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Examples
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The Daoist priest pointed his magic peach-wood sword at her and shouted, Vile demon!
Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends Jeannette L. Faurot 1995
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The Daoist chopped off its head with his peach-wood sword, and its body turned into thick smoke which lay piled in coils just above the ground.
Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends Jeannette L. Faurot 1995
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When Huang Ti heard of this he had the portraits of the two spirits painted on peach-wood tablets and hung above the doors to keep off evil spirits.
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Chiang Tzu-ya made a straw image of him, wrote his name on it, burned incense and worshipped before it for twenty days, and on the twenty-first shot arrows made of peach-wood into its eyes and heart.
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It is now called Inspire Café, but pitmaster Charles Smith still prepares the peach-wood smoked ‘cue.
Smoke Signals: The year in barbecue Jim Shahin 2011
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