He seized an axe and in a couple of chops felled a tree.
You have felled all the trees that were to be purchased by you this season, except the oaks, I believe."
Then he turned to the people, "Here is the timber," he cried, "already felled and split for your new building.
Here and there old trees had been felled the autumn before; or a squatter's roughly-built and decaying cottage had disappeared.
Here I found a spruce tree which I felled for a bridge; it reached across, about ten feet of the top holding in the bank brush.
In the succeeding autumn a small Iroquois war-party had the audacity to cross over to the island, and build a fort of felled trees in the woods.
Fortunately, I discovered another larger tree well situated a little farther down, which I felled, and though a few feet in the middle was submerged, it seemed perfectly safe.
He was soaked in blood that had burst through the temporary bandages, and his whole body bore evidence of the terrible struggle that had gone before the blow that had felled him.
On every side the roar of explosions could be heard, and the crash of falling walls came to the ear, while people were forced to leave buildings which still stood, but which it was decided must be felled.
The first dim impression borne to his awakening mind was a confusion of savage sounds which gradually resolved themselves into the growling of lions, and then, little by little, there came back to him the recollections of what had preceded the blow that had felled him.