she said emphatically, "ever since the time he broke a negro's leg with a piece of cordwood. The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays But there’s always post-holes to dig, and cordwood to chop, and the climate’s fine . The Red One Anne was curled up Turk-fashion on the hearthrug, gazing into that joyous glow where the sunshine of a hundred summers was being distilled from the maple cordwood. Anne of Green Gables Much of the incidental work was also done by tasks, such as ditching, cutting cordwood, squaring timber, splitting rails, drawing staves and hoop poles, and making barrels. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime He had told me I was to hurry, and I had gone as fast as I could until Something jumped; since, I had been settled on that cordwood like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island. Laddie; a true blue story I hew and I launch my cordwood, and raft it to Dawson town, Where wood means wine and women, and, incidentally, hell. Ballads of a Cheechako We burned up out of our way enough timber to have made five thousand cords of cordwood. The Bark Covered House In deference to Dan, I took the flight in realtime, in the minuscule cabin reserved for those of us who stubbornly refused to be frozen and stacked like cordwood for the two hour flight. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom Isak had still a season's yield of cordwood and timber to sell in the village, and the herring fishery had been rich all round the coast, so there was plenty of money to buy wood. Growth of the Soil That was the reason I was shivering on the cordwood, gripping his letter and thinking of all these things in order to force myself to go farther. Laddie; a true blue story Yep," said Luke, sitting sidewise in the chair, "stubbed my toe against a cordwood stick in front of Tom Kane's barn and hit my head on a rock. The Heart of the Range Can you convert these old forests into lumber or cordwood? Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod If the subscribers paid at all, it was only sometimes—and then the town subscribers paid in groceries, the country subscribers in cabbages and cordwood. Mark Twain He had stacks of cordwood to pay with, and some building bark from last year's cut, not to speak of heavy timber. Growth of the Soil This was right, but in my heart I also knew that if Laddie had asked me, I would be shivering on top of that cordwood on a hot August day, when it was wrong. Laddie; a true blue story Progress was slow; the waterlogged craft lay in the river like so much cordwood. Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island The trail opened abruptly on the clearing where lay my recently acquired cordwood with my five barrels of whiskey concealed in its midst. The Moccasin Maker If you won't take any of these, I shall have to give you factory cotton and cordwood. Literary Lapses While I was getting into my robes and the hostler hooked up, he told me that no fewer than twenty-two teams had that very morning come in with cordwood from the northern correction line. Over Prairie Trails Because of that I was on the cordwood trying to find courage to go farther. Laddie; a true blue story The meat was simply laid away in piles, like cordwood, and by the action of the frost was kept fresh until consumed. History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra With the agility of a cat he sprang on to the wood-pile, pitched off enough cordwood to expose my entire "cellar;" then going across to Lige, he coolly took the axe out of his hand. The Moccasin Maker Joe Dauntless's cousin held his lantern on high and finally discovered the waiter near the pile of cordwood, ready to run at a moment's notice. The Flyers That other road of which I was thinking and which lay further west was the main cordwood trail to the towns in the south. Over Prairie Trails There were clear evidences of periodic cutting and considerable, amounts of cordwood split from timber a foot through were being brought to the stations on the backs of cattle. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan On the fourth side of the square loads of hay and cordwood demanded the master mind, but small matters of fruit, vegetables, and poultry submitted to feminine judgement. The Imperialist He seemed easier when I assured him the boys were square, and immensely gratified at the news that I had already traded six quarts of the stuff for over a hundred dollars' worth of cordwood. The Moccasin Maker Indeed, beyond the piles of cordwood, and a few scattered cabins, there did not seem to be anything of a settlement. The House Boat Boys It was used to haul cordwood in late winter and early spring to a town some ten or fifteen miles to the southwest. Over Prairie Trails Considerable quantities of cordwood were piled at the stations along the railway and were being loaded on the cars. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan Here Mawkum strolled into his room and began overhauling the contents of a rack of drawings piled one on top of the other like cordwood, labelled: "Screw Pile Structures." The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women At other times she would tell it to the grass or even to a stick of cordwood or a ton of coal. Nonsense Novels He saw that the sea-water had not harmed him; it was the cordwood and wreckage that had crushed the breath out of him. Tides of Barnegat This cordwood trail took us on for half a mile, and then we came to a grade leading east. Over Prairie Trails They crowded back, and as he got up awkwardly the foreman seized a heavy billet of cordwood and flung it at his head. The Girl from Keller's What with steps and stairs and passages and piles of cordwood for the engine,—oh no, I guess Harland and Wolff didn't build her. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town In Kilo subscriptions are frequently paid in turnips or cordwood, and the advertisers expect at least half of their bills to be taken out in trade, and the unmarried publisher is at a disadvantage. Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent You wouldn't see anything different from your Indian chopping the cordwood for your camp fire. The Blazed Trail "I want fall ploughing done and my cordwood hauled." The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies The iron, however, glowed a dull red and he could hear the cordwood snapping. The Girl from Keller's They sold cordwood, vegetables, brooms of their own manufacture, and maple sugar, continuing to vend cakes in the village when any special occasion attracted a crowd. The Story of the Mormons, from the date of their origin to the year 1901 Bettles stopped long enough to grip him by the slack of his furs, then headed for a pile of cordwood already occupied by a number of his comrades. The Son of the Wolf The center of the room was occupied by a tremendous stove capable of burning whole logs of cordwood. The Blazed Trail |
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