Now hunter have far more accessible deer to harvest and the farmers are not (allegedly) piling dead carcasses up like cord-wood to protect their crops. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I've never gotten one back, those pass right through anything short of cord-wood that I have hit. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I shot some cord-wood once from about 4 feet away to see if I could get the bullets back, they went almost to the end (24 & 28 inches of penetration) in solid, dry birch. ❋ Unknown (2009)
All of this while the bodies of black Cincinnatians killed by other black Cincinnatians pile up like cord-wood. ❋ Nathaniel Livingston (2006)
This is Bush's "Victory Strategy"; stacking one deception on top of another like cord-wood and hoping the wary public will believe it; hoping they'll approve another zillion dollars for earth-poisoning ordinance; hoping they'll send another 2,000 sons and daughters into the Iraqi meat-grinder; hoping they'll sign off on the genocidal attack on Iraqi civilians. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The thought of the dinner-table with candles upon it (his idea); the thought of Lillian in a trailing gown of pale-blue or green silk — he liked her in those colors; the thought of a large fireplace flaming with solid lengths of cord-wood, and Lillian snuggling in his arms, gripped his immature imagination. ❋ Unknown (2004)
She looked doubtfully at him, at the low shanty, the yard that was littered with cord-wood, moldy planks, a hoopless wash-tub. ❋ Unknown (2004)
De big old fireplace in dat kitchen at de big house was more dan eight feet wide and you could pile whole sticks of cord-wood on it. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)
It was the memory of the great open kitchen-fire, with its back-log and fore-stick of cord-wood, its roaring, hilarious voice of invitation, its dancing tongues of flame, that called to them through the snows of that dreadful winter to keep up their courage, that made their hearts warm and bright with a thousand reflected memories. ❋ Various (N/A)
J.R. Craney, for instance, he was a romantic man, and gifted according to his own line, and had airy notions ahead of him that he pretty near caught up to; but as to metres, he couldn't tell metres from cord-wood. ❋ Arthur Willis Colton (N/A)
The same labor is commonly assigned to men and women, -- such as digging ditches in the rice marshes, clearing up land, chopping cord-wood, threshing, &c. ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)
(La Place Publique, Mr. Chouteau called it), and drawn up around it were many queer little French _charrettes_, loaded with cord-wood and drawn by small mustangs. ❋ Mary Dillon (N/A)
Crispus Attucks, an intrepid mulatto, who was a leader in the affair at Murray's Barracks, was killed as he stood leaning and resting his breast on a stout "cord-wood stick"; ❋ Various (N/A)
But the woods came to an end abruptly where the trees had been cut off, and where some men with ox-carts were hauling away the long piles of cord-wood. ❋ Various (N/A)
Thus: All thinking men will eagerly admit, that the profession of the schoolmaster is, not only respectable, but honorable, alike to the individual, and to the community in which he pursues it: yet, rather than teach a school for a livelihood, the large majority of the same men would "split rails" or cut cord-wood! ❋ J. L. McConnel (N/A)
I once invented a rule for measuring cord-wood, and tried to introduce it in Boston; but the measurer there told me that the sellers did not wish to have their wood measured correctly, -- that he was already too accurate for them, and therefore they commonly got their wood measured in Charlestown before crossing the bridge. ❋ Various (N/A)
