 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 - 1890 - 450 pages
...these ; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum," — Last of its timber, — they could n't stll 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips. And the wedges flew from between theii lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celerytips; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 458 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 wedges Hew from lietween their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips; Step and prop-iron, bolt... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 362 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... | |
 | 1920 - 1002 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...wedges flew from between their lips; Their blunt ends frizzledlike celery-tips; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linch-pin too,... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell - 1921 - 596 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...lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips; 'Knot-grass (Knotweed), Polygonum sp.; Plantain, Plantago major, L. i°Larch, Larix laricina (Du Roi)... | |
 | Donald Hall - 1985 - 266 pages
...from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But last 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 when... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...from the straightest trees; The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for pain 1 Like (1. 41—46) 7 Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 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 ellum," — Last of its timber, — they could n't sell 'em, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips;... | |
 | Robert X. Leeds - 1999 - 366 pages
...lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees; 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 where... | |
 | Paul Negri - 2002 - 146 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 when... | |
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