sawings

What with kidnappings, head sawings off for video propaganda, blowing up children and religious buildings and executing citizens for moral failing.

"Americans Like Big Government: They just don't really know it yet." Ann Althouse 2009

It closely resembles wood-sawings, and on that account is named “wood-meal”.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

He had the look of a midlevel academic, perhaps one of those literary moles who compound their pallor in stuffy rooms, stroking the musaceous nuances of E.M. Forster; or else the editor of an urban weekly newspaper that fills its pages with wine-shop and gallery advertisements and earnest evaluation of the anal-retentive sawings of European string quartets.

Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990

Yet such is the injustice of fortune that his sawings and rantings had paid him well while real artists went hungry.

Double Star Heinlein, Robert A. 1956

Alexandria, -- Madame Guyon's meditations, too, and Isaac Taylor's giddy see-sawings, -- all heresies, and bosh, -- 'Dead-Sea fruits that turn to ashes', and not only disgust you, but blister tongue and lips most vilely.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 Various

But no, this Phorenice must needs sing a hymn to her sword and mine, gloating over our feats and invulnerability; and then she must needs ask payment for the bearers of her litter whom they had killed, and then speak balefully of the burnings, and the skinnings, and the sawings asunder with which this fishers 'quarter would be treated in the near future, till they learned the virtues of deportment and genteel manners.

The Lost Continent Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne 1905

By the time the ship, to which every one has ere this become attached, is so far advanced as to have all her spars on end, the artificers will have completed their hammerings, sawings, and nailings, and the main-hold will have been stowed with water-tanks.

The Lieutenant and Commander Hall, Basil, 1788-1844 1862

City Ordinance 4373-94 provides that "no person shall dump or drain into rivers, streams, creeks or sea, dead animals, rotting vegetation, feces of humans and animals, wood sawings, trash or garbage or chemical wastes such as caustic soda, acids and other toxic materials."

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