In one end of the room stood an old wood stove, and near it was a pile of hickory sticks.
Flesh don't live any more than wood or stone, and if it don't live, how can it feel?
On the Portsmouth Road it happened they fell upon one Mr. Bunch, near a wood side, where they robbed and stripped him naked; yet not thinking themselves secure, Duce turned and fired at his head.
It stood about half-way up Wood Street, on the east side.
After which, they all three went into the fore room, Billings and Wood went to bed there, and Mrs. Hayes sat by them till morning.
And thus with Woodwe put a period to the relation of a tragedy which surprised the world exceedingly at the same time it happened, and will doubtless be read with horror in succeeding generations.
Whereupon Wood made answer that it would be the most inhuman act in the world to murder a man in cool blood, and that, too, when he was in liquor.
They had not gone far towards a tavern before the constable and his body-guard of watchmen surprised and hurried them away to the Wood Street Compter.
The clerk reached his hand to the pigeon-hole wherein were letters for callers whose names began with B, and placing them against a little block of black wood on the counter before him, looked eagerly through while we watched intently.
With light step and elated crest, the wanderer, thus transformed, sprang from the wood into the dusty thoroughfare.
However, I crept along the hedgerow, hiding myself, and got into the wood almost as soon as Jessie got there, by another way.
Frequent falls are precluded by the high bulwarks of wood and leather which fortify his position; but his seat is awkward and ungainly: and few cavaliers can be said to possess the noble science of equitation.
Formerly people went to cut wood in the neighbourhood.
Upon a floor strewed with newly-cut grass, blazed a wood fire in an iron stove, with the never-failing cats luxuriating under its influence.
At half-past two, near the wood of Hougomont, he heard the tread of a column on the march; he thought at the moment that it was a retreat on the part of Wellington.
The new-comer was very gay; the goodness of the mother is written in the gayety of the child; she had seized a scrap of wood which served her for a shovel, and energetically dug a cavity big enough for a fly.
Crows fly through their branches, and at the end of it is a wood full of violets.
This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of wood which stretches out on the earth as far as the eye can reach is the main-mast.
She would have softened a heart of granite; but a heart of wood cannot be softened.
The bookcase was a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of woodpainted to represent marble, and habitually without fire.
Nevermore thou needest seek Me; I am with thee everywhere-- Raise the stone and thou shalt find Me, cleave the wood and I am there.
Had there been in Nazareth a bit of botched work of His doing, "a door of unseasoned wood or a badly made chest," don't you think it would have been produced to discredit His mission?
I can't see where they get wood to burn, the country is so barren.
They had stacked their guns and built a fire and were out in the woods gatheringwood to burn through the night.
Three others and myself found a job burning charcoal and chopping cord wood from the scrub oaks on the adjacent hills.
He said, "No, sir, Edmondson is dead, you are lying anyhow and now get off at the wood station.
It is obtained from wood by destructive distillation in close vessels.
First wash the body with a strong lie of wood ashes or weak saleratus water, then with an infusion of lobelia.
In Flanders, the yearly loss of the necessary matters in the soil is completely restored by covering the fields with ashes of wood or bones, which may, or may not, have been lixiviated.
But in curing bacon on the continent, it is mostly the custom to have closets contrived in the chimneys, for the purpose of drying and smoking by wood fires, which is said to be more proper for the purpose.
Hot drops, } If the parts are exceedingly painful, wash with a weak lie, or wood ashes, or sal soda.
I think he smelt a rat at once, for he began beating on the wood and calling out to us.
Then in a moment a white blaze of sky came at us through the trunks, and we burst through the fringe of the wood to find ourselves facing the opposite side of a long cleft in the mountain and the blade's edge of a roaring cataract.
Here was a village that the Frenchmen had burned, the wood being, in fact, a better shelter and easier of guard than any village.
It was of stained wood with a muslin lining, and the little body was laid in its narrow home.
They had their idols of wood and stone, and had prayed to them; but this child had no God, not even an idol, though she loved Bess with every fibre of her being.
What machine now in use is the best, all things considered, for the manufacture of ground wood pulp?
The old hussar, swearing that he was not done with them yet, gloomily reascended the bank with his companion, and galloping back to his troop, which was concealed in a wood at a little distance, he reported himself to the captain.
Gather in Autumn, while the fine Weather lasts, the Agaric of the Oak, which is a Kind of Fungus or Excrescence, issuing from the Wood of that Tree.
In Situations where the Constitution of the Air renders these Fevers very common, the Inhabitants should frequently burn in their Rooms, at least in their lodging Rooms, some aromatic Wood or Herbs.
On the south-west was a wood of beech-trees; on the south, in the direction of Zug, was the highroad and a marshy valley.
The present pastor of Cappel told me that when first he went into that district the wood was much more extensive than it is at present.
At these words some of the soldiers prepared to enter the wood on the left, to fall upon the disheartened Waldstettes.
He put the wood in order, set fire to it, blew and stirred it up, so that the flame rose bright and sparkling into the air.
He then ordered the skirmishers to be recalled, so that the wood remained entirely open to the enemy.
These reflections occur to my mind when I recollect the hope and exultation in my heart as I followed the Governor's leisurely upward march through the wood to the cottage.
No sound came from the wood that rose grey in the new light behind us.
Not only should I have been wise, but I should have chosen, in that risky walk of mine through the wood that covered the hill-slope, to think of nothing but its risk.
She's more kin To those strange creatures of the wood that peeped About my shelter when she lay a babe Than to my blood.
But I got to go out, dear, fer wood an' other things.
The crackling of the freshly burning wood and the ticking of the clock were the only sounds in the room.
Tess put a stick of wood in the stove, and a second later forgot she'd done it.
Because before he got to the shop with no window to it, but only shutters that were put up at night, where the wood and coal were sold, he saw a Punch and Judy show.
The nurse had taken burning wood from the hearth and set it on a silver plate.
And when he got to the dockyard his obliging feet carried him to a man in a great leather apron, busy with great beams of wood and tools that Dickie had never seen.
All the furniture was heavily built of wood heavily carved.
She was waitin' for thewood to boil the kettle when I come out.
They got quite close to it before the shelter of the trees ended, for a little wood lay between the wall and the house.
It seems my Lord Tiviott's design was to go a mile and half out of the towne, to cut down a wood in which the enemy did use to lie in ambush.
They then paddled on shore, promising the next day to return with the sort of wood we required, of which we showed them a specimen.
In three or four days we got to the island he spoke of, when about half the crew well armed landed with the black fellows, and soon set them to work on the sandal-wood trees, which were some way from the coast.
We made our prisoners carry the sandal-wood on their shoulders down to the harbour, when our boats took it on board.
Just then we saw the sandal-wood cutters come rushing back waving and shouting to us.
We went on in this fashion till we had got a full cargo, notwithstanding which the skipper said he must have the remainder of the wood cut down, and ordered our prisoners to go and fetch it.
They were formed of strips of cocoanut-wood neatly sewn together.
We had got our wood ready to light when Sam and his companion came back.
There was certainly not a single tree in all the wood which a painter might have chosen for a study, for they were all small and crippled.
In the chapel of the Crucifix five pieces of the wood of the Saviour's manger are preserved in a silver urn.
The petrified date-wood lies about eight miles distant from Cairo; I rode out there, but did not find much to see, excepting here and there some fragments of stems and a few petrifactions lying about.
The way to this convent lies through the Bethlehem Gate, opposite the convent of the "Holy Cross," a building supposed to stand on the site where the wood was felled for our Saviour's cross!
Scutari is surrounded, within and without, by a splendid wood of magnificent cypresses.
The reason of this is to be found in the continual danger of fire to which all towns built of wood are exposed.
Throughout the whole of Syria, and in that part of Egypt whither my journey afterwards led me, I never once saw corn or vegetables, wood or stores, carried in wagons; they were invariably borne by horses or asses.
The houses are generally built of wood or clay, thatched with straw; those alone belonging to the consul and the rich merchants are of stone.
The woodis useful for many purposes, and polishes well.
The wood is hard, and takes a fine polish, but is apt to crack, and is therefore seldom used, except for the handles of tools, and other such purposes.
