On a recent windy day, hundreds of visitors climbed wooden stairs to take pictures in front of the glacier. 1918, W B Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind. There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior wooden valentines gifts. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.

In such a case, you can make a very good case for wooden cases. An neeat wooden trenshoorès var whiter than snow. And neat wooden trenchers far whiter than snow. William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J.

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Wood is a structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. Wood has been used for thousands of years for fuel, as a construction material, for making tools and weapons, furniture and paper. As of 2020, the growing stock of forests worldwide was about 557 billion cubic meters. As an abundant, carbon-neutral renewable resource, woody materials have been of intense interest as a source of renewable energy. A 2011 discovery in the Canadian province of New Brunswick yielded the earliest known plants to have grown wood, approximately 395 to 400 million years ago.