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"Backlog" Quotes from Famous Books

... in her lap, and the fire-light making her shadow dance upon the ceiling overhead. She undressed the little prince, and bathed him all over with some fragrant liquid out of a vase. The next thing she did was to rake back the red embers, and make a hollow place among them, just where the backlog had been. At last, while the baby was crowing, and clapping its fat little hands, and laughing in the nurse's face (just as you may have seen your little brother or sister do before going into its warm bath), Ceres suddenly laid him, all naked as he was, in the hollow among the red-hot ...

— Myths That Every Child Should Know - A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People • Various

... heart good to see the great fires that were kindled in the parlor and bar-room, especially the latter, where the fireplace was built of rough stone, and might have contained the trunk of an old tree for a backlog. A man keeps a comfortable hearth when his own forest is at his very door. In the parlor, when the evening was fairly set in, we held our hands before our eyes to shield them from the ruddy glow, and began a pleasant variety of conversation. ...

— The Great Stone Face - And Other Tales Of The White Mountains • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... of the old woman's cane as she hobbles about the cabin. Can't you smell the bear haunch that's roasting there on that long spit before the fire? Don't you hear the merry music of the ax, just outside the door, as brawny arms swing it, cutting the great backlog for the long night? Civilized? Yes, in a way, but not in our way, is it? But what are we ...

— Buffalo Roost • F. H. Cheley

Words linked to "Backlog" : aggregation, accumulation, collection, reserve account, reserve fund, gather, amass, fuel level, conglomerate, pile up, firewood, assemblage, reserve, Yule log, bank, cumulate, accumulate