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For the New York show, which starts previews this Sunday, producers decided to move the final scene to a white-wood church and to use surround-sound speakers.
Broadway in the Loop 2007
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Their women worked themselves to death, their mules succumbed to worms and their children were crippled by rickets and perished from fever, but every Sunday morning The Word leaked out of little white-wood sanctuaries where preachers thrust ragged Bibles at the rafters and promised them that while sickness and poverty and Lucifer might take their families, the soul of man never dies.
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The white-wood I take to be the tree Mr. Gregory calls the erythrina.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough
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The dining-room had been, in days of yore the refectory of an ancient convent, and the men sat at two long white-wood tables placed facing each other in the centre of the chamber, while the officers were accommodated with a table to themselves at the top of the room.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various
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Started at 7.30 a.m.; at 7.56, having steered east-south-east a mile over rich ground with box trees and saltbush, we reached well grassed land, thinly wooded with white-wood, pomegranate, bauhinia, and other small trees; 9.15 south-east one and a half miles over ground so green with herbage that one of my companions said it resembled the banks of the
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough
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It is covered with the best grasses, the highest portions thinly wooded with small trees, amongst which I observed white-wood, myall, and Port Curtis sandalwood.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough
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In nearly all the Western and Southern States the tulip is generally called poplar, and the lumber manufactured from it goes by the same name, while in the East it is known as white-wood.
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Paete, at the extreme east of the Laguna de Bay, is the centre for white-wood furniture and wood-carving.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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"Our white-wood" lumber has grown so valuable that no land-owner will allow the trees to be cut by the hunter, and hence the old-fashioned
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To the left of the entrance is the Dean's room, 19 × 19, finished in cherry; and next on the left is a part of the library, which is finished in white-wood.
The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 Various
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