What is "woodcutter"

Usage examples of "woodcutter".

Over the course of some hundred and fifty Roman miles, I found no more villages of even modest size, but only the occasional clustered huts and riverside stackyards of Slovene woodcutters.

Anwyll reported some stablelads and pigkeepers had come and gone, various of the Guard, and their stablehands, the quartermaster and his staff, a freeholder or two, and woodcutters, charcoalers, and the considerable number of chief men over orchards and outlying establishments of all sorts belonging to the ducal lands and to various of the town-dwelling lords, besides a miller with a load of flour and a tanner and various others taking out refuse and coming back.

The three young Maratha woodcutters conferred with each other quickly.

The Maratha fishermen and woodcutters who inhabited the dense forest along the coast were isolated, for the most part, from the rest of India.

Which was exactly the way those fishermen and woodcutters liked their rulers.

The other two woodcutters, still waiting twenty yards up the trail, had obviously been ready to bolt into the forest at the first sign of treachery.

No baron ever ruled those silences, but from where the woodcutters left off, down its windings through a dozen baronies, was Aglirta.

Before daybreak he would awake, leave the inn after rigorously paying his bill, and reaching the forest, he would, under presence of making studies in painting, test the hospitality of some peasants, procure himself the dress of a woodcutter and a hatchet, casting off the lion’.

Justyn had finally stopped the bleeding with a compression bandage, and after liberally dosing the woodcutter with brandy and poppy-powder, began stitching the wound closed with a curved needle and fine silk thread.

I had a terrible headache, but I got into the slow steady rhythm of a woodcutter or ditch digger, and cracks like cobwebs appeared beneath the point of the bar.

The Emperor not only gave Wang Erh what he had requested but also ordered one of his captains and a band of twenty soldiers to accompany the woodcutter on his mission.

Under orders from Wang Erh to raise the basket when the bell rang, three soldiers lowered the woodcutter slowly down the shaft.

The naturalist Jean de Charpentier told the story of how in 1834 he was walking along a country lane with a Swiss woodcutter when they got to talking about the rocks along the roadside.

The woodcutter who had skewered his first wereleopard moved off with a swagger, and the others followed, except one.

And he met Thibetan herdsmen with their dogs and flocks of sheep, each sheep with a little bag of borax on his back, and wandering woodcutters, and cloaked and blanketed Lamas from Thibet, coming into India on pilgrimage, and envoys of little solitary Hill-states, posting furiously on ring-streaked and piebald ponies, or the cavalcade of a Rajah paying a visit.