"Sawmill" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... settle in some good place farther south; build up a home and gather strength around me. After a while we would cross over into Arizona Territory, near the San Francisco Mountains, and there establish the order of Enoch, or United Order. We were to take a portable steam sawmill and cut lumber with which to build up the southern settlements, and I was to run the mill in connection with Bishop Stewart. This I consider an additional honor shown me ...
— The Mormon Menace - The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite • John Doyle Lee
... called sharply, "make that door shut! Abody'd think you was born in a sawmill! The strawberry smell gets ...
— Patchwork - A Story of 'The Plain People' • Anna Balmer Myers
... prisoner with ropes, for there was no compartment in his little house, built of boards from the mountain sawmill, strong enough to confine a man, much less a slippery one like Mark Thorn. The slayer had lapsed into his native taciturnity shortly after beginning the trip from the reservation to Macdonald's homestead, and now ...
— The Rustler of Wind River • G. W. Ogden
... Street till you come to a smell like rotten wood and then you turn in where the willow trees are and you come to an old sawmill. If you holloa from there, they can hear you at camp. Then you cut through the woods and follow the trail till all of a sudden you come plunk out on the edge of the lake and it's all surrounded by woods. That's ...
— Roy Blakeley's Adventures in Camp • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... miniature sawmill by the roadside on the overflow of water from the house spring that used to cause people passing by to stop and laugh. It had a dam, a flume, an overshot wheel ten inches in diameter, a carriage for the log (a green cucumber), a gate for the tin saw about six inches long, and a ...
— My Boyhood • John Burroughs
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