| 单词 | lightwood |
| 例句 | We are fortunate to have so much lightwood. Life in the Confederate Army Being Personal Experiences of a Private Soldier in the Confederate Army 2011-08-19T02:00:11.243Z The negro touched the blazing match to splinters of lightwood, as the southern pitch pine is called when dry, and instantly he stood in a circle of light, his features revealed in every detail. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z It was 'bout sundown, and every time my ax go 'whack' on de lightwood knot, I hear another whack 'sides mine. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives 2011-05-04T02:00:16.830Z "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. The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico 2011-05-02T02:00:18.793Z The pine woods were on fire as we passed through them, the flames now and then running up a lightwood tree, and throwing a weird and fitful glare upon the passing train. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Our greatest achievement after all, I think, was the piles of socks we knitted by the lightwood blaze at night. Life in the Confederate Army Being Personal Experiences of a Private Soldier in the Confederate Army 2011-08-19T02:00:11.243Z “Now, don’t you believe that!” she assured him, and running out to the shed for a handful of fat-pine, or “lightwood,” soon had the stove roaring comfortably. Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point Nita, the Girl Castaway Well, dat happen in a skirt of woods what I get my lightwood what I use to start a fire. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives 2011-05-04T02:00:16.830Z The method of it is to suspend a fire of lightwood knots, which is built within a hollow, gratelike iron frame over the water. When the Cock Crows “I can’t go, ole missus,” he said, shaking his gray head, as he rose from emptying an armful of lightwood knots into the wood box, and dusted the splinters from his sleeve. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 We had brought a load of lightwood splints in bundles to town on a steer cart. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2 As she sat one cold afternoon in December before her fire of fat lightwood knots, in her one-room cabin, she quickly went back to her childhood days. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 Upon this they lay their burning lightwood, split into small shivers, each splinter whereof will blaze and burn end for end like a candle. The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia 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. Judith of the Cumberlands Brother Fox covets the Quills View larger image Back to List of Illustrations The old man folded his hands in his lap, and sat quietly gazing into the lightwood fire. Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation He loosed the bundle of lightwood, 325 took two pieces, tied them into the form of a cross, and laid it beside a lighted candle near the silver cup. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Before dark the Indians gathered together a supply of "fat lightwood," as the resinous pine was called. Stories Of Georgia We had thrown lightwood down into them, and filled them up. Down South or, Yacht Adventure in Florida The old man folded his hands in his lap, and sat quietly gazing into the lightwood fire. Nights With Uncle Remus The fat tenant of the hovel had left some lightwood and kindling, and pots and pans necessary for such an existence as he led on earth. Special Messenger From a saddle he took the lightwood torch, returned within, and placed the cup on the boulder on which the Grand Cyclops had sat. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan We had torches made o' lightwood splinters, and brushes in our han's, we hit de piles o' brush after we got 'round 'em. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 I was passing between two piles of lightwood on my way, when I heard the report of a pistol. Down South or, Yacht Adventure in Florida Cornelia shivered as she sat down on the edge of this divan, and Charmian ran back to put another stick of lightwood on the fire, and turn the gas down to a blue flame. The Coast of Bohemia Dat won't no trouble, cause all I had to do was rake back de ashes from the coals and throw on some chips and lightwood and de fire come right up. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Leaning against a post that held a lightwood torch, a little withdrawn from the others, in solitary dignity, stood Black Hawk. The Rose of Old St. Louis All de light come from de lightwood knots burnin' in de fireplace. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Jenny, the house-girl, refused to sleep at the quarters; and when Aunt Tabby, the cook, started for her cabin after dark, she was accompanied by a number of little negroes bearing lightwood torches. Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White Charmian bustled about, and made a fire of lightwood, and then kindled her spirit lamp, and made tea, which she brought to Cornelia. The Coast of Bohemia So us carry a lightwood knot fer light when us put anything in it or take anything out. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 The yard was brightly lighted in spots by flaming lightwood torches, which left the other parts in deepest gloom. The Rose of Old St. Louis Oh, we had big chunk of lightwood en cook meat en hoecake en collards right dere in de woods. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Reeney found lightwood enough on the raft to make a good fire for coffee, which never tasted better. Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War At the first sniffle of a cold, the slaves were called in and given a drink of fat lightwood tea, made by pouring boiling water over split kindling. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Light was furnished by lightwood torches and sometimes by the homemade tallow candles. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 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. The Voice of the People October came, when all the scrub, the lightwood, and wattle were in full bloom, and the air everywhere was full of sweetness. 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 The oily water churned And made a slap-slap to the paddles' stroke; And a high painted canvas screen cut off The blue haze of the lightwood smoke. Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country Faint, trembling in every limb, I fell into a chair, and through a mist saw him kneel and blow upon the coals of the expiring fire, upon which he dropped a lightwood knot. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man I took a sliver of lightwood from the fire, and with this examined the black interior, before I ventured my fingers again. A Woman Named Smith On the stones of the great fireplace the red flames from lightwood splits leaped over a smouldering hickory log, filling the cabin with the penetrating odour of burning, resinous pine. The Voice of the People The bird descended as far as the lightwood, but would not be coaxed to come any nearer. 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 Into the grate put shavings or paper, or the fat pine known as lightwood. The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes The Butterfly Man knelt, thrust a handful of lightwood splinters under the pile, and touched a match here and there. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man The arm- pieces are of lightwood with cobra snakes carved upon the flat in low relief, each snake covered with hundreds of small silver annulets, to represent the markings of the reptile. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt "If he had not been as hard as a lightwood knot, that fall would have mashed him up," said the Doctor. Gordon Keith The gleam of the roaring lightwood fire flashed through the open seams between the logs, and heavy volumes of smoke rolled out of the clay chimney. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 On Saturday nights you may hear a strange rhythmic, thumping sound from the spring, and looking out you may see by the wild, fitful glare of lightwood torches dark figures moving to and fro. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Shep stirred up the camp fire and threw on some lightwood, causing a renewed blaze. Out with Gun and Camera These candles were for the use of the master and mistress, as the slaves used fat lightwood torches for lighting purposes. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives Game was plenty; lightwood was a substitute for candles; and housewifely skill furnished homespun garments. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Uncle Wellington went down to the spring and got a pail of water, after which he brought in some oak logs for the fire place and some lightwood for kindling. The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays The parlor was an uncomfortable chamber with uncomfortable elaborate chairs in orange plush upholstery, a narrow sofa, an organ of highly varnished lightwood ornamented with scrolled fretwork, and a cannon stove with polished brass spires. The Happy End Fresh bark was in the tanner's vat, and the fresh chopped lightwood stood piled against the baker's oven. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 Slaves used fat lightwood knots or their open fireplaces for lighting purposes. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives Here are vast forests, unctuous with turpentine, annually producing pitch, tar, rosin, and ship-timber, with material for houses, boats, fuel, and lightwood, while the mossy drapery of the trees in suitable for pillows and cushions. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 She bent over and raked the ashes from her cake with a lightwood splinter. The Battle Ground Bound to be; she never was cotched behind time, not while I stuffed her with coal and lightwood knots. At the Mercy of Tiberius They came to an open space in the forest, thickly grown with thickets of bracken fern, prickly acacia, and here and there a solitary dark-foliaged lightwood. Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn Some of her remedies follows: For colds: Horehound tea, pinetop tea, lightwood drippings on sugar. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives The charred end of a lightwood knot had fallen on the stones, and, picking it up, she threw it back into the flames. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields He broke off for an instant, lay gazing at the lightwood blaze, and then took up the thread. The Battle Ground There don't any train run on it except when the crew goes out in the pines and gathers enough lightwood knots to get up steam. The Gentle Grafter Oh, he'll live long enough yet, never fear—those wiry, cross-grained people are as tough as lightwood knots. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields |
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