Usage examples (4)

• Her nose should be like the bill of the hawk; her lips should be bright and red, like coral or the young leaf of the iron-tree.
• Some Brazilian woods, such as the iron-tree (pao-ferro), whose name fitly indicates its character, are of extraordinary hardness.
• - The next day, in searching the woods, I found a tree of that wood, or like it, which in the Brazils they call the iron-tree, for its exceeding hardness.
• ■ The iron-tree, ebony, and dying - wood, prow in every part of the ifland; and gold duft is found in fome quantity ia its more interior regions; but the monks, in their...