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Got to give credit to Jack: helping to create an afterlife where he gets to play "hide the pickle" with sawyer's old lady, was genius.
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Dort had the inspiration to burn the sawmill building, easily done with the vanished sawyer's flint and steel.
Harbinger Hall 2004
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Dort had the inspiration to burn the sawmill building, easily done with the vanished sawyer's flint and steel.
Harbinger Hall 2004
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They had almost reached the sawyer's cottage, when a black animal ran out towards them.
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-- This invention relates to an improved sawyer's rule, and consists of a rule on which is a scale showing at a glance the number of boards or planks, of any desired thickness, which can be sawn from a log of any given diameter.
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And again: I am trying so hard to get to work on a play and first excuses came – Thursday headache; now I feel myself longing to take over the saw-mill, which has stopped with the head sawyer's departure and only wants a steady superintendent; or to translate L'Avare or the Irish fairy tales, or anything rather than creative work!
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The sawyer's wife described to him how her husband had brought her in, and how she seemed so tired and bewildered that she fell asleep while they were questioning her.
Tommy and Grizel 1898
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This keeps the disc revolving as fast as the saw turns, and the friction wheel is moved across the face of the disc by a lever which is operated by the sawyer's knee, the friction wheels sliding on a feather key.
Liddell Company, Manufacturers of Engines, Boilers, Saw Mills, Cotton and Yarn Presses, Shafting, Pulleys, etc., Charlotte, N.C. N.C. Charlotte 1890
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There would have been no shelter from this, if by chance John Mangles had not discovered a sawyer's hut, deserted and dilapidated to a degree.
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One of the sawyers lent him a miserable half-starved little pony; and he penetrated to another sawyer's hut, seven miles distant up the Matukituki river.
Station Amusements 1871
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