lightwood
Example Sentences
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"Wait till I strike a match, and I'll try to find a piece of lightwood to make a torch," said Rob, jumping from the wagon.
From The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico by Lieut. Howard Payton
The resinous pine blazed up, the pungent odour filled the large room, and from the lightwood sticks tiny streams of resin oozed out and dripped into the embers, turning the red to gray.
From The Voice of the People by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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
Well, dat happen in a skirt of woods what I get my lightwood what I use to start a fire.
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
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 Alice MacGowan
