lightwood

Example Sentences

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The bird descended as far as the lightwood, but would not be coaxed to come any nearer.

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 Macfarlane, J.

Den another time I was in de woods choppin' lightwood.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

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 Dixon, Thomas

As she sat one cold afternoon in December before her fire of fat lightwood knots, in her one-room cabin, she quickly went back to her childhood days.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration

We had thrown lightwood down into them, and filled them up.

From Down South or, Yacht Adventure in Florida by Optic, Oliver