1 You're not going to sit around here and whittle store-boxes and tell stories all your life.
2 He was clever at whittling and Wade was constantly by his side, for he whittled out toys for him, the only toys the little boy had.
3 The inside of the store was almost like Bullard's store in Jonesboro, except that there were no loungers about the roaring red-hot stove, whittling and spitting streams of tobacco juice at the sand boxes.
4 Archie sat on a stool by the hearth, his back against the fireplace, his cheek distended with tobacco, whittling industriously on a bit of wood.
5 Archie's whittling annoyed her and she frowned at him.
6 I see now that ragged black man sitting on a log, aimlessly whittling a stick.
7 One of his legs was gone at the knee and to the stump was fitted a roughly whittled wooden peg.
8 I went with Musgrave to his study and whittled myself this peg, to which I tied this long string with a knot at each yard.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual