wood-pile

"Don't let me catch you around my wood-pile, that's all," he threatened.

CHAPTER IX 2010

Hall climbed to the ridge-pole to repeat his warning that Billy must keep away from his wood-pile.

CHAPTER IX 2010

"My wood-pile is my castle, and you've got to understand that."

CHAPTER IX 2010

From thence the tortuous shoots straggled to the wall, clutched it, and ran the whole length of the house, ending near the wood-pile, where the logs were ranged with as much precision as the books in a library.

Eug�nie Grandet 2007

I heard more men coming, my cook was lying quiet on the other side of the counter, stunned or scared speechless, and I had to make another dash for it, like a rabbit hunted out of a wood-pile.

The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006

When the ground was not yet quite covered, and again near the end of winter, when the snow was melted on my south hillside and about my wood-pile, the partridges came out of the woods morning and evening to feed there.

Walden 2004

Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.

Walden 2004

One day when I went out to my wood-pile, or rather my pile of stumps, I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely contending with one another.

Walden 2004

Fogs and rains and warmer suns are gradually melting the snow; the days have grown sensibly longer; and I see how I shall get through the winter without adding to my wood-pile, for large fires are no longer necessary.

Walden 2004

You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.

Walden 2004