Carpenter's sweepings

Usage examples of sawdust.

Ikey asked a cellarman named Orkney, who was sweeping the spent sawdust from the floor.

Musicians were summoned, and food and wine, but all tasted like sawdust, and the flutes and citherns clawed at his nerves.

The last I saw as we returned through the doorway was Hassel surrounded by a halo of sawdust.

There was sawdust in the tiring-house where the maypole was kept before it was used.

For example: when sawdust is nitrated, it becomes nitrocellulose, and is used in smokeless powder.

Schrutt flopped backward in the sawdust, rolling into the ratel, who snapped, but who backed away himself - at the chute door, the two of them quaking at the close-range roar familiar to all the inmates of the Hietzinger Zoo.

Distantly he retasted the sand around Entudenin, the frost-hardened clay of the Hintervold, the pitch of Tyrian pines, and saffron -laced sawdust from an arena he had never seen, all seasoned with dark flame.

Nothing could soothe Ruer Stross like the sweet aroma of sawdust tickling his nose.

As he completes his efforts, Yawl appears and unbanks the forge, the coals still hot enough to smoke sawdust as he begins laying in charcoal.

His head was shielded from the hot sun by a little cloth cap that was torn in the crown, and his long hair and his broad back and shoulders were besprinkled with sawdust.

The musicians were doing a blasting oom-pah-pah of brassy Bavarian folk music, and the girls, although they were cavorting on soft sawdust, contributed to the noise with the repeated thigh-slapping that the dance demanded.

What a cheap, convenient, expressionist device, this sawdust ring, this little O!

The workshop floor was strewn with straw and sawdust, offcuts from his contraption.

Every dead tree or branch in the forest is crowded with all species of Polyporus, while carpets, damp cellars, plaster walls and sawdust are favorite abodes of many fungi.

The floors had been thoroughly swept, and though faint traces of sawdust were visible in the rafters, on the windowsills, and along the top edges of the tool racks, this place was no typical messy woodshop.