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How To Use blackwood In A Sentence

• Brother Jonathan," then just published by Blackwood in three large volumes, was read to him every night for weeks, and greatly to his satisfaction, as I then understood; though it seems by what Dr. Bowring -- I beg his pardon, Sir John Bowring -- says on the subject, that the "white-haired sage" was wide enough awake, on the whole, to form a pretty fair estimate of its unnaturalness and extravagance: being himself a great admirer of Richardson's ten-volume stories, like The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
• They noticed that the Elephant was limping, and then they saw the long blackwood splinter sticking out of his swollen foot.
• The first was the presence of a thickset, blue-uniformed administrator behind a large, blackwood desk. Addicts
• He was still staring impassively out over the choppy, angry waters of Blackwood Lake.
• Hypnotism was coming to the fore, escapology was something they were becoming interested in, so the idea of a showman isn't particularly unusual for that period of time, so all those elements and ingredients went into making Blackwood. Interview: Lord Blackwood Himself, British Actor Mark Strong « FirstShowing.net
• Rich hardwoods of myrtle, blackwood, sassafras and Huon pine mingle with common eucalypts.
• Call The seven-way Iverson Combination Whistle in cocobolo or African blackwood is as elegant as the pintail drake itself. Field Guide: Know Your Waterfowl
• After signing what is called the codicil to his will, Captains Hardy and Blackwood joined him on the poop to receive his instructions. Drake Nelson and Napoleon
• The servant at Blackwood Castle (Grimsby, played by Artur Binder) tries to frighten Jane by placing a snake in her bed (one of many he cares for in the cellar); a neighboring inn begins to see unprecedented seasonal business from visitors (Horst Tappert as "Douglas Fairbanks," CARMEN, BABY's Uta Levka) showing unusual interest in Blackwood Castle... and each other; and the two seemingly harmless old fogies playing chess in the inn's tavern are using a tricked-out chesspiece to send messages to the snake-caring servant. Archive 2006-04-23
• Harrison Blackwood and his cronies, meanwhile, spend their days ruminating on, and searching for, signs of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.