They took the rosewood what-not, but Virginia snatched the songs before the men could touch them, and held them in her arms.
"The Crisis, Volume 6"
Winston Churchill
There are splendid mountains and great forests of mahogany, rosewood, and pine.
"Ahead of the Army"
W. O. Stoddard
We had passed through some open scrub, chiefly of the rosewood kind, and crossed several small grassy plains; saw one or two patches of brigalow, but very little callitris.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell