66 Verbs to Use for the Word chip

How kind the "Critical Notices"where small authorship comes to pick up chips of praise, fragrant, sugary, and sappyalways are to them!

He saw a fat, aproned cook hastily gathering up some chips near a chopping block.

In a shelter-tent camp tie the rifle, muzzle up, to the pole of the tent, placing a chip of wood under the butt plate and an oily rag over (never inside) the muzzle.

If birds were not plenty, he would throw up a chip, and sometimes his hat, by way of shooting on the wing.

I've got my hull stack o' chips on this yere half-mile dash.

Neither of these methods exactly striking Keturah's fancy, she took up a little chip and threw at them; also a piece of coal and a handful of pebbles.

"Meaning?" "That I buy chips, take a hand, sit in, deal cards.

" "Never even cut a chip off our boat!" declared Andy.

He left his chips on the pass line and won again.

"Perhaps I've seemed to be carrying a chip on my shoulder, Mr. Nash.

" I had sat with my mouth open while the president talked, and never said a word, but when he quit I said: "Yes, but suppose when you got your bear skun, another bear should come after you and dare you to knock a chip off his shoulder, and growl, and walk sideways with his bristles all up, would you run, or would you stand your ground?" "We better change the subject," said the president, and rose from the table, and we all got up.

" Shaw brought the chips.

It may be a joke, but the people think you are playing for real stones, using gun wads as they've seen poker chips used.

Bloodgood lost all his chips.

He counted out sixteen chips, $160.

" Linnet jumped to her feet and shook a chip from her apron.

In this level we are shown the spots from which famous masses of copper have been removed, and are granted useful, but fleeting statistics of weight; we are also so fortunate as to discover some chips of the wonderful block, raised in '54, I think, which weighed five hundred tons.

" Roscoe set to work upon a spruce, but he could scarcely strike out a chip.

Around this domestic group we have a crowd of ministering angels; some of these little winged spirits are assisting Joseph, sweeping up the chips and gathering them into baskets; others are merely "sporting at their own sweet will."

"I'm mistaken if he won't turn out a chip of the old block.

They will sit shivering in out-of-the-way corners, perpetually uttering a dolorous "chip, chip;" seemingly frozen with cold, though, on handling them, they are found to be in high fever.

You have seen a carpenter on a ladder with a broad-axe, chopping upward chips from a beam.

While the coffin for a dead man is being made, if you cut some chips from it and carry them to the place where the tree was felled for the box, and lay the chips on the stump from which the wood was cut, and then go again on the night of the funeral to the same place, you will see Buso.

I had to be very careful, I remember, to mark my path, so that I could retrace it, and I followed the Border device of making a chip here and there in the bark of trees, and often looking backward to remember the look of the place when seen from the contrary side.

"Mind your chips, Toady, and take care what you say to Aunt Kipp, or you'll be as poor as a little rat all the days of your life," said Polly, warningly.

66 Verbs to Use for the Word  chip