"Whittlings" Quotes from Famous Books
... Sue said, while Bunny kept on brushing the tiny whittlings from his jacket and short trousers. And there was a queer look on the face ... — Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony • Laura Lee Hope
... mended chair upon their shoulders for a sign, with pieces of white wood for further mending, a drawing-knife, a hammer, and a sheaf of rushes, and who sit down at your door, and plait the rush bottoms of your kitchen-chairs anew, and make heaps of fragrant whittlings with their knives, and gossip ... — Venetian Life • W. D. Howells |