lightwood

Example Sentences

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The pine woods were on fire as we passed through them, the flames now and then running up a lightwood tree, and throwing a weird and fitful glare upon the passing train.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael

Light was furnished by lightwood torches and sometimes by the homemade tallow candles.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 by Work Projects Administration

Upon this they lay their burning lightwood, split into small shivers, each splinter whereof will blaze and burn end for end like a candle.

From The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia by Wharton, James

Cornelia shivered as she sat down on the edge of this divan, and Charmian ran back to put another stick of lightwood on the fire, and turn the gas down to a blue flame.

From The Coast of Bohemia by Howells, William Dean

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.