Sentence examples for firewood up from inspiring English sources

When she was growing up in her home village in western Kenya, she had to walk even farther to gather firewood, up to eight hours a day.

Afterwards I lay in the afternoon sun, occasionally opening my eyes to notice a soaring raptor, two mules carrying firewood up to a nearby village, a tribesman bringing his goats down from the high pasture.

I turned to writing, and when I wasn't writing, I was repairing and maintaining a passive-solar house in the country: shoveling snow, hauling tons of firewood up a steep hill, planting a vegetable garden that didn't get enough sun, and fulfilling various back-to-nature clichés.

"I despised it so bitterly that we would never have any firewood stored up in advance".

There was fresh-cut firewood stacked up to fend off the lingering winter; there were self-organized encampments, complete with night patrols, stoves, and tents; there were soup kitchens open to anyone who was hungry.

Traditionally, Hyderabadi haleem is cooked on a low flame of firewood for up to 12 hours in a bhatti (a cauldron covered with a brick and mud kiln).

A scene where two men argue over whether to stack firewood bark up or bark down is a reference to the perennial Norwegian debate over how to stack firewood properly.

Wear gloves whenever picking up firewood – not only scorpions make their home in firewood, so this is always a sensible precaution.

"Tie up firewood" was to beat a bound victim.

Tenement housewives were "human freight elevators, hauling groceries, coal, firewood and children up and down endless flights of stairs," Ms. Ziegelman writes.

Outside G.M.'s engine plant in Tonawanda, N.Y., John Taylor, 58, was picking up firewood that workers had stacked near the picket lines to keep warm.