FN-2] This painful incident aroused as warm a burst of indignation among the British officers, as the affair of the Cedars had done among the Americans.
The affair of the Cedars excited the strongest feelings of indignation, not only in Congress and among the people, but in the army.
The battle of the Cedars was fought on the 20th of May, and these resolutions were passed on the 25th--before the news, in those days, could possibly have reached Philadelphia.
On the appearance of the enemy before the American works, Colonel Bedell repaired immediately to Montreal for assistance, leaving the Cedars in charge of Major Butterfield.
The conduct of Major Butterfield at the Cedars was likewise severely denounced in Congress, and his capitulation pronounced by resolution "a shameful surrender.
The fact of his having borne a part in the battle of the Cedars seems, moreover, not to have been known in the Mohawk Valley, since they were yet uncertain whether it was his intention to raise the hatchet in the contest or not.
Our misfortunes at the Cedars were occasioned, as it is said, entirely by their base and cowardly behavior, and cannot be ascribed to any other cause.
I told Doctor Crimmins myself last night an' I guess he's been up to The Cedarsby this time.
The struggle lasted three days, three days during which he sedulously avoided The Cedars and tramped dozens of miles with Zenas Third in search of fish--and very frequently lost his bait because his thoughts were busy elsewhere.
If the gentleman who inadvertently called at The Cedars on Tuesday morning will return, no questions will be asked and all will be forgiven.
I haven't seen our good friends at The Cedarssince yesterday.
The parlor at The Cedarswas very different from that in the Craig cottage.
And then there was the anxious week when Zephania had a bad sore throat that looked for awhile like diphtheria, and Wade prepared his own breakfasts and lunches and dined alternately at The Cedars and with Doctor Crimmins.
The next morning Eve was out under the cedars when the Doctor came marching down the street, carrying his bag and swinging his cane, his lips moving a little with the thoughts that came to him.
After I supposed them to be a failure, I set out an arbor vitae hedge directly across the raspberry bed, making some effort to destroy the canes so that the little cedars might grow.
Sometimes, when they were in the way of the cedars they were hoed out.
Hence I am led to believe that there was a native variety among the plants the professor obtained from the East, or that a seed of a native was dropped among the cedarsby a bird, or brought thither in the roots of the cedars.
If any of them bore berries, the fowls doubtless destroyed them, or the children ate them before they ripened, until the cedars got so high as to give them protection.
But it was all so novel, and the woods smelled so of the pines and cedars and larches--no wonder that spot had been given the name Tamarack Hills.
Away to the north, over a rough and difficult road, are the famous Cedars of Lebanon.
Back of it is the famous Mount Lebanon, from which were brought the cedars used in the construction of the Temple at Jerusalem; the sides of the mountain are steep, but not precipitous, and the summit is frequently covered with clouds.
Verse: "I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof.
Verse: "The trees of the Lord are full of sap: and the cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted.
Where there were no birch trees, great cedars were cut or burned down and made into canoes, for traveling by water was much easier than over rocky ground or through dense forests.
Certain cedars and cypresses like swampy places where no other trees will grow.
The size of the cedars of Lebanon is alluded to in the Psalmist's expression, "the cedars of the Lord.
And I don't want you over there at Dark Cedars alone--or only with Elsie.
Half an hour later Mrs. Gay drove the two adventurers over to Dark Cedars and let them out at the hedge.
Both girls felt hot and sticky when they finally mounted the porch steps at Dark Cedars and pulled the old-fashioned knocker on the wooden door.
Somebody else took it, I'm sure--and that somebody keeps coming back to Dark Cedars to get something else.
With Silky in the lead, Mr. Gay and Mary Louise followed the path behind Dark Cedars which led directly into Cooper's woods.
I wouldn't spend another night at Dark Cedars for all the necklaces in the world!
Mrs. Gay heartily approved of the plan, for she felt that both her daughter and Elsie needed a little diversion, and so for the time being the adventure at Dark Cedars was completely forgotten.
Maybe now Dark Cedars will be a more peaceful place to live.
Accustomed as she was to the street lights of Riverside, the darkness was thick and strange, for the denseness of the trees about Dark Cedars shut out even the sky, with its stars, from the windows.
I'm staying at Dark Cedars now, and there are strange things going on there.
The girls were returning from their second visit that day to Dark Cedars and were walking as fast as they could towards home.
Suppose, as you are inclined to believe, she was at Dark Cedars when you arrived last night, and suppose she did hide in the closet until she thought you were asleep.
Dark Cedars was gloomy enough without a storm to make it seem worse.
The girls were some distance beyond the hedge of Dark Cedars when Mary Louise asked her companion her reason for leaving.
The house, a large drab plaster building, was barely visible through the dark cedars that surrounded it on all sides.
And down the long avenues of cedars which ran from the gate to the home, I met the fighting ghosts of my ancestors.
Above it the grass and cedars grew down to the bare rocks, and then they stopped short, for no soil was there.
One would not look in the Swiss mountains for the cherries of the valley, nor for the cedars of Lebanon in the rich loam of the rivers.
The blue grass is the aristocrat, who sits only at the richest tables, with cedars to wait on him, refreshed with the waters of a thousand hills.
The pointed cedars stand about like sentinels, stiff enough save where their sensitive tops lean delicately away from the wind.
The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send himcedars to build him an house to dwell therein, even so deal with me.
Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars: yea, the Lord shall break the cedars of Libanus.
I have seen the wicked highly exalted, and lifted ukp like the cedars of Libanus.
The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the cedars of God.
For the roof he caused cedars of Lebanon to be felled.
As he sat under the cedars and listened to the buzzing of the flies that frequented the shade, the unending sound grew to be an assurance of earthly immortality.
He found his way to his old bench under thecedars and sat there for a while.
The cedars stood black in the dim moonlight, and the icy coating of their boughs rattled like candelabra.
Yellow pines, nut pines, firs and cedars stand in dense forests on the Uintah Mountains, and clinging to moving rocks they have come down the walls to the water's edge between Flaming Gorge and Echo Park.
We'd come into northern New Jersey at Oakland, so no wonder we saw splendid cedars, for New Jersey has lots of cedars and heaps of history, and is proud of both.
The cedars crowning the hills could be only American cedars.
Plenty of cedars and piñons grew about, and we soon had a fire that compensated for the meagre ones of the preceding nights.
Rather than stay there all night they made a raft of two little dead cedars and tying their shoes upon it, they waited for the moon to rise.
There was an abundance of wood for the camp, but Mac and I concluded we wanted more warmth and light, so we set fire to two large cedars that stood alone, and they made a superb illumination, burning all night.
For ourselves we cut twigs from the green cedars and made a thick mattress on the snow with them.
Not wishing to dally here, I spurred on to overtake my party, but in trying a short cut I passed beyond them, as they had by that time halted in some cedars for lunch.
We persuaded the old man also to call them, and he stepped out from the cedars which grew on the point and spoke a loud sentence.
There were box-elder and cottonwood trees here and there, and cedars up the cliffs wherever they could find a footing.
We were camped on the right bank of the Yampa as the left was a bottom land covered with cedars and we preferred higher ground.
The cedars and piñons all looked alike in the twilight shades, and as I went on and on the men behind began to lose faith and made joking remarks about my mental status.
Cedars and piñons now grew about us, so that we were assured of a good fire.
Our Camp 44 was in a little valley about a quarter of a mile wide, the bottom covered with cedars and greasewood.
A bright fire blazed cheerfully, the dense cedarsbroke the wind, and everybody felt that it was a fine camp.
The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedar-trees: yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Libanus.
The trees of the Lord also are full of sap: even the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted; 17 Wherein the birds make their nests: and the fir-trees are a dwelling for the stork.
The very shadows seemed bright, so bright were the lines of light between them, where the tall pointed cedars were casting their mantle on the grass.
The old man presently stepped aside to a young sapling oak, which having outgrown its strength bent its slim altitude in a beautiful parabolic curve athwart the sturdy stems of cedars and yellow pines which lined the path.
It was twilight now; the air was full of the perfume of cedars and pines, -- the clear white light shone in the west yet.
But she broke from the path then, and took up the quest in earnest, leading her panting followers over rocks and moss-beds and fallen cedars and tangled vines and undergrowth, which in many places hindered their way.
The cedars had climbed round to the top and went on again above the ledge, more mingled there with deciduous trees, and losing the exceeding beauty of their supremacy in the valley.
The distant trees of the woodland shewed in round distinct masses of foliage, through such an atmosphere; the rocky shore edge cut sharp against the water; the nearer cedars around the home valley seemed to tell their individual leaves.
Winthrop said nothing, but a repetition of those leisurely strokes brought the boat swiftly past the cedars and rocks of Shahweetah's shore and then out to the middle of the river, gradually drawing nearer to the other side.
The cedars had it, and the roses, and the eglantine, under Summer's rule.
For at half-past five the little station, forlorn all day long in the midst of the twisted cedars that grew out of the heated sand, assumed an air of gayety and animation.
A few of the inevitable torturedcedars were around it.
The trail led down under cedars that fringed a precipice.
Presently he went off into the cedars to find Nagger and the mustang that he used to carry a pack.
When Slone reached the cedars the sun was low down in the west.
Slone worked out of the cedars to what appeared a grassy plateau inclosed by the great green and white slope with its yellow wall overhanging, and distant mesas and cliffs.
A mile or more ahead of him rose a gray cliff with breaks in it and a line of dark cedars or piñons on the level rims.
The night wind had risen, moaning through the gnarled, stunted cedars near by, and it blew the fragrant wood smoke into the faces of the two hunters, who seemed too tired to move.
Cedars and piñons had been left behind, and he had met with no silver spruces after leaving camp.
One of the three dragged branches of dead cedarsand replenished the fire.
Here cedars and piñons grew thickly enough to make a forest.
The gap in the rim rock widened to a slope thickly grown over with cedars and piñons and manzanita.
Soon he was entering a forest where cedars and piñons and pines began to grow thickly.
The history of the combat of those dark cedars will never be known," wrote the only historian who has as yet truly written of Stone River, Mr. W.
The virtue of such a soul has roots deeper than the cedars of Lebanon, which defy the winds and the storms.
The plant on which the spikenard grows does not grow up high like the cedars of Lebanon.
Our arms are not long enough to reach to the cedars of Lebanon--let us then be content with the hyssop that grows in the valleys.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cedars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
