tan-bark

It seemed as if all local varieties of trees and vines had conspired to weave the leafy roof -- maples, big madronos and laurels, and lofty tan-bark oaks, scaled and wrapped and interwound with wild grape and flaming poison oak.

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Occasionally a small schooner visits the cove for the purpose of loading wood or tan-bark for the San Francisco market.

The Western United States A Geographical Reader

The Ferry is a very large place and every foot of it is covered with tan-bark, smooth and brown and springy.

The Girl Scouts at Home, or, Rosanna's Beautiful Day Katherine Keene Galt

In this trench, two-inch pipe tiles were laid, and carefully covered with tan-bark, and the trenches filled with the earth.

Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French

Pots are then set in some homogeneous material (waste tan-bark or sawdust) and left in a moderately heated bed.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953

Its floor was taken up, the ground covered with tan-bark, and the window-sashes removed for this sacrilegious purpose.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

If the timber could be conservatively managed as are live-stock products, so that all the waste could be utilized, all the small articles, shingles, lath, posts, tan-bark and extract, pulp-wood, wood for distillation and small manufactured articles would be made by-products of the larger cuts.

Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

Grey's step was noiseless, going down the tan-bark path.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various

It was really a private athletic club -- with tan-bark hippodrome, having a ring the size of that in Madison Square Garden, and a skylight roof, and thirty or forty arc-lights for night events.

The Metropolis Upton Sinclair 1923

When one of Mrs. Smythe's best loved pugs had fallen ill of congestion of the liver, she had had tan-bark put upon the street in front of her house; and when in spite of this the dog died, she had sent out cards edged in black, inviting her friends to a "memorial service."

The Metropolis Upton Sinclair 1923