 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Satire, American - 1858 - 430 pages
...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,...screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of th^finest, bright and blue ; Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide ; Boot, top, dasher, from tough... | |
 | English poetry - 1861 - 304 pages
...Last of its timber,—they eouldn't sell 'em,— i Shafts. U.-.2 Never an axe had seen their ehips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like eelery-tips; Step and prop-iron, bolt and serew, Spring, tire, axle, and linehpin too, Steel of the... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 528 pages
...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...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... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 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...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... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1866 - 526 pages
...cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs of logs from the " Settler's ettum," — Last of its timber, — they couldn't sell 'em; Never...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... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...of 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 their lips, Their bluut ends frizzled like celery-tips ; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and... | |
 | Richard Edwards, John Russell Webb - Readers - 1868 - 510 pages
...hubs of 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...bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Stool of the finest, bright and blue ; Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide ; Boot, top, dasher,... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1867 - 252 pages
...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 couldn't sell 'em, Never an ax had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American essays - 1868 - 434 pages
...panels of white-wool, 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 couldn't sell "em, ' Xever an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends... | |
 | American poetry - 1869 - 310 pages
...The hubs of logs from the " Settler's ellum," — Last of its timber, — they could n't sell 'erri, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends friz/Jed like celery -tips ; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too,... | |
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He sent for lancewood to make the thills, The cross-bars were ash, 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... 
