logwood in a sentence
Examples
- The two Carrs silk mills had converted to cotton before 1785, and the larger silk mills such as Park and Logwood followed.
- The British and Spanish also made arrangements under this treaty, including establishing British rights to cut logwood in the area of Belize.
- Such was the enthusiasm of the cutters that within a few years the European market was glutted, and the price of logwood collapsed.
- Large quantities of logwood were exported to Europe to make a Prussian-blue dye, which was very popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- They left twenty-four men at the fort to load more logwood, and sailed for Lisbon, which they reached on 28 June 1504.
- He lost much larger sums, however, speculating on prices of raw materials-hemp, flax, lead, logwood and alum among others.
- Conflict continued between Britain and Spain over the right of the Treaty of Versailles in 1783 allowed the British to again cut logwood in the area.
- Where's Hook ? "'said Harold Logwood, executive director of the Oakland Minority Business Opportunity Committee and Mitchell's surrogate uncle.
- "In 1642, Port Royal on Roat�n was occupied by English logwood cutters and settlers from what became British Honduras and now is known as Belize.
- But upon his arrival, Dundas noted panic in the settlement and the subsequent dispatching of slaves to cut logwood instead of preparing to defend the settlement.