lightwood

Example Sentences

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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

The yard was brightly lighted in spots by flaming lightwood torches, which left the other parts in deepest gloom.

From The Rose of Old St. Louis by Dillon, Mary

The old man folded his hands in his lap, and sat quietly gazing into the lightwood fire.

From Nights With Uncle Remus by Winter, Milo

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

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

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 Macfarlane, J.