Word: woodenness
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...these rooms, hung with wreaths and watercolors, we learned to add and subtract with translucent jewels. When we got to multiplication, we were crowned knights of the three-times table by a tap on each shoulder with a wooden sword...
...setting, there’s not much beyond linoleum, track-lighting and wooden tables to recommend Dado as a hip venue. But, even so, it’s hard to fight the attraction of a fine tea. Maybe it’s the clean taste. Maybe it’s the warmth that a cup sends radiating from deep inside. Or maybe it’s just the new-age charm of being the kind of together person who finds an hour each afternoon to sip, smile and unwind. Buddhist monks have made the time for centuries, so why shouldn?...
...right to these things. But he did have access: he lived in Kensington Palace for 10 months after her death and helped compile an inventory for her estate. A palace policeman once saw Burrell pull up his station wagon at 3:30 a.m. and load it with a large wooden box and two evening dresses wrapped in plastic. When challenged by the bobby, Burrell said he was removing items Diana's family wanted him to destroy, and was doing so at this hour to be discreet. Boyce said the family will rebut this. He reminded the jury that photo albums...
...example, Creasie, the servant in the Urquhart home, lends her voice to tales of voodoo in the swampy former plantation where Mercury’s African-American population is concentrated. A wooden dummy comes to life for her in the body of her lover, Frank, who disappears as soon as the dummy is removed from a storage shed. The elements of the fantastic that pop up in these parts of the story are not even magically real, just plain ridiculous. They seem severed from the main stream of history flowing through the novel...
Much of the coastal land and the offshore islands are claimed by area tribes, which have helped keep the environment pristine. To minimize the impact of tourism, the operators use floating lodges to accommodate guests. I stayed at Rosewood Hotels' King Pacific Lodge: 17 comfortable, wooden guest rooms erected on an oversize barge. The lodge is towed down to a small, sheltered cove 85 miles south of Prince Rupert in April and then towed back up to the city in November, leaving nothing but a wake in the water...