These ferns and grasses give a rich green color to the varigated slopes where nature blends so many harmonious colors in matchless grandeur in this great fairyland of flowers.
The lakes of the lofty valleys seemed calmer than those on the prairies below, the foliage brighter, the ferns taller and more graceful.
Abundant in the forest, where it may be dislodged from ferns and undergrowth during the day or captured flying about in the evening.
The Miss Nevills' acceptance of a certain offering of ferns peeping through the meshes of a string bag brought by the Miss Blinketts, had been so frigid, so patrician, that it had made Annette more friendly than she would naturally have been.
She had welcomed the ferns with enthusiasm, and before she had realized it, had become the object of a sentimental love and argus-eyed interest on the part of the inmates of The Hermitage which threatened to have its embarrassing moments.
She and Mary covered the table with a clean white flour-sack; they filled a glass jar with ferns and anemones for a centre-piece and set the table as daintily as they could, even putting a flower beside each pate.
Here the clerk left us, and a footman in livery, with no little ceremony, ushered us into the first of a suite of reception rooms, all fitted up in the modern style, and having abundance of ferns and exotics.
We entered by a little wooden bridge running outside, a conservatory filled with exotics andferns lending the place a fairy look.
Leslie and Ruth got together in the wood-hollow, where the little vines and ferns began.
He was followed by a shambling tramp of heavy feet, and looking through the ferns Bathsheba could just discern in the wan light of daybreak a team of her own horses.
From her feet, and between the beautiful yellowing ferns with their feathery arms, the ground sloped downwards to a hollow, in which was a species of swamp, dotted with fungi.
When Fern Rock was reached, all went ashore, and our hero pointed out the ferns he had seen, and dug up such as the others wished to take along.
They tell me there are some beautiful ferns to be gathered there.
Ivy bursts over every wall in a perfect cataract; ferns and small wild things fill every crevice with their grasping roots, and even in winter there is no thinness or barrenness to be felt for evergreens flourish amazingly.
The sound of running water and the brilliant green of the grass, as well as the masses of long hart's-tongue ferns falling abundantly from the churchyard wall, all tell of perpetual moisture.
Woods rise behind the houses, and the richness of the evergreens makes a shelter even in winter, while the ferns are inexhaustible in number and of great variety.
Primroses and violets abound in the spring, and the mossy boulders and the extensive variety of ferns show a flourishing vegetation almost like that of a fern-house under glass.
I gathered only thirty-five ferns at these low elevations, in the same space as produces from fifty to sixty in the more equable and humid regions of 6000 feet; grasses on the other hand were much more numerous.
Tree-ferns cease below 4000 feet, and the large bamboo abounds.
Of ferns I collected about sixty species, chiefly of temperate genera.
At 3500 feet the vegetation again changes, the trees all become gnarled and scattered; and as the dampness also increases, more mosses and ferns appear.
Nearly thirty ferns may be gathered on this excursion, including many of great beauty and rarity, but the tree-fern does not ascend so high.
Though still 100 miles distant from the hills, mosses appeared on the banks, and more ferns were just sprouting above ground.
Twenty or thirty, species of ferns (including a tree-fern) were luxuriant and handsome.
Descending to a valley some ferns were met with, and a more luxuriant vegetation, especially of Urticeae.
Up through theferns came the thin note of Miss Bibby's cooee.
Giant tree ferns grouped themselves together in one place and in another guarded the path in sentinel-like rows.
Miss Bibby and I will pack up, Hugh, and you stay quietly at the tree ferns and mind the children.
The gulf is filled with flashing tides; Blue sky through boughs looks in; Mosses and ferns o'er floor and sides A mazy arras spin.
The frost weaves ferns and sultry palms Across my clouded pane; Weaves melodies of ancient psalms All through my passive brain.
It was damp and mossy, and there was a thick growth of ferns and underwood at the side of the path.
The sides were flanked with sassafras columns, the roofs were covered with branches interlaced by creepers that excluded the sunbeams, and on the banks of the creeks which trickled through the centre were tree-ferns of marvellous beauty.
There he strewed his bed of rushes or of grasses and ferns and mosses; and certainly neither Philip Quarll nor Robinson Crusoe had ever a more magnificent dormitory.
It was just such a place as boys delight in--low, damp, and boggy, with a brook hidden away under overhanging ferns and grasses.
It was a place low, damp, and boggy, with a brook hidden away under overhangingferns and grasses.
From this point I looked back, and through the trunks of the tree-ferns I could see fields and pavilions and the pyramidal roofs of massive edifices, and broad, verdant slopes, while in the distance there were peeps of the boundless sea.
Here there was a large space, where the tree-ferns grew in long lines crossing each other, and making a denser shade than usual.
Pliny says that "of fernsthere are two kinds, and they bear neither flowers nor seed.
I shot into an acute fissure with fernsand dust piled overhead!
Huge tea-trees, with cushiony bark, straddle it, and ferns grow strongly in all its nooks and bends.
Just beyond the platform of ferns a splash of lovely tints illuminated the edge of the time-recording shadow--the solar spectrum produced by the prism which had beckoned from afar.
Crossing a narrow creek, we peered silently through the screen of ferns and banana plants, where in a secluded glade were the wanderers in happy festival.
Steamy heat distilled strong aromatic odours from the myriad leaves; languid flowers gave copiously and of the best of their fragrance; ferns and lotus did obeisance to high noon.
It stands at the spot where generation after generation of the original owners of the soil has crossed the creek, wearing a waving path upon which ferns ever encroach and which every flood amends.
Spider-webbed tree-ferns with furry, water-bespangled trunks stood in crowded groves on the brink of spray-creating cascades and along the margins of cool rivulets which murmured as they hurried to the sea.
The crystal stream wound its crooked way between moss covered rocks over which tall ferns bowed their graceful stems.
The ground beneath us was cold and bare, except for a thin layer of ferns lately bundled in by some of the party.
Although in December, a luxuriant greenness mantled everything, except where beds of ferns had found root and then faded with the approach of autumn, or the yellow leaves of the few scattered hard wood trees lay under foot.
She could hear the ferns rustle and the little bird sounds and stirrings.
Now and then a faint rustle among the ferns or the half awakened movement and sleepy note of a bird in the leaves slightly stirred the silence, but that was all.
The grass and ferns were brown and sodden with late rains and there were no hollyhocks and snapdragons in the cottage garden--only on either side of the brick path dead brown stalks, some of them broken by the wind.
She was seeing the sun-speckled ferns among birches on the shore of Minniemashie, wind-rippled miles of wheat, the porch of their own house where Hugh had played, Main Street where she knew every window and every face.
About them, growing as if in a garden, were great masses of coral, some so thin and sinuous that it waved as do palms and ferns in the open air.
In the midst of all, a fairy bower of roses and tropical ferns created a nook of retirement where everyone might catch a glimpse of the bride and groom from any angle in any room.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ferns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
