"The Country of the Gargoyles is all
wooden!" exclaimed Zeb; and so it was.
Sixteen years previous to the epoch when this story takes place, one fine morning, on Quasimodo Sunday, a living creature had been deposited, after mass, in the church of Notre- Dame, on the
wooden bed securely fixed in the vestibule on the left, opposite that great image of Saint Christopher, which the figure of Messire Antoine des Essarts, chevalier, carved in stone, had been gazing at on his knees since 1413, when they took it into their heads to overthrow the saint and the faithful follower.
He became noted for carving ornamental pump heads, and
wooden urns for gate posts, and decorations, more grotesque than fanciful, for mantelpieces.
This night, a literary man--WITH a
wooden leg--' he bestowed an admiring look upon that decoration, as if it greatly enhanced the relish of Mr Wegg's attainments--'will begin to lead me a new life!
I HAD led this life about a month, when the man with the
wooden leg began to stump about with a mop and a bucket of water, from which I inferred that preparations were making to receive Mr.
Her husband grieved bitterly, and buried her in the house where she had passed her life; but as the time went on he felt so lonely without her that he made a
wooden doll about her height and size for company, and dressed it in her clothes.
At the end of Broad Street it ran right down to the water's edge, where there was a small
wooden wharf.
It happened that a Man had often prayed to a
wooden idol he had received from his father, but his luck never seemed to change.
We went along merrily till we came to the toll-bar and the low
wooden bridge.
Poor Geppetto ran after him but was unable to catch him, for Pinocchio ran in leaps and bounds, his two
wooden feet, as they beat on the stones of the street, making as much noise as twenty peasants in
wooden shoes.
There was an open wagon, with three seats for the passengers, and the wagon was drawn by the famous
wooden Sawhorse which had once been brought to life by Ozma by means of a magic powder.
At the lower end of the great room was another table, at which sat the Ryls and Knooks who had come with Santa Claus, the
wooden soldiers who had come with the Queen of Merryland, and the Hilanders and Lolanders who had come with John Dough.