lightwood
Example Sentences
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October came, when all the scrub, the lightwood, and wattle were in full bloom, and the air everywhere was full of sweetness.
From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by J. Macfarlane
We are fortunate to have so much lightwood.
From Life in the Confederate Army Being Personal Experiences of a Private Soldier in the Confederate Army by Arthur Peronneau Ford
Sam and Puss were both blinking their eyes in the shade of the lightwood, and whisking the flies from their ears.
From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by J. Macfarlane
From a saddle he took the lightwood torch, returned within, and placed the cup on the boulder on which the Grand Cyclops had sat.
From The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan by Thomas Dixon
"Thar ain't anything like a lightwood fire to drive away the misery."
From The Miller Of Old Church by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
