"Whittle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... go out to the county fair And breathe the balmy country air, And whittle a stick and look at the hosses, Discuss the farmer's ...
— Poems for Pale People - A Volume of Verse • Edwin C. Ranck
... Spurgeon, is so successfully carrying forward the great work of his sainted father. If my readers would like a sample taste of the pure Spurgeonic it is to be found in this passage which he delivered to his theological students: "Some modern divines whittle away the Gospel to the small end of nothing; they make our Divine Lord to be a sort of blessed nobody; they bring down salvation to mere possibility; they make certainties into probabilities and treat verities as mere opinions. When you see a preacher making the Gospel smaller by degrees, ...
— Recollections of a Long Life - An Autobiography • Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
... practice. It was not so much that I wished to be an author (though I wished that too) as that I had vowed that I would learn to write. That was a proficiency that tempted me; and I practised to acquire it, as men learn to whittle, in a wager with myself. Description was the principal field of my exercise; for to any one with senses there is always something worth describing, and town and country are but one continuous subject. But I worked in other ways also; often accompanied my walks ...
— Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson • Robert Louis Stevenson |
