But it's cutting off my nose to spite my face, as the old adage goes, for whatever she did to a dog, she'd probably do worse to a man.

I think not!" He entered the front room and stood before a long shelf on which were arranged an array of partially completed candlesticks carved from wood.
There were black and white walnut, red, white, and golden oak, cherry and curly maple, all in original designs.

Some of them were oddities, others were failures, but most of them were unusually successful.

He selected one of black walnut, carved until the outline of his pattern was barely distinguishable.

He was imitating the trunk of a tree with the bark on, the spreading, fern-covered roots widening for the base, from which a vine sprang.