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Anson's earning twenty-five a day at carpentering, Liverpool getting twenty logging for the saw-mill, and Big Bill's getting forty a day as chief sawyer.
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These men are engaged with a saw-mill and the Man of Confidence made strong complaints regarding treatments.
Work Camp 10620 GW 2010
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It was not until they had left the mountain behind them, crossed the flat, and come out on the river by the saw-mill, that the bustle and skurry of human life made it seem possible for them to speak.
CHAPTER 14 2010
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And ever we caught peeps, far down, of steam schooners loading lumber in the rocky coves; ever we skirted the cliffs, day after day, crossing stretches of rolling farm lands and passing through thriving villages and saw-mill towns.
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There is no finer, more succinct example of this aspect of his character than Brown's concluding letter to Frederick Huxham, the iron-founder with whom he had a six-month quarrel over the pricing of a saw-mill:
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I had worked at various odd jobs in between— saw-mill hand, chainman on a surveying crow, and draftsman, for instance— and had travelled in North America, Europe and Asia.
Archive 2008-08-01 Chris Perridas 2008
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I had worked at various odd jobs in between— saw-mill hand, chainman on a surveying crow, and draftsman, for instance— and had travelled in North America, Europe and Asia.
Antiquarian Weird Tales: L Sprague de Camp (1950) Chris Perridas 2008
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The fluffy cat licks my palm, purrs so sweetly and the fire flares bright on the saw-mill turret by the lake.
Oh, to live simply a/k/a How to be happy when a bird totals your jet plane 2008
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The fluffy cat licks my palm, purrs so sweetly and the fire flares bright on the saw-mill turret by the lake.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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A little higher there was a very primitive saw-mill, also out of repair, with some logs lying about.
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