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Updated: May 8, 2025
But that is the mere fringe of the garment. The main driving purpose is outward. Just now in certain circles it seems quite the thing to lay great stress upon the subjective value of prayer and to whittle down small, or, deny entirely its value in influencing others. Some who have the popular ear are quite free with tongue and pen in this direction.
Some day she would whittle them into shape; for there were always coming to Della days full of roomy leisure and large content. Meanwhile apples would serve her turn, good alike to draw a weary mind out of its channel or teach the shape of spheres. "Don't you drive over them wickets!" she called imperiously, when Eben came up from the lot in his dingle cart.
"We know that they're on a beam apparently we're the only ones hereabouts having cosmic power. If we can keep away from them until their beam attenuates, we can whittle 'em down to our size and then take them, no matter how much accumulator capacity they've got."
"Whoi, shure, by whittlin'. Larry's a howly terror to whittle, an' he gets a Blue Baitche sapling 'bout three inches thick an' starts a-whittlin" long slivers, but laves them on the sthick at wan end till thayer all round loike that." "What, like a fire-lighter?" "Yis, yis, that's it, only bigger, an Blue Baitche is terrible tough.
And look at them mantelpieces, pure tombstone marble; and all carved like you see. Yes, ma'am! there's as many as seven of 'em in the house. Where'll you find anything like that, I'd like to know!" "I think the house might be made to look very pleasant, Mr. Whittle," Lydia replied, in a hesitating voice. Wesley Elliot fancied he could detect a slight tremor in its even flow.
"After breakfast I'm going to whittle out a wildwood pipe and make a birch canoe, and likely I'll weave a rush mat and a willow bed and carve some spoons and forks and a sundial." "Will you be through by noon?" asked Diane politely. Philip laughed. "As a matter of fact," he said easily, "I'm going with you to lamp birds. I want to duck that fool doctor."
Yan took one and began with his knife to whittle it down to proper size and shape, but Sam said, "I can do better than that," then took the lot to the workbench and set to work with a smoothing plane. Yan looked worried and finally said: "Injuns didn't have planes." "Nor jack-knives neither," was the retort.
And lest her "solid" reader's eyes reject the rambling recital as utterly unworthy the honor of their notice, she is tempted to whittle it down to a moral before saying farewell. For you must know that Keturah has learned several things from her mournful experience.
"Well, Patterson's inertness, to speak of it tenderly, cost the country much blood, millions of money, and a record of disgrace; but it gave a Regiment of Massachusetts Yankees opportunity to whittle up for their home cabinets of curiosities a large pile of walnut timber which had formed John Brown's scaffold, and to make extensive inroads in prying with their bayonets from the walls of the jail in which he had been confined pieces of stone and mortar.
Abby Daggett, who had the expression of a saint a fleshy saint, in old purple muslin gazed about her with admiration. "Don't it look perfectly lovely!" she exclaimed. Mrs. Whittle fairly snapped at her, like an angry old dog. "Lovely!" said she with a fine edge of sarcasm in her tone, "perfectly lovely! Yes it does. But I think we are a set of fools, the whole of us.
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