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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as tan, 1.
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“It seemed as if all local varieties of trees and vines had conspired to weave the leafy roof -- maples, big madronos and laurels, and lofty tan-bark oaks, scaled and wrapped and interwound with wild grape and flaming poison oak.”
“Occasionally a small schooner visits the cove for the purpose of loading wood or tan-bark for the San Francisco market.”
“If the timber could be conservatively managed as are live-stock products, so that all the waste could be utilized, all the small articles, shingles, lath, posts, tan-bark and extract, pulp-wood, wood for distillation and small manufactured articles would be made by-products of the larger cuts.”
“The Ferry is a very large place and every foot of it is covered with tan-bark, smooth and brown and springy.”
“In this trench, two-inch pipe tiles were laid, and carefully covered with tan-bark, and the trenches filled with the earth.”
“Its floor was taken up, the ground covered with tan-bark, and the window-sashes removed for this sacrilegious purpose.”
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
“Grey's step was noiseless, going down the tan-bark path.”
“Pots are then set in some homogeneous material (waste tan-bark or sawdust) and left in a moderately heated bed.”
“It was really a private athletic club -- with tan-bark hippodrome, having a ring the size of that in Madison Square Garden, and a skylight roof, and thirty or forty arc-lights for night events.”
“When one of Mrs. Smythe's best loved pugs had fallen ill of congestion of the liver, she had had tan-bark put upon the street in front of her house; and when in spite of this the dog died, she had sent out cards edged in black, inviting her friends to a "memorial service.”
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