66 collocations for saws

Then all was quiet save only for the low voices of those that talked together, and for Allan's restless footsteps pacing up and down, for his soul was so full of disturbance that he could not stand still, and saving, also, for the mellow snoring of Friar Tuck, who enjoyed his sleep with a noise as of one sawing soft wood very slowly.

On one side, they were hauling the logs up an inclined plane by water-power; on the other, passing out the boards, planks, and sawed timber, and forming them into rafts.

The cat had perched himself on one of her knees to beg, and he sawed the air appealingly with his forepaws.

"There are certain things," replied Forester, "which the farmers can not very well do for themselves, by their own strength, particularly grinding their corn, and sawing logs into boards for their houses.

Yes, with a good horse it is as delightful as sitting in a rocking-chair, but, if you were a rider of experience, you would not allow your horse to enter upon the gait without permission, but would bring him back to the trot by slightly pulling first the left rein and then the right, a movement which is called sawing the mouth.

The experts had already felled, stripped, and sawed into logs the huge trees.

In the morning he found out that someone had sawed a leg of the bedstead nearly all the way through, and, of course, he knew that the Dwarf had done it.

He turned his back on the broken rock and sawed the ropes against it.

It was now easy to unjoint the bones, and but a moment's work to saw off the shattered piece, tie the severed arteries, and bring the flap again into its place.

Baptiste had been employed by Captain Sutter to saw lumber with a whipsaw, and had been at work for two years at a place, since called Weber, about ten miles eastward from Coloma.

Presently, relieving each other frequently, we completed the second cut, and after that the bo'sun set us to saw a block about twelve inches deep from the remaining portion of the topmast.

But if the State University life is able to beat me before I get to sawing bones at all, I'd make a pretty missionary doctor if I ever landed in foreign parts, wouldn't I?" Marcia could find nothing to say; perhaps because her thoughts were busy with other and more personal aspects of Joe's plans for the future.

It came in sharp, painful gasps, sawing its way through his tortured flesh.

This is likely to occur where the logs have considerable taper, and in this case may be produced if sawed parallel to the axis of growth instead of parallel to the growth rings.

They were at work from the outside, sawing entrances through the labyrinth of planks.

"By the breath of my body!" said Little John, as soon as he could gather his wits from their wonder, "sawest thou that,

They're quite capable of sawing off the branch they're sitting on.

A crowd of carpenters were employed in hewing down the trees, while others were sawing planks.

I'm going to saw off a cord or two myself.

And how d'ye think that hole comes there, barring all oversights in setting up the sticks?" "It has not been made intentionally, I should hope, O'Hearn?" "'Twas made by Joel, and that by just sawing off a post, and forcin' out a pin or two, so that the palisade works like a door.

"A week ago last Thursday the local posts of the American Legion commenced their organized drive for jobs for their crippled and unemployed comrades, and within three days you've sawed off two hundred and nine such jobs on the various corporations that you control.

" "You sawed 'im?

"Why do you want to saw off an old maid on that two-fisted man you've knew ever since he was knee-high to a grasshopper?

Yet to direct her course was impossible; the pirates having completely disabled her, by cutting away her rigging and sawing the masts all the way through.

The impression left on my mind by my visitor is just as though a grasshopper had leapt upon my window-sill from the garden-bed, and sate there awhile, with his blank eyes, his long, impassive, horse-like face, twiddling his whisks and sawing out a whizzing note with his dry arm.

66 collocations for  saws