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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.

    LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES 2010

  • These men are engaged with a saw-mill and the Man of Confidence made strong complaints regarding treatments.

    Work Camp 10620 GW 2010

  • 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

  • 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.

    FOUR HORSES AND A SAILOR 2010

  • 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:

    New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • A little higher there was a very primitive saw-mill, also out of repair, with some logs lying about.

    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

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