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Usage examples of creosote.

Her skin was the color of lumber, say pine or spruce, washed with a tincture of creosote and slightly aged out of doors: browner than white and lighter than, say, beans of coffee in their burlap sacks.

Wherever the cactus roots or flash-flood washes left room, you saw thin chaparral, or stickerbush, from creosote and catclaw to eight- or ten-foot whitebark and paloverde.

Phillip had the nastier job of soaking the inside of the centerboard case with creosote.

Here shafts of the sun seldom penetrated the canopy of leaves, except in fields such as the patch old Zacharias had cleared amongst the sedge of the marsh on the fringe of the forest His small hut, roughly constructed of tambuki grass and creosoted African wattle poles, huddled inside the hedge of branches surrounding the clearing, under a spreading strangler fig and a red milkwood tree that had grown old and gnarled together.

The shimmering asphalt coasted over a parched and repetitious plateau, spotted with stunted sagebrush and saltweed and creosote bush.

I could make out a number of features: clusters of tumbleweeds, like giant beach balls, creosote bushes, bayonet cactuses, yuccas, and the leggy branches of the palo verde trees.

Cactus, mesquite, and creosote bushes grew at neatly spaced intervals, as though planted by an arborist.

As I turned onto the Antelope Valley Highway, the way posts of prefab civilisation - Colonial Kitchens, Carrows, Dennys, Pizza Huts - disappeared, and expanses of increasingly raw terrain slid into view: low sandstone hills parched white under a stubble of creosote and sagebrush, squat and pitiful against the distant black backdrop of the San Gabriel Mountains.

They hunted lizards and snakes and coneys, collected the juicy young pads of prickly pear and dug for tuberous roots in the dry tableland above the cliffs, picked samphire and watercress in the marshes by the margin of the river and waded out into the river's shallows and cast circular nets to catch fish, which they smoked on racks above fires built of creosote bush and pine chips.

Each of its lodgepole-pine timbers had been well picked and creosoted, adzed only slightly on top to form a washboard passage between the dark steep-roofed tunnel.

A line of creosoted wooden piles from an old dock served to tie up the barges.

The view was depressing - the brown creosoted back of a hut, a grey waste of sky and the rain driving.

William lost control and needed support, he leaned against the creosoted fence dividing their house from its neighbour.

They were retreats from the city and the city's formality, little more than unornamented shacks with deep shaded porches and weathered clapboard siding perched on creosoted timbers to raise them above the blistering summer sands.

The gates came up and they moved again and now they were in the lee of the norther and the wooden-hulled ships of the pitiful and grotesque wartime merchant marine lay against the creosoted pilings of the wooden docks and the scum of the harbor lay along their sides blacker than the creosote of the pilings and foul as an uncleaned sewer.