38 examples of woodpile in sentences

None of you women would take hershe can't starveand she can't sleep in the school woodpile.

He knew how to turn his hand to a great many things, thanks to his home-training; and a woodpile was one of the matters he had learned how to deal with, but he had not taken hold of that of Mrs. Myers with any heart for his work.

he'll come out all right: the corn's mostly shelled, and the woodpile can't last forever.

The soldiers rode into the yard ahead of us, and the first person they met was a servant (Frank) at the woodpile.

We drove in at the gate, through the grove, and passed the woodpile where McGee and the soldiers were talking.

The mule was invisible, but one knew it was a mule because Piney Jackson has just come out and taken a two-by-four from the woodpile behind the shop.

"Look at that," said Piney Jackson, indicating a humped-up individual sitting behind the woodpile.

Racey and the other spectators went round the woodpile and viewed the humped-up individual.

There were Christmas and New Year's and St. Valentine parties, and by that time Bill Harmon saw the woodpile in the Carey shed grow beautifully less.

So he sat down on one of the logs of my woodpile: a solid sort of man, rather warm after his recent activities.

A cornfield, a plow, a woodpile, an oak tree, will cure no man unless he have it in himself to be cured.

You would have done as well to stay in Pentonville and work on my woodpile.

Stems can be well studied from pieces of wood from the woodpile.

In due time dinner was ready, and Andy was summoned from the woodpile.

The dog had slunk behind the woodpile.

A large slab from an oak log in the front yard near a woodpile bore mute evidence of many an ax blow.

He examines fences, the under part of the eaves of houses, and the woodpile, and destroys, in the course of his foraging, many an embryo moth and butterfly which would otherwise become the parent of noxious larvae.

At the election of January 4, 1858, for officers under the Lecompton Constitution, the returns from Delaware Agency underwent such suspicious handling that an investigating commission of the Legislature, by aid of a search-warrant, found them secreted in a candle-box buried under a woodpile near Calhoun's "surveyor-general's office" at Lecompton.

Random reflections, platitudinous, cautious, woodpile-raking, wrong-headed, invidious.

"But the Wren that Rap says lives in the woodpile in the winter is not our House Wren, but another member of the same familythe smallest of all, called the Winter Wren.

One day when I went out to my woodpile, or rather my pile of stumps, I observed two large ants, the one red, and the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely contending with each other.

Then one afternoon, while he was patching the lot fence, with Buck sunning himself near the woodpile, came Old Man Thornycroft.

"There's an Ethiopian in the woodpile, sure enough.

Instinct guided him to the woodpile, and the law of self-preservation filled his arms with wood, and instinct carried him to the kitchen wood-box time and again, and laid the wood in the box as gently as if it had been glass and as softly as if it had been velvet.

" After that speech he got a square meal and no reference to the woodpile.

38 examples of  woodpile  in sentences