Coaches 'compensation accounts for more than half that, and little whittling is going on there.    From Wordnik.com.  [College football coaches see salaries rise in down economy] Reference

But even mathematics Mr. Keith made interesting; he succeeded in whittling problems small enough to get through my brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of My Life] Reference

I will begin whittling down the daily emails as folks migrate over to this better method, and will eventually discontinue them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Super Librarian, the comic, available today] Reference

You know, there ` s this, like, skinny thing that happens when they all start kind of whittling down.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2005] Reference

Men whittling, doing beadwork, or lounging at ease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference

"What is it?" he asked as he produced the whittling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity] Reference

The auto was no place to do any whittling, he found.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony] Reference

There are as many ways as there are ways of whittling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference

"I did," said Joe, quietly whittling away at his arrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends] Reference

I was just whittling the handle to see what kind of wood it was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers in Camp or The Water Fight at Diamond X] Reference

He holds a wooden stick, which he is whittling with a jackknife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainments for Home, Church and School] Reference

As he was thinking, almost unconsciously he began whittling a stick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legend Land, Volume 2 Being a Collection of Some of The Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by The Great Western Railway] Reference

Well, little Joe went whistling and whittling along, thinking of Bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends] Reference

Britain that whittling in this land led to something, a Boston notion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885] Reference

But the whittling keeps his hands and eyes busy, and steadies his nerves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference

In whittling, it is always best to lay off the pattern on both sides of the wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Construction Work for Rural and Elementary Schools] Reference

First, the brand was whittling down waists, then it was dropping in dogs in Polos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralph Lauren Retouching Models' Heads? (PHOTOS, POLL)] Reference

With a new knife he was whittling a bit of wood into the rude semblance of a boat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Princess Polly's Playmates] Reference

Nickey, who was dressed and sitting on the top of the corn-crib whittling a stick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hepsey Burke] Reference

"Nope -- an 'don't care neither," said Wade, contentedly returning to his whittling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

He resumed his seat, but not the whittling, leaning against a tree with closed eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference

"We can figure out what to do when it happens," Pop said, whittling away at his chin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Night of the Long Knives] Reference

Darry looked up from his work of whittling more stretching boards, interested at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast] Reference

It was more of a tool than a whittling toy, for he used it in tinkering about the airship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference

He was whittling a toy of some kind for the little boys, both of whom were hanging upon him.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Janice Day Won] Reference

"Naw," answered Billiard contemptuously, without looking up from the stick he was whittling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference

This may be made by whittling branches, or a gymnasium wand or piece of broomstick may be used.    From Wordnik.com.  [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference

Strauss-Kahn has been whittling away at taxes, trying to create more incentives for entrepreneurs.    From Wordnik.com.  [While The Sun Shines] Reference

As we drove up to the gate I saw the brothers standing in little groups about the yard, whittling and talking.    From Wordnik.com.  [And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses] Reference

Just as it is for any other bride, whittling down the guest list is one of the toughest tasks in planning a wedding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Irene S. Levine: Chelsea's Getting Married: What about her friends?] Reference

The rest have either gone on to bigger investments or are still finding their way while whittling away at their funding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will These Guys Kill The Next Google?] Reference

  I craft these delicate corporate confessions, whittling down these wooden calls into graceful swans of reconciliation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Site] Reference

Open finally figured out how to start whittling down the number of Spanish men left in the draw: Make them play one another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spaniards Dominate Yet Another Sport] Reference

A man in blue jeans who sat on the veranda of a store opposite, leaning against its wall, stopped whittling and shut his jacknife.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

If I set him to whittling a bit of wood or to sawing a board, he was sure soon to apply for a bandage to stop the flow of blood from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Sketches from Oldest America] Reference

Now L am going to turn away -- for a time at any rate -- from whittling of wood, and to speak of cutting of cork -- that is ordinary corks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference