Timber often used for guitar fretboards

Usage examples of rosewood.

Holy Orders than a boy of thirteen: a richly illuminated Book of Hours, a rosewood and silver crucifix worthy of a cathedral chapel, a relic of the martyred Saint Willim sealed in a crystal reliquary, and from Hubert, a starkly functional silver chalice and paten and a chasuble of creamy wool, surprisingly plain compared to the other gifts.

The two men sat, wrapped in a companionable silence and a great deal of smoke from their pipes while Mevrouw Van Minn en sat at her pretty little rosewood worktable, stitching at her gros-point.

Genesee building was a two-story stucco quadriplex nearly the exact gray of the Toyota, between Beverly and Rosewood.

Chesterfields grouped around the almost new Gothic fireplace in which stood a display of wintry sedge, by the unplayed, untuned harpsichord and the unused rosewood music stands, by the heavy velvet curtains, loosely restrained by an orange and blue tasseled rope, framing a partial view of cloudless sky and the yellow and gray mottled terrace where chamomile and feverfew grew between the paving cracks.

In a strong northeaster they rounded Cape Antonio the next morning and headed southwest down the Yucatan Channel toward Barranquilla to pick up a neutral cargo of mahogany and rosewood, and not incidentally, an important British subject.

The dense, variegated forest was rich in ebony, rosewood, brazilwood, and mahogany trees.

And now, this afternoon, she looked at the rosewood chiffonnier with longing eyes--she even gave that pretty little piece of furniture a slight shake.

Taking a different route than usual - past La Cienega, then doubling back on Rosewood.

Silently, in a dream she had come to him after her death, her wasted body within its loose brown graveclothes giving off an odour of wax and rosewood, her breath, that had bent upon him, mute, reproachful, a faint odour of wetted ashes.

The spacious reception hall had a limestone floor, honey-tone wood paneling, a pair of rosewood Chinese chairs with emerald-green cushions, and a central table holding a large red-bronze jardiniere filled with dozens of fresh yellow, red, and orange tulips.

For our part, we ship fine furniture timbers like rosewood, tulipwood and padauk from Indonesia to the USA.

There were rows of benches for the petitioners to use while they waited, and busts of past chancellors lined the rosewood walls, staring down at Akeela with cold detachment.

There were no ordinary chairs, but rather satin-covered chaises, and handcarved Roman couches, tables inlaid with mother-of-pearl, cabinets of rosewood, and armoires of ebony.

There was a little rosewood wall table opposite the desk with a bowl of pink chrysanthemums on it, and the carpet was thick and soft.

The house in Woburn Place looked as if it had remained unchanged through decades of Listers, kept to its original brass fittings, its stained-glass fanlight, newel post, rosewood table in the entrance-room sitting on a Belgian carpet so silky it reflected the dim light.