What is "shavings"

Usage examples of "shavings".

Once -- probably dissatisfied with his overly conscious strewings and sawdust groundings -- he asked Tulla to storm up from behind and to fling sawdust, shavings, or even sand as though at random.

Tulla's aroma of bone glue, her carpenter's glue dolls and her wigs of wood shavings, which one of the carpenters had to plane specially for her from long boards.

Not defiantly, indifferently would be more accurate, she waited until August Pokriefke had renewed the shavings and come out with the little speech that was bound to occur to him as a father: "Come on up now.

Even when Tulla had the threshold of the kennel behind her, she stayed on all fours, shook herself limply, shed wood shavings, crawled sluggish and wobbly toward the semicircle described by the dog's chain, reached ditch and earthworks right next to the door to plywood shed, hove to with a sharp twist of the hips, shook off more shavings -- her light blue cotton dress was gradually developing blue and white checks -- yawned in the direction of the yard -- there in the shade, only his cap struck by the oblique rays of the sun, stood the machinist beside his bicycle, rolling himself a cigarette and looking toward the kennel.

High over shoulder, hair, and shavings she raises the disk the size of a beer mug mat into the early seven-o'clock sky, offers a glimpse of her screwed-up face, and then hurls the disk with a snap of her wrist into the yard, in the direction of the machinist: in the sand it broke forever, the shards rolled in the sand.

A head with hair and shavings leans back and beds itself on shoulders.

She executed a ninety-degree turn from the hip, crawled slow sated sluggish first into the oblique sun, then carried sun along with her on her back to the kennel door, pivoted outside the hole, and pushed herself backwards, with hanging head and hair, charged with horizontal sun that made both hair and shavings shimmer, across the threshold into the kennel.

Wisps of hair, shimmering light, shavings, paws, flies, ears, sleep, morning sun: tar paper grew soft and smelled.

When he crossed the semicircle, whose radius was measured by the dog's chain, Harras, accompanied by wood shavings, stormed out of the kennel and hurled his blackness and both forepaws against the carpenter's chest.

She peed, when she had to pee -- and Tulla had to make water regularly every hour -- in shavings which August Pokriefke had to change in the evening.

As soon as he took venturesome steps with clumsy wooden shoes, with shovel and broom, with his basket of curly shavings from the lathe and finishing machine, and thrust himself and his evening chore across the clawed-up ditch of the semicircle, mumbling "good boy, good boy, be a good boy," the kennel emitted a growling which was not exactly malignant but more in the nature of a warning.

Reaching into the drive belt casing of the buzz saw, he made a mixture in his handkerchief of sawdust, of the knotty shavings from the lathe, the short curls of the power plane, the fine-grained droppings of the band saw, and with his own hand and no need of an assault from Tulla gave his brush drawings a pimply relief, the charm of which was further enhanced when a part of the superficially blackened wood particles fell off, revealing the white paper ground in mysterious islands.

Be cause you once reached into my hair, because you left your hand for a second and eternity in my hair -- we were sitting in the lumber shed amid your collection of extra-long shavings that were wavy like my hair -- because afterward, but still in the lumber shed you said: "But that's the only thing that's any good about you.

She sits behind the candle tailor fashion and moves her head with its dangling fringe of wood shavings over the flame.

With the plaited blanket -- extra-long shavings that journeyman carpenter Wischnewski planes from long planks -- she covers me up.