After the sandalwood traders abandoned Fiji for more profitable fields, a number of deserters and ship-wrecked men remained.
After little more than a decade the sandalwood supply was depleted to the point where trade virtually ceased.
In the nineteenth century, commercial contacts began in the form of sandalwood trade.
This profitable commodity brought Europeans and Americans first to the Sandalwood Coast on the west side of Vanua Levu.
So she took a sheet of notepaper and wrote upon it, "If I depart before Sophy, all my things are to belong to her for her lifetime;" and this document she placed within a sandalwood box standing upon the chest of drawers in her bedroom.
Certainly," replied the prosperous George, following her into the dining room, where Bessie towered beside the table upon which reposed the sandalwood box taken from the late mistress's bedroom.
As a matter of fact, too, the gates which he held in such reverence were found to be replicas of the pair that the Sultan Mahmood had pilfered from Somnauth; and were not of sandalwood at all, but of common deal.
You will yourselves with all honour transmit the gates of sandalwood to the restored Temple of Somnauth.
The peculiar odor of cambric and unbleached domestic was mixed with Japanese perfumes of sandalwood and incense, and with the unique aroma of hair-oil made from camellia berries.
Iriya held out the long black adzuma-coat, while old Suzume shook odors of incense and sandalwood from the craepe folds of the head-kerchief called "dzukin.
Sandalwood can be had from March to October, the usual trading season; but from March to May is the best time as vessels from Kupang and Macao are on the coast early, buying it up in time to return to Macao and China in the favourable monsoon.
The best ports for sandalwood are, Cootababa, Ocussi, and Sitranny, but it is to be had most abundantly at Ata-poopa.
Gold dust, I understand, is also procurable at Sandalwood Island and New Hebrides.
The stalls were occupied chiefly by country-bred ponies, the progeny of the native races of the neighbouring islands of Sandalwood and Timor.
Farther down she came upon a sandalwood box containing her mother's jewelry.
Madge an hour later, as she rose to go to her room, her roll of blue silk tucked under one arm, the sandalwood box in her hand.
She carefully examined the keyhole, then, with a swift rush of disappointment, came the thought that the mysterious key was merely that of the sandalwood box.
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And the slabs of tulip-wood and scented camphor-wood and sandalwood were saying to Anthony, "Why not?
And, as he looked at them, the tulip-wood and the scented sandalwood and camphor-wood gave him an idea.
Three heavy, pointed doors of sandalwood led into the apartment.
At one point behind the silken curtains a narrow stairway led upwards, and ended in a scented, sandalwood door.
It was badly cracked, and several blocks of stone had crashed down from the ceiling, one on the sandalwood bureau near where she crouched, smashing it to splinters and scattering the contents about her feet.
After that, every night when she was alone, Pansy opened the sandalwood door leading into the long, dark passage by which she had first entered the palace.
A big room with walls and floor of gold mosaic, furnished with ottomans, rugs and cushions, and little tables and stools of carved sandalwood inlaid with ivory and silver.
But the guards were still stationed outside one of the sandalwood doors, as they had been on the day of her arrival at the palace.
New York City) comes in the form of capsules, each said to contain 5 minims of a mixture composed of oil of sandalwood 80 per cent.
These vessels were in some cases loaded with fruits and sandalwood and copra.
Then came ships in search of sandalwood and copra, and came also missionaries.
Now he is one of the wealthiest men in Polynesia; pearl shell, copra, and sandalwood have reaped him a fortune that is of no use to him, for he can never return to civilised people again.
Then the voyage of the Martha Brown, as sketched by her skipper, rather appealed to me; sandalwood collecting meant a call at several of the South Sea Islands, and the South Sea Islands and romance were synonymous terms with me at that time.
And with them came four other canoes, each of which had some eight or ten sticks of sandalwood in her.
We had scarcely entered this when the three pretended sandalwood merchants simultaneously turned upon us, and, uttering a terrific yell, seized each of us by the arms, which they tried to confine behind our backs.
Sandalwood is largely employed for fans, on account of its lightness, the ease with which it is worked, and also its fine aroma.
It was contained in a sandalwood box, which was itself illustrated with some remarkable specimens of carving.
Tress received us with a grin--a grin which was accentuated when I placed the sandalwood box on the table.
It was with almost funereal forebodings that I went to the cabinet in which I had placed the sandalwood box.
Santalol, the alcohol or mixture of alcohols obtained from sandalwood oil.
Theodora had a somewhat oriental taste; odors of sandalwood and rose breathed from her laces, her white wrist sparkled with slender bracelets, and the high comb in her blonde hair held the glint of gems.
She stirred, the faint, familiar sweetness of sandalwood and rose was shaken from her laces by the movement; wide and very soft were the eyes she lifted to his.
Ebony in as great quantities as are desired, and sandalwood (although it is not fine) are also found in the mountains.
The Portuguese told me that the sandalwood of the island of Timor had increased in that way, without any other labor, as I have already written.
As she rummaged through it, her hand touched the little sandalwood box that held the unfinished rosary.
She was thinking of the bishop's story, and her secret hidden away in the sandalwood box.
Then with a sigh of relief she put the sandalwood box into her trunk, already partly packed for home-going, and flung herself wearily across the bed.
In a sandalwood box in the top drawer was a broken fan-chain of white beads--tiny Roman pearls that she had bought in a shop in the Via Crucia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sandalwood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ebony; incense; oak; tree; wood
