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 - Page 290by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 373 pagesFull view - About this book
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 244 pages
...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...Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the fmest, bright and blue ; Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide ; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old... | |
| Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - 1870 - 396 pages
...cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs of logs from the " Setter's ellum",— Last of its timber — they couldn't sell...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 where... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1870 - 444 pages
...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...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... | |
| Edmund Routledge - 1871 - 194 pages
...panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs from logs from the " Settler's ellum " Last of its timber...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... | |
| 1871 - 320 pages
...like these ; 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...linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue; Thoronghbrace bison-skin, thick and wide ; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit... | |
| Mother Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 pages
...The hubs of logs from the " Settler's eUum"— Last of its timber — they could n't sell 'em ; 6. 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 - 1872 - 246 pages
...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... | |
| 1872 - 900 pages
...from the straigh test trees ; The panels of whitewood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for iendship, and love, Divinely bestowed upon man ! 0,...wisdom of age, And be cheered by the sallies of youth. blua ; HUMOROUS POEMS. Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide ; Buot, top, dasher, from tough old... | |
| Anna Randall Diehl - 1872 - 460 pages
...cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs from logs from the " Seller's ellum "— Last of its timber — they couldn't sell...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... | |
| 1872 - 514 pages
...panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs from logs from the " Settler's ellum "— Last of its timber — they couldn't sell 'em — Never an ax had seen their chips, THE WONDERFUL " ONE-HOSS SHA Y." 215 And the wedges flew from between their... | |
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