Material for starting a fire.
1 There was no moisture there, and his mouth was as dry as touchwood .
2 The kitchen door-post is now as rotten as touchwood ; no bolt will fasten it.
3 He seized the dry stick again and scraped off another little pile of touchwood .
4 First she gathered wreckwood and straw, and struck flint over touchwood and teened a fire.
5 The old man fumbled with a finger, scraping together the flakes of touchwood in a tinder-box.
6 A Hindoo village is as inflammable as touchwood .
7 The woods were one medley of fallen trees, rotting into touchwood , hidden boulders, and matted briers.
8 The rays passing through the glass increased many times in power and struck directly upon the touchwood .
9 This was also the case with the wooden shafts of the spears, which powdered away like touchwood .
10 The whole boat was mere touchwood .
11 When we saw the fragment it looked mostly like tinder, or touchwood , 'eld-gamall,' stone-old, as the Icelanders say.
12 She was suffocating; she might certainly make herself comfortable; everyone was not gifted with a skin as dry as touchwood .
13 A wild gooseberry may sometimes be seen growing out of the decayed ' touchwood ' on the top of a hollow withy-pollard.
14 We found in the Indian huts at Uruana the vegetable substance called touchwood of ants,* (* Yesca de hormigas.)
15 Just at that moment there came a fearful crash, the stout timbers and beams were rent, as if composed of mere touchwood .
16 The little monster has set the marsh-grass on fire, and it was I who taught the devil's spawn how to use touchwood !
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