They passed through the house and down toward the spring house under the maple and basswood trees at the back, walking between rows of currant bushes where the fruit hung red.
The place where he sat was well screened from the road by a hugebasswood tree, which spread great limbs quite across the stream, and swept both its banks with drooping branches and broad leaves.
This was Harry King's thought as he strolled on and seated himself again under the basswood tree by the meadow brook, and took from his pocket the worn scrap of paper the wind had brought him and read it again.
He took them both in the unpainted pine row-boat which belonged to nobody in particular, and he rowed away across the little lake, looking at the grassy-green shores on the one side, and at the basswoodtrees that shadowed the other.
You can often hear the bees in a basswood tree before the tree itself is in view in the forest.
More frequently, the forest was of a fresher growth; and the restless leaves of young maples and basswood shook down spots of sunlight on the marching columns.
If it rained, a shed of elm or basswood bark was the ready work of an hour, a pile of evergreen boughs formed a bed, and the saddle or the knapsack a pillow.
I have already explained to Lawrence and Basswood that it is a mistake, and that the widow will be paid all that is due her.
Compare an apple tree with an elm, an elm with a maple, a basswood with a pine, a poplar with a beech, a pear tree with a peach tree.
Basswood should be used for its construction; pine is not at all suitable on account of the resin in it.
The stone for the Milwaukee court house was taken from the quarries on Basswood island.
In April and May of 1839, Boyce rafted his logs with poles and ropes made of basswood strings.
Oak is the best wood for the purpose, although hickory, basswood or ash will do excellently.
He sought and found a great Basswood with some gray hairs caught in the bark.
They scanned the big Basswoodwithout getting sight of their quarry.
When he got to the great Basswood he felt lost in the green mass, but the boys below carried torches so as to shed light on each part in turn.
He would look out through the thick Hemlock tops, the blots of Basswood green or the criss-cross Butternut leafage and say: "My own, my own.
If soft wood, such as basswoodor pine was used, it may be treated by burning with the pyrography outfit.
Basswood or butternut, or even pine, will do as well as the more expensive woods.
Fruit of basswood as a sailboat, and a few others as adapted to the water .
Simplicity and economy were the main features of the last sad rites; the nearest carpenter was furnished with a rough estimate of the proportions of the deceased, and, with plane and saw, he soon shaped a coffin out of basswood boards.
Such a stigma attached to this particular basswood tree that it was adopted and used for years as a public whipping-post.
He says that Algonquin is more of a Michael Angelo in basswood than anywhere else, and puts a wet blanket on Sciataca's love for Algonquin.
The bobolink sits on the basswood vines, and the thrush in the gooseberry tree is as melodious as a hired man.
We would cut the basswood chunks about a foot long as it was a very straight wood, soft and wonderful to split for kindling.
There were pine, oak, maple, beech, basswood and a very hard wood.
We had a basswood tree with a nest of honey Bees in a hole about 10 feet up the trunk.
He hammers away at a decaying basswood and the chips which fall are an inch and a half long.
One decaying basswood found recently was eighteen inches in diameter and the woodpeckers had drilled big holes clear through it.
The basswood puts its seeds into little hollow wooden balls, then makes a sail out of a leaf and sets it at just the right angle to balance the seeds and catch the breeze.
As the anemometer revolved, centrifugal force sent the air-ships out as far as the basswood strips would allow.
This was accomplished by tacking on two strips of 1/8-inch basswood on each side, and the bottom as shown in Fig.
This made a very serviceable box, the material being basswood 3/16 of an inch thick.
If soft woods are used, red gum and basswood make an agreeable contrast in colour.
Basswood is not a very satisfactory wood to polish in its natural colour, however.
These were now fastened at the ends of the arms of the anemometer by attaching two strips of basswood to each ship by wires.
A simple picture frame with carving] While Harry was practising on these simple borders Ralph made the basswood photograph frame shown in Fig.
Fourth, these separate pieces were traced on 1/8-inch basswoodwith the grain of the wood running the long way of the piece, wherever it was possible.
Basswood is very easily soiled by handling and a coat of white shellac should be applied after the burning is finished.
Ralph suggested that they begin to decorate some of the things they had already made, and the little basswood box shown in Fig.
A block of 1/4-inch basswood 3/4 inch square is fastened to the dash-board.
Basswood Junction, to show 'em who was their spontaneous choice.
This, our great and glorious et cetera; Basswood Junction has four magnificent factories, and is the centre of three great trunk lines of railroad which radiate et cetera; it is destined to be a great commercial et cetera.
And I want to say to you that after all's said and done, Princeton hasn't got Basswood Junction skinned no ways permanent.
Jimmy turns to his card cabinet, and says he: 'Prexie, this is Basswood Junction.
The next particular Basswood Junction happened to be a Democratic minin' town, instead of a Republican agricultural community.
That particular Basswood Junction was just startin' a daily, the kind the real-estate men and the local congressman have to support or go out of the business.
Then I didn't know whether to have contempt for us fools who live and endure the eternal folly, or whether I ought to pity Basswood Junction and Princeton, because life is all so awfully hard and hopeless.
Mr. Whitredge felt in his pocket for a match, struck it, and lighted the single jet over the basswood table.
The Honourable Hilary pointed at the basswood table.
He sits down wearily at the basswood table, and scarcely hears the familiar sounds without, which indicate that the convention of conventions has begun.
It was characteristic of Cynthia not to have mentioned the subject which was agitating her mind until they were seated on opposite sides of the basswood table.
Basswood wishes to call particular attention to the Digbiana listed below.
Basswood has taken pains to gather a stock of first editions and presentation copies which is absolutely unique.
Mr. Basswood was evidently a man of some literary discretion.
That card was intended as a decoy, to lure Digby away from his room, so that Basswood could leave the poisoned tobacco for him.
Up to the present time, as far as I know, Basswood remains the only bookseller who has ever been electrocuted.
Good heavens," I said to Dulcet, "friend Basswood is a real collector.
If, instead of oak, a piece of poplar orbasswood (see Fig.
These same peculiarities enable oak to take a better finish than basswood or coarse-grained pine.
I bed my cows with dry basswood sawdust, saving all the liquid manure, keeping the cows clean, and the stable odors down to a tolerable degree.
I would say it is just lovely to bed cows with dry basswood sawdust.
In my locality the basswood and box elders are infested with a scale-like substance that looks like cotton.
Five such supers with brood may be piled on top of one such colony, and they will be the strongest in the yard for storing extracted honey during the basswood or other late honey flow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "basswood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ebony; oak; tree; wood
