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Sentences starting with wood

Wood gives in the 'Student' (April 1870, p. 116) an excellent account of the attitude and habits of this bird during its courtship. [1]
Wood in the 'Student,' April 1870, p. [1]
Wood at West Point, where they learned that Wood, as Adjutant, had under his control a small printing establishment. [5]
Wood also informs me that he once watched two individuals of C. pumilus fighting violently on the branch of a tree; they flung their heads about and tried to bite each other; they then rested for a time and afterwards continued their battle. [1]
Wood replied that he would be glad to oblige. [5]
Wood enough is consumed in that morning sacrifice to cook the food of a Parisian family for a year. [4]
Wood has given ('The Student,' April 1870, p. 115) a full account of this manner of display, by the Gold pheasant and by the Japanese pheasant, Ph. [1]
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Sentences ending with wood

Fetch some more wood! [2]
His next work was to build a fireplace of stones and to gather a store of wood. [13]
But, as I was saying, to change quarters here as late as November is a little difficult, for the wise ones seek to get housed for the winter by October: they select the sunny apartments, get on the double windows, and store up wood. [4]
Tom's "real Barlow" was out at once, and he had not dug four inches before he struck wood. [5]
The "Dudley Mansion" was near the eastern edge of this declivity, where it rose steepest, with baldest cliffs and densest patches of overhanging wood. [6]
The bushes were very fine, --seven feet high, and of good wood. [4]
At the corner, turning fearfully, he perceived the man in the overcoat calmly preparing to unload his wood. [9]
The wolf paused, turned its heavy forehead toward the dogs awkwardly, like a man suffering from the quinsy, and, still slightly swaying from side to side, gave a couple of leaps and with a swish of its tail disappeared into the skirt of the wood. [2]
He was a thick-set man of middle height, with a large head, and clever but coarse features, as rudely moulded as if they had been carved from wood. [10]
From the fleches they rode still farther to the left, along a road winding through a thick, low-growing birch wood. [2]

Short sentences using wood

This wood is called Backsheesh. [11]
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Sentences containing wood two or more times

The Quartermaster cut the wood, but you'll find no wood cut by that last messenger. [5]
Yet in this quiet wood so near to the centuries that were before Adam was, she looked like a spirit of comedy listening till the Spirit of the Wood should break the silence. [11]

More example sentences with the word wood in them

Graciously look over yonder, Your Highness; does it not seem as if the wood fairy herself had laid by the roadside for your illustrious Majesty the fairest flowers that bloom in field and forest, mere and moss? [10]
Then he, Argutis, would be house steward, and show that he knew other things besides keeping the workroom and garden in order, splitting wood, and buying cheaply at market. [10]
Cannot a man work in wood without knowing all about endogens and exogens, or must he attend Professor Gray's Lectures before he can be trusted to make a box-trap? [3]
C. E. S. Wood, then adjutant of the U. S. Military Academy. [5]
Out in the wood, in spite of thunder and lightning, he made her to put on Eppelein's weed and mount the nag. [10]
This fragment of wood which I now exhibit to you struck him. [5]
Besides, the wild wood was a second home to me, and now I was shut up in a convent where the silence about me crushed me like a too tight bodice. [10]
He soon struck wood that sounded hollow. [5]
Flying bits of wood struck Venters, and the hot, stinging pain seemed to lift him in one leap. [13]
In the dry wood of despair soon budded green shoots of hope, and instead of annihilation at the end of this life they showed me Heaven and all its joys. [10]
He piles the wood like champagne bottles. [11]
Where had the wood been gathered in this desert? [10]
C. E. S. Wood at West Point --an edition of 50 copies--and distributed among popes and kings and such people. [5]
It consisted of wood and stones, and was covered with a thick layer of moss, raised at the head in a slanting direction. [10]
It was of wood (for use in summer only), octagon shaped, with a thatched roof, open in the centre. [4]
Their cries mingled with the crackling and snapping of the dry wood, and the roar of the flames, with the trumpet calls of the awakening troops, and the beating of drums. [10]
Others had gone with some of the vagrants into the little wood beyond the meadow, where they danced, fiddled, and sang. [10]
I must speak with proper deference to the lady who is scrubbing my floors, when I remember that her husband, who saws my wood, carries a string of high-sounding titles which would satisfy a Spanish nobleman. [6]
He greeted Andreas with cheerful kindness, and the freedman knew what he meant when, without waiting to be asked, he said: "We are out of the wood now; the fever has passed away. [10]
The building is wholly of wood, reddish brown in tint, a very pleasing color. [5]
It was he who must snuff the candles, and put on a stick of wood, and toast the cheese, and turn the apples, and crack the nuts. [4]
Those floating freaks which were all top and drew nothing, were loaded down to the guards with army stores and animals and wood and men, --men who came from every walk in life. [9]
So this was where Mr. Wood lived! [9]
He was attempting, when Stephen appeared, to get a little heat into his hands by rubbing them, as a man who kindles a stick of wood for a visitor. [9]
She was glad when she saw the young braves bring a long sapling from the forest, and, digging a hole, put it stoutly in the ground, and fetch wood, and heap it about. [11]
It was the Westminster Catechism in wood and stone, and Dr. [9]
Stores of wood were brought for the night, shelters were rigged up for the officers, caldrons were being boiled, and muskets and accouterments put in order. [2]
Arches and poles were being put up, to be decorated against the feast- day, and piles of wood for bonfires were arranged at points on the hills round the village. [11]
Among the company were also Captains Martin, Archer, Wood, Webbe, Moore, King, Davis, and several gentlemen of good means, and a crowd of the riff-raff of London. [4]
The small window-panes were actually inclosed in the wood of the sashes instead of being stuck to them with putty, as in our modern windows. [6]
And many days we spent in the wood, playing at hunting game--a poor enough amusement for me, and one that Nick soon tired of. [9]
For three days we marched in the green shade of the primeval wood, nor saw the sky save in blue patches here and there. [9]
They point the way; and when we emerge from the wood, St. Maria a Castello is before us on a height, its white and red church shining in the sun. [4]
The third order was: General Campan will move through the wood to seize the first fortification. [2]
The second order was that Poniatowski, moving to the village through the wood, should turn the Russian left flank. [2]
The superincumbent weight was sufficient to mash the ends of those great upright beams fairly into the solid wood of the horizontal ones three inches, compressing and bending the upright beam till it curved like a bow. [5]
The boisterous day was reddening to its close as the Colonel lined his little army in front of the wood, and we covered the space of four thousand. [9]
Yes, the case was plain to Hendon--he must lose no more time in Southwark, but move at once through Kent, toward Monk's Holm, searching the wood and inquiring as he went. [5]
Little Miss Dolly was often at the Hall after that happy week we spent together; and her home, Wilmot House, was scarce three miles across wood and field by our plantation roads. [9]
After all, it was not strange that some one should be singing in that deepest wood beyond. [11]
But the town was mostly of wood, and its rapid growth was a matter of anxiety. [4]
His disturbed brain was like some dark wood through which flew songless birds with wings of night; through which sped the furtive dwellers of the grass and the earth-covert. [11]
His friendship, it was like a shady wood Whither has he gone?--Who shall speak for us? [11]
His fresh cheek was bent to the brown, delicate wood, and he was playing to his sister the air of the undying chanson, "Je vais mourir pour ma belle reine. [11]
How they lived was a matter of conjecture, though the mother gathered herbs and berries and bartered them at the village store, and Murad occasionally took a hand in some neighbor's hay-field, or got a job of chopping wood in the winter. [4]
It was completely wainscoted with wood, and from the centre of the richly-carved ceiling a strange picture gleamed in brilliant hues. [10]
In the wood, wagons and horses were standing. [2]
The sound of voices, the tramping feet, the horses' hoofs moving in mud, the crackling of wood fires near and afar, merged into one tremulous rumble. [2]
It was the very weather that makes our home summers the perfection of climatic luxury; I mean, when you are out in the wood or by the sea. [5]
He bought the very cheapest one he could find, plain wood, stained. [5]
Wood, in his valuable series of papers (48. [1]
When we got up in the morning, we found that the fire had burned small pieces of drift wood within six feet of our boat, and had made its way to within 4 or 5 steps of us on the South side. [5]
I lugged wood up from below for some little time, and then turned in and fell to snoring as only a man can whose strength is all gone and whose soul is worn out. [5]
They could close up every entrance, and live unscathed; for here was land for tilling, and wood, and wild fruit, and food for cattle. [11]
They walked out under the trees to the brook-side and stood listening to the tinkling of the cowbells in the wood lot beyond. [9]
Then the cruel, tyrannical baton struck the wood a second time, and---- But what did this mean? [10]
Levy on that turpentine in the fantail-drench every stick of wood with it! [5]
They swung, like trained warriors, the brazen sickle-shaped sword, the curved shield of heavy wood, or the lance decked below its point with a bunch of camel's hair. [10]
Who could have told me that I should one day have the satisfaction to look again upon this bit of wood that supported me above the grave that swallowed up my unfortunate companions! [5]
All this was told in a whisper; only a thin wall of wood parted Ursula's chamber from ours. [10]
I became accustomed to this dumb society, and picked on in silence, attributing all the wood noises to the cattle, thinking nothing of any real bear. [4]
As Charley stooped to put wood in the fire, the tailor thrust a foot forward and pushed the piece of paper further under the table. [11]
On Mark's return to Hartford, Wood received a letter asking if he would do Mark a great favor by printing something he had written, which he did not care to entrust to the ordinary printer. [5]
His voice seemed to fill the whole wood and carried far beyond out into the open field. [2]
They were able to do this night what they had not done for days --dig a great grave of snow, and building a fire of pine wood at each end of this strange house, get protection and something like comfort. [11]
Some had tried to distribute water fairly, efficiently and scientifically, but most of them had got lost in the underbush of officialdom, and never got out of the wood again. [11]
But the next time the Indian sawed wood for us I taught him to make a cross at the bottom of the voucher--it looked like a cross that had been drunk a year--and then I "witnessed" it and it went through all right. [5]
We made good time across the open ground, and as we darted into the shelter of the wood I glanced back and saw a mob of excited peasants swarm into view, with Marco and his wife at their head. [5]
Listening intently, I thought it came from the side of the cabin where the lean-to was, where we stored our wood in winter. [9]
He read and thought and chopped wood in the tannery shed as usual. [9]
Not satisfied with this, he piled full of wood the stone oven outside the house, and carried water for her from the spring. [11]
How beautiful is this flower of wood and iron, which we were ready to pass by without wasting a look upon it! [6]
One of the third story windows was open, and out of it was pouring a mass of gray wood smoke. [9]
Presently, having got things arranged to his satisfaction, the expressman got some wood and made up a tremendous fire in his stove. [5]
The noblest of these trees were of the Kauri breed, we were told the timber that is now furnishing the wood-paving for Europe, and is the best of all wood for that purpose. [5]
On this knoll there was a white patch that Rostov could not at all make out: was it a glade in the wood lit up by the moon, or some unmelted snow, or some white houses? [2]
At that instant there came distinctly through the wood a faint, trilling sound. [11]
The roots forced themselves down into the worm's person, and rearward along through its body, sucking up the creature's juices for sap; the worm slowly died, and turned to wood. [5]
I can see them now, crackling and writhing as they gained on the wood, licking it and fawning, as it were, till it caught and sent up a rush of sparks and fire. [10]
The hut in the wood where Gabriel Druse had carried Jethro Fawe was not three hundred yards away. [11]
Well, toward morning the wood gave out and my wife wanted me to go down cellar and get some more. [5]
After going through the wood for about a mile and a half they came out on a glade where troops of Tuchkov's corps were stationed to defend the left flank. [2]
In Lucerne, too, the wood carvings of other sorts, which had been so pleasant to look upon when one saw them occasionally at home, soon began to fatigue us. [5]
The smell of the wood came to them, and a little trail of sweet smoke was left behind as the canoe swiftly passed into the mist on the other side and was gone. [11]
Not seldom in the winter time a poor man, here and there in the parish, would find dumped down outside his door in the early morning a half-cord of wood or a bag of flour. [11]
Did ye smell the wild scent in the green o' the wood? [11]
As it chanced, the watch, suffering from the cold night air, had gone into the bush to bring wood for firing. [11]
The officer of the watch will tell you when he wants to wood up. [5]
They especially forbade the use of wood in house-fronts and windows, both on account of the danger from fire, and because all the timber in the kingdom, which was needed for shipping and other purposes, was being used up in building. [4]
The captain and the two passengers did not eat strips and chips, as the sailors did, but scraped the boot-leather and the wood, and made a pulp of the scrapings by moistening them with water. [5]
You may see the towers from here; and that wood there--that is my father's park. [5]
The last of the three was of wood, and of no great size--a severely plain but dignified structure, looking like some council-hall of a past era. [11]
This is partly the substance of what was said one winter evening before the wood fire in the library of a house in Brandon, one of the lesser New England cities. [4]
The beak of the ship bearing the statue of Hygieia, carved in wood, began to move. [10]
Captain Nelson's ship, the Phoenix, was freighted with cedar wood, and was despatched for England June 8, 1608. [4]
You, Chloris, prepare the morning meal; and you, Dorippe, see if the master wants anything, and bring fresh wood for the fire. [10]
From you--you, Katterle, the maid--the knight expects----" Here she struck her little hand angrily against the wood of the bedstead and, panting for breath, continued: "I'll show him!----Yet no! [10]
To the left the horizon bounded by the adjacent wood. [2]
His objections exceeded the highest hopes; he dug his claws into the wood and devoted himself to Sarah's countenance with unremitting industry. [9]
The uproar among the heathen grew louder and louder; fragments of stone and wood came flying towards the spot where the Bishop and officials were standing; but, suddenly, the tumult ceased, and, as if by a miracle, there was silence--perfect silence--in the temple. [10]

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