Wooden

Examples

• Somebody has nailed this wooden seat in. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Even the children were instructed, each to dip a wooden spoon into Mr. Micawber's pot, and pledge us in its contents. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I don't,' said Boffin, in a free-handed manner, 'want to tie a literary man--WITH a wooden leg--down too tight. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• His wooden conceit and craft kept exact pace with the delighted expectation of his victim. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Round two sides of it, the sides nearest to the interior of the church, ran heavy wooden presses, worm-eaten and gaping with age. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• If I had to give her up, it would be like beginning to live on wooden legs. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There were two wooden settles by the fire, one on either side of it, with a corresponding table before each. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• On the table stood a little wooden box, open, and empty. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She swept up the hearth, asked at what time she should prepare tea, and quitted the room with the same wooden face with which she had entered it. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The hollow wooden box re?nforces the sound. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The room opened on a long wooden verandah, with the sea coming in at the windows. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Bradley came to him, sitting on his wooden lever, and asked what o'clock it was? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The wayfarer smoked his pipe out, put it in his breast, slipped off his great wooden shoes, and lay down on his back on the heap of stones. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Again, plac e the magnet in a wooden vessel, and then set the vessel afloat in a tub or cistern of still water. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• By this means a large sheet of paper can be printed off by a single pull, and with more impression and greater sharpness than by two pulls with a wooden press. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• As they came up, still deep in the shadow of the pines, after dropping down from the high meadow into the wooden valley and climbing up it on a trail that paralleled the stream and then left it to gain, steeply, the top of a rim-rock formation, a man with a carbine stepped out from behind a tree. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• On the 23d Hancock's corps was moved to the wooden bridge which spans the North Anna River just west of where the Fredericksburg Railroad crosses. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She went by the way Mrs. Sparsit had come, emerged from the green lane, crossed the stony road, and ascended the wooden steps to the railroad. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• They had been drawn in chalk upon the black wooden door of the tool-house, which stands beside the lawn in full view of the front windows. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• George Pullman, who then had a small shop at Detroit and was working on his sleeping-car, made Edison a lot of wooden apparatus for his chemicals, to the boy's delight. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The two ends of the wire were connected with an electro-magnet fastened to a vertical wooden frame. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• These early cannon, bombards, and mortars were mounted on heavy solid wooden frames and moved with great difficulty from place to place. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Here he turned swiftly down a narrow passage, passed through a wooden gate into a deserted yard, and then opened with a key the back door of a house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Then he produced his wooden cuts, and explained in detail how he had made them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Tuning forks do not produce strong tones unless mounted on hollow wooden boxes (Fig. 175), whose size and shape are so adjusted that resonance occurs and strengthens the sound. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Early in the morning I was out, and looking in, unseen, at one of the wooden windows of the forge. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The enemy was found strongly intrenched on the high ground overlooking the river, and commanding the Wooden Bridge with artillery. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It is built upon its side and when finished resembles a wooden wall about seventy-five feet long four inches high and three inches wide. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Now, you see, Rokesmith,' he went on, 'a literary man--WITH a wooden leg--is liable to jealousy. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• There was, and is when I write, at the end of that low-lying street, a dilapidated little wooden building, probably an obsolete old ferry-house. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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