The very drawing has a Woodenness foreign to his compositions, and much of the painting is by an evidently inferior hand.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
The Woodenness of our Anglo-Saxon social ways!
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
In one place the snow had been dug down to the pine planking of the pathway round the house; and the contact of this Woodenness with the frozen ground pierced his nerves and set his teeth on edge like a harsh noise.
"The Landlord at Lion's Head, Complete"
William Dean Howells Last Updated: February 27, 2009