Sentence example with the word 'touchwood'

touchwood

Definition n. material for starting a fire

Last update: July 21, 2015


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Sometimes to be seen on decaying wood--the "touchwood" which many boys   [Please select]

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Phil, there is no occasion to go off like touchwood; 't is not as thee thinks.   [Please select]

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"So be it," said the others; and Amelia wore the touchwood hat, and went up with them to the Mary Meads.   [Please select]

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It is in a piece of very {54} soft willow, almost in a touchwood condition.   [Please select]

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Dick carefully polished the glass and held it at the right angle between the touchwood, that is, the scrapings, and the sun.   [Please select]

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The rays passing through the glass increased many times in power and struck directly upon the touchwood.   [Please select]

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Dick shouted with joy and shifted his body a little to put shavings on the touchwood.   [Please select]

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He seized the dry stick again and scraped off another little pile of touchwood.   [Please select]

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A minute, two minutes, three minutes, five passed and then a spark appeared in the touchwood, and following it came a tiny flame.   [Please select]

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An ill wind struck the feeble blaze, which was not yet strong enough to stand fanning into greater life, and it went out, leaving a little black ash to mark where the touchwood had been.   [Please select]

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