But at this saw-log hour of the morning, who on Earth could possibly be talking about him? ❋ Unknown (2010)
It was about a foot in diameter at the big end, and he had expected to get a good saw-log, but it was so rotten as to be fit only for fuel, if for that. ❋ Unknown (2004)
They had big brass dog-irons that could hold up a saw-log. ❋ Unknown (2003)
When they marry, they "hitch on," as if matrimony were a sled, and a wife were a saw-log. ❋ Timothy Titcomb (N/A)
Are you a inviten 'me to pound you over the head with a saw-log? ❋ John Beatty (N/A)
Captain Henry H. George built "Thornberry" in Caroline County, making the bricks for his house on the premises and sawing the timbers and the lumber for his house with a whipsaw, using one man in the pit below the saw-log and one or two men on the scaffold above the pit, sawing all of the lumber for his home and the various buildings on his farm of Thornberry by man power. ❋ Unknown (1924)
He gained at last a field of application for the accuracy he had so intelligently acquired while road-making, for now a false stroke marred a saw-log; and besides, what was more to his taste, he found himself near the actual scene of operation, at the front, as it were. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
O'Donnell, who could turn a somersault on a floating pine log; of the birling matches, wherein two men on a single log try to throw each other into the river by treading, squirrel fashion, in faster and faster rotation; of how a riverman and spiked boots and a saw-log can do more work than an ordinary man with a rowboat. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
He gained at last a field of application for the accuracy he had so intelligently acquired while road-making, for now a false stroke marred a saw-log; and, besides, what was more to his taste, he found himself near the actual scene of operation, at the front, as it were. ❋ Unknown (1902)
And, finally, they require a very careful and patient training before they are of value in co-operating with the nicely adjusted efforts necessary to place the saw-log where it belongs. ❋ Unknown (1902)
Young Ward was the grandson of old John, a pioneer who was in his day a saw-log baron of the times of pumpkin pine; by heredity Ward was the foremost champion in the cause of the modern independent operators. ❋ Holman Day (1900)
Perhaps a deer or a bear waded through the stream; or a saw-log may have grounded for a moment in the shallow; or possibly it was only the current, for by this time most of the snow had melted, and the little river was working night and day to carry the water out of the woods. ❋ William Davenport Hulbert (1890)
It was the river that carried her off, and it was a floating saw-log that she rode upon, an unwilling passenger. ❋ William Davenport Hulbert (1890)
Mary Ann knew that she might as well try to convince a saw-log that its proper course was up-stream, as to protest against Peter's obstinacy. ❋ Edward William Thomson (1886)
Wit 'saw-log an' squar 'timber raf', mos 'all de season t'roo -- ❋ William Henry Drummond (1880)
The landlord was right -- there was a good deal of him -- six feet and an inch, I should think; straight as an oar, his bared arms swinging free; waist, thighs, and back tough as a saw-log. ❋ Francis Hopkinson Smith (1876)
Stretching out his stout saw-log legs and settling his big shoulders into the soft cushions made by the sacks, his mind went back to the old sawmill, -- ❋ Francis Hopkinson Smith (1876)
Water two inches deep won't float a great saw-log, because a great saw-log weighs more than the amount of water it takes to cover its lower part two or three inches deep; and water two or three feet deep won't float a drift-pile twenty feet high, because such a drift-pile weighs a good deal more than a body of water two or three feet deep, of its own length and width. ❋ George Cary Eggleston (1875)
