Deferring to the man's sense of the binding powers of pen and ink and paper, Lightwood nodded acceptance of Eugene's nodded proposal to take those spells in hand.
Mr Lightwood ain't in at the present moment, but I expect him back very shortly.
However, when dinner is served, and Lightwood drops into his old place over against Lady Tippins, she can be fended off no longer.
They had been abed in their respective rooms two or three hours, when Eugene was partly awakened by hearing a footstep going about, and was fully awakened by seeing Lightwood standing at his bedside.
Mr Lightwood would propose to me, if I would let him.
And, 'I wish I could stop theLightwood peal, for it sounds like a knell.
So go the Mortimer Lightwood bells, and they sound melancholy to-night.
At last they saw its dim light shining out, and it gave them hope: though Lightwood faltered as he thought: 'If he were gone, she would still be sitting by him.
With a brief reference to the happy time when it had been his privilege to know Mrs Rokesmith as Miss Wilfer, Mr Lightwood explained what was amiss with him and why he came.
Similarly, it was through Mr Lightwood that you ever saw her again, for you were with him on the night when my father was found, and so I found you with her on the next day.
Devin, being called, appeared and produced a Certificate und'r the hand of Ellis Lightwood Esq.
He broke off for an instant, lay gazing at the lightwood blaze, and then took up the thread.
She bent over and raked the ashes from her cake with a lightwood splinter.
He crossed over to the great open fireplace, and kneeling upon the hearth raked a hollow in the old ashes; then he kindled a blaze from a pile of lightwood knots, and stood up brushing his hands together.
All de light come from de lightwoodknots burnin' in de fireplace.
De young marster sorta wanted my mammy, but she tells him no, so he chunks a lightwood knot an' hits her on de haid wid it.
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.
The Butterfly Man knelt, thrust a handful of lightwood splinters under the pile, and touched a match here and there.
So us carry a lightwood not [HW: knot] fer light when us put anything in it or take anything out.
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.
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.
The old man fumbled around under his bed, and presently dragged forth a large bag filled with lightwood knots, which, with an instinctive economy in this particular direction, he had stored away for an emergency.
At nightfall the heaps of lightwood were set on fire, and the little boy, who was waiting impatiently for Uncle Remus to come for him, could hear the negroes singing, dancing, and laughing.
Think of a fire of four-foot lightwood on a chilly evening!
She shivered slightly, wiped the perspiration from her brow with one small bare fist, and plodded on, clutching her lightwood to her rounded breast.
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.
A splinter of lightwood flared aromatically in an old tin candlestick; by its smoky, wavering radiance she heated some well water, cleaned the tin plates, scoured pan and kettle, and set them in their humble places again.
We had brought a load oflightwood splints in bundles to town on a steer cart.
Instead of the little room called "Cozy," where the Police Inspector drank burned sherry with Lightwood and Wrayburn, there was an apartment labelled "The Club.
We had thrown lightwood down into them, and filled them up.
I was passing between two piles of lightwood on my way, when I heard the report of a pistol.
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.
In reluctantly consenting, Hubert urged that they first provide themselves with "some fat lightwood splinters" for kindling.
He guided the team into the woods a few paces and unhitched, while I was looking for a few lightwood knots to build up a fire.
I noted a double pen log house with a large chimney at one end and a rousinglightwood fire in it.
A stranger who had entered the station with Lightwood and Wrayburn attracts Mr. Inspector's attention.
The dinner being over, Mortimer Lightwoodand his friend Eugene Wrayburn interviewed the boy who had brought the note, and then set out in a cab to the riverside quarter of Wapping.
Frank Milvey, and Margaretta, his wife, with whom Mortimer Lightwood had been already in conference, should come and join them.
Dat lightwood tea is er good medicine, I takes hit lots ov times now when I has er cole.
Matches was so scarce then that fires warn't 'lowed to go slap out, but they did burn mighty low sometimes in summer and us had to use fat lightwood splinters to git 'em started up again.
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.
A lightwood torch furnishes the light by day and by night.
The old man folded his hands in his lap, and sat quietly gazing into the lightwood fire.
The yard was brightly lighted in spots by flaming lightwood torches, which left the other parts in deepest gloom.
Leaning against a post that held a lightwood torch, a little withdrawn from the others, in solitary dignity, stood Black Hawk.
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.
She wuz all black en white en cold lookin' twell she smiled, en den it wuz des' like er lightwood blaze in 'er eyes.
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 above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lightwood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
