On the far bank among the aspen trees, a company of horsemen waited, spears erect, helmets glimmering, the wind tossing the dark manes of their steeds.
There was not a sound save the muffled beat of horses' hoofs, as they turned and rode away among the trunks of the aspen trees.
The mere was scarred with lines of foam and the aspen boughs glittered and clashed in the moonlight.
He said that the inner bark of the aspen (Populus tremuloides) was good for sore eyes; and so with various other plants, proving himself as good as his word.
The aspen (Populus tremuloides) was very common on burnt grounds.
When he was near the aspen trees which he knew Paddy was planning to cut, he crept forward very slowly and carefully.
Very early one morning Paddy the Beaver heard Sammy Jay making a terrible fuss over in the aspen trees on the edge of the pond Paddy had made in the Green Forest.
He had just cut down a good- sized aspen tree and now he was gnawing it into short lengths to put in his food pile in the pond.
Sammy, "Aren't you going to cut the rest of those aspen trees?
Presently he reached a place where he could see the aspen trees, and there, sure enough, was Paddy, sitting up on his hind legs and hard at work cutting another tree.
But he likes theaspen so much better that he will work very hard to get it.
Why a little water-path led right up to the aspen trees, and there, at the end of the little water-path, was Paddy the Beaver hard at work.
He chose a low, open place deep in the Green Forest, around the edge of which grew many young aspen trees, the bark of which is his favorite food.
Sure that he was quite safe, Paddy swam across to the place where the aspen trees grew, and waddled out on the shore.
After a while he went over to his storehouse, which, you know, was nothing but a great pile of aspenlogs and branches in his pond close by his house.
Paddy had finished his canal, and a beautiful canal it was, leading straight from his pond up to the aspen trees.
Then he stopped and gazed over at the place where Paddy had been cutting aspen trees for food.
He straightway forgot all the mean things he had said to Paddy when he first saw him--how he had called him a thief because he had cut the aspen trees he needed.
For three nights Old Man Coyote had stolen up through the green Forest with the coming of the Black Shadows and had hidden among the aspen trees where Paddy the Beaver cut his food, and for three nights Paddy had failed to come ashore.
Now, I should say from the sounds that Sammy has discovered Reddy Fox trying to steal up on someone over where my aspen trees are growing.
Paddy sat looking thoughtfully at the aspen trees he would have to cut to complete his store of food for the winter.
So stay," she said, and her voice quivered like an aspen leaf.
In the cool recesses of the firs at the head of Fir-Tree Gulf a dove was cooing, and a great aspen rustled gently.
But when he came to pull at the alder branches, those of any size were too tough; the aspen were too high up; the firs too small.
With the string he hauled the catamaran gently back, but it would not come straight; it slipped sideways (like the boomerang in the air), and came ashore under the aspen bough.
Bevis climbed over the rails, picked an aspen leaf, and put it under the fly, which thus on a raft, and tossed up and down as Mark dived, was floated slowly by the undulations to the strand.
The blood rushed in a crimson flood to his flabby face, he clenched his fists and trembled like an aspen with the strain.
Then we all sat silent for a long time, several minutes, and Nessa was trembling like an aspen leaf.
Still in the dark and tangled wood, Still doth the Aspen quiver.
The wood of theaspen tree was often used for making staves on account of its toughness.
Joe pulled down his horse to a slow walk as he passed, and saw the little canals the beavers had made, leading from the bed of the stream back into the willow and aspen swamp.
Bill" turned as white as the proverbial sheet and trembled like the aspen of similar associations.
Bill's" lower jaw dropped, and there was some more aspen trembling in his frame.
Among the many legends accounting for the peculiarity of the aspen there is one, preserved in Germany, which attributes it to the action of this tree when the Holy Family entered the dense forest in which it stood (448.
His words, the Aspen began to tremble through all her leaves, and has not ceased to tremble to this day.
She could not sleep; her heart beat almost to suffocation, and she trembled like an aspen leaf.
Bangs's face was ashen, and he was trembling like an aspen leaf.
Woodmen always call the aspen the 'asp,' dropping the termination.
But the true aspenhas a smooth bark, while that of the black poplar is scored or rough.
The black poplars are so much like the aspen as to be easily mistaken, especially as their leaves rustle in the same way.
The inner recesses form an almost impenetrable mass of young boles of shivering aspen and scented balm.
Aspen and Balm predominate, though there is some ash and oak left here and there, with a conifer as the rarest treat for the lover of trees.
Though the place was solitary as a dry planet, her aspen fancy peopled it with life.
Strong as he was, his hands shook like aspen leaves; his lips were parted, and his eyes wide with the shadow of the night.
Syr ye taught me a medicin but late to make my domme wyfe to speake, byddynge me lay an aspen leafe vnder her toung when she sleapte, and I layde three Aspen leaves there.
Mrs. Fairfax had fallen back, trembling like an aspen leaf.
He reached into the toolbox, and bringing forth the jack, affixed the chains, forgetting his usually cheery whistle, forgetting even to take notice when an investigative jay scrambled out upon a dead aspen branch and chattered at him.
The road had become rougher, hillier, and Houston recognized the stream and the aspen groves which fringed the highway leading to Ba'tiste's cabin.
Spruce, pine, and aspen occur at higher elevations and oaks, thorny shrubs, and grasslands are present lower down.
This and its weeping variety bear their catkins in February, but closely following it, and perhaps more ornamental, is the American Aspen (P.
He wandered through the mountain forests, and at length came upon a great aspen, and was just going to cut it down, when the aspen asked him what he wanted.
So Sampsa left the aspen and searched still further, until he came to a pine-tree that was even taller than the aspen was.
From the elevation we had reached we could survey the whole country; and it may easily be conceived with what admiration we gazed upon the calm majestic river, and on its multitude of islands, fringed with aspen and alder.
