Woodmen

Lions and tigers and bears and tin woodmen who could sing, and flying monkeys who could talk. ❋ Ph.D. The Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis (2011)

Travellers, woodmen, trees and the land have all evolved in symbiosis here, creating shelter from the storm, a natural haven from the piercing, snow-laden wind that drives across the mountains as we walk on the blessedly soft loam, carpeted by a springy crust of rich brown beech leaves. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Cats lie outside the door and two woodmen sit talking in an even darker inner bar. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

In one place the woodmen had been at work on Saturday; trees, felled and freshly trimmed, lay in a clearing, with heaps of sawdust by the sawing-machine and its engine. ❋ H. G. Wells (2009)

But even as some huge pine, high up on the mountains, which woodmen have left half hewn through by their sharp axes when they returned from the forest — at first it shivers in the wind by night, then at last snaps at the stump and crashes down; so Talos for a while stood on his tireless feet, swaying to and fro, then at last, all strengthless, fell with a mighty thud. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Melbury turned unresistingly as Giles took his arm, and they went back to where the fire was, and sat down under the screen, the other woodmen having gone. ❋ Unknown (2006)

When it was dusk, and the curtains drawn, Winterborne directed a couple of woodmen to bring a crosscut-saw, and the tall, threatening tree was soon nearly off at its base. ❋ Unknown (2006)

“The woodmen have just finished, captain.” said the sailor, laughing, “and when you want masons —” ❋ Unknown (2005)

And patches of blackness where the woodmen had burned the brushwood and rubbish. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The woodmen were overcome with fear when they beheld these three horrible phantoms run, and, not much relishing the company of ❋ Unknown (2004)

Plato and Empedocles believe, that plants are animals, and are informed with a soul; of this there are clear arguments, for they have tossing and shaking, and their branches are extended; when the woodmen bend them they yield, but they return to their former straightness and strength again when they are let loose, and even carry up weights that are laid upon them. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I got within Chapel Wood; I fed upon chestnuts and beechnuts; I continued to hide myself from the gamekeepers and woodmen. ❋ Unknown (2002)

There were woodlots still, the trees young and orderly, but also large brooding tracts of arboreal wilderness, peasant woodmen chopping at the periphery like ants against a tangled garden. ❋ Dietrich, William (2004)