wood-cutter

The door burst open and the wood-cutter ran in with his chopper in his hand.

Little Red Riding Hood David Hadley 2009

It avoided the standard wood-cutter who will become king type hero although maybe the entire sequence will become more traditional along with there being no good versus evil plot.

Book Review Club: The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch Scott Parker 2009

The door burst open and the wood-cutter ran in with his chopper in his hand.

Archive 2009-04-01 David Hadley 2009

The sort of affirmations which he seemed to fling out before him at random came like hiccoughs, and to each he added the gesture of a wood-cutter who is splitting wood.

Les Miserables 2008

Hougomont, — this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, the first resistance, which that great wood-cutter of Europe, called Napoleon, encountered at Waterloo, the first knot under the blows of his axe.

Les Miserables 2008

The Baron was disgraced in consequence of his known legitimist opinions, and has lived for some time in the humble capacity of a wood-cutter, in a forest on the outskirts of the Kingdom of Crim Tartary.

The Rose and the Ring 2006

It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood-cutter, from the tree of the poet.

Nature 2006

While they were talking however, the honest wood-cutter was coming in at the gate with his buck and saw.

Jennie Gerhardt 2004

I thought of the wood-cutter and his axe, and had some dead idea that I was lying in a forest.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

I heard a noise of blows, and thought it was a wood-cutter cutting down a tree.

Our Mutual Friend 2004