bogwood
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of bogwood
Example Sentences
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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.
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.
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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