Dulce lignum, dulci clavo, dulce pondus sustinens!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

A square stain, the color of polished lignum vitae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]

Ut lignum uri natum, arista secari, sic homines mori.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Ut nervis alienis mobile lignum — Ducitur — Hor. Lib.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Among these are mahogany, cedar, ebony, and lignum-vitae trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journey to Puerto Rico : for Intermediate and Upper Grades For Intermediate and Upper Grades] Reference

The lignum-vitae is introduced in the manner shown in the drawing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference

Like her sword, it was made of lignum vitae, the hardest wood on earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Night World No. 2] Reference

The box was fashioned of some light-colored wood, perhaps lignum vitae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]

The usual interpretation is that it represents the lignum vitae, the Tree of Life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simone dei Crocefissi, National Gallery London] Reference

Ciconom flumine, & in Piceno lacu velino, lignum deiectum, lapideo cortice obduci.    From Wordnik.com.  [A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas] Reference

Of the others, the best known are lignum vitæ (gualacum sanctum) and mangrove (chizphora mangle).    From Wordnik.com.  [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference

They should occasionally take half a pint of the decoction of lignum-vitæ, boiling an ounce of it in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

It is easy to remember that lignum vitae is one of the hardest woods and arbor vitae one of the softest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference

They are composed of -- the head and socket of bronze, handle of hickory, and the roller of lignum-vitæ.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference

Their idea was that a mahogany or lignum vitae billy was too costly a weapon to be broken over a Negro's head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Colored Regulars in the United States Army] Reference

Emlak: in the whiche ryvere ben manye preciouse stones, and mochel of lignum aloes, and moche gravelle of gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference

He had a heart of lignum vitæ, a rigid anti-papistical conscience, beetle brows, and an eye to the cod-fisheries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference

The tenth, a tumbler of aromatic agoloch (you call it lignum aloes) edged with Cyprian gold, after the Azemine make.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

To this, perhaps will be said, Has not an opal, or the infusion of lignum nephriticum, two colours at the same time?.    From Wordnik.com.  [God, Aids & Circumcision] Reference

Blocks for gun-tackles should have pins of hardened copper, turned smooth, and sheaves of lignum-vitæ without bouching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference

Into this cylinder a piston, pointed with ivory or lignum vitæ wood, works up and down from a spring worked by a lever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference

Behind the thick bole of a lignum vitae Powell paused to catch his breath and settle the cannister safely in his pocket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Dreams of Reality, 5] Reference

“Nicole is now made of — of Georgia pine, which is the hardest wood known, except lignum vitæ from New Zealand —”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tender is the Night] Reference

A rock that sinks — or, for that matter, a chunk of heavy wood, like lignum vitae — is heavier than the water it displaces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Wonks and Teachers] Reference

Calambak or eagle wood, the true lignum aloes so highly esteemed in the East as a perfume or incense, is said to be produced by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

We passed immense quantities of ebony and lignum-vitae, and the tree from whose smooth and bitter bark granaries are made for corn.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries] Reference

It presently disappeared and I should not be surprised if it were still lying, an unknown and inutile lignum in some Cairene mosque.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

The charcoal of the heavy hardwoods, as lignum-vitæ, boxwood, oak, are the best; and these, as to quality, range in the order given.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

Some of the characteristic species are boxwood (Phyllostylon brasiliensis), lignum vitae (Guaiacum sanctum) and Haematoxylum brasiletto.    From Wordnik.com.  [Central American dry forests] Reference

And there are dye woods, mahogany and lignum vitae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom] Reference

He wriggled on through lignum bushes where the wild pigs make their nest.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Smoke from Russian wildfires reaches Kazakhstan] Reference

A copse of cedar, brazilletto, and lignum-vitae, rises behind this hedge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

I imagine they'll bring out the lignum vitae replacements in a moment or two.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

On board one of Her Majesty's ships billian proved three times as durable as lignum vitæ.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo] Reference

True it is, that here grows some small quantity of lignum sanctum, or guaiacum, of whose use we say something in another place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main] Reference