On the 19th of October the Union camp at Cedar Creek was surprised and routed by Early, who captured eighteen guns, which were turned on the fugitives as they fled in the direction of Middletown.
Then its form changed and the fishermen who had dared the weather saw that it was a chest made of carved cedar wood and having hinges of chased gold.
He sat beside his father in the shelter of a cedar grove, sorting the larger from the smaller feathers, and bringing wax that the bees had left in the hollow trees.
Signed on behalf of our Monthly Meeting held at Cedar Creek, 8 mo.
By a report from Cedar Creek Preparative Meeting, it appears that Walter Payne has removed to Philadelphia.
The meeting-house stood in a forest of pine and cedar that grew to its very doors, while close by ran the "clear, sweet water" of Cedar Creek.
It consisted of eight hundred acres lying on both sides of Cedar Creek in St. Paul's parish, and was granted to Thomas Stanley, James Stanley and Thomas Stanley, Jr.
Their movements about this time are definitely ascertained by a reference to the Quaker records: Cedar Creek, 8 mo.
John Payne was for many years clerk of Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting, while Mary Payne was from time to time clerk of the women's meeting.
Already in 1769 the members of Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting had been "unanimously agreed that something be done.
The Clark family were Friends, and, after the father's death, the children, with her became members of Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting.
Noko, get cedarbark and make me a line, whilst I make a canoe.
But, Noko," he continued, "what do you intend doing with all that cedar cord on your back?
He was bound, however, to obey the invitation, and went accordingly, taking along a cedar sack, for he had been told to bring one.
He then took off her skin, and assuming this disguise, took the cedar cord on his back, and limped away singing her songs.
She ran immediately and got a cedar cradle; but he said "That is not my cradle.
After this the young man paid the stranger a visit, at her lodge of cedar boughs, and partook of her dish of milk.
The roof also was of ancient cedar beams, thinly covered with concrete, while the interior containing an enormous quantity of panels, or rather boarding, cut from some resinous wood.
From Cimmaron upward stretches one of the steepest grades between Denver and Salt Lake, in order to surmount Squaw Hill in the Cedar range,--the water-shed between the Cimmaron and the lower drainage of the Gunnison.
At Cedar Mountain, understanding that his orders were peremptory, he threw his corps upon double their numbers and fought with all the bravery in the world though with defective tactics.
If he fell short at Cedar Creek in 1864 it was a lapse which may be pardoned in the circumstances.
Many red cedar bushes and beach grass grow on the peninsula of Coitou; the soil is light and sandy, and serves as a receptacle for rabbits.
It is difficult to get at the exact state of things at Cedar Gulch.
One of the claims that was doing best was held by three men who had worked in partnership for the last two years, and who had been among the first to arrive at Cedar Gulch.
In many cases first discoveries proved illusive, but it was not so at Cedar Gulch.
Cedar Gulch was greatly disappointed when English Bill reappeared in his ordinary red shirt, high boots, and miner's hat, and went to work on the following afternoon as if nothing had happened.
William Tunstall returned to Cedar Gulch the very day upon which his mates began to expect him.
He is a queer card, and would look more at home in New York than in Cedar Gulch!
Shingle-makers were also employed, the cedar abounding, as well as the pine.
A roof of cedar shingles was tight, as a matter of course, and what was more, it was lasting.
The girls rode so frequently, every opportunity they had to be away from Cedar Ridge, that their favorite horses were ready for them when they arrived.
In a far corner of the second one, where the work of demolition had not started, half hidden by old boards and trash, stood a cedar chest.
They were graduated at the same time and went to Cedar Ridge College for their freshman year together.
As told in the first volume of this Arden Blake mystery series, entitled The Orchard Secret, almost as soon as the three freshmen signed in at Cedar Ridge things began happening.
Thandu I would come here, I suddenly happened to remember that you Cedar Ridge girls lived out this way, and so I'm afraid I kept the operator rather busy this afternoon giving her your number, Sim.
Since the episode at Cedar Ridge, the friends had begun to call one another by their first names.
Arden and Terry were Sim's guests over the holidays until it should be time to return to Cedar Ridge College, where they were freshmen.
You three monopolized him at Cedar Ridge and then got his thousand dollars' reward.
They passed into the little grove of apple trees, Arden remarking how much some of them resembled those in the strange orchard at Cedar Ridge.
Every house that could procure or manufacture a flag had hung one out, and there were garlands of cedar and the most graceful bamboo vine.
And General Battle, “I never saw troops behave better than ours did at Cedar Creek.
The servants brought boughs of cedar and bright berries, and with them decked the large old parlour, where the shepherds .
Well, those Georgia boys had to camp that night where Nature hadn’t flung any wood—neither Cedar of Lebanon nor darned pawpaw bush!
The stars rimmed it, and a low whispering wind went from cedar covert to sweet-gum copse, from pine to oak, from dogwood to judas-tree.
Swaths of earth, black copses of cedar and gum, divided one congregation from another.
Before this, on the day ofCedar Creek, from dawn to dusk, he had hardly once been afraid.
With Kershaw and with Rosser’s small reinforcement of cavalry, he could bring into the field a force little more than a third the size of the blue army now lined up behind Cedar Creek.
His father was buried there, on the farm itself, in a grave overgrown with raspberry bushes, and with a wooden headstone encompassed by a square of cedar rails, and slept as many another pioneer of Cahoga is sleeping.
Never since then has the smoke of an engine been welcome, but often, in those times when the nights were "unruly," would the burning red cedar load the air with a suspicion of sweet incense that was really grateful.
Thy doughnuts of orthodox twist, and tinted like cedar wood, yet heap the bright tin pans of memory.
To-day, a whiff ofcedar will carry you faster and farther than a swift engine.
Possibly it was associated with the perfume of the cedar bows of boyhood, when the flight of one's own arrow, sped from the springing wood, was grander than any flight of eloquence the archer has heard since.
The rest of my division was aligned facing west, along the edge of a cedar thicket, the rear rank backed up on the right flank of Roberts, with Houghtaling's battery in the angle.
In my immediate front he appeared to be established in strong force in a dense cedar wood, just beyond an open valley, which varied from two hundred to four hundred yards in width, the cedars extending the entire length of the valley.
My position was strong, however, located in the edge of a dense cedar thicket and commanding a slight depression of open ground that lay in my front.
Why, there are hundreds racing about in the cedar swamps near this place, and you can have as many as you want.
For now he was in a wet cedar swamp, the wind blowing ten times worse than ever, and his supper and sleep had done him little good, for they were all a delusion.
And yet a little time he was dashed against the rocks, and then anon was thrown high and dry on the shore, but dead as a seven-year-old cedar cone.
The planting of the cedar by Earthquake possibly indicates the storms by which seeds are blown afar.
Later in the fall I passed through Cedar Canyon, the gorge by which the Grand leaves the park.
Then we ride through a cedar forest up a long ascent, until we come to cliffs of columnar basalt.
After supper we put some cedar boughs on the fire; the dusky villagers sit around, and we have a smoke and a talk.
He stood stroking her hair, with her face laying warm and close against him, and over her head he stared into the thickening darkness of the spruce and cedar copses.
It was almost dark when he completed the spruce and cedar lean-to for Joanne.
Notice how prickly and needlelike on all sides these cedar branches are.
And for a time after that, as he sat in the gloom, John Aldous knew that Joanne was sobbing like a little child in the spruce and cedar shelter he had built for her.
Besides, if the stranger were the author of the paper, he certainly would not choose a sheet of water like Cedar Lake to perform the last offices for him, in case he seriously meditated taking unceremonious leave of life and its accidents.
The thick cedar glades in central Kentucky were a favorite resort for them in their passage, and at night countless numbers roosted in the dark evergreen branches.
After supper on that same day, Owen left the house, and with a quick step followed a path which led over the hills through a large cedar grove.
But when Olie came from putting in his team I was fast asleep on a luxurious divan made of a rather smelly steer-hide stretched across two slim cedar-trees on four little cedar legs, with a bag full of pine needles at the head.
At any rate my husband, out of his vast knowledge of me, says I have the swamp-cedar trick of flaring up into sudden and explosive attractiveness.
Finally, in order to give Moses an illustration of His modesty, God descended from the exalted heavens and spake to him from a lowly thorn-bush instead of the summit of a lofty mountain or the top of a statelycedar tree.
For centuries these cedar trees remained in the possession of his descendants; they carried them with them when they left Egypt, and they used them in building the Tabernacle.
Chapter 31 represents Christendom as a cedar tree which is cut down.
The typical temple was built, in part, of cedar and fir timbers from Lebanon; but they had to be hewn and finished before they could be used.
Behold, the Assyrian was a cedarin Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
The typical temple was built, in part, of cedar and fir timber cut from Mt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cedar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
