It was the very strangeness of stones here that had made them into sacred things. One thought too much of the stones of the Stone Age. Who would carve these lumps of quartzite when one could carve good oak? Or beech--a most carvable wood. Especially when one's sharpest chisel was a flint. "It's wood we ought to look for," said Sir Richmond. "Wood and fibre." He declared that these people had their tools of wood, their homes of wood, their gods and perhaps their records of wood. "A peat bog here, even a few feet of clay, might have pickled some precious memoranda.英文原著 · 《The Secret Places of the Heart》
VICTOR WOODVILLE, A Young Mississippi Officer. JOHN WOODVILLE, Father of Victor Woodville. CHARLES WOODVILLE, Uncle of Victor Woodville. COLONEL BEDFORD, A Northern Officer. CHARLES GORDON, A Southern Staff Officer. JOHN LANHAM, An Editor. JUDGE KENDRICK, A Lawyer. CULVER, A State Senator.英文原著 · 《The Guns of Bull Run》
And I'm not saying I'm that hot, but I've never seen anybody drop wood and get wood at the same time.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
That's because you're defining it in some woowoo spiritual way.美剧 · 《Billions》
It keeps peoplein their place, it keeps parentsfrom being humiliated, and it keeps me fromhaving to spend the afternoon talking about my woo-woo.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》