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  • Across the lake, a mile above a roaring torrent, they located a patch of spruce and built their saw-pit.

    LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES 2010

  • Thrice, on the night-shift, underneath in the saw-pit, Old Tarwater fainted.

    LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES 2010

  • A saw-pit and granite hub remind me of a time of self sufficiency when tree trunks were sawn and wooden cart wheels rimmed in iron.

    Country diary: Bodmin Moor 2010

  • How I knew I know not now — only that I slunk away, without a tear, or thought of weeping, and hid me in a saw-pit.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • And here it was, blocking up the doors, stopping the ways, and the water courses, and making it very much worse to walk than in a saw-pit newly used.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Early and late, Moffat was to be found at work, -- in the saw-pit, at the blacksmith's forge, or exercising his skill at the carpenter's bench; in all ways aiding and encouraging his younger companions.

    Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman David J. Deane

  • He set up first what he called a saw-pit, two big "horses," each made by driving fir poles into the ground and crossing them and laying other sapling across these.

    The Boy Scouts on the Yukon Ralph Victor

  • Kilkenny cats in the saw-pit, which fought, until nothing remained of either but the tail and a bit of the flue.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

  • "No want of variety," said Jack; "if you do not like the saw-pit, you can have the tannery."

    Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien

  • The white horse was buried in the saw-pit in the Laine's wood.

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

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