woodsawyer

Cold water was cheap and plentiful, they used it externally and internally -- exercise was fashionable and inevitable, where every lady was her own help, and every gentleman his own woodsawyer; food was just dear enough to make surfeits undesirable, and medicine was so unpopular that nobody before me ever ventured to open a drug store; the old ladies dispensed a few herbs privately, and that was the end of it.

The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

United States, making a stump speech in a quiet town in Vermont, amuse his audience with a story of a woodsawyer who had worked for him and who had the habit of accompanying the movement of his saw with talking to himself.

Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O Various 1870

She talked kindly to the vagrant artist, and took sage counsel -- lady as she was -- with the woodsawyer, the messenger of everybody's petty errands, the patched philosopher.

The House of the Seven Gables 1851

Why should professional labor and that of the counting-house be paid so disproportionately to the labor of the porter, and woodsawyer?

Essays: Second Series (1844) 1844

Why should professional labor and that of the counting-house be paid so disproportionately to the labor of the porter and woodsawyer?

Essays — Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

"Cut myself, sir," replied the blind man, with a pleasant shade of confidence; "I formerly was a woodsawyer, and the saw knows me well; and then one learns everything -- I go to school, indeed.

Friends and Neighbors 1847