 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Satire, American - 1858 - 430 pages
...thills ; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees ; The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these...their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips ; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pages
...from the straightest tree* The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese. But lasts like iron fur things like these ; The hubs of logs from the " Settler's...their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire,... | |
 | Carriage and wagon making - 1859 - 418 pages
...thills ; The cross-bars were ash, from the straightcst trees ; The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs of logs from tue " Settler's ellum," — Last of its timber, — they couldn't sell 'em, — Never an axe had seen... | |
 | English poetry - 1861 - 300 pages
...The erosshars were ash, from the straightest trees ; The panels of white-wood, that euts like eheese, But lasts like iron for things like these ; The hubs...Settler's ellum,"— Last of its timber, — they eouldn't sell 'em, — 1 Shafts. The Wonderful One-Hoss-Shay. Never an axe had seen their ehips, And... | |
 | English poetry - 1861 - 304 pages
...erossbars were ash, from the straightest trees ; The panels of white-wood, that euts like eheese, T3nt lasts like iron for things like these : The hubs of logs from the " Settler's ellum,"— Last of its timber,—they eouldn't sell 'em,— i Shafts. U.-.2 Never an axe had seen their ehips, And the wedges... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 346 pages
...thills ; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees ; The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these...Settler's ellum," — Last of its timber, — they could n't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Literature, Modern - 1862 - 368 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 wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips ; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 528 pages
...thills ; The crossbars were ash from the straightest trees; The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these...their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery tips; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire,... | |
 | 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 wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery tips; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire,... | |
 | 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...their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery tips ; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire,... | |
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That couldn't be split nor bent nor broke, That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for... 
