1 It was as hard as rock candy and as tasteless as sawdust and after one bite Scarlett hastily handed it back amid roars of laughter.
2 The floor was covered with muddy sawdust and everywhere was dust and dirt.
3 Behind walls of corded wood in back yards their sawbucks stood in depressions scattered with canary-yellow flakes of sawdust.
4 As seen from Main Street, Oleson & McGuire's Meat Market had a sanitary and virtuous expression with its new tile counter, fresh sawdust on the floor, and a hanging veal cut in rosettes.
5 There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs.
6 So I fixed that as good as I could from the outside by scattering dust on the place, which covered up the smoothness and the sawdust.
7 It was the most undigestible sawdust I ever see; and Tom said the same.
8 Not only this, but on the table I found a small ball of black dough or clay, with specks of something which looks like sawdust in it.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS 9 As you say, there appear to be grains of sawdust in it.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS 10 The squalid scene composed itself around him; the common accents, the burning gas-jets in the shops, odours of fish and spirits and wet sawdust, moving men and women.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 11 The floor was covered with ochre-coloured sawdust, trampled here and there into mud, and stained with dark rings of spilled liquor.
12 The very phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned "character" leaking sawdust at every pore as he pursued a tiger through the Bois de Boulogne.