brushwood

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Greenhorns Stan and Ollie go to Brushwood Gulch with a gold-mine deed and get a bum steer.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2020

Nevertheless, it shocked the sensibilities of a nation brought up on The Brushwood Boy and Tom Brown's School Days.

From Time Magazine Archive

"It makes beautiful graphics," concedes Dale Brushwood of the Orange County school board, "but I'm not convinced it's not just a gimmick."

From Time Magazine Archive

In The Brushwood Boy, he built a boy-meets-girl idyll around the notion that dreams may be shared though the dreamers be continents apart.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Public School system was venerated as a pillar of the British Empire and out of that veneration had grown a myth of the ideal Public School boy—Kipling's Brushwood Boy.

From The Loom of Youth by Waugh, Alec