Faggots
[fæɡəts]
Examples
- Pipes in faggots. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He was busily chopping away at the furze, a long row of faggots which stretched downward from his position representing the labour of the day. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- How much do you get for cutting these faggots? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The most enduring of all--steady unaltering eyes like Planets--signified wood, such as hazel-branches, thorn-faggots, and stout billets. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Every individual was so involved in furze by his method of carrying the faggots that he appeared like a bush on legs till he had thrown them down. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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