bass-wood

And I like to whittle walking sticks from bass-wood.

The Body Farm Patricia Cornwell 1994

And I like to whittle walking sticks from bass-wood.

The Body Farm Patricia Cornwell 1994

And I like to whittle walking sticks from bass-wood.

The Body Farm Patricia Cornwell 1994

The strawberries were plentiful, and soon the tin cups, heaped with their luscious loads, were being carried to the pails beneath the bass-wood bushes.

'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

But the favorite was a gray cat-bird that sang from the bass-wood tree at the back of the vegetable garden.

'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

Then another, and another, leading the eyes to the foot of a big bass-wood, where a graceful bird, with a beautiful blue back and a reddish brown breast, as if his coat had been made of the bright blue sky and his vest of the shining red sand, was hopping.

Some Winter Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

Of course, if the pedestrians had been in the midst of rich woods and there found a trunk of great girth and rough bark, surrounded by several handsome young stems with close-fitting coats, the group looking for all the world like a comfortable old mother with a family of fresh-faced, willowy, marriageable daughters, every member of the quartet would have chorused, bass-wood.

Some Winter Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

Sometimes a strip of bass-wood bark, four feet long and about six inches wide, was used with considerable skill.

Indian Boyhood 1902

Groves heavy with foliage, rivers curving away into the glooms of bending elm and bass-wood trees, fields of wheat and corn alternating with smooth pastures where the cattle fed -- a long panorama of glorified landscape which his escape from manual labor now enabled him to see the beauty of, its associations of toil and dirt no longer acutely painful.

A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West Hamlin Garland 1900

Tahoontowhee dressed and cooked my fish for me, each in a bass-wood leaf, and when they were done and smelling most fragrant, we all made a delicious feast, with corn bread from the ovens and salt pork and a great jug of milk from the army's herd.

The Hidden Children 1899