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  • There were tall timber-trees — yellowwood, sneezewood, essenwood, stinkwood — and the ground was carpeted with thick grass and ferns.

    Prester John 2005

  • But he was no flower-shrub, but one of those fruit-trees or timber-trees that acquire a grace with their old age.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

  • As to the timber-trees, which are always scarce, they have to be carefully apportioned.

    The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin

  • Other useful timber-trees are the Ash, Cherry, several species of Elm, Linden, and Ironwood (_Carpinus Americana_).

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various

  • I was at incredible pains in cutting down some of the largest timber-trees for oars and masts; wherein I was much assisted by his majesty's ship carpenters, who helped me in smoothing them after I had done the rough work.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • -- These Islands are remarkably rich in valuable timber-trees.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, for his immense and thriving plantations of useful timber-trees, in the counties of Banff, Moray and

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

  • There were tall timber-trees -- yellowwood, sneezewood, essenwood, stinkwood -- and the ground was carpeted with thick grass and ferns.

    Prester John John Buchan 1907

  • I was at incredible pains in cutting down some of the largest timber-trees for oars and masts, wherein I was, however, much assisted by his Majesty's ship-carpenters, who helped me in smoothing them after I had done the rough work.

    The Junior Classics — Volume 5 William Patten 1902

  • I was at incredible pains in cutting down some of the largest timber-trees for oars and masts, wherein I was, however, much assisted by his Majesty's ship carpenters, who helped me in smoothing them, after I had done the rough work.

    Gulliver's Travels 1896

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