The latter raises the moss and bark gently with his knife in search of insects; the former lays open logs to their core with his axe, and moss and bark fly far and wide.

Every mile or so there were gangs of hundreds of men and women working on the road, spreading gravel and laying new logs to hold the surface together.

Then I've thrown away my last chance to own Kent's-was Michael strode to the hearth, knelt and began laying logs on top of kindling.

"I think you could lay logs on them," said Dr. Thorson, who figured that logs had once covered a low - and often wet - stretch of the road.

Silently Conner laid the paper and logs and applied a match.

Now the Groupies are here, there's talk of a road gang that'll lay logs, corrugate the track.

Below the heights and above the clear sand, driftwood lay tumbled, huge bleached logs, lesser fragments of trees and flotsam.

This type of road was introduced by the Spanish centuries earlier when they created routes of travel by laying logs across low places.

Log houses were built by laying logs horizontally one on top of one another.

I sat in the Long Room without the inclination to turn on the lamps or light the carefully laid logs in the dark fireplace.