You wonder if you might not be able to patch it up yourself for the time being,–a year or so–perhaps with a little spruce-gum and a coating of new-skin. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Then we sat in the picturesque dimness of the lofty cabin, under the void where the roof shut off the stars, and talked of the pine-woods, of logging, measuring, and spring-drives, and of moose-hunting on snow-shoes, until our mouths had a wild flavor more spicy than if we had chewed spruce-gum by the hour. ❋ Various (N/A)
Rustic females who habitually chew even pitch or spruce-gum are rendered thereby so repulsive that the fancy refuses to pursue the horror farther and imagine it tobacco; and all the charms of the veil and the fan can scarcely reconcile the most fumacious American to the _cigarrito_ of the Spanish fair. ❋ Various (N/A)
The Ingleside twins were not allowed to chew spruce-gum anywhere but in the seclusion of Rainbow Valley, but Faith and Una were unrestricted by such rules of etiquette and cheerfully chewed it everywhere, at home and abroad, to the very proper horror of the Glen. ❋ Lucy Maud (1919)
He knew where the finest spruce-gum was to be found, in pale amber knots on the lichened bark, he knew where the nuts grew thickest in the beechwoods around the Harbour Head, and where the best trouting places up the brooks were. ❋ Lucy Maud (1919)
Nan and Di had been picking spruce-gum with Faith and Una in the manse woods and the four of them were now sitting on a fallen pine by the brook, all, it must be admitted, chewing rather vigorously. ❋ Lucy Maud (1919)
The ladies busied themselves with the care of the two rooms, with useless needlework, and with dummy auction, varying the monotony with daily excursions into the near-by forest in quest of spruce-gum and pine-cones. ❋ Unknown (1921)
You wonder if you might not be able to patch it up yourself for the time being, -- a year or so -- perhaps with a little spruce-gum and a coating of new-skin. ❋ Robert Benchley (1917)
To find a suitable piece of bark, and spruce-gum to cement it with, required a considerable search in the bush. ❋ Hulbert Footner (1911)
But long before these insignificant details were completed, Jessica and I had emptied Katrina's bag, arranged her books in her desk, lent her a pencil she lacked, indicated to her the boy most to be scorned and shunned, given her in pantomime the exact standing of Miss Merrill in the regard of her pupils, and accepted in turn the temporary loan of the spruce-gum with which she had happily provided herself. ❋ Elizabeth Garver Jordan (1907)
The spruce-gum sought by many is found in the seams of the bark, which, unlike the smooth balsam-fir, is scaly and of a brown color. ❋ Lina Beard (1888)
We gathered spruce-gum and sent it to our sweethearts in letters. ❋ Ambrose Bierce (1878)
Christmas-trees, and tamarack and spruce-gum are found in great abundance. ❋ Bill Nye (1873)
You are deeply in debt -- say to the amount of a quarter of a dollar -- to the little knicknack shop round the corner, where they sell picture-papers, spruce-gum, needles, and Malaga raisins. ❋ Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1871)
Had he not some of the beautiful auburn tresses of Cynthia Rudd in his skate, spruce-gum, and wintergreen box at home? ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
He took his wife afar into the woods to gather spruce-gum, and then left her there. ❋ Charles Godfrey Leland (1863)
-- Why, what the devil's the matter with my head? "he raised his hand to the spruce-gum bandage. ❋ Henry Wallace Phillips (1899)
