lancewood

• Woods such as ebony, sandalwood, cherry, brier, box, pear-tree, lancewood, and many others, are all good for the carver, but are better fitted for special purposes and small work. —  Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship
• The schoolmistress in those days wore what was called a busk--a flat piece of lancewood, hornbeam, or some other like tough and elastic wood, thrust into a sort of pocket or sheath in her dress, which came up almost to the chin and came down below the waist. —  Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
• It was a sudden transition from an English, plantation of fir trees into the jungle of the tropics, full of Indian figs, palms, lancewood, and great mahagua[1] trees, all knotted together by endless creepers and parasites; while the parrots kept up a continual chattering and screaming in the tree-tops. —  Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
• The shafts of the levers are of lancewood, being best calculated to bear the strain to which they are exposed when the engine is at work, and they are made to fold up at each end for convenience in travelling The air-vessel should be placed clear of any other part of the engine, excepting only the point where it is attached The fore-carriage of the engine is fitted with a pole, and is made to suit the harness of coach-horses, these being, in large towns, more easily procured than other draught cattle; this can be altered, however, to suit such harness as can most readily be obtained. —  Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction
• Nothing in all his life had ever so thrilled him as this girl's confidence And, as he entered his room, he knew that within him the accursed thing that had been, lay dead forever He was standing in the walled garden switching a limber trout-rod when Miss Erith came upon him next morning,--a tall straight young man in his kilts, supple and elegant as the lancewood rod he was testing Conscious of a presence behind him he turned, came toward her in the sunlight, the sun crisping his short hair. —  In Secret

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