 | Charles Stedman Newhall - 1890 - 282 Seiten
...The hubs of logs from the ' Settler's Ellum,' — Last of its timber, — they could n't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges...their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips ; " — OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. Corky White Elm. U. racembsa, Thomas. In foliage and shape and in the... | |
 | Charles Stedman Newhall - 1890 - 284 Seiten
...The hubs of logs from the ' Settler s Ellum,' — Last of its timber, — they could n't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges...their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips ; " — OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. Corky White Elm. U. racemosa, Thomas. In foliage and shape and in the... | |
 | Mrs. Grace Townsend - 1890 - 640 Seiten
...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 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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 458 Seiten
...timber, — they could n't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges Hew from lietween their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Sprmg, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue ; Thoroughbrace bison-skin,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 362 Seiten
...; The hubs of logs from the " Settler's ellum," — Last of its timber, — they couldn't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips. And the wedges...; Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide ; Boot, top-dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit when the tanner died. That was the way he " put her... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 204 Seiten
...The hubs of logs from the " Settler's ellum," — Last of its timber, — they could n't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges...their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips ; 5o Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the finest,... | |
 | Walter Léon Hess - 1891 - 308 Seiten
...The hubs of logs from the " Settler's ellum," — Last of its timber, — they could n't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges...their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips ; 50 Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the finest,... | |
 | Charles Stedman Newhall - 1891 - 274 Seiten
...; The hubs of logs from the ' Settler's Ellum,'— Last of its timber, — they could n't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges...between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery -tips ; " — OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. Corky White Elm. U. racembsa, Thomas. In foliage and shape... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 328 Seiten
...; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum," — Last of its timber, — they could nrt sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges...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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 432 Seiten
...; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum," — Last of its timber, — they could n't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges...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... | |
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He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees; The panels of whitewood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum... 
