When West awoke, Morse was whittling on a piece of wood with his sharp hunting-knife.

The pegs I whittled out of that log.

She could not see Piers' face which was bent above the stick which he had begun to whittle with his knife.

"Too bad your horse fell," he remarked stupidly, gathering up the handful of shavings he had whittled from a piece of pine board.

Pray, are you allowed, in consideration of your nationality, to whittle in Harrow School?" This was said by way of a reproof for the state of the floor.

Flint lounged on the sward, whistling softly as he whittled at a fallen bough.

" "Dibbles!" "Short flat sticks whittled to a point.

The wands in question are sticks whittled near the top into a mass of adherent shavings; they go by the name of kedzurikake ("part-shaved"), and resemble the sacred inao of the Aino.

When speaking of the Yankee, he says: "He's whittling by St. Mary's Falls, Upon his loaded wain; He's measuring o'er the Pictured Rocks, With eager eyes of gain.

Money is the only thing that moves her, and when she has taken a bribe she will whittle down the service to the finest point.