 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
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...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...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... | |
 | Star reciter - 1873 - 330 σελίδες
...the " Settler's elluin," Last of its timber — they conldn't sell 'em — Never an axe had seen the chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips,...linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue ; Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide ; Boot, top, dasher, from tough »ld hide, Found in the... | |
 | Patrick O'Shea - 1873 - 524 σελίδες
...rom 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...— Last of its timber — they couldn't sell 'em ; 6. Never an ax had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 σελίδες
...from the straigh test trees ¡ The panels of whitewood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for their strife ; The palace banged, and buzzed and clack t ; And all the long-pent stream of life Da could n't sell 'cm, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 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 'emj Never an ax had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 σελίδες
...that these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like ellum," — Last of its timber, — they couldn't...chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 σελίδες
...things like these ; The hubs of lo:;s from the "Settler's clluin." — Last of its timber. — thry couldn't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips....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 when... | |
 | George Manville Fenn - 1899 - 548 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...Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips ; Step and prop- iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 σελίδες
...cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs of logs from the " Settler's ellnm " — Last of its timber — they couldn't sell 'em, Never...celery-tips ; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Sprmg, tire, axle, and linchpin too, 51 i•.•! of tho finest, bright and blue ; Thoroughbrace bison-skin,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 σελίδες
...from the straightest trees; The panels of white-wood, that cuts H ko cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's...couldn't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips. Ami the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celerytips; Step and prop-iron,... | |
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