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  • Conklin, took him to the Centennial on a wedding trip, came home, rebuilt her father's house, covering it with towers and minarets and steeples, and scroll-saw fretwork, and christened it Winthrop Hall.

    Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Various

  • As his scroll-saw was just then the delight of Malcolm's heart, he felt particularly interested in butternuts, and immediately mapped out in his mind something very beautiful to be wrought with them for his governess.

    Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church

  • L.P. Addison, Box 699, Saginaw, Mich., 5 fonts of type, 1 set of numbers and a foot-power scroll-saw, with patterns, saw blades, and a set of 6 finishing files, for a World typewriter or one of equal value.

    Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 Various

  • It is very pretty when sawn across in slices, and looks like scroll-saw work.

    Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church

  • He collected cigarette cards and tin tobacco-tags indefatigably, and would sit for hours humped up over a snarling little scroll-saw which he kept in his attic.

    A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910

  • Shelves -- made by Johnny -- held books and miscellaneous junk; toys of various sorts were scattered about; against the wall was screwed a noisy chest-weight, which nobody disturbed; near the window stood a scroll-saw worked by foot-power.

    The Adventures of Bobby Orde Stewart Edward White 1909

  • Conklin, took him to the Centennial on a wedding trip, came home, rebuilt her father's house, covering it with towers and minarets and steeples, and scroll-saw fretwork, and christened it Winthrop Hall.

    In Our Town William Allen White 1906

  • From childhood he has delighted in all kinds of mechanical contrivances, and when but fourteen constructed without help a complete steam-engine to run his lathe and scroll-saw.

    Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1903

  • It might well be satisfied with itself, for it had three more pinnacles than any of its neighbours, and the work of the scroll-saw was looped and festooned all around the eaves and porticoes and bay-windows in amazing richness.

    The Blue Flower 1902

  • It might well be satisfied with itself, for it had three more pinnacles than any of its neighbours, and the work of the scroll-saw was looped and festooned all around the eaves and porticoes and bay-windows in amazing richness.

    The Blue Flower Henry Van Dyke 1892

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