wood

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There were few streetlamps here, spread far apart, but the hulking sign planted on the hill blinked brightly, first HOLLY, then WOOD, then LAND, before it started all over again.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Signed at =Pretoria= London this =3rd day of August 1881,= =HERCULES ROBINSON,= =President and High Commissioner= =EVELYN WOOD, Major General,= =Officer Administering the Government= =J.H. de VILLIERS.=

From A Century of Wrong by Reitz, F. W.

The Baron who has been there, and still would go if he could, but, as he can't, he is contented to let "WOOD go" without him, and to read the latter's tales of a traveller.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891 by Various

They would have tried it even then, but they were far above the belt of timber; they had matches—what boy has not?—but no WOOD.

From Tales of Trail and Town by Harte, Bret

WOOD, JOHN. remarks of, 322, 349. motion by, 350.

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)