brushwood

Example Sentences

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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

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

"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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Does not “The Brushwood Boy,” although it suggests the super-actual, set forth a common truth of the most intimate human relationship, which every lover recognizes as real?

From A Manual of the Art of Fiction by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker