lightwood
Example Sentences
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Den another time I was in de woods choppin' lightwood.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration
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
All de light come from de lightwood knots burnin' in de fireplace.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by Various
So us carry a lightwood knot fer light when us put anything in it or take anything out.
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
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.
