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  • When we study "self defense," a limping crazy man wields a lumberman's axe and approaches a student track star limbering up for a run.

    Perry Binder: The Case for Humor in the College Classroom Perry Binder 2010

  • And I'd been years in Canada in a lumberman's shanty

    The Young Man From Canada 1997

  • That latter fact helped to explain her style of dress that morning: the leather bike jacket, the faded black jeans with leg warmers, thick leather belt, the red-and black checkered lumberman's shirt, and the worn engineering boots.

    Along Came a Spider Patterson, James, 1947- 1993

  • For this year's winter wardrobe, he'd selected a sleeveless navy parka over several layers of assorted, colored lumberman's shirts.

    Black Friday Patterson, James 1986

  • For this year's winter wardrobe, he'd selected a sleeveless navy parka over several layers of assorted, colored lumberman's shirts.

    Black Friday Patterson, James 1986

  • And the shoes -- they weren't shoes, but knee-length leather boots, like a dressy version of lumberman's boots or a rougher version of riding boots.

    The Sky Is Falling Lester Del Rey 1954

  • There was a lumberman's hut a day's walk from the camp; he must make that by night.

    Joyce of the North Woods

  • Joyce'll go when he calls, and don't you forget it -- all I've got to do is to make the lumberman's letter real convincing.

    Joyce of the North Woods

  • A mile and half-way down the lake, we landed at the foot of a grassy hill-side, where once had been a lumberman's station and hay-farm.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

  • Indiaman heavy with teakwood and spices, the lumberman's barge awash behind the tow, the old three-masted schooner, low in the water, her decks loaded with granite from the far-away quarries of Maine.

    Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller

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