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  • This deceitful verdure was occasioned by a plentiful crop of "woodwax," which wears the same dark and glossy green throughout the summer, except at one short period, when it puts forth a profusion of yellow blossoms.

    Alice Doane`s Appeal 1835

  • On the long and broad ridge of the eminence, there is no very decided elevation of any one point, nor other prominent marks, except the decayed stumps of two trees, standing near each other, and here and there the rocky substance of the hill, peeping just above the woodwax.

    Alice Doane`s Appeal 1835

  • Not a word was spoken till I added that the wizard's grave was close beside us, and that the woodwax had sprouted originally from his unhallowed bones.

    Alice Doane`s Appeal 1835

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