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Common boys fight with wooden swords too, only theirs are sticks and broken branches.
Thor's Morning Wood
A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree ... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Carrying that lumber the forty meters from the forest had left his knuckles blistered, his underarms sopping, but now a few hours of flames had lifted what had taken him months to design, weeks to carry, days to build, all but the nails and rivets, all but the hinges and bolts, all into the sky.
It came as no surprise to learn of the success the Swede has recently enjoyed with his furniture. In that rotten state of his the Swede is permanently on the lookout for firewood, so it is no wonder that from time to time this might result in the odd table or chair.
Wood feeds the fire which burns it.
First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.
Time can make soft that iron wood.
I was in danger of drowning, and nobody lost at sea worries about whether the spar they cling to is made of elm or oak.
Out of used furniture she made a tree.
I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.
I saw a man with a wooden leg and a real foot.
Good wood often warps if no craftsman uses it.
That was Mahogany!!
By the time these words are read, the centuries-old cedar, hemlock, and balsm of the cutblock known as Leah Block 2 will be a distant memory, long since processed into siding, two-by-fours, perhaps even the paper that has been recycled into the pages of this book.
The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.
piece of Turkey carpet
The benches were magnificent. They could have been a hundred years old. They were made from solid mahogany,
It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.
I don't think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970's. That's when I discovered it anyway.
The rain battered the cottage. Valkyrie risked a look up at Skulduggery.
"What is it?" she whispered.
"It's a box," he whispered back.
"What kind of box?"
"A wooden one."
She gave him a look.
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
Greene wood makes a hott fire.
Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark woodbine.
The pine is the mother of legends.
Pemberley Woods with some perturbation;
Fifteen years ago, my wife and I purchased an authentic log cabin in Maryland. Painstakingly restored since, the cabin sits on a forested bluff high above a wide river frequented by ospreys, eagles, geese, herons, and other water fowl.
How rough that wood was, wild, and terrible: By the mere thought my terror is renewed.
I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.
We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.
By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.
No. 9 - The Wavering Wood I should take this one off the list. Fuck the Wavering Wood.
Buttons were made from wood and bone, and the fancier ones from cow horns. These last two materials could be obtained for next to nothing from the several abattoirs in the vicinity, and as for the wood, it lay all round about, clogging up the land, and
How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
Music, or a voice; just some trick of the river on stones, the breeze in the hollow oak? The wood had a million voices, changing with every season and every day; you could never know them all.
Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
The knots in the wood can't be untied.
There's nothing like a nice piece of hickory,
The floors were polished mahogany, clear as glass,
Like piles of dry wood with red-hot coals underneath.
It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.
We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture ...
coltish-looking,
The oak tree is firm and elegant and upright. The weeping willow has allowed the burdens of life to bend it.
we that were wood
when that wide wood was
in a physical Universe playing with
words
bark be my limbs my hair be leaf
Bride be my bow my lyre my quiver
Cutting shapes or letters into the blade so that it leaves a unique pattern on the subjects skin, and using special or rare types of wood to enhance the weight, strength or beauty of the paddle.
board. That made no
And as they gave themselves to each other on the smooth, cedar-scented planks, they made something older than time and newer than tomorrow.
They made love - pure, fresh, timeless, and true.
The piano is not firewood
yet.
The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.
The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.
At first glance, northern hardwood and hemlock forests aren't very sexy - they are the accountants of the forest world, stable and consistent.
A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman - Spell It Or He'll Swing!
Maybe they should go back to wooden sticks.
Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.
If within wood hide flame and smoke and ash then wood consists of things unlike itself.
Modern Furniture for Modern Homes
And if you need timber for a new home," the second said. "I wood be honored. " He boomed out a laugh. "I wood. Get it?" "Farewell
Ground, impaled on the trunk of a tree that has been shaved down to the point of
I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.
Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood.
Reason like a sphere? What type of reasoning does a wooden sphere do?"
"The circular type, I should think. And, by coincidence, it is my favorite type as well. Perhaps that's why I'm so good at the game.
She had bought several plain pine chests to use as love seats or boot boxes, but they came to look to her more and more like children's coffins, so she returned them.
A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.
Her father had built from ax-hewn planks thatched with bamboo and grass. The floor was dirt, but it was clean. Her mother, Foua, sprinkled it regularly with
Excuse me, Professor Flitwick, could I borrow Wood for a moment?' Wood? thought Harry, bewildered; was Wood a cane she was going to use on him?
I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.
It seemed to Rand like years since there had not been firewood to split. But complaining would not keep the house warm, so he fetched the axe, propped up bow and quiver beside the chopping block, and got to work. Pine for a quick, hot flame, and oak for long burning.
I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end up with a skyscraper made of wood.
I want to be able to work a piece of wood into an object that contributes something beautiful and useful to everyday life ...
The Haunted Wood was a harmless, pretty spruce grove in the field below the orchard. We considered that all our haunts were too commonplace, so we invented this for our own amusement.
furnished, but by no means decorated,
Step 7: Oak Wood Outline Build a row of oak wood on the 1st and the 4th block below the ceiling between the pillars. Follow the blue lines in the picture and do this on all four sides. Check out the 2nd picture to see how the tree house should look by now.
birch twigs, and a willow binding. The ash is protective, the birch is purifying, and the willow is sacred to the Goddesss. Of
I do not know what you were like as a wood-nymph, madam, but you are a magnificent tree.
Of jackets that had their sleeves threaded onto two poles cut from an ash tree
A pretty building I'm making, without either bricks or timber. I'm up i' the garret a'ready, and haven't so much as dug the foundation.
What brings the whole back row of the chessboard to my modest little abode?
Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.
To carry timber into the wood.
[Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]
Look at this. A barstool, named Sven? Some old Swedish custom, the winter kicks in, weather gets harsh, after a while you find yourself relating to the furniture in ways you didn't expect?
he took her sweatshirt and hung it on a wooden
Tockytock, tockytock
clumped our Alpine, Edwardian cuckoo clock,
slung with strangled, wooden game.
Please restrain your commentary on the furniture.
Below the glass would be the weak spot. Plywood, probably, maybe three-eighths thick, painted, retained in the frame by quarter-round moldings. Reacher was wearing shoes he had bought in the London airport two deployments ago, stout British things with welts and toecaps as hard as steel.
The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.
A pile of timber, remains of either a house or a ship, huddled like a frightened child, cradling a glint of metal in
What kind of tartan is this?" he said as he felt the fabric. "McCloud," Betty told him. "Welcome to the clan, son." Excellent, thought Lake. There would be no getting rid of her now.
The Springboard. Denning
All through the hood, I'm grippin' wood and blowin' pine
The chair was a simple Scandinavian design of chrome and white leather. Beautiful, clean, and silent, with not an ounce of warmth, like a fine rain falling under the midnight sun.
When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.
How impossibly clean-cut, with its twin sets of twelve, neat as walnut shells.
In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like milking-stools.
I look for things that are left of center, something you've only seen your whole life, but never heard. Hit it! With a stick! I have a guitar made out of a 2x4 that I bought in Cleveland.
Pale-gray rug. Several pieces of chrome-and-black-leather
I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.
Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled.
[Wood half-burnt is easily kindled.]
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.