matchwood


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wood in small pieces or splinters

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wood suitable for making matchsticks

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fragments of wood

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The physical descriptions are wonderful: "Jerome, AZ a town that seemed to be made of matchwood and perched on a cliffside to spit in the face of gravity .
Within minutes, communities were turned to matchwood and whole families drowned.
"It did not occur to him there was any danger and he drove straight on and, just as he reached the crossing, a goods train came around the curve and smashed into the gates, bursting them to matchwood. "e driver, with great presence of mind, did the only thing possible and turned the car sharply to the left."
In a flash, at a trumpet crash, I am all at once what Christ is, since he was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond.
ZONE 17dieas An PS8million secondary school being built for the town was also smashed to matchwood. An official said: "There's nothing there any more."
It was destroyed in a storm, with witnesses telling how the girders in the central section were blown away "like matchwood".
Nearly 95 per cent of the deaths from the typhoon came from the two areas, where an estimated 70 to 80 per cent of structures in the path of the storm were reduced to matchwood and rubble.DHL has sent members of its Disaster Response Team (DRT) to the area to help with on-the-ground airport logistics by setting up a warehouse to help sort relief goods.
It had been reporteded that Bombax ceiba exhibits low density hardwood and could be utilized in making matchwood [40,18].
A voice came booming in: "MATCHWOOD SPLITS INTO MATCHES!"
They were cheap in the extreme because they were probably made of matchwood. But Rob knew he'd got his money's worth and didn't complain.