Whittler

If you are like me, that is possible yet not pleasing, because I'm not so good a whittler, and most of my "make a spindle" efforts were not so successful. ❋ A Stitch In Time (2009)

In an exaggeratedly cheery voice, she said, Youve shown me what a good wittle whittler you are! ❋ Kresley Cole (2009)

I tend to ignore the Sun's propaganda section, having Jeeves remove it from the apartment with tongs, but yesterday I lapsed into reading the editorial page, and I'm still combing the sparks out of my hair after coming into contact with John Batchelor's D-Day elegy, whose grandiosity makes Victor Davis Hanson's essays look like the shavings of a front-porch whittler. ❋ Wolcott, James, 1952- (2009)

Why should it someone somewhere got a crown etc for their tireless efforts in setting up the various bits and pieces only to walk away and let it fall apart. ps who are BTP on June 19, 2006 at 6: 42 pm | Reply whittler ❋ Inspector Gadget (2006)

Both his academic background and commercial writing experience had trained him to start from the outside in: that is, to structure the tale, research the characters and settings, and then write inward, the way a whittler carves a shape from a stick. ❋ Simmons, Dan (2002)

Then like a whittler, he pried away the folds of bark. ❋ Picoult, Jodi, 1966- (1992)

In his sword-hand, he wielded a small clasp-knife, which did the alternate duty of a toothpick and a whittler, [K] for which latter amusement he kept a small stick in his left hand to operate upon; and the floor bore testimony to his untiring zeal. ❋ Henry A. Murray (N/A)

If you are a good, natural-born whittler you will find it a greater asset than a college degree. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

And even the mere whittler usually whittles his stick to a point: that is, he is "making" something. ❋ Bliss Perry (1907)

And yet, after taking on Western adjustments, this languid pine-box whittler, cracker barrel hugger, shady corner lounger of the cotton fields and sumac hills of the South became famed as a bad man among men who had made a life-long study of the art of truculence. ❋ O. Henry (1886)

Thoreau -- made by the hands of this expert Yankee whittler. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)

Yates, seeing the place so full, and noticing two empty benches up at the front, asked the whittler why they were not occupied. ❋ Robert Barr (1881)

Macdonald swore at it fluently, and requested it to stand still, holding the foot as firmly as if it were in his own iron vise, which was fixed to the table near the whittler. ❋ Robert Barr (1881)

The whittler and Yates got down from the bench, and joined the crowd outside. ❋ Robert Barr (1881)

One after another they got down from the fence, the whittler shutting his knife with a reluctant snap, and putting it in his pocket with evident regret. ❋ Robert Barr (1881)

"What's your hurry, Bartlett?" asked the whittler. ❋ Robert Barr (1881)

Another token of affection and skill from the whittler were carved busks, which were the broad and strong strips of wood placed in corsets or stays to help to form and preserve the long-waisted, stiff figure then fashionable. ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)

“Wow! I absolutely love the whittler! “ Don’t you want me baby [tune]: “🎶[Adolf Whittler] baby. Adolf Whittler, ohhh [oh oh oh]🎶“ ❋ UrLEDLights (2022)

person 1: I don't ever get tired of using this here [electronic whittler]! person 2: And why would you? Its always great fun [grinding] trees into trash like a complete [imbecile]. ❋ Nik Danger (2011)

Hey [Pedro], did you know the [Westside] Whittlers wake up in the morning and [piss excellence]? ❋ Birchball MVP 2017 (2017)