To the children was given a week's vacation, and they scoured the woods for all the arbutus that gave any promise of opening in time.
All knew where to look for the earliest blossoms, and in the twilight the explorers returned with handfuls of hepatica and arbutus buds, which, from experience, they knew would bloom in a vase of water.
He plucked up kamas, set it to roast, and laid a store of the arbutus leaves to dry on a flat stone.
The whole spot was thick with kamas plants, strangely out of place on the mountainside, and overhead grew a large arbutus tree, with glistening leaves, ripe for smoking.
The arbutus had companioned the hepatica, and the squads of the lupines were busily preparing their panoply of lavender-blue racemes.
Amanda was thoughtful as she bunched the arbutus for the market next day.
We don't want to exterminate the trailingarbutus in Crow Hill.
After Elder Haven had approved the parents could find nothing wrong in the idea, and all the children went Maying for arbutus and trailing evergreens to wind about the pole.
On the same day that Jimmie found the arbutus bloom, Captain Enos came in from fishing with news to tell.
So Anne sat down on the pine-covered sand-heap, and Willie put a wreath of fragrantarbutus on her head.
The arbutusdid not stay in very well, and there was little of it--only bits stuck in here and there.
Ground-pine grows in many places, but earlyarbutus is a whimsical flower, as shy as first love.
I have heard men say: "When I was a boy we used to bring home arbutus by the wagon load from Coy Glen.
The case of trailing arbutus is a particularly sad one.
My tongue burned to tell them that they themselves were the blight that winter-killed the arbutus and robbed me of my right to gather a few sprays.
The open season for morels is in early spring, when arbutus is blossoming, and later.
The groves of ilex and arbutus seemed to tremble with delight, as the long red heralds touched their topmost boughs.
The forests of ilex and arbutus on the Janiculum Hill seemed to tremble with delight as the long red heralds touched their topmost boughs.
All the tombs are much alike, with a single short gallery, on the walls of which are mythological scenes, figures of the prince and of his father, the king, etc.
This temple is an entirely new discovery, made by Prof.
And the trailingarbutus said: "Before any of you came forth I was blooming under the leaves and under the snow.
The gentler slopes were fairly clad with yellow daffodil or narcissus, now just coming into bloom, and above 7000 feet we entered a zone of dwarf-arbutus and ilex-scrub.
How many excursions to the woods does the delicious trailing arbutus give rise to!
Arbutus days these, everybody wants to go to the woods for arbutus; it fairly calls one.
There are arbutusdays in one's calendar, days when the trailing flower fairly calls him to the woods.
Indeed, the season is fairly under way when the trailingarbutus comes.
When the carpels are united, as in the pear, arbutus and chickweed, the pistil becomes syncarpous.
See here," said Cherry, drawing out a spray of arbutus from her basket.
I knew it was the same old story, and that you had just about got to the place where you fell into the brook, and the arbutus went sailing off down stream.
The arbutus is supposed by some to have come from Spain and to have been cultivated in the first instance by the early monks; but the more general belief is that it was indigenous.
Above all the arbutus grow in a tangle of profusion, and on rocks where no earth appears.
The blossoms of thearbutus grow in clusters of white bells, not unlike those of the lily of the valley, in great abundance, and nestling under bunches of bright green leaves.
The western base of this mountain descends into Augher Lake, and close to this spot is the Woodwork Factory, where carved specimens of arbutus and other woods can be obtained in inlaid tables, chess and backgammon sets, card cases, etc.
My little brother and I found two handfuls of arbutus to-day, but it has been in bloom for some time.
It contains glades and lawns, thickets of flowering shrubs and evergreens, with an abundance of arbutus and hollies of great size and beauty, and also oak and ash trees of magnificent foliage and growth.
At Serignan, my last stage, they have lavished their seductions upon me, so plentiful are they on the neighboring hills, wooded with holm oak, arbutus and rosemary.
Presently she tore across the lawn to the shrubbery which screened the lawn and flower gardens from the winding carriage drive sunk many feet below, and disappeared in a thicket of arbutus and Irish yew.
He belonged to her from the day they had hunted arbutus on the hill.
Shyly enough he had assented, and they set out together for the barrens beyond the field, where the arbutus trailed its stars of sweetness under the dusty dead grasses and withered leaves of the old year.
There was a chill in the evening air, but the grass was growing green in sheltered spots, and Jeffrey Miller had found purple-petalled violets and pink arbutus on the hill that day.
The General's carriage was drawn up to the curbstone, and the gray horses were dancing little fancy dances over the asphalt street, when all at once Jimmy thrust a bunch of arbutus under the General's very nose.
So he bought two bunches of arbutus and nothing else.
On Easter Monday morning Jimmy and the Little Mother started out to pick the arbutus and the early violets which Jimmy was to sell Tuesday at his little stall.
Their tobacco consists of the small, roundish, dried leaves of the sakakomi plant (Arbutus uva ursi).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arbutus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
