whitling

The Grenadiers & HMGs were stopped by Russian fire and the Panzers kept failing morale, but the Panzers had a charmed life with saves & kept going back in - whitling the Strelk away.

Chez Barrrie's on Sunday Cromwell MkI 2009

The Grenadiers & HMGs were stopped by Russian fire and the Panzers kept failing morale, but the Panzers had a charmed life with saves & kept going back in - whitling the Strelk away.

Archive 2009-04-01 Nick 2009

Furthermore, they said, when Ellward remained restless in the bedroom, Shea had gone upstairs and likely hit the older man with "a clift of whitling [split of wood]" he had taken from the woodbox.

Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

There's a lot of stuff whitling around in it and not much focus.

badger Diary Entry badger 2005

The life-history of sea-trout is much the same as that of salmon, and the fish on their first return from the sea in the grilse-stage are called by many names, finnock, herling and whitling being perhaps the best known.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

Of the manifold sins which then I was guilty of, none so sticks upon me as that, being very young, I was _whitling_ on the Sabbath-day; and for fear of being seen, I did it behind the _door_.

Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

We then lit a large fire, round which all the passengers squatted on their heels in Texas fashion, each man whitling a piece of wood, and discussing the merits of the different Yankee prisons at New Orleans or Chicago.

Three Months in the Southern States: April, June, 1863. 1864

Taking out a pen knife, he cut off a splinter from a stick of firewood, and balancing himself on one leg of his chair, by the aid of his right foot, commenced his favorite amusement of whitling, which he generally pursued in silence.

The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

Like whitling the head of a duck, writing a novel is a process of negotion with the material at hand and every act, each engagement with that material translates both material and our intention.

Larval Subjects . 2009

a splinter from a stick of firewood, and balancing himself on one leg of his chair, by the aid of his right foot, commenced his favourite amusement of whitling, which he generally pursued in silence.

The Clockmaker Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830