He had rolled the butt of a huge tree, which he had felled, to the proper place, against which to kindle our camp-fire, and we had a pleasant place to sit, with our pipes, in the evening, looking out over the water, listening to the pile-drivers, half a dozen of which were driving their stakes along the reedy shore, with commendable diligence.

A few posts are set in the ground, and a single length cut from the first tree felled produces boards enough for the walls and roof of a cabin; all the rest the lumberman makes is for sale, and he is speedily independent.

Exasperated, Julian thrust his knife into her chest, and felled her to the ground.

And now we set ourselves to walk up to the Depot, where the Government timber was being felled, and the real 'High Woods' to be seen at last.

An enormous silk-cotton near by was felled, in spite of the Negroes' fears.

One would have expected them, when the wood round was felled, to feel the sudden nakedness.

We hurried joyfully down a steep hillside, across a shallow ford, and then up another hillsidethis time with care, for the felled logs and brushwood lay all about a path full of stumps, and we needed a guide to show us our way in the moonlight up to the hospitable house above.

In front, for some distance, too, the timber had been felled and an abatis thus formed.

With felled trees, breastworks, and a crawling stream, Lee reversed all the calculations of the commander of the Federal army.

Both armies had erected impromptu breastworks of felled trees and earth, as continued to be their habit throughout the campaign, and the flat country gave no special advantage to either.

An official estimate places the amount of standing timber in that area at 500,000,000,000 feet, or a thousand years' supply, even at the enormous rate the timber is now being felled and sawed.

He has seen three hundred of the first people in the county filling the gallery, and seen five hundred deer disporting themselves in the beautiful park, now covered with stunted offshoots of felled trees.

The giant, finding himself thus insulted, ran in a fury to his weapons; and returning to Orlando, slung at him a large stone, which struck him on the head with such force, as not only made his helmet ring again, but felled him to the earth.

Now he chucked a spy into a rivernow felled a rude ambassador to the earth (for he didn't stand upon ceremony)now cleared a space round him in battle with the clapper of an old bell which he had found at the monasterynow doubled up a king in his tent, and bore him away, tent and all, and a Paladin with him, because he would not let the Paladin go.

Basio', term used of any old palma brava tree that has been broken down or felled, and lies on the ground (supa, "drag," "lower;" tapo, "penis").

I felled a cedar tree, and I question much whether Solomon ever had such a one for the building of the Temple at Jerusalem; it was five feet ten inches diameter at the lower part next the stump, and four feet eleven inches diameter at the end of twenty-two feet, where it lessened, and then parted into branches.

At length the master hurled a stone at his head sufficient to have felled a bullockbut he did not heed it.

He seized the long-necked wine bottle, and struck the young man suddenly in the temple, and felled him dead upon the floor.

The same person, for some act of disobedience, on the part, I think, of the same slave, when employed in stacking straw, felled her to the earth with the handle of a pitch fork.

During the Great War a large number of trees were felled and the usually silent woods re-echoed with the noises of a Canadian lumber camp.

If he wished to procure a supply of provisions, he directed his steps towards the most elevated peaks of the mountain, marked his game, pursued it, caught it by the horns, or felled it by a blow from his stick; after which his knife-blade did its office.

To make this definite she sat upon the bole of a felled oak beside the path while Patricia jiggled up and down in eloquent objection to the untimely halt.

So it befell that the Wilbur twin shyly approached the group by the felled tree, and the watching father saw the two children, after a moment's hesitancy on the part of Juliana, disappear from view over the crest of the ridge.

Is it not very explicitly stated in Holy Writ that though the wicked may flourish for a while they are presently felled like green bay-trees?"

She screamed faintly, and Hope met him full in that incautious rush, and felled him like a log with a single blow.