saw wood

The Count d'Artois says he would rather saw wood for a living than be king after the English fashion.

It would be better to employ them by force on the public works, to draw water, saw wood and serve the masons.

Not many of the boys really had to saw wood, though a good many of the fellows' fathers had saws and bucks in their wood-sheds.

In families that I know, some little girls like to saw wood, others to use carpenters' tools.

They seldom refuse; if they do, they are sent to the military post, where they are made to saw wood.