The bookcases were of pale wood, lemon-wood or maple, and the walls were lined with books. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Killer]
He first got interested in archery when we lived in Florida and my mother gave him a lemon-wood longbow from a local sporting goods store. From Wordnik.com. [Summer of Deliverance] Reference
Where has she gone from the lemon-wood box I made for her, where she never slept at all, for she lay with me all night, not in the box, the lemon-wood box where she waited all day, watch-and-watch, Master, smiling when I laid her in so she might smile when I drew her out. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
Alongside was a simple couscous, served from a lemon-wood couscous spoon that still smelled faintly citrusy. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
The Cynics enjoined poverty and a restriction of necessities; Socrates enjoined virtue as an old thing and a good one; the first Stoic one meets, even such a one as Seneca, who has five hundred tables of lemon-wood, praises moderation, enjoins truth, patience in adversity, endurance in misfortune, -- and all that is like stale, mouse-eaten grain; but people do not wish to eat it because it smells of age. ". From Wordnik.com. [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference
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