tree-feller

Updated: June 24, 2025

'Had he been a brawny cottager, carpenter, mason, blacksmith, well- digger, navvy, tree-feller any effective and manly trade, in short, a worker in which can stand up in the face of the noblest and daintiest, and bare his gnarled arms and say, with a consciousness of superior power, "Look at a real man!"

Thomas Hardy - The Hand of Ethelberta