| 单词 | sawyer |
| 例句 | The deputy appointed to watch him through the dark hours—a retired sawyer named William Stenesen—had shone a flashlight on him just before midnight and inquired if he was faring well. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Now that she was marooned in Boulder City, her few social companions consisted of the ill-educated and hardscrabble wives of sawyers and miners. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The Upper Rhoyne was full of snags and sawyers, any one of which could rip out the Shy Maid's hull. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “My great-grandfather,” Volkheimer says all of a sudden, “was a sawyer in the years before steamships, when everything went by sail.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z An 1810s ledger for yard workers’ pay will be on view there this weekend, noting the grueling hours expected of sawyers and joiners. Antiques: William Matthew Prior, War of 1812, and Queen Victoria 2012-05-24T22:08:36Z Mr. Wisdom, who is also on the Taos ski patrol, was the lead “sawyer” in trimming it out. Taos Had History and Mystique, but Few Skiers. Can a New Owner Change That? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Benjamin Franklin said he witnessed around England at this time “riots about elections; riots about workhouses; riots of colliers; riots of weavers; riots of coal-heavers; riots of sawyers; riots of sailors.” That Man From Stratford 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z In her spare time, she volunteers to maintain a six-mile stretch of the nearby Appalachian Trail, one of only a few female sawyers on the AT. In Roanoke, Va., discovering a gateway to outdoor adventure 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z If you know, for example, what sort of wood he likes to use, then you might cast about your area and find a local sawyer with some locally sourced hard wood. The Founder’s Nick Offerman: ‘Being American means that I have to stand up and march’ 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z On the day the Capitol Christmas Tree was harvested, locals gathered to watch two sawyers cut the trunk with a vintage Forest Service cross-cut saw—an ode to the historic timber industry within the Monongahela. How the nation chooses its best and brightest Christmas trees 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Born in 1818, Mr Davies had humble beginnings as the son of a farmer and sawyer. Powys tycoon's former mansion on the market for £3m 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z It was 115 feet tall and 12 feet around, and Wednesday morning, a requiem was held before it was consigned to the sawyers. Fallen tree planted by George Washington gets solemn honors before facing the sawmill 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z A sawyer used a chain saw to sever the trunk, which one of two cranes then jerked several feet up in the air. New Mexico spruce begins journey to be 2019 Christmas tree 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Specialists called sawyers, who chop down trees, wore more, hauling Kevlar chaps and chain saws. With California Ablaze, Firefighters Strain to Keep Up 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z When an old saw is really working there is hardly any pressure; it’s a synchronized pulling of two sawyers. Couple dedicates life to clearing Kalmiopsis Trail 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z Wood products The rise and fall of sawyers and other wood-product factory workers tracks closely to the U.S. housing bubble and subsequent mortgage crisis. How 5 good jobs turned into bad ones | Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z The rise and fall of sawyers and other wood-product factory workers tracks closely to the U.S. housing bubble and subsequent mortgage crisis. How the U.S. economy turned six good jobs into bad ones 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Especially satisfying are the comely barn, the blooming fruit tree and the saw-tooth horizon strung with surviving fir trees that for reasons known only to sawyers were earlier rejected by the clear-cutting lumberjacks. It takes a village to trace this Bothell farm 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z The place was extraordinarily fit for building a community for sawyers, not farmers. Back to Ballard’s beginnings 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z He befriended tree cutters around his home and worked with sawyers to learn how to use sawing equipment. After a Devastating Fire, ‘the Black Lumberjack’ Forges Ahead 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Boyle proceeded to cut the tree in half himself and took it to a local sawyer where the tree broke the saw. Wood Ingenuity keeps legacy of 150-year-old tree alive 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z Vic worked as a sawyer at the old Ohio Match Co., then returned to Farragut/Bayview where he worked as a shop foreman and spent 28 years at the Naval Ship Research and Development center. Can’t put a price on these pickles 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z The sawyers tear through the forest like a machine. A Photographer Inside the Wildfires 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z The sawyers on my crew used their chainsaws to open up a 15-foot space in the tree canopy called a “sawline.” I Was an Elite Female Firefighter 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z After notching a few bales, my fear of self-amputation fell away and I became a pretty accurate chain sawyer. Green Blog: The Straw Bale Dilemma: How Smooth Is Smooth? 2012-09-24T18:27:06Z The blockmakers and joiners have gone away, refusing to work any longer without money; the sawyers threaten to do the same. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z He is a sawyer, who, with the help of the King of Spain, saws the globe in two, Maintenon sitting aloft assisting the severance. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Chainsaws are loud, so sawyers and swampers communicate with facial expressions and the occasional hand signal. A Photographer Inside the Wildfires 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z His troops consisted of a motley assemblage of fishermen, and farmers, sawyers, and loggers, many of whom were taken from his own vessels, mills, and forests. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z Expert sawyers generally change the packing when the saw is changed, and thus keep for each saw its own packing. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z He turned, and there was the monk at his celldoor in a strange state of anxiety, going up and down and beating the air double-handed, like a bottom sawyer. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z The bargemen, therefore, rowed up pretty close under the bank, and had merely to keep watch in the bow lest the boat should run against a planter or sawyer. The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 2012-02-04T03:00:17.917Z He was doing as all good swampers do by throwing aside the sawyer’s cuttings. A Photographer Inside the Wildfires 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z I have called since, and find that by trade he is a sawyer. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z More unprejudiced, and I must add, very intelligent and credible persons have informed me that they have done so, and found the report of the sawyers abundantly confirmed. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z A double tusker killed one of our sawyers near here and was proclaimed and a reward of fifty rupees and the tusks offered. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z Was lost on a sawyer, March, 1818; 25 tons burthen. 14th. The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 2012-02-04T03:00:17.917Z This time the lead sawyer agitated a bee hive, and the bees took it out on Lopez. A Photographer Inside the Wildfires 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Rarely, if ever, will an admixture of timbers be found to any extent; and, consequently, those sawyers who cut pine leave the cedar scrubs to be visited by the others; and vice versa. Fern Vale (Volume 3) or the Queensland Squatter 2011-09-30T02:00:17.137Z It was supposed that the sawyer and the cabinet maker must have removed at least thirteen grains more, and the table had been in the possession of its proprietor for twenty years. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z "Well, what do you think of the sawyer's trade?" asked the old man suddenly of Neale. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z No sawyer will risk his implement—which requires some hours’ work to sharpen—in wood which he suspects to contain concealed iron. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Catherine, on arriving at the saw-works, told Labarbe to set on the ground a keg of brandy which she had brought away from the farm, and to get a jug from the sawyer's cottage. The Invasion of France in 1814 2011-07-27T02:00:37.397Z To the mouth of this impromptu canal, then, the sawyers brought the logs one by one, and they were made, with very little guiding, to shoot through the passage with speed and precision. Fern Vale (Volume 3) or the Queensland Squatter 2011-09-30T02:00:17.137Z There arose in Rome an army of marble workers, cutters and sawyers, polishers and cleaners, carvers of simple mouldings and of inscriptions, and more skilled sculptors of ornament and of statues and busts. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z To the ordinary dangers and efforts of this day, were added the frequent occurrence of snags and sawyers, or planters—terms which denote some of the peculiar impediments of Mississippi navigation. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z Perhaps they were jealous of the state in which this quondam sawyer’s daughter drove about in a carriage and pair, attended by liveried servants. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z Do not believe that it will be an easy matter to check the enemy: all the hunters, all the sawyers, all the wood-cutters and carriers on the mountains will not be too many. The Invasion of France in 1814 2011-07-27T02:00:37.397Z The floor had no covering, neither had the walls, which showed the wood in its crude state, or rather in the serrated condition in which it had left the sawyer's pit. Fern Vale (Volume 3) or the Queensland Squatter 2011-09-30T02:00:17.137Z Every really skilful sawyer was of inestimable value at the moment, and, after all, this man's failing was one pretty common to all good lumbermen. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z "Where did you get your pattern?" asked Tom who also was a jig sawyer. Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship 2011-05-03T02:00:15.220Z The sawyer gets high pay, six to ten dollars a day, and earns it, for on his single judgment, delivered in that fraction of a minute, the mill’s prosperity hangs. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z The pine sawyers are among the most troublesome pests in the mill yard, and their large, white larvae often do much damage to logs by eating great holes thru their solid interior. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z The trades followed by most Mahommedans, are those of carpenters, locksmiths, tanners, shoemakers, sawyers, saddlers, and saddle embroiderers. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z Directly he had gone the master of the mills moved over to the sawyer on No. 1. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z At the second skidway one of the sawyers slapped a stick of timber. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z Five men were employed for twenty days in stripping the bark and felling the tree, and after that a pair of sawyers, working six days a week, were five months cutting it up. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z This is a familiar sound in the lumber camps of the North, and has probably given rise to the name of the pine sawyers by which these insects are known. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z Dr. Riess’s face lit up as he imagined the sawyer who would have produced such fine work, going from shipyard to shipyard with a big, two-handled saw to practice his specialty. A Brigantine Beneath Washington Street 2010-07-29T23:25:00Z But you don't often see a sawyer with perfectly sound hands. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z His sawyers could not identify the logs positively; they thought they had cut them, but were not sure. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z On going to examine, however, judge of their surprise, when, after surrounding and searching the whole place, they could discover no trace of either saw or sawyer. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry "Don't you know I'm a sawyer myself?" said the deacon, chuckling over a familiar joke. Wait and Hope A Plucky Boy's Luck Perhaps it was the sawyer’s clay pipe that archaeologists found this week under the floor planks. A Brigantine Beneath Washington Street 2010-07-29T23:25:00Z It was the sawyer's voice, harsh but inarticulate, and it brought with it a suggestion that he might yet learn the truth. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z We are going to visit a place where masons, sawyers, cobblers, laborers, and other small fry are in the habit of slaking their thirst. The Progressionists, and Angela. We entered the Missouri this morning at sunrise and are now making but slow progress in consequence of the numerous obstructions in the stream, such as sawyers, sand bars, etc. Journal of a Trip to California Across the Continent from Weston, Mo., to Weber Creek, Cal., in the Summer of 1850 The mill shut down a couple of hours so that the head sawyer could file his saw, and then work was resumed once more. Cordwood The labour of the sawyer is applied to the division of large pieces of timber or logs into forms and sizes to suit the purposes of the carpenter and joiner. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" As soon as he had gone, Dave sat thoughtfully gazing at the doomed sawyer. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z California introduced me to the boat and the scenery, showed me the "texas," the difference between a "tow-head" and a "sawyer," and the precise nature of a "slue." From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel "Several of them are taught to be sawyers, carpenters, smiths, coopers, &c.," says the historian Hugh Jones, "though for the most part they be none of the aptest or nicest." The Planters of Colonial Virginia Well, out they rowed into the middle of the stream, where the water is roughest among the 'snags,' and many a whirlpool dashing around 'atween the bows of the 'sawyers.' Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas The swell of a passing steamboat, or a snag or a sawyer in the river, would sink them. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 "You ran a dandy game," agreed the sawyer. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z For ten hours a day the sawyer faces two teethed steel discs whirling around two hundred times a minute. The Everett massacre A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry His troops comprised a motley collection of New Englanders—fishermen and farmers, sawyers and loggers, many of them taken from his own vessels, mills and forests. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 And in the same establishment, acting upon like inducements, might be seen sawyers and fencers working by moonlight; and others making tin vessels for utensils, bows for bullocks, &c., in their huts at night. Australia, its history and present condition containing an account both of the bush and of the colonies, with their respective inhabitants I was a sawyer for a long, long time. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 He watched the sawyer drink, and then, drawing a chair forward, he sat down. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z Hour after hour the steel sings its crescendo note as it bites into the wood, the sawdust cloud thickens, the wet sponge under the sawyer's nose, fills with fine particles. The Everett massacre A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry The sawyers and the other workmen were overdoing their unconcern. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards Bull came to Savannah with four laborers, and assisted the colony for a month; he himself measuring the scantling, and setting out the work for the sawyers, and giving the proportion of the houses. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 Why, Iden had put away those pieces of timber years before for this very purpose, and had watched the sawyers saw them out at the pit. Amaryllis at the Fair "Would you take a job as sawyer in Dave's mill, and—and act under my orders?" The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z The stream was broad and deep, but it had its snags, its “sawyers” like the Mississippi, and its dangerous shoals and shallow places. Up the Forked River Or, Adventures in South America The sawyers said they could feel the ship straining. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards Mr. Joseph Bryan himself, with four of his sawyers, gave two months' work in the colony. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 Oh, sometimes we run foul of a snag or sawyer, occasionally 215 collapse a boiler and blow up sky-high. The Strollers He used to be a dandy sawyer," he said, "and we need 'em. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z "Noggs, Jr," speaking of a blind wood sawyer, says: "While none ever saw him see, thousands have seen him saw." The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. An act of February 1633 similarly required all gunsmiths, brickmakers, carpenters, joiners, sawyers, and turners to work at their trades and not to plant tobacco or do other work in the ground. Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660 A good deal of trouble can be saved by the expenditure of a few cents for having them machine-sawed, in which case ask the sawyer to use his finest-toothed saw. Boys' Book of Model Boats Carpenters, joiners, sawyers, and planers had each their own separate work and organization. Memorials of Old London Volume I There was a current of excitement in the swift, skilful movements of the sawyers as they handled the mighty logs. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z His whole manner seemed to say, 'I am tickled to see you, Jack! and if you think you saw me fighting the sawyer's dog just now, you're much mistaken.' The Young Surveyor; or Jack on the Prairies Thus my father had among his slaves, carpenters, coopers, sawyers, blacksmiths, tanners, curriers, shoemakers, spinners, weavers, and knitters, and even a distiller. Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion A carpenter, four sawyers, and a blacksmith from the 80th were ordered to assist in building the new boat. The Wreck on the Andamans Most of the streets are dirty: in many of them sawyers prepare their wood for sale, and all are infested with pigs. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe He was a sawyer whose name was historical in the forests of Oregon. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z In the large textile centres are found a number of minor industries, planers, sawyers, turners, fitters, smiths, engaged in irregular work of alteration and repairs upon the plant and machinery of the textile factories. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production Hugh Jones, in speaking of the negroes, says, "Several of them are taught to be sawyers, carpenters, smiths, coopers, &c. though for the most part they be none of the aptest or nicest." Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion You can be sure of this correctness by using a sawyer's circular round gauge—and you had best do so. Violin Making 'The Strad' Library, No. IX. He also made observations on his sawyers at the same time and in the same manner. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject His eyes were on the sawyers, most of them stripped to the waist in the heat of their labors in the summer night. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z I confess that I, myself, would have voted for running,—I had caught the infection, and no longer thought of “snags,” “sawyers,” or bursting boilers. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West His carpenters and sawyers built and kept in repair all the dwelling houses, barns, stables, ploughs, harrows, gates, etc., on the plantations, and the outhouses at the house. Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion The Missouri is turbid, violent in its motions, changing its currents; its navigation is interrupted or made difficult by snags, sawyers and planters, and it has many islands and sand-bars. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West He said he thought his cold would never leave him when he went out woodcutting, for he was a master sawyer, and had to supply wood to the whole parish. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Here he prepared a pile of fur rugs upon the floor and laid the sawyer upon it. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z His back was towards me, and his keen eye, bent steadily upon the water, was too busy with logs and sand-bars, and snags and sawyers, to take note of my delirium. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West The sapwood of pine, spruce, fir, cedar, cypress, and the like softwoods is especially liable to injury by ambrosia beetles, while the heartwood is sometimes ruined by a class of round-headed borers, known as "sawyers." Seasoning of Wood They went to the tent and got the biggest of the tarpaulins lying there, and taking it to the two seven-foot sawhorses which the Indian sawyers had used. The Boy Scouts on the Yukon Also, the name of the sawyer's frame or trestle. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Well, there are more good sawyers to be had. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z Then, as he saw how rapidly one horn after another was finished, he drew forth his little watch and found that the rugged old sawyer finished a horn every ten seconds with perfect ease. Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls Pete was pulling away at the fiddle with both hands, like a bottom sawyer, his eyes dancing, his lips quivering, the whole soul of the lad lifted out of himself in an instant. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Portable sawmills were set up and busy hands—sawyers, choppers—set to work leveling the giant trees. Blue Ridge Country Tailors, shoemakers, bricklayers, potters, millers, sawyers—every kind of labourer or artisan is here to be found. Modern Saints and Seers The master of the mills had taken up a position in the narrow doorway, in full view of the whole floor, and was watching the sawyer on No. 1. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z They had almost reached the sawyer's cottage, when a black animal ran out towards them. The Nursery, July 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 1 "The river is over a mile wide, and too deep for snags and sawyers." Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi Nor was there a whipsaw in the whole country round with which to work, the itinerate sawyer having gone on with his property to another creek. Blue Ridge Country Johnnie Patten, sawyer and rough carpenter, made one big coffin, and in this the two, Brewer and Roberts, were buried side by side. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado Yet he was reputed one of the finest sawyers in the valley, and a man, when not on the drink, to be thoroughly trusted. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z Thus seesaw is from saw, the motion suggesting two sawyers at work on a log. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) For more than an hour we were kept at constant work, shoving our weapons backward and forward like a pair of sawyers. Ran Away to Sea Out of the ranks came millers, and ground the grain the foragers brought in; came woodmen, and cut the trees; came sawyers, and sawed the lumber. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic And now, as boss, he bullied the sawyers who could not equal those records—and hated those who could. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest The independence of the sawyer's spirit appealed to him. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z In four months, with the assistance of a few carpenters, sawyers and blacksmiths, I built a charming little craft of twenty-five tons, which, in honor of my British protector, I dubbed the “Termagant.” Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver They have their carpenters, sawyers, blacksmiths, and housebuilders, while the mass work the antimony ore, or are busy constructing the trench where they find and wash the gold. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy A private, of the 63rd regiment, killed by natives: two sawyers speared, one of whom died of his wounds. 27th. The History of Tasmania , Volume II During his years as a sawyer, by the very brute strength and doggedness of him, he had established new records for laying down timber. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest The sawyer's eyes were on the brandy bottle. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z He had been a sawyer in his early experience, but later became a bartender in Muskegon. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life Then he sets the sawyers to work, who, with the mould-pieces always at hand, shape the large trunks to the required form. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 When they reached the Lake River, two sawyers, who had never before suffered molestation, were wounded by their spears. The History of Tasmania , Volume II The boss added a substantial bonus for each day's "top cut," and in the lengthening days an intense rivalry sprang up between the sawyers; not infrequently Bill and Fallon were "in on the money." The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest Dave submitted, and then the doctor, at the lumberman's request, went off with a rush to see about the arrangements for the sawyer's burial. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z He lived about on the river and in the harbour, working at casual jobs as a sawyer or porter. Maxim Gorki Perhaps he thought that he had already enough to contend with, without the addition of the brawny arm of the sawyer. Rattlin the Reefer In the meantime, if the sawyers have nothing to do, they may as well cut the palings at once. The King's Own Bill figured that he had nearly fifteen million feet down when he called off his sawyers and ordered the clean-up. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest Truscott was sitting with his back to the pile of rugs concealing the dead sawyer. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z Numerous sawpits had been formed, and sawyers were at work preparing planks for the buildings. A True Hero A Story of the Days of William Penn The sawyer received all this with a humble self-consequence, as the infallible dicta of truth, and, apparently, with the utter oblivion of any such things existing as purl and red-hot pokers. Rattlin the Reefer When they run away from the triangle, the saw rises, and when they slack the rope, the weight draws it down, as the sawyer in a sawpit would do. Peter the Whaler The ground was still bare of snow, but the sawyers were "laying them down," and the logs were banked at the skidways. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest But now the sawyer's voice was raised in downright anger, and the girl's alarm leapt again. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z The sawyers and carpenters had worked so energetically, that already the fort had assumed its former appearance, with some improvements to add to its strength. The Frontier Fort Stirring Times in the N-West Territory of British America At length one was found in the very pretty wife of a reprobate sawyer, of the name of Brandon. Rattlin the Reefer After "falling" a tree, the sawyers mark off and saw the trunk into log lengths, Fig. Handwork in Wood Such an instance may be found in the Chinese way of holding a saw, with the teeth projecting from the sawyer. The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island He knew the sawyer to have scruples of a kind, that is until they had been carefully undermined by brandy. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z The explorers and lumberers generally are hirelings, paid so much a day for their labor, and as such they have no more love for wild nature than wood sawyers have for forests. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Could you know if the sawyer robbed you of fifty feet on ever' log? The White Desert A man once said to my friend:—“I dunna like to hear that old sawyer whetting his saw.” Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales It resembles that of a sawyer in the Mississippi. Recollections of Europe The sawyer watched him while he waited for a reply, and suddenly a thought occurred to his none too ready brain. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z His father prosecuted the humble vocation of a sawyer. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Through the winter and spring of 1813, the carpenters, calkers, and smiths were fitting the new vessels together from the green timber and planking which the choppers and sawyers wrought out of the forest. The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 You fellers had best take one o' my ponies," spoke up one of the sawyers; "I've got a string here, an' you can send him back any time. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters That is a sawyer; an ugly one, sticking its sharp horn up to hook us. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett Once its balance was passed, the sawyer struck the grappling chains loose with his peavey, and, with a rattle, they fell clear, while the prostrate giant lumbered ponderously into the mill. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z In the hope of improving his circumstances, he proceeded to Glasgow, where he was employed as a sawyer. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Canoes and small surf-boats may run down it at certain seasons, but the flow is too fast and the bed is too full of snags and sawyers to be easily ascended. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative So here I am in the midst of wood merchants, sawyers, etc., etc., rebuilding her bottom. Letters from Egypt If I could point out the nasty thing, I wouldn't dread it; a sleeping sawyer does its sawing under the surface. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett He lifted it, and lifting it, beheld the face of the dead sawyer. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z The carpenters, sawyers, and other workmen were employed in clearing up the place and in preparing gardens. The Makers of Canada: Champlain Nothing would be easier than to clear away these obstacles; a few pounds of gun-cotton would remove snags and sawyers, and dredging by boats would do the rest. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative The sawyer, I fancy, if he can be found. May Brooke In the afternoon the river became crooked, and contained more sawyers or floating timber than we have seen in the same space since leaving the Platte. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. Y' see," he went on, his pride of craft in his gimlet eyes, "I'm kind o' known here for a boss sawyer. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z The chief mechanic traders here are smiths, hatters, shoemakers, tanners, sawyers, carpenters, coopers, etc. A Voyage to New Holland This business being compleated, the sawyers and carpenters began to erect a house for Lieutenant Cresswell, of eighteen feet long, by 12 feet wide, with a back part nine feet square. An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island "I will wait, and you will oblige me by sending a sawyer also." May Brooke At this place the river is about one mile wide, but not deep; as the timber, or sawyers, may be seen, scattered across the whole of its bottom. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. Simon Odd, the master sawyer, had the organizing of the skilled labor staff inside the mill, a work of much responsibility and considerable discrimination. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z They see nail-makers, sawyers, carpenters, joiners, weavers, and others, all busily employed. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 And Charles Baines, an old time lawyer, Stood here professional top sawyer; He owned a bull dog, arrant thief! Recollections of Bytown and Its Old Inhabitants And, as it kindled warm, It fell away to nothing, crumbled small, Like dust in severing wood by sawyers strewn. The Seven Plays in English Verse It is an attempt to make it an easy matter to transport vessels over shoals and snags and 'sawyers.' The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him The sawyers were at their saws, oiling and fitting, and generally making ready for work. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z These sawyers form a fine feast for the woodpeckers, and jointly they assist in promoting the rapid decomposition of the gigantic forest- trees, that would otherwise encumber the earth from age to age. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America When the tree is down the sawyers come. Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands The sawyers, at their levers, controlled the various activities. The Rules of the Game The large and bustling family of the sawyers, both top and bottom, he has utterly banished from their ancient haunts. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 The sawyer had taken the brandy and swallowed it. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z He had been bred a sawyer, but was never very well pleased with the trade which required so much hard labour. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences The busy and impatient farmer and sawyer at the opposite ends of his route were driven to exhaust their entire vocabulary of objurgation on him. Hillsboro People As the older lumberman was at first occupied in testing out his sawyers, and otherwise supervising the finished product, Bob was necessarily much in the woods. The Rules of the Game He has also been seen navigating the same river on a floating carrion, though scarcely raised above the surface of the water, and tugging at the carcass, regardless of snags, sawyers, planters, or shallows. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831 On the instant the sawyer leant forward and plunged his hook into the soft pine bark. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z Four men remained with me, namely two carpenters, a sawyer's man, and my own servant. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 The offer was accepted; a lot of them was ordered at a boot-and-shoe shop, and, all at once, sweepers, sawyers, and the rest, appeared in white-topped boots. A Collection of College Words and Customs Having made some discoveries of this nature in the department of the sawyers, he issued a public order, specifying the hours which should be employed in every branch of public labour. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 When it was put up, however, the sawyers had departed, and the empty house of detention became of use as a storehouse for the gaoler's potatoes. The Long White Cloud If he came across the sawyer—well, perhaps it was a good thing that Dave was with him—that is, a good thing for Mansell. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z The timber is found useful by the inhabitants of the Bathurst district, who keep the sawyers constantly at work there. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 The sawyer's wife described to him how her husband had brought her in, and how she seemed so tired and bewildered that she fell asleep while they were questioning her. Tommy and Grizel A few carpenters were employed in laying a floor in Government House, and other repairs; but several of the public works were nearly at a stand, many of the sawyers being in the hospital. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 My father had among his slaves carpenters, coopers, sawyers, blacksmiths, tanners, curriers, shoemakers, spinners, weavers, and knitters, and even a distiller. George Washington: Farmer Many boats have been stove in by "snags" and "sawyers," and sunk with all the passengers. A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America The sawyer himself did not participate in the conference, but abided at a little distance, like an outer satellite who was not to speak until required, or to offer an opinion until invited. A Tale of Two Cities He will sometimes call himself a brickmaker, or a sawyer, but only when he takes an imaginary flight. The Uncommercial Traveller Anson’s earning twenty-five a day at carpentering, Liverpool getting twenty logging for the saw-mill, and Big Bill’s getting forty a day as chief sawyer. The Red One His carpenters and sawyers built and kept in repair all the dwelling-houses, barns, stables, ploughs, harrows, gates, etc., on the plantations, and the outhouses of the house. George Washington: Farmer A part of the machinery is always above this deck; where the connecting-rod, in a strong and lofty frame, is seen working away like an iron top- sawyer. American Notes These lantern-figures correspond to the sawyers, borers, blacksmiths, washers and others which twenty or more years ago were on top of the stove of every corner grocery or country post-office. The Chinese Boy and Girl Somebody had looked over the wall to talk to the sawyers, and was telling them in a loud voice news in which the name of Mrs. Charmond soon arrested his ears. The Woodlanders If you set him cantering, he goes on like twenty sawyers. Middlemarch Burly blacksmiths stood at the roaring forge, wielding huge hammers; sawyers worked in the pits, making the stout beams and ribs and cutting great trunks into thin planks. Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age The feed is continuous, and is made variable from ¼ to 1¼ inch to each stroke, controllable by the sawyer. Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 If an accused man makes him some present, he shares it with a colleague and the pair agree to arrange the matter like two sawyers, one of whom pulls and the other pushes. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 And at this point, also, begins the pilot's paradise: a wide river hence to New Orleans, abundance of water from shore to shore, and no bars, snags, sawyers, or wrecks in his road. Life on the Mississippi, Part 8. I asked the latter's permission to cut wood, and was not only accepted as a sawyer, but encouraged with assurances of the best coffee there was, with real sugar dedans. The Enormous Room The green insect known in the U States by the name of the sawyer or chittediddle, was first heard to cry on the 27th of July, we were then in latitude 41° some minutes. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Some days later the neighbourhood began to swarm with strangers, woodcutters and sawyers, mostly Germans. Selected Polish Tales Three years before she had separated from her husband, a sawyer, by mutual consent. The History of David Grieve The saw-mill is at hand, and he exchanges with the sawyer. The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished An old sawyer lived in it now—looking after it for me; and I hoped that the wheels of the car would not bring him out, for it would distress me to see him. Memoirs of My Dead Life This afternoon the river was croked, rappid and containing more sawyers than we have seen in the same space since we left the entrance of the river Platte. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 One overseer, two carpenters, three sawyers, a gardener, a salt bailer and sixteen prisoners. The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant Piles of pine and beechen boards were heaped around them, and the sawyers were busily plying their lonely business. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain The father was a sawyer in a mill and died of tuberculosis after an accident had broken his strength. The Centralia Conspiracy The same potent forces have transferred to towns many branches of work connected indirectly with agricultural pursuits; country smiths, brickmakers, sawyers, turners, coopers, wheelwrights, are rapidly vanishing from the face of the country. Problems of Poverty There are four houses already up, but none finished; and he hopes, when he has got more sawyers, which I suppose he will have in a short time, to finish two houses a week. Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe He escaped shipwreck as by a hair's-breadth, from the sawyer which had attracted the notice of Jack. The Lost Trail The husband, who is a poor sawyer, after losing his wife had to lose his home also, for the alcalde, being a friend of the doctor’s, made him pay. The Social Cancer More unprejudiced, and, I must add, very intelligent and credible persons have informed me that they have done so, and found the report of the sawyers abundantly confirmed. The Earth as Modified by Human Action One of the sawyers lent him a miserable half-starved little pony; and he penetrated to another sawyer's hut, seven miles distant up the Matukituki river. Station Amusements in New Zealand Who would dine with Mr. Jones in Woburn Terrace, unless he had known Mr. Jones all his days, or unless Jones were known as a top sawyer in some walk of life? Castle Richmond The tree was what is known to-day on the Mississippi as a "sawyer," and which is so dreaded by the steamers and other craft navigating the river. The Lost Trail The head sawyer leaned across the table and pounded with the handle of his knife until he had the attention of all present. The Valley of the Giants Boatmen give it the euphonious title of "bob sawyer" because of the bobbing and sawing motions imparted to it by the pulsations of the water. Four Months in a Sneak-Box Besides thousands of acres of beautiful sheltered sheep country, it was said to possess a magnificent bush, in which sawyers were already hard at work. Station Amusements in New Zealand Well, blow me," exclaimed my friend the ostler, "if your fortin' arn't made; I shall see you a tip-top sawyer—may I never touch another tanner! Sketches by Seymour — Volume 05 It was the sound made by the "sawyer" which had puzzled Jack Carleton before he caught sight of the great river. The Lost Trail For the next five hours Zeb Curry had no opportunity to discuss the matter with the head sawyer. The Valley of the Giants The sawing process is what grates upon the nerves of the victim, and causes him to strike wildly at the sawyer. Four Months in a Sneak-Box The sawyers' tressels in the centre of the plot threw long, narrow fantastic shadows, suggesting some huge geometrical figure, upon a strip of bare grey ground. The Fortune of the Rougons He took a regiment of shipwrights and sawyers from his own and the King's yards at Plymouth, and in two months Hackton Park was as bare of trees as the Bog of Allen. Barry Lyndon The pristae, the sawyers,—a celebrated creation of the kind,—is supposed to have given its name to the whole class of like things. Greek Studies: a Series of Essays The drunken sawyer at length made out to his own complete satisfaction that Doctor Mulhaus' wife was in labour, and that he was come for the surgeon, who was probably drunk and asleep inside. Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn I had been a sawyer for many years. Second Shetland Truck System Report The sawyers' trestles, rearing their meagre framework in a corner, seemed to form gallows, or the uprights of a guillotine. The Fortune of the Rougons A party of sawyers with a small escort of soldiers were settled in a camp about three miles from my station, as the distance was too great for a daily return from their work. Ismailia King of the Sirius was sent as superintendent and commandant of this place, and carried with him a surgeon, a midshipman, a sawyer, a weaver, two marines, and sixteen convicts, of whom six were women. A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay The blacksmith sweats at the sultry forge, the sawyer labours pent-up in his pit and the husbandman turns up the sterile glebe. A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson The sawyers, the swampers, the skidders, and the team men turned and put on their heavy blanket coats. The Blazed Trail The bargemen, therefore, rowed up pretty close under the bank and had merely to keep watch in the bow lest the boat should run against a planter or sawyer. The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway These were quickly felled, and the sawyers were soon at work cutting planks, keels, and all the necessary wood for boat-building. Ismailia Yet artisans were found among the plantation laborers—"carpenters, coopers, sawyers, blacksmiths, tanners, curriers, shoemakers, spinners, weavers, and knitters." Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings All the sawyers, carpenters and blacksmiths will soon be concentred under the direction of a very adequate person of the governor's household. A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson That evening all the sawyers, swampers, and skidders belonging to Red Jacket's outfit were considerably elated; while the others said little and prepared for business on the morrow. The Blazed Trail This chap was a regular top sawyer—clothes, way of pronouncing his words, manners, everything. T. Tembarom Here the dog, frantic with excitement, turned down through the side-gate into the enclosure, where the sawyers were already at work. The Sign of the Four He turned, and there was the monk at his cell-door, in a strange state of anxiety, going up and down and beating the air double-handed, like a bottom sawyer. The Cloister and the Hearth |
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