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Examples
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It's insured fur about what the lumber's worth, but that ain't much consolation.
Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters William Murray Graydon 1905
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Pegaway Hall is not a bad place, and quite enough room in it when the lumber's cleared out o 'the way.
Post Haste 1859
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A 4% increase in lumber prices more than offset a 10% decline in lumber's sales volumes, while plywood and MDF prices and volumes were similar to third quarter's levels.
unknown title 2012
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A sawyer needs to size it up and look for shape-whether it's tapered, whether it has large knots, or whether a pitch seam has the potential to ruin the lumber's integrity.
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Gifford has a twenty-acre grove down in the bottoms that's mostly all walnut trees, and I heard him say just the other day that walnut lumber's got so high he had a notion to clear his land. "
The Early Bird A Business Man's Love Story George Randolph Chester 1896
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"You go in and git your land filed on, and put you up a sod house or dugout for the first season, because lumber's awful high out here.
The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains Emerson Hough 1890
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"The secret to [Floyd's] lumber's quality lay in his children's ability to discern pitch … There was a certain sound, a ringing, that a fully tempered saw made when it had achieved that absolute perfect edge.
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"The secret to [Floyd's] lumber's quality lay in his children's ability to discern pitch … There was a certain sound, a ringing, that a fully tempered saw made when it had achieved that absolute perfect edge.
NewWest Boulder 2010
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"The secret to [Floyd's] lumber's quality lay in his children's ability to discern pitch … There was a certain sound, a ringing, that a fully tempered saw made when it had achieved that absolute perfect edge.
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"The secret to [Floyd's] lumber's quality lay in his children's ability to discern pitch … There was a certain sound, a ringing, that a fully tempered saw made when it had achieved that absolute perfect edge.
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