stove-lengths
Example Sentences
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She was making a brave “stagger,” as Smith described all amateurish efforts, toward cutting up some dry cottonwood limbs into stove-lengths before her tent on the afternoon that Jerry Boyle rode across the ford.
From Claim Number One by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)
They was playin' right there on a pile of pole-wood 'Gene's brought in from the woods and ain't got sawed up into stove-lengths yet.
From The Brimming Cup by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
