The sun shone with a pale, watery gleam, grey clouds were piled along the horizon, and a moaning wind crept through the pine trees, made the birch leaves quiver, and thinned the foliage of the alders at the foot of the rapids.
Scattering clumps of alders and young trees of many kinds made it a birds' paradise, while wild cherries and berries of all sorts, with abundant insect life, offered a spread table the whole summer long.
I was wandering down yon by the alders near the river, when I heard a furious noise of something being driven hard.
Thick-growing alders were each side of it, and I leaped from stone to stone, and ran occasionally along grassy places, till I was near the Osage orange hedge that surrounded our rose-garden.
One soft feathery head was in yellowish green, another of more neutral colour; and blending with them were the tints of a few reddish soft- tinted alders below.
Here, too, the alders hung their swinging tassels or trailed them o'er the surface of the swollen stream.
I now began to notice the bright red berries of the tree-cranberry, which grows eight or ten feet high, mingled with the alders and cornel along the shore.
There's a bunch of willers andalders by the spring," suggested a hopeful person.
We can cut down the alders and willows at the spring, and bind a lot together and tie on some branches of mountain-tea and make a tree.
The alders and willows which I before recommended to be planted round the ponds should be induced as much as possible to overhang the water.
When the alders and willows have grown sufficiently and are well covered with leaves, they will probably give enough shelter to the fish to make the boards at the upper end of the pond unnecessary.
It is advisable to have as much grass as possible round the ponds, and such trees as willows and alders should also be planted round them.
The proportion of Alders which get on the water is probably very small if compared with those which do not; but as the fly is in some places extremely numerous, even this small proportion becomes in those places a large number.
While the observer is ogling, it may be an over-modest Townsend Sparrow, a flock of Pine Siskins will charge incontinently into the alders above his very head.
In spring the bird separates itself from its late companions, and begins to explore the budding alders and maples.
Huckleberry bushes seem the favorites, but many nests are built in the alders and on the blackberry vines.
At the south end of the beaver meadow willows and alders are invading the sedges in very wet ground.
In a thick growth of quaking aspens, on wet ground studied near Gogebic Lake, a number of alders and paper birches, a few young trees of sugar maple and arbor-vitae, and a rare elm occur.
The ground under the alders is mostly bare, there being only a few ferns, grasses, and other herbs.
No one had seen her about the shore, nor had she been met with along the dusky alders and dimpling birches of the path by the burnside.
Two others are cuttingalders above; and here come the bushes floating down.
Sometimes indeed, as the afternoon wears away, they turn their little heads apprehensively as the alders crash and sway on the bank above; a low cluck from the mother bird sends them all off into the grass to hide.
The upper branches are then trimmed close to the trunk, and are woven with alders among the long stubs sticking down from the trunk into the river bed.
I feel The flame of purest friendship rising still: So by a brook the verdant alders rise, When fostering zephyrs fan the vernal skies.
Then wraps in bark the mourning sisters round,[6] And rears the lofty alders from the ground.
Between the trees, the flowering alders seemed gleaming out of sight before him like the white skirts of maidens.
The first week in May, the cherry-trees were in blossom, and the alders and shad bushes were white in the borders of the woods against the filmy green of the birches.
He stood looking moodily at the ground, where his nosegay of violets and alders was all scattered and trampled.
Suddenly, and with seemingly no more involvement of wills or ethics than the alders in their blossoming, the two were in each other's arms, and their lips were meeting in kisses.
I guess I'll have to be content with some of thesealders growing close to the water, but the bark of aspens is so much better that I--I wish I could get them.
He pushed his way through a thicket of aldersand then--Farmer Brown's boy stopped suddenly and fairly gasped!
The last day we were at Tachienlu we got a perfectly clear view of the snowy mountains and glacier to the south, as we stood outside the north gate beyond the magnificent alders there.
For Thee, green alders have together wound Their foliage; ashes flung their arms around; And birch-trees risen in silver colonnade.
The birches may have risen in 'silver colonnade,' but now a few ashes, a few poplars, a few alders are the only trees near.
So they would fight their way down into the wet ground among the alders and willows, till they came to where their enemies were so thick and tall, that the acorns as they fell could not sprout in the darkness.
Now, if we and all human beings were to leave this pasture for a few hundred years, would not thosealders increase into a wood?
You know how we pull these alders up, and cut them down, and yet they continually come again.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
