She was a regular presence during the summers on the saw-dust covered grounds of this tent city that was in many ways an "Occupy Chicago" arts project, attracting positive attention from workers in the neighborhood as well as visitors from across the globe who stopped by to be amazed at the productivity of teens from all across the landscape of Chicago. ❋ Regina Fraser (2011)
Both were smeared with recent blood, and a quantity of saw-dust strewed around, partly retained and partly obliterated the marks of a very late execution. ❋ Unknown (2008)
She was breathing heavily; there were tears in her eyes; she was trembling; she was covered with sweat and saw-dust. ❋ Norman, John, 1931- (1982)
At Elmira, N.Y., one application of asphalt and saw-dust only, without a finishing dry roll, completed the work; but the band was run through a bath of hot asphalt as it was wound, thus coating its underside also. ❋ J. L. Campbell (N/A)
Crummles, Master Crummles, Master Peter Crummles, and Miss Crummles, were printed in large letters, and everything else in very small letters; and turning at length into an entry in which was a strong smell of orange-peel and lamp-oil, with an under-current of saw-dust, groping their way through a dark passage, and descending a step or two, emerged upon the stage of the Portsmouth theatre. ❋ Kate Dickinson Sweetser (N/A)
I recollect even "saw-dust" was attempted to be converted into bread, while horse-beans were cooked in all sorts of ways to be made palatable, and were also ground down to a sort of flour as a substitute for wheat. ❋ A Nonagenarian (N/A)
Ye shall take of the saw-dust of Oke-wood oney, and straw that al about the tree root, and the next raine that doth come, all the Pismiers or ❋ E.V. Lucas (N/A)
They said that saw-dust should be called wood-dust; and they found out that wood was called tree when it was alive, and tree was called wood when it was dead. ❋ Various (N/A)
The coating thus consists of two layers of asphalt and two of saw-dust. ❋ J. L. Campbell (N/A)
Merely to ramble along the winding saw-dust walks to the deep embowered springs, was a sufficient augury of improved health. ❋ Eugenia Dunlap Potts (N/A)
There is none of your open-air wagrancy at Jarley's, recollect; there is no tarpaulin and saw-dust at Jarley's, remember. ❋ Kate Dickinson Sweetser (N/A)
Bran or saw-dust is effective in stopping the small leaks which cannot be reached by the wedges. ❋ J. L. Campbell (N/A)
The sea was covered with a brown scum which Captain Cook's sailors called sea saw-dust, from its resemblance to that substance. ❋ Phillip Parker King (N/A)
She got down, and looked about in the saw-dust for it, the audience curiously watching to see what she would do next. ❋ Various (N/A)
"While waiting for their masters, young slaves strewed over the pavement saw-dust dyed with saffron and vermilion, mixed with a brilliant powder made from the lapis specularis, or talc." ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Each piece of pipe goes directly from the winder to the asphalt rolls, then to an adjacent saw-dust table, then back to the rolls, then to the table again, and then to the dry finishing rolls at the opposite end of the table. ❋ J. L. Campbell (N/A)
But when the house is finished, the owner sweeps out all the chips and saw-dust, scrubs the floor, lays down his carpets, hangs up his pictures, arranges his furniture, and moves in with his family. ❋ Col. S. L. Brengle (N/A)
When the curtain rose there was to be seen a small stage carpeted ankle deep with saw-dust, where Professor Bartholomew purposed to have his horses act; first the part of a school, then of a court room, last ❋ Various (N/A)
Nothing appeared, however, but saw-dust; although Fred had positively assured me that he had no doubt we would find a diamond ring, or a piece of money, at least -- as people often did where they least expected it; and it was partly this consideration that led me to consent to the dissection, for we had made an agreement to divide the spoils. ❋ Ella Rodman Church (N/A)
