bogwood
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of bogwood
Example Sentences
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Some one struck a light and illuminated a branch of bogwood which he held above his head as a torch.
From The Northern Iron by Birmingham, George A.
Send a man down to the minister's house and let him fetch up a bundle of bogwood to serve us for torches.
From The Northern Iron by Birmingham, George A.
Owen followed him within the hut, and stooping down to the fire, lighted a piece of bogwood to enable him to see.
From St. Patrick's Eve by Lever, Charles James
At night, by the flare of the turf-fire or the fitful light of a splinter of bogwood, he made his copy of poem or tract or tale, which but for him would have perished.
From The Glories of Ireland by Lennox, P. J.
A brooch with a miniature portrait sustained a bogwood watch-chain upon her bosom, and at her elbow lay a heap of knitting and an old copy of The Queen.
From The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 by Wharton, Edith
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