Bagnet briskly, "here we are, Lignum and myself"--she often speaks of her husband by this appellation, on account, as it is supposed, of Lignum Vitae having been his old regimental nickname when they first became acquainted, in compliment to the extreme hardness and toughness of his physiognomy--"just looked in, we have, to make it all correct as usual about that security.
For Lignum, he's tied so close now, and gets so little exercise, that a walk does him good.
"Don't tell me there's anything wrong about that security of Lignum's!
"If you have allowed anything wrong to come to that security of Lignum's, and if you have let him in for it, and if you have put us in danger of being sold up--and I see sold up in your face, George, as plain as print--you have done a shameful action and have deceived us cruelly.
"I trust my old Lignum to you, and I am sure you'll bring him through it."
The trooper returns that this is kindly said and that he WILL bring Lignum through it somehow.
"Because really and truly, George, what I said and meant to say was that I trusted Lignum to you and was sure you'd bring him through it.
Adopting Mr Kenwigs's suggestion, the company spoke very loudly, to look easy and unembarrassed; and almost as soon as they had begun to do so, a short old gentleman in drabs and gaiters, with a face that might have been carved out of
LIGNUM VITAE, for anything that appeared to the contrary, was led playfully in by Miss Morleena Kenwigs, regarding whose uncommon Christian name it may be here remarked that it had been invented and composed by Mrs Kenwigs previous to her first lying-in, for the special distinction of her eldest child, in case it should prove a daughter.
The process for making reconstituted veneer, sliced from a thick stack of veneer sheets to create a plentiful and uniform product, is recounted in a video from Alpi
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The plant species occurring in this ecotonal environment vary from sedges, rushes, grasses and other herbaceous plants to shrubby thickets of Tea-tree (Melaleuca and Lept ospermum species) in higher rainfall areas or
Lignum Duma florulenta in low rainfall areas.