 That couldn't be split nor bent nor broke,^ That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for...  The Autocrat of the breakfast table - Σελίδα 290των Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 373 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | James Madison Watson - 1864 - 434 σελίδες
...logs from the " Settler's ellura" — Last of its timber — they could n't sell 'em — Never an ax had seen their chips, . And the wedges flew from between...linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue ; Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide ; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide, Found in the pit... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1866 - 526 σελίδες
...cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs of logs from the " Settler's ettum," — Last of its timber, — they couldn't sell 'em; Never...between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery tips ; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the... | |
 | 1867 - 530 σελίδες
...from the straightest trees ; The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs of logs from the ' Settler's...linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue ; Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide ; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 σελίδες
...from the straightest trees ; The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, Bat lasts like irou for things like these ; The hubs of logs from the "settler's ellum," — ' Last of its timber, they could n't sell 'em; Never an ax had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 σελίδες
...lancewood to make the thills ; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees ; But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs of logs from the "settler's ellum," — Last of its timber, they could n't sell 'em; Never an ax had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips,... | |
 | Richard Edwards, John Russell Webb - 1868 - 510 σελίδες
...hubs of logs from the "settler's ellum," — Last of its timber, they could n't sell 'em; Never an ax had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between...bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Stool of the finest, bright and blue ; Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide ; Boot, top, dasher,... | |
 | John Swett - 1867 - 252 σελίδες
...from the straiglitest trees; The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs of logs from the ''Settler's...of its timber, — they couldn't sell 'em, Never an ax had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like... | |
 | John Swett - 1868 - 246 σελίδες
...from the straiglrtest trees; The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum,"— Last of its timber,—they couldn't sell 'em, Never an ax had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between... | |
 | Charles A. Wiley - 1869 - 456 σελίδες
...of logs from the\" Settler's cllum," — Last of its timber, — they couldn't sell 'em, Never an ax had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between...linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue : Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide : Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the vat... | |
 | 1869 - 310 σελίδες
...from the straightest trees ; The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs of logs from the " Settler's ellum," — Last of its timber, — they could n't sell 'erri, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips,... | |
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