| 单词 | touchwood |
| 例句 | Glaring at me, he rushed to the cannon, knocking it askew in his haste, and thrust the touchwood against the fuse. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z As he lifted his smouldering stick of touchwood and blew on it, he caught sight of me for the first time. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z For an hour I laboured in the making of a torch, which I constructed of touchwood bound about by reeds. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z I will tell you," replied the gipsy, striking a light with a flint and touchwood that he carried; "I will tell you; though you shall soon be able to satisfy yourself. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z Its wooden tenements had caught, and blazed like touchwood. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z Besides the two sorts of touchwood already mentioned, there is another kind of it in those parts, that I think is infinitely preferable to either. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations 2011-12-26T03:00:13.520Z Mark was first, he got inside on the “touchwood,” and scrambled up a little way, then he worked up, his back against one side, and his knees the other. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z A wild gooseberry may sometimes be seen growing out of the decayed ‘touchwood’ on the top of a hollow withy-pollard. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Below, among the powdery “touchwood” which lines the floor of this living hut, great fungi push their coloured heads up to the light. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Like a touchwood or a swastika, only—only different. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z Then he drew a little of the tinder-dry grass from the roof, and by means of his flint, steel, and touchwood, soon lit a fire on the cold and barren hearth. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z At intervals came the indistinct murmur of voices, the flash of hurried sparks dropped upon touchwood, the rattle of cannon balls, the ramming home of charges down slim-waisted guns. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z In passing old hollow trees sometimes they appear illuminated from within: the light proceeds from the decaying ‘touchwood.’ Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The “touchwood” smoulders and smokes immensely, and a great black column rises in the air. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Everyone of them 'as 'ad their brains cut out and chunks of rotten touchwood put in the place of it. The Wonderful Visit If any one is about to die suddenly, or to lose a relation, he will light upon touchwood, or a rotten bough, and “cuckoo.” Rambles in an Old City comprising antiquarian, historical, biographical and political associations These, communicated to touchwood, were soon formed into a blaze. Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 There was Guido Fawkes, with touchwood and matches upon him, only waiting for the signal which was to be given him in a few hours. The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History Nod, too, lay down, ruffled with fire, burning like touchwood, amid the enchanted flowers. The Three Mulla-mulgars Once, she had seen him sear the flesh of Cheneka with a burning piece of touchwood, and he had sucked the blood from the breast of Kon. Seeds of Pine And somewhere, in side pockets or hanging down his back, is his skipertogan—a skin bag with amulet against evil, matches, touchwood, and a scrap of pemmican. The Story of the Trapper I sat down with my lens and the last remaining piece of touchwood I possessed to catch a gleam of sunshine, feeling that my life depended upon it. Thirty-Seven Days of Peril from Scribner's Monthly Vol III Nov. 1871 To-day I sat down on a tree-stump at the skirt of a little strip of planting, and thoughtlessly began to dig out the touchwood with an end of twig. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) Within the House his captors searched him, coming upon the tinder box, touchwood, and Winter's watch—things which were to bear heavy evidence against the prisoner. The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts The girls picked up Raymonde out of a cloud of dust and a mass of touchwood. The Madcap of the School The assailants could readily fire it, and it would burn like so much touchwood. The Young Ranchers or, Fighting the Sioux I drew out my lens and touchwood, but alas! there was no sun. Thirty-Seven Days of Peril from Scribner's Monthly Vol III Nov. 1871 They kindle fire, by striking together a piece of white or yellow pyrites and a flint-stone, over a piece of touchwood. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe Searching in his doublet he drew forth a tinder box and touchwood. The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts Circling her waist she wore a girdle of touchwood, and attached to it a great skin pouch, in which she kept the charms which she used when she was practising her sorcery. The True Story Book He carried in one hand a dark lantern, lighted, and in the other a piece of touchwood, and a match eight or nine inches in length. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot “Because it has just occurred to me now that it was pepitas, and not pebbles; besides, our touchwood is all gone, and we could not have kindled another fire.” The Tiger Hunter “Why, take the wasps’ nest in that old touchwood tree. Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home “I guess we shall have to put a new bottom into her, for most of her planks are as rotten as touchwood.” In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting Just at that moment there came a fearful crash, the stout timbers and beams were rent, as if composed of mere touchwood. Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs A Tale of Land and Sea “It’s as dry as touchwood and will burn like wildfire!” The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada The rays passing through the glass increased many times in power and struck directly upon the touchwood. The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War There was no moisture there, and his mouth was as dry as touchwood. Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray Within the very mouth of the narrow pass they came upon a small ship hollowed out of a tree gigantic, but it was rotten and dry as touchwood, and wasting into dust. A Child's Book of Saints I had the touchwood lighted and concealed in my hand; gradually I moved downwards, until at last, unperceived by Mr O’Gallagher, I was behind him, and close to my train of gunpowder. Percival Keene It was a mass of touchwood in the hollow of a tree. With Axe and Rifle He seized the dry stick again and scraped off another little pile of touchwood. The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War “Yes,” said Brazier, as he broke out a piece of the luminous touchwood, which gleamed in the darkness when it was screened from the fire: “that’s a kind of phosphoric fungus, boys.” Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco I say, what do you think of a tin box in a hollow tree in the Park, where you can bury it in the touchwood when you go to feed the ducks?” In Honour's Cause A Tale of the Days of George the First Then reluctantly he followed his silent companion to the mouth of the tunnel-like cavern, where a bigger piece of touchwood was lit, and they commenced the return journey. First in the Field A Story of New South Wales And all we can see before us only so much dust and touchwood. Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days A minute, two minutes, three minutes, five passed and then a spark appeared in the touchwood, and following it came a tiny flame. The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War The smoke was from a fire which Garret and his men had kindled in a great hollow tree, that was probably rotted into touchwood. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. From the Oak Agaric, "touchwood," or "spunk,"—when cut into thin slices and beaten with a hammer until soft,—is made "Amadou," or German tinder. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure A wild gooseberry may sometimes be seen growing out of the decayed 'touchwood' on the top of a hollow withy-pollard. Adventures in Criticism The fire was gaining ground quickly, for a brisk wind had sprung up, and the long-seasoned timber in the old walls burnt like touchwood. Fern's Hollow An ill wind struck the feeble blaze, which was not yet strong enough to stand fanning into greater life, and it went out, leaving a little black ash to mark where the touchwood had been. The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War I will make her a hat of touchwood," said the old dwarf, "so that even if she is seen it will look like a will-o'-the-wisp bobbing up and down. The Brownies and Other Tales The old man fumbled with a finger, scraping together the flakes of touchwood in a tinder-box. Lady Good-for-Nothing The little monster has set the marsh-grass on fire, and it was I who taught the devil's spawn how to use touchwood! The Nameless Castle Accidentally looking back, he found that his footmarks, as far as he could see, shone with a phosphoric light like that of "touchwood" in the dark. After London Or, Wild England They kindled fire by striking together a piece of iron pyrites and touchwood, and never travelled without a small bag containing such materials. Pioneers in Canada "So be it," said the others; and Amelia wore the touchwood hat, and went up with them to the Mary Meads. The Brownies and Other Tales Bensington became aware of him, looking now very gaunt and horrible in the pale beginnings of the daylight, hurrying past with his lower jaw projected and a flaring torch of touchwood in his hand. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth House after house caught, as if constructed of touchwood, and the fire roared and raged to such a degree, that those who stood by were too much terrified to render any effectual assistance. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire He had a watch upon him, some touchwood, some tinder, some slow matches; and there was a dark lantern with a candle in it, lighted, behind the door. A Child's History of England The local remedy was a drastic one: it was to place a piece of lighted touchwood on the most inflamed part, and to leave it there till the flesh was burnt to the nerve! Pioneers in Canada To-day I sat down on a tree- stump at the skirt of a little strip of planting, and thoughtlessly began to dig out the touchwood with an end of twig. Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 The rains had imparted a phosphorescence to the pieces of touchwood and rotting leaves that lay about her path, which, as scattered by her feet, spread abroad like spilt milk. The Woodlanders Sometimes a small dead birch contains in the waterproof envelope of its bark a species of powdery, dry touchwood that takes the flame readily. The Forest The legs of our chairs snap under those two boys as if old oak were touchwood; and Blanche and Eva, who ought to know better, devote all their energies to imitating them.' The Golden Calf Hobson again had recourse to his flint, and with the aid of some lighted touchwood consulted the needle of his compass very carefully. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude She was suffocating; she might certainly make herself comfortable; everyone was not gifted with a skin as dry as touchwood. L'Assommoir Some fragments are so honeycombed that they are as light in the hand as touchwood; others have undergone little, if any, chemical change. Two Summers in Guyenne A Hindoo village is as inflammable as touchwood. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter The houses, which with few exceptions are built of bamboo and wood, become perfectly parched in the hot season, dried into so much touchwood by the heat of the sun. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes Long at once struck his flint, lighted the touchwood, and creeping along the sand climbed to the foot of the thicket of firs, where he was soon joined by the Lieutenant. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude There one may see huge dead trees with their bark seemingly sound, and their inside a mere cavern with touchwood at the bottom; into which caverns one used to peep with some caution. Town Geology The woods were one medley of fallen trees, rotting into touchwood, hidden boulders, and matted briers. Salute to Adventurers Phil, there is no occasion to go off like touchwood; ’t is not as thee thinks. Janice Meredith Rotten touchwood, or a kind of fungus prepared for tinder; figuratively, spirit, courage. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue It is at once over solid and ricketty: room for the storage of books is wanted, and its wooden staircases, like touchwood or tinder, give one the shudders to think of fire. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 Rufus Dawes seized upon the English History, which had already done such service, tore out the drier leaves in the middle of the volume, and carefully added them to the little heap of touchwood. For the Term of His Natural Life Now that the tension of peril was gone, my legs were like touchwood, which a stroke would shatter, and my foolish head swam like a merry-go-round. Salute to Adventurers With all his might he kicked at the sides of the rift, and by that means broke away several pieces of the rotten touchwood. The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid Unhappy Seven Hundred and Forty-five: true-patriotic, but so combustible; being fired, they must needs fling fire: Senate of touchwood and rockets, in a world of smoke-storm, with sparks wind-driven continually flying! The French Revolution Long exposed to the sun, and flung high above the water-mark of recent storms, the timber had dried to the condition of touchwood, and would burn fiercely. For the Term of His Natural Life |
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