In line 18 saws means "sayings" (compare the phrase "an old saw"); modern means "moderate," "commonplace"; instances means what we mean by it today, "examples," "illustrations."

" Of the words we have examined, only sans is obsolete, though pard, saws, and pantaloon are perhaps not entirely familiar.

J.W. was down at the factory to see about some new band-saws that had been installed; and, his errand finished, he stopped for a chat with Angus.

This, and abundance of similar sage saws assuming to inculcate content, we verily believe to have been the invention of some cunning borrower, who had designs upon the purse of his wealthier neighbour, which he could only hope to carry by force of these verbal jugglings.

Can logic have been invented like saws and ships for purposes of human service?

There she sat, she knew not how long, listening, listening, like a hunted hare; her whole faculties concentrated in the one sense of hearing; her eyes wandering vacantly over the black saws of rock, and glistening oar-weed beds, and bright phosphoric sea.

" "Dozens!" says Tom, and begins fumbling in his pockets; from whence he pulls a case of surgical instruments, another of mathematical ones, another of lancets, and a knife with innumerable blades, saws, and pickers, every one of which he opens carefully, and then spreads the whole fearful array upon the grass before him.

In one of his immortal saws he has cautioned us against "making God in man's image."

"Well, you know there is an old saw that says it is useless to cry over spilled milk" "Confound your old saws!

And so the contractor's men came with axes and saws and horses and carts.

Upon the platform built over the skids were piled the tools of the crew, sawed blocks for the fire box, axes, saws, grindstones, all that was necessary in their task.

From the peep of day till dusk shrouded the woods, Benton's donkey puffed and groaned, axes thudded, the thin, twanging whine of the saws rose.

And then, the grandame idly wastes her breath, In venting saws 'bout maiden modesty And strict decorum,from some musty volume: But the clipp'd wings will quickly sprout again;

The chief articles are sharp instruments, as knives, scissors, razors, saws, and edge-tools of various kinds, and to these may be added, files and plated goods to a great extent, besides stove-grates and fenders of exquisite beauty.

The rest are engaged in the plated trades, in saws, files, and some fancy trades.

A gin of sixty saws newly installed had proved too heavy for the old driving apparatus, but it was now in operation with shifts of four mules instead of two as formerly.

During that day and the next they remained quiet, except that Jacob walked over to Cowes, where he purchased two very fine and sharp saws, and a short length of strong rope, with a hook.

When stone saws had hollowed out the trunks of trees and human arms had ventured to spread the first rawhides to the forces of the atmosphere, the coasts became rapidly populated.

One gang cuts down the trees, another saws them in pieces, and the third gang is occupied in conveying them, by means of oxen, to the bank of the nearest stream, which is now frozen over.

DoAll contour saws.

DoAll Co. (PWH); 27Apr70; R483454. WILKIE, LEIGHTON A. DoAll precision saws.

Knives and Saws, Inc. catalog 49.

DoAll contour saws.

DoAll Co. (PWH); 27Apr70; R483454. WILKIE, LEIGHTON A. DoAll precision saws.

I could new-make all the saws of the world, set instances to them, and never breathe myself.