``Pappy whittle all day,'' he chuckled. ``Whittle all night, too! Pappy, I thought you 'uz goin' to git 'at long bed all spade' up fer me by noon. Ain't 'at what you tole me?''英文原著 · 《Seventeen》
``You can see to whittle, Mr. Genesis,'' she said. ``You whittle better than anybody in the world.''英文原著 · 《Seventeen》
He sells other things, handsaws, and pencils, and mouth-harps, and two knives for a quarter, of such pure steel that he whittles shavings off a wire nail with 'em, and is particular to hand you the very identical knife he did it with. He has jewelry, though I don't suppose you could cut a wire nail with it. You might, at that.英文原著 · 《Back Home》
"How'd you like to take a trip with me--as a kind of a partner?" Bud began carelessly, pulling a splinter off the homemade bed for which Mrs. Hanson would not thank him--and beginning to whittle it to a sharp point aimlessly, as men have a way of doing when their minds are at work upon a problem which requires--much constructive thinking.英文原著 · 《Cow-Country》
"Rather than work for me?" Bud sliced off the sharp point which he had so carefully whittled, and began to sharpen a new one. Eddie watched him fascinatedly.英文原著 · 《Cow-Country》
Bud chewed his lip, whittled, and finally threw the splinter away. When he turned toward Eddie his eyes were shiny.英文原著 · 《Cow-Country》
Are reinforced by steel joints, but we use a lot of hand-whittled bamboo pins. are reinforced by steel joints, but we use a lot of hand-whittled bamboo pins.演讲 · 《Magical houses made of bamboo ~ Elora Hardy》