On the other side of the way was a dead brick wall; and a field after that, where there was a sawpit, and joiner's shed. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Barton] Reference
Here I laid out a ship-yard, blacksmith's shop, and sawpit, placing at the head of each, a Monrovian colonist to instruct my slaves. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Dido was at Sarawak, Mr. Jago, the carpenter, built a very beautiful thirty-foot gig, having cut the plank up in the Chinaman's sawpit. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
Chapter House the remaining walls were "no higher than a dado," and under them the timber was stored after treatment in the sawpit of the enclosure. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less] Reference
There was a sawpit in the yard, a favourite hiding-place for the boys, and the turpentiny scent of fresh sawdust had always been a thing to conjure with in the Solitary's memory. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
President of the Belgian Academy, when Paul was famous and on easy terms with famous people, a servant uncorked a tin of turpentine to clean his master's palette, and the sawpit yawned again, and every broken brick in the floor of the old office showed so clear that he could have drawn the finest crevice. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
The excitement of the times reached even to the sawpit. From Wordnik.com. [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference
I'll fight him in a sawpit, or on the outside of a coach if it please you. From Wordnik.com. [Rodney Stone] Reference
Parson and Clerk got through the service see saw like two men in a sawpit. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1] Reference
Mr. Baily would not have any place but the sawpit for his observatory on the 15th May last. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville] Reference
The grating wind sawed rather than blew; and as it sawed, the sawdust whirled about the sawpit. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
These men whom Paul is fighting as if he were in a sawpit with them, in this letter, what was their teaching?. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.] Reference
From that time the dog could not endure her, and henceforth hid his money in the corner of a sawpit, under a heap of dust. From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals] Reference
Every one was happy and light-hearted, and the work went merrily forward, until a great pile of tree-trunks lay ready for the sawpit. From Wordnik.com. [We of the Never-Never] Reference
And my aunt would like to see the new staircase, and to see a kitcat view of a robin redbreast sitting on her nest in a sawpit, discovered by. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1] Reference
Every street was a sawpit, and there were no top-sawyers; every passenger was an under-sawyer, with the sawdust blinding him and choking him. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
When they run away from the triangle, the saw rises, and when they slack the rope, the weight draws it down, as the sawyer in a sawpit would do. From Wordnik.com. [Peter the Whaler] Reference
Clayton, the carpenter, was at once set to work upon the boat, or boats, for a tree was felled, a sawpit rigged up, and a small boat half the size of the whaleboat built. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888] Reference
Two of them were good carpenters, and a sawpit had been dug, that they might prepare the doors and the frames for the window-sashes which Mr Campbell had taken the precaution to bring with him. From Wordnik.com. [The Settlers in Canada] Reference
Two of them were good carpenters, and a sawpit had been dug, that they might prepare the doors and the frames for the window-sashes which Mr. Campbell had taken the precaution to bring with him. From Wordnik.com. [The Settlers in Canada] Reference
For this end, and for many others, I set off to Dulverton, bearing more commissions, more messages, and more questions than a man of thrice my memory might carry so far as the corner where the sawpit is. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor] Reference
Then a camp was pitched in the forest, a mile or so from the homestead; a sawpit dug, a platform erected, and before a week had passed an invitation was issued, for the missus to "come and see a tree felled.". From Wordnik.com. [We of the Never-Never] Reference
It does him good, no doubt, but scarcely helps him forward, since you find him lying drunk that same evening in the wheelwright's sawpit under the shed where the felled trees are, opposite the sign of the Three Jolly Hedgers. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncommercial Traveller] Reference
Mr. Veitch and I believe he resides in the neighbourhood of Kelso who with a Reflecting telescope of his own construction and from his sawpit as an observatory, descried that celestial visitant before it had been noticed by any other astronomer in North Britain. '. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville] Reference
The magistrate wondered Colonel Ednor had not engaged a second, and as the challenge in question looked so much like “slugs in a sawpit,” said he must bind him over to keep the peace, towards Mr. Saunders, or in default thereof, commit him to Tothill-fields bridewell. From Wordnik.com. [The Village Coquette] Reference
Every day fresh trees were felled and chopping contests entered into by Johnny and the Dandy; and as the trees fell in quick succession, black boys and lubras armed with tomahawks, swarmed over them, to lop away the branches, before the trunks were dragged by the horses to the mouth of the sawpit. From Wordnik.com. [We of the Never-Never] Reference
"I sweep floors, stack the timbers, move things, clean the sawpit. From Wordnik.com. [The White Order]
Picton, "although redolent of" slugs in a sawpit, "is full of the national humour. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Da wants the sawpit cleaned later. From Wordnik.com. [The White Order]
“Dry as a sawpit,” Alfred muttered. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
"My throat's as dry as a sawpit.". From Wordnik.com. [Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris] Reference
Let them from forth a sawpit rush at once. From Wordnik.com. [The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]] Reference
He tript near a sawpit, and tumbled right in. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference
"Here ... the entrance to the sawpit. From Wordnik.com. [The White Order]
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