Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.
At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.
The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.
A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door.
In the trunk of her car, my mother used to keep a collapsible easel, a clutch of brushes, a little wooden case stocked with tubes of paint, and, tucked into the spare-tire well, one of my father's old, tobacco-stained shirts, for a smock.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?
Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.
The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.
Inspector Kemp: [holds up his wooden arm] To the lumber yard!
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