Thousands were flittering here and there in the dense growth of rusty Indian grass (Andropogon), in the bayberry thickets, in pine woods and in dune thickets.
And later in the fall, we find them in the bayberry patches near the seacoast, or even on the salt marshes or among the sand dunes with the Ipswich and savanna sparrows.
One came within 6 feet of me and calmly ate bayberry after bayberry.
It includes the bayberry or wax myrtle, the sweet gale, and the North American sweet fern, so called.
Genuine bay rum, as brought into commerce from St. Thomas, is said to be prepared by twice distilling a fine quality of rum with the leaves and berries of Myrcia acris or the bayberry tree.
Bayberry oil, or oil of bay leaves, is extracted by distillation from the leaves of Myrcia acris or the bayberry tree.
Use tin candlesticks with bayberry candles for illumination and scatter tiny new patty pans with crinkly edges over the table to hold candies and nuts.
The favors were wee bayberry "waxes" for the sewing basket, each with a bit of a bayberry twig peeping from its top.
Green bayberry dips in the simplest of low tin candlesticks lighted the table and at each cover the place-card was a little outline map of Cape Cod with the situation of the summer camp conspicuously marked.
On the luncheon table homespun runners were used, crossed in the center where a brown wicker basket filled with the gray green of bayberry branches, brightened by the orange of bittersweet, stood on a mat of fragrant pine.
Mixed with paraffine it can be molded into real bayberry candles, ever so much more odorous than those of commerce.
One might indeed, experiment with bayberry wax, and the drippings of plain paraffine candles, before undertaking candle-making to any considerable extent.
Miss Laura set the three candlesticks with the bayberry candles on the floor in the centre of the circle and motioned the girls to sit down.
The way to the village was over a rounded hill a full mile in length, with scattered clusters of bayberry bushes between.
The green bayberry candles grew dim, and in their fragrant smoke the old colonials faded away.
Evidently, by colonial time, twilight was coming on; for now the fragrant bayberry candles were lighted.
Lydia had hardly time to perch herself high on the ledge, before the woodchuck tumbled and scuttled along the short green turf, and was lost among the clumps of juniper and bayberry just beyond.
Every wooded point or sloping field was plainly outlined in the clear water, and there was the pleasant fragrance of pine and bayberry mingled with the soft sea air.
Patches of bayberry bushes grew near the shore, and their fragrant leaves and small gray berries at once attracted Rose's attention.
A little ways off was a clump of scrub pines and bayberrybushes that looked sort of familiar.
A weak solution of alum water may, however, be substituted, provided the bayberry or white oak bark is not at hand.
In recent cases, the part should be washed with an infusion of bayberry bark.
The following injection may be used:-- Powdered bayberry bark, 1 ounce.
Antiseptics may be freely used in the following form:-- Powdered bayberry bark, 2 ounces.
The following may be given as a safe and efficient antiseptic drink:-- Powdered bayberry bark, half a table-spoonful.
A small quantity of bayberry bark may occasionally be blown up the nostrils from a quill.
If the above treatment fails to arrest the disease, add half a tea-spoonful of powdered bayberry bark.
If adhesion of the parts does not take place, apply the following:-- Powdered bayberry bark, 1 ounce.
When the fecal discharges appear more natural and less frequent, a tea of raspberry leaves or bayberry bark will complete the cure.
After cleansing them, sprinkle with powdered bayberry bark, or bloodroot.
If the above preparation is not at hand, substitute bayberry tallow, elder or marshmallow ointment.
Should the parts appear swollen and much inflamed, apply a large slippery elm poultice, on the surface of which sprinkle powdered white oak or bayberry bark.
This may be done by causing the animal to inhale the fumes of pyroligneous acid, and by the internal use of bayberry bark.
Bayberry is called candleberry, too, because of the use our great-grandmothers made of the wax.
The bayberry shrub is also called wax myrtle and it is easy to see why, when you find the berries in October.
Part of the charm of the bayberry dips is in these slight irregularities of shape and size.
A second dip adds a little to the diameter of the candle, the third another layer and so on till your first bayberry dip is finished.
Bayberry dips have come into fashion again and people who make them skilfully find a ready sale for their product.
The dried leaves of sweet fern, sweet clover in blossom, balsam fir, and bayberry make sweet smelling cushions and bags for bureau drawers and couches.
At the top of that bluff, in the rear of a clump of bayberry bushes which shielded them from the gaze of possible watchers at the lighthouse, Nelson Howard and Lulie, walking slowly back and forth, saw it rise.
Behind it and beyond it were rolling hills, brown and bare, except for the scattered clumps of beach-plum and bayberry bushes.
Another moment and the silhouetted figures of Lulie Hallett and Nelson Howard appeared from behind the clump of bayberry bushes and walked onward together, his arm about her waist.
To proceed, first run into the crutcher the tallow, cocoanut oil and bayberry wax when used, and bring the temperature of the mass up to 140deg.
Of Job there was no sign, though from somewhere amid the dunes sounded yelps, screams and the breaking of twigs as the persecuted one fled blindly through the bayberry and beachplum bushes.
When he reached the first clumps of bayberry bushes bordering the deeply rutted road, a joyful cloud of mosquitoes rose and settled about him like a fog.
Melt together, moderately, ten ounces of Bayberry tallow, five ounces of bees' wax, one ounce of mutton tallow.
Dissolve two pounds and a quarter of white potash in five quarts of water, then mix it with ten pounds of myrtle wax, or bayberry tallow.
In undergrowth in pine woods; beaten from shrubbery, from bayberry bushes, from lower branches of gumbo limbo and other trees, from lower bushes and shrubs in jungle, and from low oaks on hills.
Beneath dead leaves in oak woods and beaten from foliage of oak and bayberry (Blatchley, 1920).
This, then, was the bird which I now had under my field-glass, as I lay at full length behind the friendly bayberry bushes.
The bayberrybushes huddled and crouched before it.
The next moment the captain was plunging through the scrub of huckleberry and bayberry bushes, bumping into pines and smashing the branches aside as he ran in the direction of the call.
As I pressed through the budding bayberry bushes to reach some milk-white sprays of shadbush which grew by the water-side, I startled three curfews.
Mrs. Sandpiper had only drawn together a few bayberry leaves, brown and glossy, a little pale green lichen, and a twig or two, and that was a pretty enough house for her.
Then I cautiously looked for the nest, and found it quite close to my feet, near the stem of a stunted bayberry bush.
Then down the Lone Little Path which ran close to the bayberry bush trotted Reddy Fox.
By and by he curled up under a bayberrybush and tried to go to sleep, but he was lonely, oh, so lonely!
They didn't see the willful little Breeze curled up under the bayberry bush, so intent were these two rogues in plotting mischief.
When he reached the bayberry bush Reddy Fox sat down and barked twice.
Yes, they could too," he added, as he heard a female voice calling from beyond the screen of bayberry bushes.
The path to the light-house led through a patch of bayberry bushes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bayberry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ebony; oak; shrub; tree
