Something in the woodsy greenness of the quiet spot made it seem like home to me--the log house among the elms and cottonwoods at the fort.
Nest: Nests of Lucy's warblers are usually located in tree cavities or under loose bark in willows, cottonwoods and mesquite.
This titmouse also uses areas along streams where cottonwoodsare present (Phillips et al.
Toward the river the cottonwoodswere making a cool, shady way, delightfully refreshing in this summer sunshine.
Overhead the big cottonwoods whispered softly in the starlight, and a solitary catbird sang its lonely night song.
And then, seemingly very far off, but really only a few steps distant, the naked branches of cottonwoods appeared in the thick, driving snow, and I could hear the wind crying through them.
While eating our stew of crow and hawk, we could see willows alders and big sage brush around and we had noticed what seemed to be cottonwoods farther down the cañon, and green trees on the slope of the mountain.
In almost complete despair Field spent the night beside a fire under one of those large cottonwoods which I have no doubt you will remember even though it is now more than forty years since you saw them.
Such are the easterncottonwoods with their heart-shaped leaves, the evergreen live oaks and smooth sycamores, the sweet-smelling honey locust and eucalyptus trees, and that fine green carpet of Bermuda grass.
Illustration: Actual size] Since the coming of the park, cottonwoods have returned to the floodplain, especially at Castolon.
Farmers cleared the bottomland to plant cotton and grains, cut down the lanceleaf cottonwoods for roofbeams, dredged ponds and ditches, and enclosed springs.
Dozens of eastern cottonwoodshave died in recent years.
A stately colonnade of eastern cottonwoods lures ladderback woodpeckers and yellow-bellied sapsuckers to Cottonwood Campground.
At first daylight four or five redheaded turkey vultures stir in thecottonwoods where they have spent the night.
More than 100 lanceleaf cottonwoodsmay be seen along the road that leads to Santa Elena, Mexico.
All the cottonwoods up and down the creek fell to construction and hungry mine furnaces and the virgin earth turned bottom up beneath the plow and grubbing hoe.
We pitched camp in a clump of cottonwoodsand made flapjacks; after which the Kid and I, taking our blankets and the rifle, set out to explore Hell Creek.
Day came--cloudy and cold--blown over the wilderness by a wind that made the cottonwoods above us groan and pop.
Let Homer Webb know that if dad or Sanders finds these men, the cottonwoodswill be bearing a new kind of fruit.
First he led the exhausted horse back to a clump of young cottonwoods and tied it safely.
It was a prosperous little stretch of meadow, cleared into the cottonwoods and reclaiming part of the marshland--all very rich soil, as one could see at a glance.
There were no cottonwoods, though the cottonwoods will follow a stream for more than a mile above sea level.
The Mother of Cottonwoods towered above the lesser trees, plain to the sight.
Both gazed fixedly across the mesa to where the cottonwoods could be seen.
In that immensity of mountain and mesa the house looked like a brick of sun-baked mud, the corral like a child's device of straws, the threecottonwoods like three twigs stuck in the earth.
Next minute the big car had passed Lee's and was moving up the roadway between the rows of cottonwoods toward the house.
I want them to grow of themselves, likecottonwoods and willows.
You will be among the cottonwoodsand the sandbar willows.
There it was sunset and he slept in the thick willows and cottonwoods by the river bank: it was a good place to sleep, with much brush.
Today Tubac is an unpretentious little adobe hamlet sprawling about a gravelly, sunny knoll, and looking across the Santa Cruz River with its fringe of billowycottonwoods to the blue line of the Santa Rita and San Gaetano ranges.
The name was probably given from cottonwoods growing near by.
It was midnight before they rode into the cottonwoods of Lone Tree Spring.
He found the horse in the cottonwoods as Pasquale had promised.
He was waiting among the cottonwoods there--he and two Mexicans.
They ate, lounged in such shade as the cottonwoods offered from the quivering heat, and waited till mid-afternoon.
Toward morning he stopped at a sand-wash where three or four dusty cottonwoods relieved the vegetation of mesquite, palo verde, and cacti.
Through the cottonwoods they crept toward the rear of the two-story house where Pasquale lived and Ruth was held prisoner.
From a near grove of cottonwoodshalf a dozen men in chaps came running.
And, as its farther edge braided the cottonwoods in the wind-break and uprooted the stunted apple-trees, its near edge came close to the stone-pile with a mighty sucking breath.
Now, as he stood in the cottonwoods beside his mother, he shook his head uneasily as if unpleasant memories were stirring in his baby brain, and stamped crossly as the dogs came up, their tongues out with their hot pursuit.
When she passed through the cottonwoods to the barley-field beyond, the ground, still soaked from the recent rain, became so soft that the sorrel sank to his knees at every step.
It was while the hurricane was thus raging over the farm-house, and when nothing but a bit of south roof and the tops of the cottonwoodsshowed that a habitation was there, that the stork alighted.
Away they went, the colt in the lead and the pinto after, until they reached the bunch of cottonwoods far up the stream where the yanging wild geese had their nests.
So swiftly did it scud that, before the quartet behind realized it, the horses had pressed up the hill beside the burning cottonwoods and halted before the school-house.
Sure enough, beyond the tall cottonwoods that formed the wind-break to the north of the house were the figures of a dozen mounted men, silhouetted against the sky.
Her eyes went back to the window, but a mist was over them now, and she could not see the square of cottonwoods and barley framed by the sash.
The cottonwoods had laid down a path of gold for me to walk upon, but, fortunately, it had rained the night before and the leaves were still damp and so did not rustle to my tread.
The sycamores and cottonwoods that bordered our path had lost more than half their leaves, and the soft haze of the late November sun filtering through flecked mademoiselle with pale gold.
A giant form leaped out from the cottonwoodsupon the kneeling man.
It is dark in the cottonwoods so I could not see, but his heart was beating all right when I found him.
On one side of them rose the big mountain; on the other side lofty crumbling cliffs protected them from the raw west winds, while back of them the ground rose in a gradual slope, densely covered by cottonwoods and spruces.
The view gave upon the avenue of cottonwoods and the circular carriage approach.
He is with me--waiting down in the cottonwoods at the fork.
Of course I knew the Cache was watched and he wouldn't be there long, so Ed asked me to stay in the cottonwoods and watch the creek for him.
Only we're going to run 'em over to those cottonwoods and drive the horses out from under 'em.
The train was on time, and just as the sun was setting behind the fringe of cottonwoods along Bean Blossom Creek they stopped at the little station, and started to walk out to the farm.
It was ticklish business crossing the current, but they succeeded in reaching the island, which extended a foot or more above the level of the flood, and was covered with a thicket of willows and cottonwoods about the size of hoe-handles.
Fox squirrels have been seen climbing in cottonwoods occasionally.
Certain large isolated cottonwoods along creeks were favorite stopping places of blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata) which, on trips from one wooded hillside to another, usually perched briefly in the tops of these tall trees.
A few cottonwoods are present at well scattered points on slopes and hilltops, usually in forest edge situations or in woodland where other trees are sparse.
Downy woodpeckers (Dendrocopos pubescens) also have been noticed foraging in cottonwoodson many occasions.
Along the smaller creek large cottonwoods are also present but they are more widely spaced.
The larger of the two creeks on the Reservation is lined with mature cottonwoods along the lower part of its course.
Presently they recognized Marshal Thornton and at once opened fire on him, eight of them, from behind the little grove of cottonwoods in which they were camped.
The stream hugged the east wall of the cañon, where it had carved out a tortuous bed perhaps one hundred and fifty yards wide, and so deep below the bench we occupied that only the tops of tall cottonwoods were visible from the thicket.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cottonwoods" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
