The hill guides usually employ large splinters cut from the Deodar cedar.
The slopes were nearly bare, a few trees of the deodar and Gerard's pine only occurring occasionally.
On leaving Miru the road at first ascended gradually through a pretty wood of deodar and Gerard's pine.
The alpine oak and spruce gave place to horse-chesnut, sycamore, and holly-leaved oak, withdeodar and spruce.
At the commencement of the day's march, the road receded from the Sutlej into a deep mountain bay, densely wooded with deodar and pine (Pinus excelsa).
Immediately afterwards another long ascent commenced, at first steep and bare, with a western exposure, then more gradual through an open wood of deodar and Pinus excelsa.
The pines were principally Pinus excelsa; silver fir and spruce also occurred, but I saw no deodar nor Gerard's pine.
The forest at the base of this ascent was principally composed of deodar and Gerard's pine.
It has also a marked physical signification, forming the absolute limit of the deodar and Gerard's pine; and indeed, if we except the juniper, of all tree vegetation.
Lower down, deodar and Abies Smithiana also appeared, and on arriving in the valley, the forest gave place to cultivated fields, with only a few oak-trees scattered among them.
But before the words were out, the upper half of a great deodar crashed down upon the narrow path, and a long branch struck the Galloway's shoulder with tremendous force.
From the Pathargarhi pass the path makes a steep descent down a well-wooded mountain-side to the Deodar stream.
Above 6000 feet are to be seen the rhododendron, the deodar and other hill cypresses, and the beautiful horse-chestnut.
Under the name of Cedrus atlantica the tree occurs in mass on the borders of Tunis, and as Deodar it first appears to the east in the cedar forests of Afghanistan.
The essential identity of thedeodar and the cedar of Lebanon was pointed out in Hooker's "Himalayan Journals" in 1854 (Volume I.
Force and scent arose from his pus; the Deodar pine from his bones; glass from his phlegm; the Marakata jewel from his bile; and the black iron from his liver.
We had passed through the peaceful deodar forest on either side of Rampur, and the splendid limestone cliffs which rise precipitously from them.
The hill-sides are entirely clothed with thick forests of deodar and pine.
The deodar is a very handsome tree, and is a variety of the cedar of Lebanon.
At the head of the garden is the mountain-side covered with deodar forest, and welling out of the mountain is a rushing stream of clean, clear water.
Here there is a forest of pillars all of single deodar trees, and remarkable for their height and grace.
That mountain's as big as Mont Blanc; and from that deodar forest right up the slope is the place to go for bear.
One remembers also the beautifulDeodar forests of Afghanistan, and the Himalayas.
Logs of deodar were floated down the rivers to form bridges or temple pillars in Srinagar, the capital of far Cashmere.
Above the hardier deciduous trees appeared the Pinus excelsa, the silver fir, and the spruce; higher yet the stately grace of the deodar clothed the hillsides; and above the forests rose the snow mountains of Tilail, pink in the sunrise.
Regarding the Coniferae, Pinus excelsa is the rarest, Deodar is the most common; longifolia occurs principally on a southern projection from Chaka, and on the south face of the Mall ridge.
The Deodar is not so large as Smithia, and is known by its tabular branches and ovoid erect cones.
It is curious that both here and in Annandale the Deodar grows to a large size, although naturally its range does not extend so low as this slope.
On Friday I went for a delightful walk through the pine and deodar forests, the ostensible objective being, of course, a bear.
The Doras bungalow seemed a very palace of luxury, with its dry, airy rooms and wide verandah, all of sweet-smelling deodar wood.
The Deodar has not been seen east of Nepal, nor the Pinus Gerardiana, Cupressus torulosa, or Juniperus communis.
I have stated that the Deodar is possibly a variety of the Cedar of Lebanon.
Deodar at Simla, when asked to point it out in the Kew Gardens, have indicated the Cedar of Lebanon, and when shown the Deodar, declare that they never saw that plant in the Himalaya!
The sky was blue as blue could be, the grey bloom on the spreading deodar branches glinted white in the strong light, the shadows beneath them showed black.
The surrounding hills are comparatively low, and are covered with pasture on the open places, while the deodar and many other trees occupy the ravines and gullies.
A bright gem in a dark setting of deodar covered mountains, spurs from which radiated into the valley so fair and verdant with its many villages, its meandering streams, and frequent orchards, the air laden with the perfume of many flowers.
So far as my own experience goes, the nests are always placed in very thick bushes or in low thick branches of some tree, the Deodar appearing to be a great favourite.
Rogee, in the Sutlej Valley, on the 8th June, on the end of a deodar branch 8 feet from the ground and partly suspended.
I have found the nest in a deodar tree, laid on a horizontal bough.
Those I found averaged about 4 feet from the ground, but I took a single one in a Deodartree fully 8 feet up.
She thought of the matter again that evening before her little fire of snapping deodar twigs, thought of it intently.
She actually did speak, pausing in the little pavilion on the road where the nursemaids gather in the daytime, but very low, so that her words fell round her even in that silence, and hardly a deodar was aware.
We drank each a glass of vermouth before dinner sitting over a scented fire of deodar branches, while outside the little window in front of me the lifted lines of the great empty Himalayan landscape faded and fell into a blur.
Above the hardier deciduous trees appeared the Pinus excelsa, the silver fir, and the spruce; higher yet the stately grace of the deodar clothed the hillsides; and above the forests rose the snow mountains of Tilail, pink in the sunrise.
Hundreds of dressed deodar logs had caught on a snag of rock, and the river was bringing down more logs every minute to complete the blockade.
The headquarters of the Deodar are in the mountains of north-west India, where it forms forests at various altitudes above 3500 feet.
Melville that we are indebted for the introduction of the Deodar to Britain in 1831, and during the next ten years many young trees were raised here from seeds.
And Brandis tells of very much more ancient bridges in Srunagar, whose piers are of Deodar wood, and appear to be as yet unaffected by decay.
There is no necessity for repeating the particulars already given respecting the Cedar of Lebanon, and which apply to the Deodar with such modifications as are indicated in the first paragraph above.
Deodar timber produced in its native forests is exceedingly durable, being compact and even grained, not liable to warp or split, and standing the test of being alternately wet and dry.
Twice the Yule-log burned on her bungalow hearth—great chunks of fragrant deodar that Lucilla garlanded with ribbons; the heat they made in December in the plains was appalling, but Lucilla Crespin would not keep Christmas without them.
That was a sign of heavy rain in the foot-hills and beyond, for the deodar is a strong tree, not easily shaken from the hillsides.
There was but little light from the stars, and midway to the shoal a branch of the stinking deodar tree brushed my mouth as I swam.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deodar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
