Immediately there was a great rustling all about; in the living green of the roof, in the yellow birches, but most of all in the vast depths of the buttonwood tree.
Thus quietly and comfortably did this excellent family vegetate under the shade of a mighty buttonwood tree, which by little and little grew so great as entirely to overshadow their palace.
The boat was now one hundred feet below the rock, and a stroke or two of Ned's paddle put it in line with the big buttonwood tree on the right shore.
The others followed him, and when they reached the buttonwood tree they saw the tent floating limply on the waves twenty feet beyond the canoes.
Ned waited beside the buttonwood tree until another flash gave him a brief glimpse of the boat far below the island.
The buttonwood was still standing--much to his relief--and the canoes were so far uninjured, though the gale was knocking them together pretty forcibly.
As the vivid light faded away Ned ran back to the buttonwood tree, and watched the blurred shape of the boat as it came down the channel.
After the gale subsided, and the thunder and lightning became less frequent, the boys made occasional trips to the buttonwood tree to see how the canoes were faring, and in this way they soon discovered that the creek was rising.
So rapidly did the flood advance that on the fifth visit they found the roots of the buttonwood submerged, and the yellow tide within a few inches of the trunk.
At half past four, the shadow of the buttonwood will fall into this poor animal's pasture.
When I get back to New York, the first thing I shall do will be to chop down a buttonwood tree in the park, if I can find one, and set up a leach for myself.
Now that the buttonwood is chopped down, what's the next thing to be done?
The buttonwood happens to be exactly suited to the purpose.
Mr. Clews tells us that in 1792 twenty-seven gentlemen met under a buttonwoodtree and formed the association known as Wall Street.
Simon said he was sad indeed after you came away, and that he would stand for hours by the gate looking down the street toward the oldButtonwood for you.
Jennie," said Rosalie, one lovely morning as they were amusing themselves upon the lawn; "would you not like to go to the old Buttonwood and swing?
An axillary bud, concealed under the hollowed base of the leaf-stalk, in Buttonwoodor Plane-tree.
Buttonwood Street, where he spent the first ten years of his life, was a lovely place for a boy to live.
Near akin to white mangrove is Florida buttonwood (Conocarpus erecta) which is highly esteemed as fuel.
The buttonwood leaf in a general way resembles a maple's, being as broad as long, with three main lobes at the top.
In the warmer South our buttonwood is a stalwart, large-limbed tree of colossal trunk, that shelters oaks and maples under its protecting arms.
Our eastern buttonwood is a tree to which, in America, we supply the name sycamore.
The whole front of the mansion was shaded by an enormous buttonwood tree, that looked as if it had been spared from the primeval forest by the axe of a companion of William Penn.
After Mademoiselle Simone left me under the buttonwood tree, I thought of the Artist.
But under an old buttonwood tree, which almost poked its upper branches into the château windows, stood Mademoiselle Simone, waving good-by to another girl who was disappearing around the corner of a street above.
And so it must be written of even Abner, that he had somehow managed to get the trunk of the buttonwood tree, which sheltered Obadiah, between a part at least of his own enormous bulk, and Squire Woodbridge's eye.
Obadiah slipped around to the further side of the buttonwood tree before the tavern.
It is the ragged appearance of the buttonwood that makes it so conspicuous a tree in winter, the white trunk gleaming so distinctly through its shattered habiliments of bark.
Furthermore, at his direction I tied the rather goodly supply of buttonwood into a bundle and swung it to my back.
It was yet night when I opened my eyes, but Smilax had lit a small buttonwoodfire and breakfast was waiting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buttonwood" 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
