One memorable scene describes the doctor's first amputation, in which "his quick hard saw-strokes spat into the air a fine white bone dust that drifted toward him, drawn by his breath, eventually dissolving into his damp surgical mask".
Der Zor is a term that sticks with you, or sticks on you, like a burr or thorn: "r" "z" "or" — hard, sawing, knifelike.
Students and faculty advisers from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, were in hard hats, sawing and hammering, and were still working long after the 1 p.m. opening ceremonies.
Long limb, sharp saw, hard drop," read another.
No need to press hard once the saw is started in its kerf: push back and forth gently, and let it do the work until the keyboard case just comes apart.
Here's two of our volunteers hard at work sawing.
Nearby, two men in hard hats were sawing lumber, while a film crew from Vancouver recorded the process for a possible documentary.
While he grew up poor, the 18-year-old saw how hard his parents worked in the fields, which is why he made his promise to his father.
We see them hard at work, too, sawing wood they have carried from the sawmill.
"He spoke of having worked as hard at it as sawing wood," Fanny recorded in her diary, "and seemed, in his goodness of heart, much satisfied at the labor".
As if boatbuilding weren't hard enough with electric saws and laser levels, they worked on a 21-foot flat-bottom boat using handmade wooden tools and a lot of sweat.
