"And the San Domingo wood is the best, I believe.

The woods are a mass of whistling shell and shrapnel.

That distinguished savant, your doctor, Joannes Baptista Elysius, thinks that this black wood is ebony.

When the second period of the Fall of the Leaf has arrived, the woods that were first tinted have mostly become leafless.

The trenches, clean white streaks and zig-zags of chalk on a green slope, made perfect targets on which the guns made perfect shooting; the wood was a mark that no gun could miss, and surely no gun missed.

In summer that wood had become a sylvan bower, or a pastoral paradise, or a leafy nook, as you please.

A thin wood is usually the spot chosen, and, under a tree at a little distance from the others, a cabin is erected, and there are only such branches left on the tree as are necessary for the placing of the birdlime, and which are covered with it.

The wood is a deserted temple.

There they were, though, in the stately old Pennington house, that was never thrown open for nothing; and when they were once there you really could not tell the difference; unless, indeed, it were that the old, middle wood was the deadest, just as it is in the trees; and that the life was in the new sap and the green rind.

SEE Wood, Clement. Is life worth living?

As a matter of fact, the woods around the castle of the Laroques were the remains of the famous forest of Broceliande, and I had always been promising myself a long ramble through this region of romance, but I had never found time to explore it.

" "Not so good as that which we passedthe plain fields we crossed immediately after we left the forest of Soignes," said Gray: "however, that little wood on our right, in front, which runs along the road, is a good flank, and the village before us is a strong point.

Combe Wood, a little south of the Park, was then an island of pure country, quite unfrequented, and an occasional day there was a treat for all.

Do you get yellow cream like this in the village, Mr. Maxwell?" "No, Mrs. Wood," he said; "ours is a much paler yellow," and then there was a great tinkling of china, and passing of dishes, and talking and laughing, and no one noticed that I was not in my usual place in the hall.

Moreover, pieces which have been recovered show the wood to be live timber, and not petrified, as the poetic fiction has it.

Wood is two guineas and a half per cord; coal, six livres the basket of about two bushels; this article of firing we calculate at one hundred guineas a year.

"Birnam Wood," which Shakespeare's genius has made one of the immortals among earthly localities, was the setting of that hill in his day, and perhaps centuries before it.

Attire is simple, when the woods are the tiring-room.

Pine woods, the short-leafed Balfour and Murryana of the high Sierras, are sombre, rooted in the litter of a thousand years, hushed, and corrective to the spirit.

Soon the woods will be blithe with bracken, April whisper of lambs at play; Spring will triumphand our old black hen (Thank the Lord!) will begin to lay.

The wood was a blind; besides he lied about it;would he have ever come back to collect his note?

The woods across the river were bright patches of reds and yellows, pleasant and inviting in the sunlight.

Thus Virgil writes in the AEneid: "These woods were first the seat of sylvan powers, Of nymphs and fauns, and savage men who took Their birth from trunks of trees and stubborn oak.

The woods were one medley of fallen trees, rotting into touchwood, hidden boulders, and matted briers.

The wood, in which Lysander and Hermia proposed to meet, was the favourite haunt of those little beings known by the name of Fairies.