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    1. He saw that there were speakers for music in there, and in the kitchen area


    2. "Uu woopah puh," Jorma thought he must have been speaking Yingolian, but looked and saw that he was finishing his teeth


    3. Gen: 12:15: The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and


    4. He got to his feet to pace but when he turned he saw that Herndon was coming around the camp


    5. He saw them, "We need another beach blanket don't we?" he shouted


    6. Grabbed a road kit and split was what he saw


    7. · You won't remember where you saw this


    8. Now your parents, hopefully, wanted you to associate with other kids who they saw as good associations, good influences on you, because


    9. Luke: 7:39: Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spoke within himself, saying, This man, if he


    10. I know when I broke that one, and saw how much money is in just one, I saw it was as much money as I once thought Ava had

    11. "I saw something scary in a news report," Ennin said


    12. "It was in a serious news magazine I saw at Kolat's reading room


    13. Isa: 6:1: In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple


    14. He saw what she had now, another scrap of paper that Ava said was useless, the last in that folder


    15. When Jesus saw how much she needs Him; He turn to


    16. His face fell when he saw Sam in his uncharacteristically miserable state


    17. Ava's week had started on a sad note when she saw Kulai off on the Flying Northwind just before Morningday lunch


    18. opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and,


    19. But then, I saw Tobias at the hospital offering to help rebuild and work as a transporter for medical supplies


    20. He saw that there wasn’t a line yet, so he jogged over there

    21. When she looked over the rail as a child, she saw the coy-dog packs tearing at the garbage the residents of her abandoned parking garage threw out


    22. A few days later, Travis saw that Sarah was frustrated with something


    23. When Micah got up, he saw his dad was up, too


    24. Well? Well what? What was Henry doing here again? He looked down at his hand and saw the sales report clutched in a shaking, life threatening grip


    25. Nancy looked in and saw a man standing in front of a large cannon


    26. He turned and saw his mechanic in the approaching crowd


    27. As her eye followed it she saw there had been many improvements there also, stones put in for steps in the steepest parts


    28. Her eye reached the top of the bluff and saw a figure against the bright sky of the impending noon


    29. She saw them on T


    30. "He thinks he saw it," Ava said

    31. Silence looked down and saw the gun just at the last moment


    32. ‘I saw that friend of yours Amy today … she brought her car in to have the tracking checked and I asked her if she was still going along to them


    33. We have watched our mother and mother-in-law when they spent time with our kids and saw how gently they enfolded our children with their wisdom and love and tenderness


    34. He saw Johnny with the Chip, and Red ready with one of her grenades, the remaining three nestled tightly in her other arm


    35. ’ He said slowly, looking at me over his spectacles as though assessing what he saw


    36. “Oh my,” The Operator said as he saw one of the grenades heading straight for him


    37. He peeked out and saw that everything was okay


    38. It’s not where I saw myself even a month ago, but I’m enjoying the company


    39. I don't think he saw it more than once or possibly twice


    40. She saw that he was struggling with what he should say next, “It’s okay, you didn’t know,” Nancy said

    41. Looking back down, Johnny saw that he was about to overfill his cereal with the milk


    42. 'Yes, he's desperately trying to remember the last time he saw it in there, but you know what these glory holes are like


    43. Danilas, the goddess of song, saw Punka pacing about restlessly


    44. He swatted at them and was about to laugh at their feeble deaths, but when he raised his hand again, he saw only spots of his own red blood


    45. Seconds later they heard a rumble and saw another glint of sunlight on something shiny, now high above the horizon and coming toward them


    46. ‘I saw it on the news


    47. She told me that Henry has been really worried, desperately trying to remember when he last saw the gun, Stephen … they are pretty sure it was lent out with a load of other stuff for a themed party sometime back in March


    48. "We saw it leave," Ava said, and told her what it was like from her point of view


    49. 7 miles, Archimedes saw the error in his calculations, but it was too late to plan a return trip


    50. They were confused at first, but then they saw his eyepatch and decided he was a toy














































    1. Desa sawed at the tentacle that held Luray til she finally severed it and got her free, then plunged the knife wildly again and again into the mess that was once it's face, all in a frenzy


    2. Johnny made a good pitch—an inside fastball at the knees that sawed the hitter


    3. She sawed first through the tape on her mother’s ankles and then on her


    4. The trees that were pillars for the first three floors had grown wild up here, then had been sawed off when the area was covered over with that bridge


    5. ‘We’d better turn back,’ said Jacques as he sawed


    6. They had all planked in the bottoms of their area pretty carefully and sawed off any branches anywhere within reach


    7. have gladly sawed through Chloe’s throat


    8. I searched for and found the carpentry tools and then sawed down the mizzenmast


    9. She decided “ragged hole sawed in the planks” was more accurate


    10. them, the travelers cut timber, sawed it into planks, and built

    11. Truman had slept the night through like a log (and sounded like he sawed it in half) but, curled with their luggage in the back of the Mitsubishi 4X4, she had found it impossible


    12. Sawed offs tucked


    13. Once the guard scoped sawed off twelve


    14. 9 All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the


    15. Before that, they just sawed across bone and brain and made a mess of it


    16. The rough edges of the blade had sawed his flesh, but the point had passed by


    17. to the bar, grabbed the 12 gauge shotgun with the sawed


    18. Other logs would be sawed from end to end for planks


    19. There were the Abra Sisters who had scales instead of skin, Serpentino with his hypnotic act and for whom I had shilled - that is willingly helped him to dupe the public - a couple of times and the man who sawed a virgin in half though the lady’s virginity was in question


    20. He drew a sawed off 12 gauge

    21. two ten round clips, and lastly a sawed off Remington 870 with sixteen shells


    22. A little note tucked down the barrel of a sawed off shot gun says, “I’m not rich, till we are rich


    23. They cut her open and brought out the baby then they sawed her together again


    24. The seeds of suspicion will have already been sawed and he might just walk away a free man


    25. Therein, was a sawed off


    26. In no time the hailstorm of bullets reduced the tree’s trunk to nothing and sawed it in half


    27. Jodas approached the priest, slow and deliberately, the priest was rooted to the spot, mesmerised by shock, snapping out of his trance he turned to run but his two guards pushed him to the ground and held him fast, Jodas straddled his chest, forced open his mouth and one of the guards kept the mouth open by inserting the haft of his spear into Yaotl’s mouth, Jodas sawed away at the tongue, then stood and held the severed tongue above his head for all the people to see, applause, cheers, whistles and laughter rippled like thunder through the crowd, they began to chant


    28. coughed, the sound of uncertainly sawed wood


    29. He sawed the rope in two with


    30. There were no signs of it being sawed or something to that effect

    31. He took the knife and sawed away at it until it was cropped close to his head


    32. The rungs on upward mobility's ladder have been sawed off, recycled by Red, White, and Green Corp


    33. Samara’s breathing see sawed in and out


    34. I even sawed it off her in anticipation of adding it to my collection


    35. When she hit three, she pressed down and sawed back and forth cutting till she hit the spine


    36. Herr Dremmel sawed her hand up and down in his irritation


    37. "Silas, I told him he better stop; that he got away with it once, and if he sawed down my tree, I'd be sweet-talking the fur trappers down at the diner


    38. Kinney and her crew watched as Caroline sawed the arm in at a double speed pace


    39. At the same time, he reached to the bottom shelf and removed a sawed off, double barrel shotgun, and placed it on the top shelf of the counter, but still out of view


    40. They were put to death by stoning; they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword

    41. Blood ran freely from his bound hands where the rope sawed into his wrists


    42. Matt looked beyond tensed and I saw Jim’s finger tense on the trigger of the sawed off shotgun he still held in one hand


    43. ” I said gesturing to the giant who could have sawed mature redwood trees in half with the force of his snores


    44. The hands of the man who sawed the wood, left red marks on the billets; and the forehead of the woman who nursed her baby, was stained with the stain of the old rag she wound about her head again


    45. Hunger was pushed out of the tall houses, in the wretched clothing that hung upon poles and lines; Hunger was patched into them with straw and rag and wood and paper; Hunger was repeated in every fragment of the small modicum of firewood that the man sawed off; Hunger stared down from the smokeless chimneys, and started up from the filthy street that had no offal, among its refuse, of anything to eat


    46. A rail fence round a two-acre yard; a stile made out of logs sawed off and up-ended in steps, like


    47. Look at them case-knife saws and things, how tedious they've been made; look at that bed-leg sawed off with 'm, a week's work for six men; look at that nigger made out'n straw on the bed; and look at—"


    48. Joseph sawed at the reins and got the horse under control


    49. She drove it in and sawed it back and forth until she had the left front wheel centered on the hatch


    50. The broken rib stabbed when she breathed, her bruised face and head ached and her whole body was given over to demons who plucked at her with hot pinchers and sawed on her with dull knives and left her, for short intervals, so drained of strength that she could not regain grip on herself before they returned























    1. Alan kicked mightily and got his left leg close enough for Desa to begin sawing at the tentacle


    2. Desa was sawing at the tentacle again, reaching down underwater to get at it, leaving only her hips and legs on land


    3. Then I took my jigsaw and started sawing away the part of the plywood I wanted to keep so I would leave a circular piece that was 5 feet in diameter


    4. When a tree had fallen he instructed the saw holders to start sawing the logs into two-foot lengths


    5. sawing at the table leg around which the chain was


    6. This year, as I sat in the large room of the caravansary I felt as though Joseph should walk in and begin hammering or sawing or cutting something to repair or build anew


    7. I believe IN His Word and I BELIEVE His Word, from Genesis to Revelation! The word of God is an embarrassment for Christianity and there is no way that Christianity will ever fit into the Word of God, without scraping, cutting and sawing scriptures! (If you find this comment distasteful, I have proven this in my book “Kinderdoop…”


    8. I spent a lot of time in the garage hammering and sawing


    9. She spent the rest of the afternoon removing the counter top and sawing the legs shorter, before placing a sheet over the mess to assign ‘In progress’


    10. Trimming and sawing took as much time and more effort, and by the time he drove back to the house some of the romance of being a woodsman had fled

    11. It took a while before he could pick it up and start sawing at the tape round his head


    12. A day sawing and removing fallen logs and branches from tracks was the medicine needed, and after a long hot bath, a close shave and running the clippers over his body, the shabby, sweaty, feral creature was transformed into a clean, neat, fit and sleekly attractive young man who would excite but not frighten his next class of fourteen year-olds


    13. For several more days the streets were filled with the sounds of hammering and sawing as the work was being carried out


    14. he is sawing some logs,” Angela blushed


    15. Joey found that sawing through the vine was a lot harder than creating the Noibeam


    16. Only when certain the man was dead, did he begin sawing through the wire


    17. Then I heard the sound change, like the saw was sawing through something


    18. The loud sound of the saw sounded like it had cut through whatever it was sawing through, then immediately it started to saw through something again


    19. I could tell by the sound that the saw had cut through whatever it was cutting through, and then I heard the sawing sound again, for the third time


    20. They chewed on snow to quench their thirsts and Soren returned to his sawing project

    21. The scene shifted to the woods at the end of the field, where Dale’s avatar was sawing up a felled


    22. WIth that, he grabbed her left hand tightly, her arm still trapped in, and he started sawing away at her fingers


    23. He kept on sawing and sawing, without pause, until four of her fingers were off, only leaving her thumb


    24. someone has moved it by sawing through the base of the olive trunk”


    25. Use a sawing motion


    26. The sawing started a few inches above the joint


    27. The knife was dull and unable to cut deep enough without sawing back and forth


    28. Then all heck broke loose–it sounded like Melvin was cutting wood above his bed or sawing a hole through the floor


    29. The footsteps and the sawing, echoing throughout the apartment, would move above him from room to room


    30. Don would change rooms, the sawing would stop for a minute, followed by footsteps, then the insane cacophony would resume, directly overhead

    31. She knew when he began sawing that he was cutting off her foot


    32. She at numerous times during the sawing prayed that she would black out and drift into painless darkness, a coma that would never end, one that would allow her to die and escape the horror


    33. The sawing of other logs into planks for the association would pay for the cost of the lumber Olin required


    34. A loud sawing noise emanated from Stu’s room, followed by the sound of Dao’s voice


    35. And went on sawing his wood


    36. House-building, measuring, sawing the boards,


    37. With some of this money he bought a quantity of timber and opened what he called a Labour Yard, where he employed a number of men sawing firewood


    38. She could feel the plastic teeth sawing back and forth


    39. Harlow, desiring that everything should be done decently and in order, had meantime arranged in front of the pulpit a carpenter's sawing stool, and an empty pail with a small piece of board laid across it, to serve as a seat and a table for the chairman


    40. Unscrewing, sawing, hauling

    41. The grandfather was busy in his little shop, and a sound of hammering and sawing could be heard


    42. After much sawing, Louie managed to break the skin


    43. Vronsky did not even look at it, but anxious to get in a long way first began sawing away at the reins, lifting the mare’s head and letting it go in time with her paces


    44. impossible to hear anything and, as if feeling the joy and excitement of the occasion, old Levi choked off “Lorena” in mid-bar, rapped sharply with his bow and, sawing away for dear life, the orchestra burst into “Bonnie Blue Flag


    45. He’s started to report that her father’s sawing logs, and William reading, when she calls out across the open space that she’s finally reached them


    46. now sawing in the middle


    47. The door closed behind them and Ciere found herself leaning against a damp cement wall, hands on her knees, breath sawing in and out


    48. The insiders pull in more demand by whip sawing the prices and gradually emptying their warehouses of all the inventory of stock


    49. Half of one, not a whole one, but enough to file the edges off the knife he could still feel sawing at his liver


    50. I could almost feel our string sawing his






    1. “A couple of large backhoes and men with plasma cutters, power saws and metal cutters


    2. "Oh no, I do know whole songs, I could probably still sing a few of the old saws I used to do touring Easthills with Yiheeng back in the teens of this century in the Dos basin


    3. “Nowadays we use these electric plaster saws


    4. 31 And he brought out the people that were in it, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and


    5. 9 All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the


    6. tools available were several small saws that had been left over with


    7. All around the buzz and scream of saws and planers, mills and sanders filled his ears


    8. Georg knew where to score saws and a team of horses so we could stack up for the coming winter


    9. Killed ‘em with various tools: screwdrivers, pliers, crosscut saws


    10. The Bureau of Indian Affairs included in their 1992 inventory list $297 million for three chain saws, one typewriter set at $96 million and two typewriters – one at $77 million and the other at $42 million

    11. You will see toolbars – although I never see hammers or saws – and menus all over the place with a great deal of unneeded duplication


    12. The noises of numerous saws was heard nearly immediately as the flying object was returning to the pile of cut trees to pick up a new load


    13. The ice crust saws against my skin


    14. chose one made by the same company that manufactures chain saws


    15. Richard Vowell listened to the sound of saws and hammers


    16. There was a limit to what men with saws and adzes could do


    17. Gary took off down the steps into the basement to retrieve the two saws


    18. He returned with both saws and an extension cord


    19. It’s like a huge tool chest chock-full of different wrenches and saws and hammers


    20. "You have two strong sons here and a shop full of wood, hammers, saws and axes so surely they can make a platform to stand upon and cut a tree off nine or ten feet up the trunk

    21. Olin was intent upon learning the use of woodworkers tools such as two handed draw knives, shavers, forming chisels, Buhl saws, witchets and wood planes, so he took every opportunity to practice their use upon these timber components


    22. These included three 16 pound stone sledges, several Cleveland model tackle blocks with long lengths of stout rope, three Disston's type cross cut saws for two man tree cutting, four stone picks of seven pounds each, two toothed stone mason's hammers of ten pounds each, six pointed quarry picks, various steel wedges, a large stone cutter's saw called a Frig Bob, a smaller starting saw called a Razzor, a triangular file to sharpen saw teeth, two drill braces, a pedal operated grinding stone of 60 pounds for sharpening of the other tools, and an assortment of small hand tools


    23. You and the boys can easily fell a number of these using the axes and saws that I will provide


    24. They pretended to study the prices of saws and hammers, but they secretly


    25. "But what if instead the carpenter saws the lumber into planks and begins to construct a great mansion with this very same lumber, and this mansion can be sold at a good profit? Imagine that the seller of the logs returns now and says, "If I had known that you would build a great mansion and realize a good profit and not a make a mere fence with my logs, well you may be sure that I would have charged you much more for the wood"


    26. with wood saws and the remaining stumps would be sharpened


    27. customs and security with their power drills and saws, etc


    28. used their chain saws to chop down all the brush in the


    29. When the face of the world is beginning to alter, and thunder is heard in the distance, he is still guided by his old maxims, and is the slave of his inveterate party prejudices; he cannot perceive the signs of the times; instead of looking forward he looks back; he learns nothing and forgets nothing; with 'wise saws and modern instances' he would stem the rising tide of revolution


    30. These saws are not

    31. These saws are


    32. saws, the width of the blade determines how sharp a curve


    33. on a bandsaw as it is with other saws, such as a table saw


    34. The musical ringing of Bundy's trowel, the noise of the carpenters' hammers and saws and the occasional moving of a pair of steps


    35. Again among the tiers of shipping, in and out, avoiding rusty chain-cables frayed hempen hawsers and bobbing buoys, sinking for the moment floating broken baskets, scattering floating chips of wood and shaving, cleaving floating scum of coal, in and out, under the figure-head of the John of Sunderland making a speech to the winds (as is done by many Johns), and the Betsy of Yarmouth with a firm formality of bosom and her knobby eyes starting two inches out of her head; in and out, hammers going in ship-builders' yards, saws going at timber, clashing engines going at things unknown, pumps going in leaky ships, capstans going, ships going out to sea, and unintelligible sea-creatures roaring curses over the bulwarks at respondent lightermen, in and out,—out at last upon the clearer river, where the ships' boys might take their fenders in, no longer fishing in troubled waters with them over the side, and where the festooned sails might fly out to the wind


    36. Look at them case-knife saws and things, how tedious they've been made; look at that bed-leg sawed off with 'm, a week's work for six men; look at that nigger made out'n straw on the bed; and look at—"


    37. What do these unlock, they want to know, and how do you employ these tiny files and saws? What about this notebook full of architectural measurements?


    38. He hammers the knife in a second time, saws away at the metal, and bends up the lid


    39. But on the plus side, airport security probably has a giant stash of brass knuckles and grenades and chain saws that they’ve confiscated from people, so we could probably still arm ourselves if necessary


    40. The angry spirits now have your chain saws

    41. was going on, for as she looked down the street, trying to adjust her mind to the new There were dozens of them and several were three stories high! Everywhere building Atlanta, she heard the blithe sound of hammers and saws, noticed scaffoldings rising and saw men climbing ladders with hods of bricks on their shoulders


    42. And what about real estate? It used to be that from eight to eight the whole city was musique concrète: drills jackhammers belt-sanders electric saws and the pizzicato plink of hammer on nail


    43. In addition to the elaborate arrays of saws, scissors, and hammers, there was a barrel filled with wooden rakes


    44. ” Investing buzzwords always turn into buzz saws, tearing apart anyone who believes in them


    45. He didn’t have morgue tools, no electric saws


    46. He was flashing images of his father’s shop again—everything always gleaming white; the freezer with its white enameled door; inside the freezer, hooks with hanging quarters of beef; bulbs in metal cages along the ceiling; knives, cleavers, and saws everywhere


    47. He laughed at that and went straight back out to fetch some saws


    48. The proverbs, of which indecent saws soldiers employ, but those folk sayings which taken without a context seem so insignificant, but when used appositely suddenly acquire a significance of profound wisdom


    49. They looked a long time in Lee’s window coveting the pliers, the hack saws, the engineers’ caps and the bananas


    50. He cuts and saws the solid pond, unroofs the house of fishes, and carts off their very element and air, held fast by chains and stakes like corded wood, through the favoring winter air, to wintry cellars, to underlie the summer there






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    Synonyms for "saw"

    power saw saw sawing machine adage byword proverb cut sever rend chop shape lop trim prune cutting tool

    "saw" definitions

    a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people


    hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting


    a power tool for cutting wood


    cut with a saw