He had taken a carbine down from the wall and it trailed from his hand, the stock bumping on the wood floor.

A strange wood creature came floating up from a patch of berry bushes.

Oils, or liquid fats, from the seeds of flax and tung have long been the principal constituents of paints and varnishes for protecting and beautifying the surfaces of wood and metal.

I even ferreted out the materials from which shields were made -- linden wood covered with leather -- so I'd get the light reflections accurate.

The Chacoan structures altogether required the wood of 200, 000 coniferous trees, mostly hauled — on foot — from mountain ranges up to away.

* 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.

Heinrich Göppert named the common amber-yielding pine of the Baltic forests Pinites succiniter, but as the wood does not seem to differ from that of the existing genus it has been also called Pinus succinifera.

They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

In particular, the tiles have been made from wood, plastic, and cardboard in various editions of the game.

Aalto's early experiments with wood and his move away from a purist modernism would be tested in built form with the commission to design Villa Mairea ( 1939 ) in Noormarkku, the luxury home of the young industrialist couple Harry and Maire Gullichsen.

The oldest known adhesive, dated to approximately 200, 000 BC, is from spear stone flakes glued to a wood with birch-bark-tar, which was found in central Italy.

This detail from Salvator Mundi, an unfinished oil painting on wood, reveals Dürer's highly detailed preparatory drawing.

File: Selbstporträt, by Albrecht Dürer, from Prado in Google Earth. jpg | Self-portrait, 1498, Museo del Prado, oil on wood panel

Houses designed to cope with interruptions in civil services generally incorporate a wood stove, or heat and power from diesel fuel or bottled gas, regardless of their other heating mechanisms.

Masks were generally carved from wood and were decorated with paints made from berries or other earthly products.

Initially built from wood, the fort was eventually rebuilt in stone.

Buffon, using only 48 small mirrors, was able to melt a 3 kilogram ( six pound ) tin bottle, and ignite wood from a distance of 46 meters ( 150 ft ).

" Weohstan's son ( pause ) commanded it be announced to many men ( pause ) that they should fetch from afar wood for the pyre.

Hemp, cotton, wood, paper, linen, vegetable oils, some types of rope, and rubber are examples of materials made from plants.

They were originally made from lignum vitae, a dense wood giving rise to the term " woods " for bowls, but are now more typically made of a hard plastic composite material.

In Chinese manuscripts, gold, camphor, tortoise shells, hornbill ivory, rhinoceros horn, crane crest, beeswax, lakawood ( a scented heartwood and root wood of a thick liana, Dalbergia parviflora ), dragon's blood, rattan, edible bird's nests and various spices were among the most valuable items from Borneo.

To anonymous laborers fell the less skilled stages of brick production: mixing clay and water, driving oxen over the mixture to trample it into a thick paste, scooping the paste into standardized wooden frames ( to produce a brick roughly 42 cm long, 20 cm wide, and 10 cm thick ), smoothing the surfaces with a wire-strung bow, removing them from the frames, printing the fronts and backs with stamps that indicated where the bricks came from and who made them, loading the kilns with fuel ( likelier wood than coal ), stacking the bricks in the kiln, removing them to cool while the kilns were still hot, and bundling them into pallets for transportation.

Flutes and guitars are commonly made of Cecropia wood.

Cecropia wood is used in the manufacture of boxes, toys, aeromodelling models and rafts.

The road leading south along the river was shaded with old trees, and in the moonlight the silvery landscape was like a setting for trolls and wood gods rather than the Hudson River Valley of his boyhood memories.

It is the largest city in the Abadeh-Eghlid district, which is famed for its carved wood-work, made of the wood of pear and box trees.

Beavers are herbivores, and prefer the wood of quaking aspen, cottonwood, willow, alder, birch, maple and cherry trees.

Both wood and bark cells of trees have secondary walls.

Image shows mapping of forest structure ( position of trees, dead wood and canopy ).

In order for forests to take up carbon, the wood must be harvested and turned into long-lived products and trees must be re-planted.

Made from a single piece of wood, some ō-daiko come from trees that are hundreds of years old.

: Till they can't distinguish the wood from the trees,

The islands had no native trees when discovered but there is some ambiguous evidence of past forestation, that may be due to wood being transported by oceanic currents from Patagonia.

A forest, also referred to as a wood or the woods, is an area with a high density of trees.

Other terms used to mean " an area with a high density of trees " are wood, woodland, wold, weald, holt, frith and firth.

Redwood tree in northern California redwood forest, where many Sequoia sempervirens | redwood trees are managed for preservation and longevity, rather than being harvested for wood production

In more sophistocated builds, forward planks were cut from natural curved trees called reaction wood.

It is conjectured that yew trees were commonly planted in English churchyards to have readily available longbow wood.

Local timber merchants are harvesting scarce species of rosewood trees from protected rainforests within Marojejy National Park and exporting the wood to China for the production of luxury furniture and musical instruments.

" wood " ( patch of trees ) with the intention of highlighting its origins, " alcohol made from wood ( substance )", but with Greek language errors: the Greek for " wood ( substance )" is xylo -.

Utilizing Paraguay's rich endowment of hardwood trees, the wood subsector represented about 15 percent of all industrial activity and contributed over 8 percent of exports in the 1980s.

" The woman answers: " As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.

These travels explain as well how the vinviðir ( wine wood ) the Norse were cutting down in the sagas is actually referring to the vines of Vitis riparia a species of wild grape that grows on trees.

Tests of the original wood show that it was made of Irish trees.

Most of these piles were made from trunks of alder trees, a wood noted for its water resistance.

It can be grown in a wood ( on trees ), in a plantation ( on trees or poles ), or in a " shader ", in increasing orders of productivity.