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The dead and for the most part unmerchantable wood behind my house, and the driftwood from the pond, have supplied the remainder of my fuel.

Walden 2004

The few merchantable trees he spares, together with those now unmerchantable, will, in perhaps twenty years, make another excellent crop.

Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods Edward Tyson Allen

If the work is not thoroughly done the wool passes as "unmerchantable washed."

Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades

Page 477 better food than maize, although the cracked and inferior rice, that would be unmerchantable, is alone given them.

A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856

The dead and for the most part unmerchantable wood behind my house, and the driftwood from the pond, have supplied the remainder of my fuel.

Walden~ Chapter 01 (historical) 1854

The dead and for the most part unmerchantable wood behind my house, and the driftwood from the pond, have supplied the remainder of my fuel.

Walden, or Life in the woods 1854

May you buckle on your armor afresh, and, with brick-bats and unmerchantable eggs, go forth to defend your treasures in heaven.

Narratives of the sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke : sons of a soldier of the Revolution, during a captivity of more than twenty years among the slaveholders of Kentucky, one of the so called Christian states of North America, by dictated ? 1846

Page view page image: or pay their debts: therefore it was enacted, that the tobacco of that year be viewed by sworn viewers, and the rotten and unmerchantable, and half the good, to be burned.

Historical collections of Virginia 1845

The dead and for the most part unmerchantable wood behind my house, and the driftwood from the pond, have supplied the remainder of my fuel.

Walden Henry David Thoreau 1839

Now, the byproduct of logging - the unmerchantable tree tops and limbs that are normally left on the forest floor or burned as slash - could be classified as a renewable source of fuel to generate electricity.

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