"Chopper" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... down her chopper, and turned to wipe her hands on a roller towel. Perhaps she had come to the conclusion that as a pure saving of time it would be wise to give in without further demur; perhaps the twinkling appeal of the brown eyes touched a vulnerable ...
— Big Game - A Story for Girls • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... I was chopping a piece of beef, and the dog, who was standing by, turned short round, and put his tail under the chopper." ...
— Newton Forster - The Merchant Service • Captain Frederick Marryat
... was let down, very hoarse from crying, and his eyes red and swollen. By his walk I knew the little fellow had suffered intensely. But the little wood-chopper was not at his post. Soon after dinner the lash was again heard, with the hoarse cry of little Jack; and each time Joe Shears sat down to his card-table I looked for Jack, but after a game or two of cards he was out again, and the lash and cries resumed. I became so distressed that at four o'clock ...
— A Woman's Life-Work - Labors and Experiences • Laura S. Haviland
... the height of the farming season, and on this day of swooning heat. But as she came to the edge of the woods and turned into the path along the brook, she heard it more plainly, unmistakable this time, not far now, the ringing blows delivered with the power and rhythmic stroke of the trained chopper. It came not from the woods at all, she now perceived, but from the open farming land, from the other side of the pasture, beyond the ...
— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher
... raises the axe to chop the offender's head off, thinks better of it, twirls Picard swiftly around, and using the flat of the chopper spanks the rear of the Picard anatomy, sending him sprawling into ...
— Orphans of the Storm • Henry MacMahon
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