z'm

Updated: May 28, 2025

The Z'm Z'm of the saws grew loud in Ruth's ears before crossing the ridge she spied the huts between the trees a congregation of ten or a dozen standing a little way back from a smooth-flowing river. Between the huts and the river were many saw-pits, with men at work. At young Adam's hail the men in view desisted, quite as though he had sounded the dinner horn.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Lady Good-for-Nothing : A Man's Portrait of a Woman