And life's sure as hell too short to spend it chopping wood.

The truth of it was that he liked chopping wood.

He would rather have chopped wood for his night's lodging.

She was still chopping wood when he came into the yard.

If it was cold in the cabin, you chopped more wood.

The man was standing near a stump where he had been chopping wood.

I hide up here in the north, doing nothing but chopping wood.

For a long time the sound of the men chopping wood stayed with us.

At one point she heard a sound like someone chopping wood.

They chopped wood for a good many of the tenants on the different floors.