One autumn afternoon in southeastern Missouri, seated upon some driftwood on the shallow margin of the Mississippi, I discovered a primitive craft that was carrying a colony of adventurous tree seeds down the mighty river.
One day I found some polished boulders perched like driftwood on the top of a polished rock dome; they were porphyry, while the dome was flawless granite.
The same current which conveys hither all this ice is also freighted with a scarcely less valuable supply of driftwood from the Siberian rivers.
They drank it about the driftwood fire, and even the severe Marion Slater relaxed and made merry.
A fire of driftwood snapped with metallic crackling on the hearth.
Upstage, burned a driftwood fire in a low hearth of rough bricks; Judge Tiffany sat there, in a spindle-backed chair, reading.
A great deal of driftwood floats in around the river mouth which is carried to the Arctic Ocean by the Great Mackinzie river and is distribuated all allong the shore and picked up in the summer and used in the winter.
They had two round pieces of driftwood they used for chairs.
He could construct of driftwood a raft large enough to carry those necessaries with which Bess Landsborough could furnish him out of her scanty stores without attracting attention.
Alister locked the dungeon door by turning the huge key with a spar of driftwood thrust through the head of it like the bar of a capstan.
I went up and set down on a log at the head of the island, and looked out on the big river and the black driftwood and away over to the town, three mile away, where there was three or four lights twinkling.
The river was coming up pretty fast, and lots of driftwood going by on the rise.
But as he went up he met an aged man, who had been gathering driftwood in the torrent-bed.
Here we observed driftwoodand rushes in the trees, fifteen feet above our heads.
The sight of this driftwood and many minor appearances, was indeed most welcome, and added full confirmation to the opinion that we were now within the mouth of a large river.
Hungry ain't a big enough word fur it," said Avery, stripping a piece of birch bark and lighting the small heap of driftwood David had gathered.
David was shaking as he picked up a piece of driftwood and pried the fore-shoulders of the moose off Smoke.
Wilhelmina gazed up the valley and sighed again, for since that terrific cloudburst she had been stranded in Jail Canyon like a piece of driftwood tossed up by the flood.
It was morning and the sun had just touched the house which hung like driftwood against the side of the hill.
Then it would wind away again, each time seeming the last, until at length it narrowed to nothing, and the blue water vanished in a tangle of driftwood and rubbish brought by the slow tide to the end of its tortuous journey.
Picking up driftwood for a bonfire is not very easy work, but there were so many of us that we soon had two good piles, one for the fire at the start and one to feed it as it burned.
The fire was lighted; the bright-colored flames of the driftwood played together and grew and streamed up above our heads, crackled and roared and sent up torrents of black smoke mixed with golden sparks.
He opens it and shows the master that it is full to the top of gold and pearls and rubies and emeralds, that flash and shine with all the colors that ever our driftwoodfire can show us.
Hopeless husbands and wives were cast up like driftwood by the cruel, resistless flood of modern civilization--the very civilization which yielded their wealth and luxury.
Then we heaped together a huge pile of the driftwoodon the beach and raised a blazing beacon, the red light of which I doubt not could be seen from the mainland.
Only a few glowing embers remained of the fire, and the driftwood that we had collected was exhausted.
The driftwood lay in greatest quantity some distance up the beach, against a low ridge of sand dunes.
There's plenty of driftwood further up the beach," he announced, "and a mort of dried seaweed.
We pileddriftwood and tangles of seaweed upon our fire, and it flamed and roared and broke the silence.
It was Sparrow, who alternately threw on driftwood and seaweed and spoke to madam, who sat at his feet in the blended warmth of fire and sunshine.
The former, or western one, is merely a long strip of heaped-up coral and shells, with a little sand and some driftwood running parallel to the outer edge of the reef, in the direction of the prevailing wind.
Here he and his Eskimo servant gathered together such loose driftwood as they could find, and with this and stones and turf erected a single-roomed igloo.
After our tent was pitched and the Eskimos had spread the Explorer's sail as a shelter for themselves, Kumuk and Iksialook left us to look for driftwood and, in half an hour, returned with a few small sticks that they had found on the shore.
Cal, of course, found it necessary to spend most of his time extricating her line from the limbs of trees or driftwood in the stream and changing the flies.
Meanwhile, Chiquita had brought driftwood and dry sticks until an immense pile of fuel was in readiness for the long night.
The Christmas tree of willow branches and a driftwood log had been set up.
Something about a Christmas tree made of willow branches and a driftwood log.
As the music rose and fell, as the sparks from the driftwood fire leaped toward the sky, Florence thought that no moment in her whole life had been as joyous as this.
In two big chairs before a driftwood fire the girls dozed the hours away.
Built of driftwood logs, it had but three sides and a roof.
Great quantities of driftwood and flotsam of all sorts, including canes and palm leaves, floated in a long, thin line extending for miles, forming natural banks to the world's greatest river.
We have spoken of the driftwood boundaries of the Gulf Stream; but there is an even more pronounced barrier easily ascertained by a use of the thermometer.
Jenks secured a ham and some biscuits, some pieces of driftwood and the binoculars, and invited Miss Deane to accompany him to the grove.
He gathered a small bundle of withered spines from the palms, and arranged the driftwood on top, choosing a place for his bonfire just within the shade.
At Driftwood tree sparrows were noted from August 27 to 31 inclusive.
The average length and weight of six adult males and adult females from Gavia Lake and Driftwood (Aug.
Susan had been obliged to gather such bits of driftwood as had floated to her chair, during the history-making season,--and draw such pleasure from it as she could.
A fire of driftwood crackled on the hearth and a stiff wind roared around the house.
From beginning to end of their journey the adventurers had been obliged to depend for fuel entirely on such driftwood as they could find lodged in eddies and on the rocky shores.
Their Christmas camp, however, was on a narrow strip of sand, with a greater supply of driftwood at hand than they had found at any point along the river.
As I picked my way round some lowdriftwood by one of the soapy streams, I stumbled over a half-buried log.
