Timber in example sentence

Remember that, even financially speaking, it is better to earn one hundred louis in an honest trade in timber, where you are your own master, than to receive four thousand francs from a Government, were it that of King Solomon himself.'Julien saw no more in this than the pettiness of a rustic mind.

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They're disappearing because some timber companies go in with clear-cutting.

It's just steel and timber.

So in fact, the price of timber in the Beijing marketplace ought to have been three-times what it was had it reflected the true pain and the costs to the society within China.

We are made from crooked timber, vulnerable to illusions, self-centeredness and at times astounding stupidity.

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