Bands of pines marched and mourned along the skyline, and in the midst of glittering laurels cypress trees stood up straight and black as burnt-out torches.
There were black nunlike forms of cypress trees also, which stood grouped together as if looking down thoughtfully from their tall slopes, and old, wide-branching olives were filmy as a gray cloud in the darkness.
On the other side an ill-kept road overgrown with bunches of rough grass wound up the cypress and olive clad hill.
The cypressof the Southern States was then growing in Alaska and other high northern latitudes.
The magnolia, tulip-tree, and swamp cypress are other instances.
ISHAK O Caliph of Islam, is there not vast entertainment for the wise in the shining of the moon, in the dripping of that fountain, and in the shape of that tallcypress that has leapt the wall to shoot her arrow at the stars?
Ere the spring leaves deck the tree, Those locks you now with jewels twine Shall wear this cypress wreath of mine.
She advanced straight to where Lizzie stood, leaning proudly and fondly on the arm of Oranmore, and drawing forth a wreath of mingled cypress and dismal yew, laid it amid the orange blossoms on the head of the bride.
The name has been associated with Tabor: since it exactly recalls the name of the cypress and of Berytus, it would be more prudent, perhaps, to look for the name in that of one of the peaks of the Lebanon near the latter town.
Billy drew himself softly into a group of cypress and held his breath.
The sight of her explained to me many things which I had read in our poets, of cypress forms, tender fawns, and sugar-eating parrots.
Is there but one pair of stag eyes, or one cypress waist, or one full-moon face in the world, that I should so mourn the loss of my cruel one?
It wails among the tombs, and sighs among the cypress groves.
The Common Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens) of the Mediterranean region and the East, of which poets have sung in all ages, has been cultivated in this country for at least three hundred and fifty years.
Lawson's Cypress belongs to that section of Conifers which includes the Junipers and Thuias, and is a representative of the North American Sylva.
The Lawson Cypressproduces a valuable wood, close-grained and strong, yet light.
Neath the drooping willow's shade, Where the mourning cypress grows, The beloved and lost is laid In a quiet, calm repose.
Restless phantoms come and go Crowned with cypress or with bay; Sad or merry, swift or slow, Tread they down the winding way.
White in the moonlight gleams the temple Cutting the purple sky with its pediment; Diamonds and sapphires fall from the fountain; Black are the cypress trees.
Statues gleamed amid the dark foliage of cypress and olive trees, Statues of gods and goddesses, youths and maidens, Horses of ruddy bronze and chariots of beaten brass.
Rose bushes grow untrimmed, untrained and frankly beautiful; while pepper and cypress wave gracefully and poetically suggestive over graves of high and low, historic and unknown.
The lumber used was the pine and cypress for which the region is still noted.
They rode toward the east for a long time until they thought they were beyond the reach of Mexican skirmishing parties, and then they slept in a cypress thicket, Smith and Karnes standing guard by turns.
They rode on until, by a simultaneous impulse, the two reined their horses back into a cypressthicket and waited.
He led them down to cypress swamp, The ground was low and mucky; There stood John Bull in martial pomp, And here stood old Kentucky.
It stands up among the oranges as silent and gray as a pelican, and, so far as we know, has never had one cypress plank added or subtracted since its master was called to France and thrown into the Bastile.
Between these ridges lie the cypress swamps, through whose profound shades the clear, dark, deep bayous creep noiselessly away into the tall grasses of the shaking prairies.
In front, the cypress marks the fatal soil, Above, they leave the warrior's arms to shine.
But I suppose you've just dipped into the 'Cypress Leaves'?
Outside was a cypress branch and water for sprinkling those who came out, as the dead defiled the house and its inmates.
There 'mid glooms of cypress brooding moss And lakes of ebon pearl, With shy wood denizens and mist of boughs He met his God.
Oak chests are usually carved, more or less; cypress chests are sketched over with red-hot iron.
There is, moreover, the spruce chest, made of cypress wood, that was thought to preserve silk and cloth from the moth.
Steadily through the live-oaks and fragrant cypress the bridegroom rides to the wedding.
The Southern cypresstook its darkest tinge around his untimely grave.
They had noticed the gayly dressed Indians on the streets and Ann was delighted to see one poling his way across the New River in one of the cypress trunk canoes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cypress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
