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  • They have a "woodeny" movement; but that's in the nature of the case: tremendous discipline alone gives homogeneity to all those nationalities.

    Vittoria — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • They have a "woodeny" movement; but that's in the nature of the case: tremendous discipline alone gives homogeneity to all those nationalities.

    Vittoria — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868

  • They have a "woodeny" movement; but that's in the nature of the case: tremendous discipline alone gives homogeneity to all those nationalities.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Mrs. Kennicott had a hushed and delicate breeding which dignified her woodeny over - scrubbed cottage with its worn hard cushions in heavy rockers.

    Main Street 2004

  • Burdekin plum (PLEIOGYNIUM SOLANDRI), and all sorts of unpromisingly tough and apparently indigestible, innutritious woodeny nuts and drupes.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • This fruit of monstrous birth does not as a rule develop to average dimensions, and it is generally woodeny of texture and bitter as to flavour, but fully developed as to seeds.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • The roots send up a multitude of offshoots, resembling woodeny radishes, some being forked, growing wrong end up.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • "Hulloa!" gasped Berta's voice, while a woodeny click from Bea's direction told of Indian clubs snatched bravely in readiness for war.

    Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls Julia Augusta Schwartz

  • Their dank odor -- the odor of germinating things -- seemed to come from down in the earth where the gnomes are supposed to foregather; and Van Mater's thoughts reverted with withering scorn to certain woodeny, tan objects that had been foisted upon him from time to time as mushrooms -- always, he now triumphantly recalled, to his own inward amazement.

    Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Various

  • It was not a big house, of pretension, of arrogant wealth, of many servants -- of closely-shaven shrubbery and woodeny landscape gardening.

    A Fool There Was Porter Emerson Browne

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