Likewise each web was outlined in white mist, for the cottonwoodtrees were shedding down their podded product so thickly that across open spaces the slanting lines of the drifting fiber looked like snow.
The cottonwoodleaves were the size of squirrel ears.
The great cottonwood grove that she had seen from the plains was close to the house on the south; it extended east and west for perhaps half a mile, and a grove of firs rose to the north, back of the pasture fence.
The foothills belonging to the mountains that she had seen while approaching the ranchhouse were behind the cottonwood grove.
And finally from a kitchen window he saw them out in the cottonwood back of the house, walking arm in arm, away, deeper into the wood.
The third day I felt very faint, and it struck me that if the under bark of the cottonwood tree would feed horses and they could live on it, that it might also serve to stay my hunger.
Finally, coming to a great cottonwood log, stripped of its bark and shining in the sunlight, he helped her upon it and sat down by her side.
Went to N'Mexico in '31, an' we got our fust buffaler jest tother side o' Cottonwood Creek.
In a pinch green cottonwood sometimes had to be used, but it could be burned only by adding pitch or resin.
Pierre did as he was bidden, making no protest at my rough handling of him, and from that time until we were come to the dead cottonwood neither of us spoke.
A number of islands followed, one of them very symmetrical in shape, with cottonwood trees in the centre, while around the edge ran a fringe of bushes looking almost like a trimmed hedge.
All thecottonwood logs which had finally been carried down the stream after having been deposited on a hundred shores, found here their final resting place.
Willows, alder-thickets, and a few cottonwood trees lined the shores.
In all the open country the river was fringed with large cottonwood trees, alders and willow thickets.
Below the village the canyon narrowed to a hundred yards, with a level bottom, covered with a tangle of wild grape vines, cactus, and cottonwood trees.
Just below the Chimneys Emery caught sight of fish gathered in a deep pool, under the foliage of a cottonwood tree which had fallen into the river.
An abruptly descending canyon banked with small cottonwood trees coming in from the opposite side contains a small stream.
Over on the opposite side was a tall cottonwood tree.
It was trellised with vines, maidenhair ferns, and water-moss making a vivid green background for the golden yellow and burnished copper leaves which still clung to some small cottonwood trees--the only trees we had seen in Marble Canyon.
There were great bottoms that gave evidence of having recently been overflooded, though now covered with cottonwood trees, gorgeous in their autumn foliage.
A great mass of cottonwood trees were also mixed with the débris.
Framed in with the branches of the near-by cottonwood trees, they made a charming picture.
We found some hills, but now the country was all one vast prairie, not a tree in sight till we reached the Platte, there some cottonwood and willow.
Here we found a large camp of the Sioux Indians on the bank of a ravine, on both sides of which were some large cottonwood trees.
There was an old cottonwood tree on bank with marks of an axe on it, but this was all the sign we saw that any one had ever been here before us.
Our hopes and courage were renewed, for we well knew the cottonwood usually grows near flowing water.
Kearney I think on July 3rd, we camped near the river where there was a slough and much cottonwood and willow.
About noon we came to what looked like an excavation, a hole four feet square or more it looked to be, and on the dirt thrown out some cottonwood trees had grown, and one of the largest of these had been cut down sometime before.
Major North was compelled to seek shelter in the river bottoms, and browsed his stock on cottonwoodlimbs to save them.
The large cottonwood posts and the substantial roof of the wide shed in front, are characteristic of the architecture of this people.
Canoes are hollowed from the trunk of a single redwood, pine, fir, sycamore, or cottonwood tree.
Just where the buffalo trail led down the bank of the creek, there were, as in many places near the stream, some scatteredcottonwood and other trees.
The farmers took time then to plant fine cottonwood groves on their places, and to set osage orange hedges along the borders of their fields.
It sat on the top of a round knoll, a fine cottonwood grove behind it.
As the sun of the 13th rose, we drove our animals through Cottonwood creek.
After circling in front of the kisi (a cottonwood bower in which the snakes are kept) the antelope priests line up with their faces fronting from the kisi.
It is a primitive structure, generally built of cottonwood poles, willows and earth.
From that point it flows in a northwesterly direction, through the sands of the Painted Desert, its banks bearing many and large cottonwood trees.
In due time we reachCottonwood Creek, which flows down to the left (west) of Grand View Point.
In addition to the quaint ladders, quainter steps, cut into flat or round trunks of cottonwood trees, are used.
He rode along the Platte River between Cottonwood Springs and old Julesburg and frequently made one hundred miles on a single trip.
At Cottonwood Springs the junction of the North and South branches of the Platte was reached.
Having decided to cross the great river flowing from the east, work at once began on four large cottonwood rafts to be used as ferries.
On the northeast and southwest corners are bastions built of cottonwood timber, ball proof, rising about eight feet above the pickets, twenty feet square and divided into two stories.
The house is of cottonwood logs, with a plank roof covered with earth, chimneys of mud, two windows and doors in the Bourgeois's room, one each in the other rooms.
The Indian boy was then liberated and given these instructions: "Creep along the banks of the creek until you come to the lone cottonwood tree, one and one-half miles distant, then fire six shots from a revolver.
I was in the employ of the Beatty Brothers Cattle Company and was looking up some stray cattle near the head of the Cottonwood Creek, twenty miles north of Colorado City.
The only break in the grey monotone of the landscape was the fewcottonwood trees, planted by optimistic souls around their dwelling places.
As the lightning flashed, Limber watched the flood sweep below, carrying great cottonwood trees like straws, and over-turning immense boulders as if they were marbles.
It spread twenty miles across from the Grahams to the Galiuros, and was broken by groups of cottonwood trees clustering about small ponds of water supplied by windmills.
At the side of the road ahead of him was an uprooted cottonwood tree.
There is no grass, and only scanty cottonwood boughs for them to-night, but I sent out forty men to gather the fruit, called tornia, a variety of the mezquit.
The "boat" was constructed by placing two wagon beds end to end and lashing them to two dry cottonwood logs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cottonwood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
