lightwood
Example Sentences
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It was 'bout sundown, and every time my ax go 'whack' on de lightwood knot, I hear another whack 'sides mine.
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
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 J. Macfarlane
From a saddle he took the lightwood torch, returned within, and placed the cup on the boulder on which the Grand Cyclops had sat.
From The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan by Thomas Dixon
"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
