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Example sentences for "fallen timber"

  • Not only is the Yukon equally wooded on its banks with the average rivers of the world, but this fringe of fallen timber is much greater in quantity and more formidable in aspect than any found in the temperate zones.

  • We left the valley to get rid of the undergrowth of bushes, and took a trail over the side-hill, which carried us up and down hill successively, and in some instances through woods, occasionally obstructed by fallen timber.

  • Our guide, Antoine, informed us that the mountain trail was more easy for the animals, the one to the right being much obstructed by fallen timber.

  • The public square was a tangle of fallen timber.

  • About half a mile from the forks was a clear field, through which the road passed, and, immediately beyond, a space of some two hundred yards of fallen timber, and beyond that an extensive rebel camp.

  • We found this gap very badly obstructed by fallen timber, but got through that night, and the next day the main army was at Villanow.

  • Cruzatte's snagged himself so badly in the groin in jumping over a parsel of fallen timber that he will evidently be of no further service to us.

  • Country, the under brush being very thick and great quantities of fallen timber.

  • This plateau was covered with a luxuriant growth of standing pine and a great deal of fallen timber, through which at times considerable difficulty was experienced in passing.

  • The explorer must cut his own trail through the wilderness, cross icy torrents, climb alpine passes, find a way through networks of fallen timber, face perils and discomforts every hour of the day.

  • One of his first visits was to the Illecillewaet Glacier, which then entailed a slow and more or less painful scramble through a wilderness of fallen timber, tangled thickets of alder scrub, and the appropriately named devil's club.

  • Such spots were very common in the old Black Forest of the West and were generally known as "fallen timber" by the Indians and pioneers;[160] in them cavalry was almost useless.

  • The name is preserved, at least in one instance, in West Virginia in Fallen Timber Run, Wetzel County.

  • The battle of Fallen Timber was a decisive and important victory.

  • It was Wayne's advance which awed the savages, not the battle of Fallen Timber.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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