These are usually of driftwood, which is brought by the ocean currents from the Yukon. From Wordnik.com. [The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo] Reference
This patch of garden is so difficult to grow things in, the driftwood was a good addition. From Wordnik.com. [In Need Of A Focal Point « Fairegarden] Reference
Malaysian driftwood which is thoroughly planted with bromeliads and java moss. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Kill weeds with help from the sun] Reference
This fire was made of that peculiar kind of driftwood whose flames show marvellous rainbow tints. From Wordnik.com. [Patty in Paris] Reference
The background is made from Malaysian driftwood which is thoroughly planted with bromeliads and java moss. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Kill weeds with help from the sun] Reference
Cut me from this driftwood, Lord, I'll be a better man. From Wordnik.com. [Death Cab's Latest Will 'Possess Your Heart'] Reference
They had two round pieces of driftwood they used for chairs. From Wordnik.com. [Black Beaver The Trapper] Reference
Budge and Throppy had fired the driftwood beacon on Brimstone. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
I'm on the beach by a bit of driftwood, the sky is barely pink. From Wordnik.com. [Am I Anna Karenina?] Reference
But he was a log of driftwood which they had found on the beach. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Eskimo Tales] Reference
There's a good stove, and always plenty of driftwood on the beach. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
He held on with his hands and rested his feet on a pile of driftwood. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
A piece of driftwood struck my head, and black spots grew in my vision. From Wordnik.com. [Water] Reference
These, he knew, could easily be found among the driftwood on the beach. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
I'm now building a driftwood boat because my last one was taken by the tide. From Wordnik.com. [Fraser's Journal: Driftwood Boats And Fat People] Reference
In the meantime the old men build a fire of driftwood on the ice in front of the kásgi. From Wordnik.com. [The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo] Reference
The upper end of that was sandy, matted with driftwood, some of it partially afloat again. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
The flames grew, hundreds of people were wedged in the driftwood and imprisoned in the houses. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
Conemaugh to find other victims among the driftwood in the underbrush, or half buried in the mud. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
"Oh, I see a net," called Bert, running toward a lot of driftwood in which an old net was tangled. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore] Reference
We move on to driftwood, again starting small: with what we might use for fire if we stay too long. From Wordnik.com. [Low Clouds] Reference
First excavating the ground for a short distance, he erected over it a frame of driftwood and whale jaws. From Wordnik.com. [Short Sketches from Oldest America] Reference
Bodies and parts of bodies, like soulless driftwood, forced my throat to burn with vomit and hate and tears. From Wordnik.com. [Tarawa] Reference
One of the ponderous boots slipped from the branch of driftwood and dragged the wearer's leg into the river. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
Under Jim's direction the boys gathered a heap of driftwood and dragged it up to the highest part of Brimstone. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
A less articulate man, a construction worker, feels like "a piece of driftwood tumbling about at the shoreline.". From Wordnik.com. [Dangerous and Strange] Reference
If we hold our stares for a heartbeat longer we will be gone, swept downstream like driftwood in the whitewater. From Wordnik.com. [So Much Silence, So Much Space] Reference
The bow was made from selected pieces of driftwood, reinforced by strips of whalebone, and bound with deer sinew. From Wordnik.com. [Short Sketches from Oldest America] Reference
At Michael Kors's sea-themed spectacle, they even had pieces of driftwood and seaweed stuck in their unkempt tresses. From Wordnik.com. [Scary Hair] Reference
In attempting to catch some driftwood James McIlvaine lost his balance and fell into the raging current and was drowned. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
In fact, those who hit the tree met the same fate and were instantly killed under the pile of driftwood collected there. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
As Hopalong reached his side a piece of driftwood ducked under the water and an angry humming sound died away downstream. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
Filippo had collected plenty of driftwood, and a fire crackling merrily in the rusty stove soon made the cabin dry and warm. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
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