They cut thick logs of wood, and planted them firmly in the ground, prepared fireproof rooms for the ammunition, and were in the course of a few days ready in case of emergency.

Brutus threw another log on the fire, which gave off a brisk crackling from the bed of coals.

They had cut into the mountain-side for a level foundation, and were hard at it now hauling logs.

Up the steps they came, yelling like devils fresh from hell, and brought the log crashing against the door, while others thrust their muskets through the loopholes and fired into the hallway.

Almost at the same instant, the main body of the savages advanced at a run, some of them carrying a heavy log, the others holding boards in front of them.

I'll do as much for you again, when you like; you roll my log, and I'll roll yours: one hand washes another.

He did not feel called upon to help to split logs for the roof of the Big Cabin, but he sat cutting and whittling away at a little shelf which he said was to be nailed up at the right of the Big Cabin door.

" Nicholas nodded, laid the logs side by side, and on them built a fire of the seasoned wood the Boy had gathered.

He began to whistle and draw the half-burned logs together, and as the fire blazed up afresh he shouted to awaken Thorp and Isobel.

" Then, as if the matter were settled, he looked again at the shuttered window, and leaned down to place another log in the fire.

"When they want to sail, they burn off a log of wood, and make it hollow by burning and scraping it with sharp stones.

Prospero had commanded Ferdinand to pile up some heavy logs of wood.

This was generally because of the swampy nature of the ground, which prevented farming operations being carried on, while the difficulty of getting the logs out of the bogs had deterred lumbering thus far.

On one very steep pitch, for instance, I saw before me two logs across the path, two feet and more in diameter, and what was worse, not two feet apart.

They had seen him lift great logs, wrench boulders from the earth.

He went up-stream; there lay an old cedar log so that it spanned the current, its sturdy old trunk ten feet above the water.

"There are certain things," replied Forester, "which the farmers can not very well do for themselves, by their own strength, particularly grinding their corn, and sawing logs into boards for their houses.

When she had gone, Osborn frowned and getting up savagely kicked a log in the grate.

So she turned aside and walked a few yards down the hollow, where she found a log on which to seat herself.

" =408.= All sights were mellowed, and all sounds subdued, The hills seemed farther, and the streams sang low; As in a dream, the distant woodman hewed His winter log, with many a muffled blow.

" They took off the top log from the south wall of the cabin, measured a two-foot space in the middle, and the Colonel sawed out the superfluous spruce intervening.

On the boat's coming up with the nearest Indian, he left his log and, diving under the boat's bottom, swam astern; this he did whenever the boat approached him, and it was four or five minutes before he was caught, which was at last effected by seizing him by the hair, in the act of diving, and dragging him into the boat, against which he resisted stoutly, and, even when taken, it required two men to hold him to prevent his escape.

She watched the sparks fly upward each time she touched the log, and she nodded slowly.

Thus he stood for two whole hours, making no move other than to cast a log on the fire now and then.

"Here we are at Halifax, and nobody has heaved the log yet.