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Examples
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We painted the floors ourselves and Lon did the doors in burntwood.
Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928
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The burntwood photograph frame for Hedwig was his delight.
Long Live the King! Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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In the study she had found the burntwood frame, and she held it hugged close to her with its broken-backed "F," its tottering "W," and wavering "O", with its fat
Long Live the King! Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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He is constant back there, westward, the African half-brother and his poetry books furrowed and sown with Teutonic lettering burntwood-black-he waits, smudging the pages one by one, out across the unnumbered versts of lowland and of zonal light that slants as their autumns come around again each year, that leans along the planet's withers like an old circus rider, tries to catch their attention with nothing more than its public face, and continues to fail at each slick, perfect pass around the ring.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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