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  • We call it "pitch-pine". similar to the south's "greasewood" You can tell the pitch-pine by the aroma.

    Start a Survival Fire With a Bullet 2009

  • We call it "pitch-pine". similar to the south's "greasewood" You can tell the pitch-pine by the aroma.

    Start a Survival Fire With a Bullet 2009

  • I could smell the smoke of pitch-pine torches and see a thread of light under the door.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • I could smell the smoke of pitch-pine torches and see a thread of light under the door.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • I could smell the smoke of pitch-pine torches and see a thread of light under the door.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • The ranchman, who is half-hunter, half-stockman, and his wife are jovial, hearty Welsh people from Llanberis, who laugh with loud, cheery British laughs, sing in parts down to the youngest child, are free hearted and hospitable, and pile the pitch-pine logs half-way up the great rude chimney.

    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

  • On all sides mountains rise to an altitude of from 11,000 to 15,000 feet, their skirts shaggy with pitch-pine forests, and scarred by deep canyons, wooded and boulder strewn, opening upon the mountain pasture previously mentioned.

    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

  • One arriero with a pitch-pine torch, and one arriero to return with the animals, made our party to start.

    The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

  • But he loaded her with pitch-pine deals and sent her off to hunt for her luck.

    Falk, by Joseph Conrad 2004

  • The carpenter of the ship, who was with the party, said that the timber resembled that of the pitch-pine, which is lightened by tapping.

    Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

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