"Woody" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a tall perennial grass with stout roots. Stems are densely tufted on a short woody root-stock, erect, leafy, 1 ...
— A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses • Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar
... at an extreme pretty farm on the banks of the river St. Lawrence; the house stands at the foot of a steep mountain covered with a variety of trees, forming a verdant sloping wall, which rises in a kind of regular confusion, "Shade above shade, a woody theatre," and has in front this noble river, on which the ships continually passing present to the delighted eye the most charming moving picture imaginable; I never saw a place so formed to inspire that pleasing lassitude, that divine inclination ...
— The History of Emily Montague • Frances Brooke
... sing—it is to hear The laugh of childhood ringing clear In woody path or grassy lane Our feet may ...
— Riley Love-Lyrics • James Whitcomb Riley
... aware of for procuring fire by friction in Burma, but on the hills and out of the way parts, that philosophical toy, the "pyrophorus," is still in use. This consists[1] of a short joint of a thick woody bamboo, neatly cut, which forms a cylinder. At the bottom of this a bit of tinder is placed, and a tightly-fitting piston inserted composed of some hard wood. The tube being now held in one hand, or firmly supported, the piston ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 • Various
... thou ever happen that same way To travel, go to see that dreadful place; It is a hideous, hollow cave, they say, Under a rock that lies, a little space From the swift Barry, tumbling down apace Amongst the woody hills of Dynevoure; But dare thou not, I charge, in any case, To enter into that same baleful bower, For fear the cruel ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay
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