whittlings

They started out as small whittlings for good luck that people would keep in a revered place in the home, or wear around the neck as amulets.

Jacobo Angeles: A rich wood-carving tradition in Oaxaca, dating to pre-Hispanic times 2008

They started out as small whittlings for good luck that people would keep in a revered place in the home, or wear around the neck as amulets.

Jacobo Angeles: A rich wood-carving tradition in Oaxaca, dating to pre-Hispanic times 2008

These whittlings on our rules, our values (torture, imprisonment for years without access to justice, warmongering, theofascism ...) our principles are like cuts in the barc at the base of a tree.

Printing: Bush Legalizes Corporate Enronism, Further Whittling Away At the Floodgates Protecting America from Dark Times 2006

These whittlings on our rules, our values (torture, imprisonment for years without access to justice, warmongering, theofascism ...) our principles are like cuts in the barc at the base of a tree.

Bush Legalizes Corporate Enronism, Further Whittling Away At the Floodgates Protecting America from Dark Times 2006

Sometimes, notwithstanding the snow, when I returned from my walk at evening I crossed the deep tracks of a woodchopper leading from my door, and found his pile of whittlings on the hearth, and my house filled with the odor of his pipe.

Walden 2004

"I'll go in and tell mother we're going," called Nan to Bert, who shut up his knife, brushed the whittlings off his clothes, and began to gather up the boxes and baskets of lunch.

The Bobbsey Twins at the County Fair Laura Lee Hope

In that store, he saw himself, now moving in the press of business; now examining their posted legers; and now seated in the comfortable counting-room, counselling on their growing concerns, or conversing with an old friend, or neighbor, as the smooth pine whittlings rolled like ribbons from his hand; and now on the back piazza, enjoying the air and prospect.

Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Day Kellogg Lee

"I'll call her," Sue said, while Bunny kept on brushing the tiny whittlings from his jacket and short trousers.

Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony Laura Lee Hope

Alex sprang down beside him, and produced the charred pine whittlings.

The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Francis Lovell Coombs

A generation after Newton's death fossils were referred for their origin to a certain "plastic power" in Nature -- mere idle whittlings of bone that had never known an outfit of flesh and blood.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various