Then, seeing it was just plain, slightly battered wood, the gnome returned his attention to the mage and kender.

The page opened the dark door, and Nylan saw the table, dark and battered wood, waist-high.

Behind it Ryan could hear a bedlam of noise, aware of dozens of bodies flinging themselves against the battered wood.

In the far back corner sat four wooden crates of equal sizes, almost surreal in contrast, aged battered wood in the otherwise empty, stark room.

"Let's have those coins, pretty boy," rasps the waitress as three metal tankards come down on the battered wood.

He and his disciples stole through the battered wood in silence so total I wondered if my hearing was going.

Creslin takes a single coin from his purse and sets it on the battered wood.

The battered wood parted, falling away completely.

A moment later a square of dark fabric appears on the battered wood of the counter top.

The door came inward; its outer surface showed only battered wood, not steel.