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My Advice: try not to fall in love with one of those rugged lumber-jack ax-toting, lion-hunting, baby-makin' menonite men.
Adventures in Bolivia Gina 2008
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I don't know of anything that can beat a lumber-jack on a squeeze job, once you get him to realize that he's up against long odds.
Then I'll Come Back to You Larry Evans
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He was in the Klondike gold-fields, in the salmon canneries, a prospector, a lumber-jack in the Canadian Northwest, a cowboy, a sailor, a worker in the
T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice
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It was Saturday evening, and Eldorado was crowded with ranchers, lean, bronzed, work-stained men in khaki riding breeches and gaudy lumber-jack blouses -- simple men to whom this was the city.
The Chinese Parrot Biggers, Earl Derr, 1884-1933 1926
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The effect of the vocations and the division of labor is to produce, in the first instance, not social groups but vocational types -- the actor, the plumber, and the lumber-jack.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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It seemed as if Henderson, the lumber-jack, had read Peter's thought.
100\%: the Story of a Patriot Upton Sinclair 1923
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They had put Mac in the "hole," and Henderson, the lumber-jack, was laid up in the hospital as a result of the ordeal he had undergone.
100\%: the Story of a Patriot Upton Sinclair 1923
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Henderson, the lumber-jack, and Gus Lindstrom, the sailor, had been in jail with Peter, and had been among his intimates ever since.
100\%: the Story of a Patriot Upton Sinclair 1923
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There was a big, brawny lumber-jack from the North, Jim Henderson by name, who had been driven out of the camps for the same reason, and had appalling stories to tell of the cruelties and hardships of the life of a logger.
100\%: the Story of a Patriot Upton Sinclair 1923
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In the telling, the _Bois brûlé_ had mentioned the name of the drunken lumber-jack who had baited her Pierre to his death, and in the old woman's brain the name of Moncrossen was the symbol of all black deviltry.
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