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Examples
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Putting my finger on it, with a little hesitation, I found that it was a piece of dead moose-wood which the Indian had cut off in a slanting direction the evening before.
Where is All Your Knowledge Gone To? scottedelman 2008
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They're powerful fond of moose-wood -- that's what you call mountain ash.
Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook
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One may study these pictures till he becomes as familiar as a squirrel with fern and tree-bark and moose-wood and lichen, till he knows every trunk and twig and leaf as intimately as a sunbeam.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various
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I could see, here and there, the track of his former journeys: broken branches of witch-hazel and moose-wood, ferns trampled down, a faint trail across some deeper bed of moss.
The Blue Flower 1902
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I could see, here and there, the track of his former journeys: broken branches of witch-hazel and moose-wood, ferns trampled down, a faint trail across some deeper bed of moss.
The Blue Flower Henry Van Dyke 1892
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Some of the small oak leaves, especially those of the younger trees, are the deepest crimson; the sugar maples are faintly colored; the scarlet maples, on the contrary, are pure green, seeming to have given all their color to the flowers; the mountain maples are highly colored, and the bracts of the moose-wood are quite rosy, as well as some of their leaves.
Rural Hours 1887
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Putting my finger on it, with a little hesitation, I found that it was a piece of dead moose-wood (Acer striatum) which the Indian had cut off in a slanting direction the evening before.
The Maine Woods 1858
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I stirred the soup by accident with a striped maple or moose-wood stick, which I had peeled, and he remarked that its bark was an emetic.
The Maine Woods 1858
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The prevailing underwoods were: Dirca palustris (moose-wood), Acer spicatum (mountain maple), Viburnum lantanoides (hobble-bush), and frequently Taxus baccata, var. Cana-densis (American yew).
The Maine Woods 1858
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The wood was chiefly yellow birch, spruce, fir, mountain-ash, or round-wood, as the Maine people call it, and moose-wood.
The Maine Woods 1858
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