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Example sentences for "glade"

Lexicographically close words:
gladdened; gladdening; gladdens; gladder; gladdest; glades; gladiator; gladiatorial; gladiators; gladiis
  1. Not until he entered the glade where the Queen and her nymphs were assembled to greet him did Ak remember the child he had permitted Necile to adopt.

  2. They bowed assent, and instantly the Forest glade was deserted.

  3. About a mile from town we halted, and leaving the carriages upon the road, crossed over into a small glade in the midst of the chaparral.

  4. Horsemen in dark uniforms were galloping across the glade and into the woods beyond.

  5. On the bank, high and dry, a noble yellow birch had been strong enough to thrust back the forest, making a glade for its own private abode.

  6. One long rainy day had somewhat disgusted us with the old hemlock-covered camp in the glade of the yellow birch, and we were reasonably and not unreasonably morbid after our disappointment with Katahdin.

  7. Folkard thus describes their use: "The proceedings connected with the use of glade nets appear to be very simple.

  8. Glade nets, which are nets stretched in narrow glades or ridings in woods from tree to tree, are used chiefly for taking night-flying birds, such as woodcocks, or wild ducks.

  9. The glade net so formed is suspended between two trees, directly in the track of the woodcock's flight.

  10. Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse: and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.

  11. Strew, strew the glade with splendor, for morn it cometh on!

  12. And last, in a green glade under a steep hollow overhung with ash, Rosalind saw a fairy pretending to be a silver birch turned golden.

  13. A barely perceptible mist gradually cloaked the grass, whilst the gloom amid the foliage on the opposite side of the glade intensified.

  14. Facing me was a diminutive glade padded with downy grass, transformed into a pale yellow by the lustrous rays of the now encrimsoned sun.

  15. Towards sundown they reached a point where the canon opened out into a little shelving glade or prairie, a few hundred yards in extent, the entrance to which was almost hidden by thicket of dwarf pine and cedar.

  16. The grove of timber ended before it reached this point, and but few scattered trees grew in the little glade which intervened, and which was covered with tolerable grass.

  17. At length she guided them through the mazes of the wood to a little open glade of about a quarter of an acre, surrounded by trees and bushes, which made a wild and irregular boundary.

  18. An oak, of more size than usual, had stood a little remote from its fellows, or more within the open ground of the glade than the rest of the "orchard.

  19. Of this last character were two of the men on the open glade just mentioned, while their companions were of the race of the aborigines.

  20. Accident had brought these four persons, each and all strangers to one another, in communication in the glade of the Oak Openings, which has already been mentioned, within half an hour of the scene we are about to present to the reader.

  21. In less than three minutes the young Indian was concealed in the "openings," though he had to cross a glade of considerable width in order to reach them.

  22. Such a grove often consisted merely of a glade or clearing with a few trees dotted about, upon which in former times the skins of the sacrificial victims were hung.

  23. The astonishment of Ivanhoe was beyond bounds, when he saw his master besprinkled with blood, and six or seven dead bodies lying around in the little glade in which the battle had taken place.

  24. Rowena waved a graceful adieu to him of the Fetterlock--the Saxon bade God speed him, and on they moved through a wide glade of the forest.

  25. The other is Yorkshire bred, and has twanged his bowstring right oft in merry Sherwood; he knows each glade and dingle, copse and high-wood, betwixt this and Richmond.

  26. They did not take your horse,--I found it in the glade yonder, where I have left mine with it.

  27. That must be the glade you crossed before they appeared.

  28. I thought at first we had got out of the forest, or into the glade we had left: but a brilliant flash showed us it was another small clearing, which rose slightly toward the thick woods on its further side.

  29. They would know tags of rhyme and tricks about learning which Fionn would hear of; and now and again, as they rested in a glade or by the brink of a river, they might try their lessons over.

  30. Following the water we came to a glade where the sun shone and where the earth was warmed, and there Partholon rested with his twenty-four couples, and made a city and a livelihood.

  31. And stocks in the almswomen's garden were blown, With rich Easter roses each side of the door; The lazy white owls in the glade cool and lone Paid calls on their cousins in the elm's chambered core.

  32. This which we have seen is eternally ours, No others shall tread in the glade which now we see; Their hands shall not touch the frail tranquil flowers, Nor their hearts faint in wonder at the wild white tree.

  33. THE GLADE We may raise our voices even in this still glade: Though the colours and shadows and sounds so fleeting seem, We shall not dispel them.

  34. Stella had gathered the dogs round her again, and in this glade she appeared to Michael as a severe Artemis with her short tweed skirt and her golf-coat swinging from her shoulders like a chlamys.

  35. Michael sat down in the glade and listened to the busy flutterings of the birds.

  36. There in the middle of the glade stood a large maned lion.

  37. I crept along it cautiously for some two hundred yards, when it opened suddenly into a most beautiful glade some hundred yards or more in width, wherein tall grass grew and flat-topped trees stood singly.

  38. Then moderating his pace somewhat, he had followed the glade down its entire length, and once more turned to the right through the forest, shaping his course for the open land that lies between the edge of the bush and the river.

  39. We were three parts round the glade now, and about fifty yards ahead was the single large dead thorn-tree against which the bull had been leaning.

  40. Right into the open glade I ran, and then, thank Heaven, just as he was coming up with me the bullet took effect on him.

  41. I crossed the glade as silently as my own shadow.

  42. Well, we passed on till, having crossed the first glade where I had seen the lions, we reached the neck of bush that separated it from the second glade, where the dead elephants were.

  43. Lybertie on vs is glade to wayte ye stande to farre in your owne conceyte I wys lybertye ye ran make no bayte To catche vs at your will.

  44. Other fires sprang up until the glade was well illumined.

  45. The glade was thickening with shadows, but the sunlight still marked the top of an elm and made glorious the zenith.

  46. Then again, once the dusk filled the glade my impassive victim would become alert and up to some of his devilish tricks.

  47. It was now dusk in the woods although the birds circling high above the glade caught the sunlight on their wings.

  48. On each side of me walked a warrior, invisible except as when we crossed a glade where the starlight filtered down.

  49. I ame rythe glade that ye have sped welle in yowyr materys be twyx Syr Fylyp Wentworthe and yow, and so I pray God ye may do in all othyr materys to hys plesans.

  50. He had left the glade at a different point from that at which he had entered it, and so could not follow the track made by his men.

  51. Two hours afterwards it was reported that the column had reached that track, but had halted in a glade beside the road; the men had thrown themselves on the ground.

  52. The rhinoceros, before it recovered from its alarm, plunged through a long stretch of forest and scrub, and was found at last resting in a narrow glade bordered on the further side by tall bushes.

  53. We ought to find our quarry in a glade just ahead," he said.

  54. The geography of the Conde’s progress is rather loose, but we will figure to ourselves a forest glade of wide-branching oaks, which had perhaps sheltered the advance of the Roman legions from Gaul.

  55. But the treacherous priest, setting spurs to his mule, galloped down the glade at headlong speed, sounding his horn.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glade" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bog; bottom; bottomland; clearance; clearing; desert; glade; meadow; mire; moor; morass; moss; mud; plain; prairie; quagmire; quicksand; slough; steppe; sump; swamp; terrain; territory; wallow; wash; wilderness