The early dusk fell over the alder swales; the brawling brook was sheeted with vapor.
Not at all," he said, laughing; "that alder twig did for me.
Before McCloud could find voice to answer, the alder thicket across the road parted and an old man shambled forth on a pair of unsteady bowed legs.
Before she could realize what he was about, he had waded across the shallows and seized the alder branch.
Didn't I hear a gun go off in them alder bushes this morning?
Presently I saw him through an alder bush which hid me; he was perched on a root of alder under the opposite bank.
Then long, deep swamps of alder barred his path, and, guided only by the compass, Rolf pushed in and through and ever east.
Down into cover of an alder swamp he plunged, and confident of his speed, ran on, dashing through thickets and mudholes.
Nothing happens, however, to disturb the charm, save when a sunbeam cuts the chain of diamonds on an alder bough, and down they drift in a thin cloud of dust.
In shaded places of the valley you may walk through larches and leafless alder thickets by silent farms, all silvered over with hoar spangles--fairy forests, where the flowers and foliage are rime.
Out there," said the Doctor, "the winter twilight's been fighting the alder berries with purple spears.
They then piled maple and alder boughs over these to the depth of a foot or more, tramped them down, and laid over them the leaves of the skunk-cabbage.
When he had satisfied himself that no respectable trout would deign to live in such a brook he made his way across it by jumping from stone to stone, only once missing, and went on through analder growth on the other side.
Then she caught him by the hand, and fell to running with him to the edge of the stream, where at the end of the further slope it ran wide and shallow before it entered into a deep pool overhung with boughs of alder and thorn.
In fact, they use the hawthorn-tree as their tiring-room, whilst the alder is the great banqueting-hall.
Where the sun flickered in through the alder leaves it glinted brightly on the shiny puter hairs of his rough coat.
Then, one morning at daybreak, as I sat on a big rock pondering new baits and devices, a stir on an alder bush across the stream caught my eye.
The trail led straight from the water to a broad alder belt, beyond which, on the hillside, I might find the big brute loafing his time away till evening should come, and watch him to see what he would do with himself.
A score of fat woodcock lay unheeding in that bit of aldertangle yonder, the ground bored like a colander after their night's feeding.
What sense of fear brooded here and whispered in the alder leaves and tinkled in the brook?
Do you see how the cliff seems to go in there--just where the alder bushes grow?
For about a hundred yards they were able to keep close to the edge of the cliff, so as to look over; but after that they encountered a dense alder thicket.
Bruce and Bart then set out, and forced their way through the dense alder bushes, until at length they found themselves near the place.
The underbrush was wanting to a great extent, but moss was here in large quantities, and thick clusters of alder bushes.
The Alder must have grown to a great size in days of yore; for Virgil speaks of vessels made of this material: When hollow Alders first the waters tried.
The Alder is usually planted as coppice-wood, to be cut down every five or six years, for conversion into charcoal, which is preferred in making gunpowder.
The Alder grows naturally in Europe from Lapland to Gibraltar, in Asia from the White Sea to Mount Caucasus, and in the north of Africa, as well as being indigenous in England.
Gilpin says, that if we would see the Alder in perfection, we must follow the banks of the Mole, in Surrey, through the sweet vales of Dorking and Mickleham, into the groves of Esher.
Besides the commonAlder there are introduced at least six other species:-- 1.
The oak falls for the greater purposes of man, and the Alder is ready to supply a variety of his smaller wants.
Alder appears as well on some parts of the hills as the bottoms.
I marked my name the Day & year on a Alder tree, the party all Cut the first letters of their names on different trees in the bottom.
Covered with a verry heavy Croth of pine & furr, also the white Cedar or arbor vita and a Small proportion of the black alder, this alder grows to the hight of Sixty or Seventy feet and from 2 to 3 feet in diamiter.
Islands in the river covered with Cottonwood box alder and some sweet willow also the undergrowth like that of the islands at this place.
The stem of the black alder of this country before mentioned as arriving to great size, is simply branching and defuse.
Commencement of Some one years groth which in Some instances are as far back as the third year The Stem of the Black Alder of this countrey before mentioned as ariveing at great Size, is Simple branching and defuse.
The diggings at Gold Creek and Bannack were now eclipsed by the sensational discoveries on the famous Alder Gulch, one of the phenomenal placers of the world, and the most productive ever known in America.
The captors, however, were men from Nevada, the other leading camp in Alder Gulch, and they took their prisoners there.
At length, the dead body of a young man named Tiebalt was found in a thicket near Alder Gulch, under circumstances showing a revolting murder.
Oro Fino was a temporary capital; then the fabulously rich placer which made Alder Gulch one of the quickly perished but still unforgotten diggings.
Sloan, now known as the Wigwam, and then located at the corner of Second and Alder streets, where the Drumheller four-story brick block now stands.
At length Mr. McFeely purchased the lots on the corner of Fourth and Alder streets, then known as the old Baldwin property, at that time covered with a growth of locust trees.
Making his way westward to Walla Walla, he here became engaged in the hotel business and now owns and conducts the McFeely Hotel, located at Fourth and Alder streets.
He was the first settler and built the first house near Bickleton on Alder creek, hauling the lumber for floors some sixty miles.
Peter Rabbit of Sammy Jay, but Sammy was too excited to answer and simply pointed down into the middle of the alder thicket.
Billy Mink brought more alder twigs and willow shoots and bulrushes as fast as Johnny Chuck and Peter Rabbit and Danny Meadow Mouse could cut them.
They tiptoed out of the alder thicket and started back for the old house on the hill.
He and Johnny Chuck had gone down to the alder thicket, where they had seen Mr. Blacksnake change his clothes, and they had found his old suit just as he had left it.
No," said Jerry Muskrat, "I'm going to use green alder twigs and willow shoots and bulrush stalks.
Bringing them for your new house," shouted Billy Mink, popping out from behind the bundle of alder twigs.
Could it be--yes, it certainly was a bundle of green alder twigs floating straight across the Smiling Pool towards the new house!
His hat fell off upon the grass, as he leaned forward through the alder bushes, and his sandy hair was tangled for a moment in some stubby twigs.
It was a pretty stream of water, and it spread out wide and shallow, and rippled merrily among stones and bowlders and clumps of willow and alder for nearly half a mile.
Her tears fell fast on the alder stump, and the latter moved; for it was not a regular alder stump, but the marsh king--he who lives and rules in the depths of the moor!
There, by the reeds and the green mud, lay a great alder stump; and on this the three swans sat, flapping their wings and looking about them.
She sank immediately, and thealder stump dived down too; and it was he who drew her down.
Old alder trees, which the stream had washed away from the bank, clung with their fibrous roots to the bottom of the stream, and looked like little wooded islands.
Without following Edward farther in his description of the Zoophytes, we may proceed to state that he was for some time engaged in collecting Molluscs for Mr. Alder of Newcastle, who was engaged in writing a paper on the subject.
As usual, he wished to have them named, and he sent a large number of specimens to Mr. Alder for the purpose.
Thus Mr. Norman desired him to send his Sponges to Mr. Bowerbank, and his Ascidians to Mr. Alder of Newcastle, who were engaged in working up these subjects.
Through the screen of alder and grape and willow and virgin's-bower the sunlight fell, as through the delicate traceries of a cathedral window.
Just above the Station, they left the main road to follow the way that leads to the Morton Ranch in the mouth of Alder Canyon--a small side canyon leading steeply up to a low gap in the main range.
I have a confession to make," he said, carefully studying the gray tones of the alder trunk beyond the gray boulder.
The sleeves of his coat were also made of water-plants, and the rest of his body was enveloped in alder and hazel leaves.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
