Wood-fibre

If the woods make a man with such fibre in his soul, I must learn them if they half kill me. "The Harvester" by Gene Stratton Porter

The strength of wood is in its fibres, which should, as far as possible, run without break from one end of a strut or spar to the other end. "The Aeroplane Speaks" by H. Barber

For on the inside of the lacquer he found a shred of reddish wood fibre. "The Case of The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study" by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner

The wood consists entirely of elongated, thickened cells or fibres. "Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; From Seed to Leaf" by Jane H. Newell

Deep in the wood, wave after wave of motion seemed to spread until the fibres emitted a faint splintering sound. "The Firing Line" by Robert W. Chambers

Ropes were made from the fibres of the bark; and the wood was employed for building and furniture. "The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea" by George Rawlinson

Their dusk had penetrated the very fibre of the wood. "How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's" by W. H. H. Murray

He had also brought some pieces of wood, with some fibre to serve as string, and some small sticks of bamboo. "In the Eastern Seas" by W.H.G. Kingston

He split one end of a tough piece of wood, thrust his stone blade in it and wound it with cocoa fibre. "An American Robinson Crusoe" by Samuel. B. Allison

This staining soaks in a little way, and blackens the fibres of the wood itself, beneath the surface. "Forests of Maine" by Jacob S. Abbott