lightwood
Example Sentences
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The method of it is to suspend a fire of lightwood knots, which is built within a hollow, gratelike iron frame over the water.
From When the Cock Crows by Waldron Baily
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 Raphael Semmes
Dat won't no trouble, cause all I had to do was rake back de ashes from the coals and throw on some chips and lightwood and de fire come right up.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 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 James Wharton
He loosed the bundle of lightwood, 325 took two pieces, tied them into the form of a cross, and laid it beside a lighted candle near the silver cup.
From The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan by Thomas Dixon
