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

October came, when all the scrub, the lightwood, and wattle were in full bloom, and the air everywhere was full of sweetness.

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.

Outside, the ruddy, shaken shine from a couple of lightwood torches which stood alone, where they had been thrust deep into the garden mould made strange gouts and blotches of colour on Nancy’s flower beds.

From Judith of the Cumberlands by MacGowan, Alice

Charmian bustled about, and made a fire of lightwood, and then kindled her spirit lamp, and made tea, which she brought to Cornelia.

From The Coast of Bohemia by Howells, William Dean

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