sawdust

It was a sawdust circle the size of a circus ring, contained inside a square building that was roofed over with glass.

In attempting to express his gratification, the Chief of Police thrust out his right hand with such violence that his skin was ruptured at the arm-pit and a stream of sawdust poured from the wound.

The grating wind sawed rather than blew; and as it sawed, the sawdust whirled about the sawpit.

The ground was sawdust and the pebbles scattered around were hard knots from trees, worn smooth in course of time.

"Why, I gave him some sawdust brains the last time I fitted his head with new ears," explained the Wizard.

"You boil it in sawdust: you salt it in glue: You condense it with locusts and tape: Still keeping one principal object in view-- To preserve its symmetrical shape."

Several present, such as the Candy Man, the Rubber Bear, Tik-tok, and the Scarecrow, were not made so they could eat, and the Queen of Merryland contented herself with a small dish of sawdust; but these enjoyed the pomp and glitter of the gorgeous scene as much as did those who feasted.

Then, going to a chest of drawers, he took out a pretty heart, made entirely of silk and stuffed with sawdust.

He says, 'I've shoveled acorns enough in there to keep the family thirty years, and if I can see a sign of one of 'em I wish I may land in a museum with a belly full of sawdust in two minutes!'

He led me into a corner and conducted me up a flight of stairs - which appeared to me to be slowly collapsing into sawdust, so that one of those days the upper lodgers would look out at their doors and find themselves without the means of coming down - to a set of chambers on the top floor.

But in the saloons, even the sots, stupefied, sprawling across the tables or in the sawdust, were objects of mystery and wonder.

"Out of sawdust?" finished the Story Girl cheerfully.