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

WOOD, a man very fond of playing jokes, met his friend, Mr. Stone, and at once inquired jocosely: "Hello, Stone, how are Mrs. Stone and all the little pebbles?"

From Good Stories from the Ladies' Home Journal by Various

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

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)

WOOD, WILLOUGHBY, reversion from a cross. -on Mr. Bates' cattle.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Darwin, Charles