About a half a year ago we got in these Desert Boots in a beige oily nubuck called the "oakwood" and I fell in love with the leather used for the upper. From Wordnik.com. [EU Kicks | European Sneaker Magazine] Reference
“Who needs another brass and oakwood bar and grill?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Joy Luck Club]
Well, after all, a club of oakwood was better against the devil than chalk!. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
And a single drawing, burnt into a fine slab of oakwood with the tip of a hot knife. From Wordnik.com. [Seventh Son]
She was like a forest, like the dark interlacing of the oakwood, humming inaudibly with myriad unfolding buds. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
The oakwood creaked alarmingly under their combined weight, but Jamie had built it after his usual sturdy fashion; it could have held six of him. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
A roller of solid oakwood, the circumference of which is also furnished with sharp steel cutters or knives, is fastened upon a shaft and revolves within the hollow. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891] Reference
Made of spiced duck, ham and venison, boiled, stuffed and sun-dried, a Dunedin sausage measured eighteen inches from end to end and was as hard as seasoned oakwood. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
Higher they went and higher, until the oakwood shrunk to a copse beneath them; higher and higher, until the sea was their horizon; higher and higher, until they passed from sight. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
No hollow-core flimsy barricade or scary metal portal this, but a solid slab of oakwood, polished deep brown with the passing of years, with brass lockplates and doorknob that gleamed brightly against the old wood. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond World's End]
While Jamie had built us an excellent, sturdy bedstead framed in oakwood, with the bottom ingeniously made of laced rope, I had had nothing to lay on it save cedar branches, which were fragrant but unpleasantly lumpy. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
Description: font kenwood to oakwood to end and back. From Wordnik.com. [WalkJogRun New Running Routes] Reference
If I am not mistaken the Chinese use simple oakwood?. From Wordnik.com. [HEADLINES] Reference
To pluck it from the oakwood e'en take it for my gift. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sigurd the Volsung] Reference
The crow flocks from the oakwood went flopping oer the grain. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Chiefly from Manuscript] Reference
Solid oakwood desk with two drawers and custom-fitted glass top. From Wordnik.com. [craigslist | all for sale / wanted in south florida] Reference
And adown the glades of the oakwood the morning sun lay bright. From Wordnik.com. [The House of the Wolfings] Reference
Aye, Adonis have I kissed in the oakwood, and bewailed his loss. From Wordnik.com. [The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance] Reference
With the voice of their merry labour the hall of the oakwood rings. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs] Reference
'Through the deer-park, through the oakwood, across the fields into the highroad, and then you are at the gate,'. From Wordnik.com. [Muslin] Reference
There is nothing upon earth, I think, like the smile of Italy as she awakes when the winter has dozed itself away in the odours of its oakwood fires. From Wordnik.com. [Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida] Reference
Everything fitted exactly into its right place, and even the draw-well of the mansion was fashioned of the oakwood usually thought suitable only for mills or ships. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Souls] Reference
Cypris was wild with love for a herdsman, and drove afield in the mountains of Phrygia; ay, and Adonis himself, -- in the oakwood she kissed, in the oakwood she bewailed him. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose] Reference
At this moment sitting here, in my den, Mickle street, by the oakwood fire, in the same big strong old chair with wolf-skin spread over back -- bright sun, cold, dry winter day. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference
‘Only let’s go,’ he said, ‘to my underwoods at Zusha; I can seize the opportunity to have a look at Tchapligino; you know my oakwood; they’re felling timber there.’. From Wordnik.com. [A Sportsman's Sketches] Reference
It means “of oakwood.”. From Wordnik.com. [I’m Greg van Eekhout, and I’ll be your chicken. «] Reference
On its third it bisected the oakwood candlestand. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates of Thorbardin]
"In Arratzu we can find a large oakwood that is a model to follow: many species are found there; species that show great maturity. From Wordnik.com. [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference
An exemplary oakwood in Arratzu. From Wordnik.com. [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference
And behind the taps of oakwood. From Wordnik.com. [Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes] Reference
Tempest tread the oakwood under. From Wordnik.com. [Last Poems by A. E. Housman] Reference
10 September 2010 12: 19PM oakwood. From Wordnik.com. [Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk] Reference
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