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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
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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 — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868
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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.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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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
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Burdekin plum (PLEIOGYNIUM SOLANDRI), and all sorts of unpromisingly tough and apparently indigestible, innutritious woodeny nuts and drupes.
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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.
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The roots send up a multitude of offshoots, resembling woodeny radishes, some being forked, growing wrong end up.
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"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
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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.
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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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