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Example sentences for "hemlocks"

Lexicographically close words:
hemispheres; hemispheric; hemispherical; hemistich; hemlock; hemm; hemmed; hemming; hemoglobin; hemoptysis
  1. The sky-line was a ragged enclosure of gray cliffs and hemlocks and pines.

  2. The pines and hemlocks sighed as they waved their branches.

  3. We shall also tell you how to build a rustic stage out of doors, to arrange hemlocks or spruces for "scenery," etc.

  4. See the pretty hemlocks and sweet ferns, Limpy.

  5. And we can't see the pines and hemlocks bending low.

  6. She rounded off every angle, broke down every scarp, and tucked the white bedclothes, till not a wrinkle remained, up to the chine of the spruces and the hemlocks that would not go to sleep.

  7. Climbing one of the hemlocks which I thought must be in line with the river and the window, I dropped my line until I had unrolled seventeen feet, and then ascended until the end of the line just touched the ground.

  8. Just behind us, where those hemlocks stand, is where the duel the children spoke of was fought.

  9. Not till they had reached the hemlocks was that fierce grip broken, and then it was with a tearing of flesh and sinew.

  10. Could any other spot mean to me what that acre under the hemlocks means?

  11. He came out of a thicket of hemlocks like a wraith of the past, a gray and crabbed figure, and confronted me there in the wide field.

  12. There were white birches and hemlocks on the hill, and somewhere in the thicket I heard a wood thrush singing.

  13. High in the heavens a few fleecy clouds were drifting, and the air was just enough astir to waken the hemlocks into faint and sleepy exchanges of confidence.

  14. The unusual light proves too much for their roots which had always been cool and damp; but when young hemlocks are protected until they get a start, they thrive nicely in the open.

  15. From those tall hemlocks proceeds a very fine insect-like warble, and occasionally I see a spray tremble, or catch the flit of a wing.

  16. I descend a steep hill, and approach the hemlocks through a large sugar-bush.

  17. The tall hemlocks walled the river with palisades unbroken; the calm water stretched away into the forest's sombre depths, barred here and there by dusty sunbeams.

  18. Through the stillness of the evening the rushing of a distant brook among the hemlocks grew louder, increasing on the night wind like the sound of a distant train on a trestle.

  19. And deep within the dreamy wood, Where the sheltering hemlocks rustled, Beneath the hill their cabin stood, Looking out upon the river.

  20. And above the pines and hemlocks Crows are calling through the seasons.

  21. The wild tint still was spread over all things--the pines and hemlocks near at hand seeming blanched with affright beneath it.

  22. As for the other thing I found, it was behind the hemlocks when I quartered the sides of the road in the silence and the frost-fog: and it was nothing but a patch of shell ice.

  23. In line with the trail on Hannah's Hill, and southwest of it, were two huge hemlocks that bore upon their trunks the old wounds of blazes made as if by the axes of Indians.

  24. The woods that come down almost to the house are composed of pines and hemlocks of splendid proportions and great antiquity, lending a shadowy atmosphere of mystery to the environs of Woodside Hall.

  25. Only the hemlocks and spruces retained their somber density, with a few firs in the swamps and here and there a lofty pine on the mountain sides.

  26. He crept into the hemlocks on hands and knees.

  27. Willis Murch was fishing here one afternoon in the latter part of August, when he saw a red squirrel carrying an apple in its mouth by the stem, and coming out from some thick young hemlocks that grew along the west bank of the brook.

  28. The hemlocks were throwing ever-lengthening shadows on the grass.

  29. He charged the hemlocks once more, butted and shook them like a veritable demon.

  30. With such feelings she gave a sweep with her paddle, and sheered off from the fringe of dark hemlocks beneath the shades of which she was so near entering, and held her way again, more towards the centre of the lake.

  31. All around us the silent forest threw its encircling arms, spreading up the slopes, higher and higher, to crown the crests with the little pines and hemlocks and balsam fir.

  32. The rain had ceased, and quickly was come out of the northwest a boisterous wind, chilled by the lakes and scented by the hemlocks of the Minnesota forests.

  33. The hemlocks gave out a perfume as if a box of spices had been newly opened; and when we saw that the house was a hotel and restaurant we simply had to stop for tea.

  34. The pines have one tone, the hemlocks and spruces another, and the soft swish of the larches is like the last tender notes of some of the hymns I sing with the sisters occasionally.

  35. The hemlocks shot out feathery fronds, the spruce spikes of bluish green, the maples shook around red blossoms and then uncurled tiny leaves.

  36. Now they were in a thicket of small pines which were more scattered than the hemlocks had been.

  37. An instant later the buck had melted like a ghost into the hemlocks and Gramps said in awed tones, "Old Yellowfoot!

  38. Gramps entered the hemlocks very slowly, with his rifle half raised, and Bud almost hoped they would find the black buck in the grove and put an end to this almost unbearable uncertainty.

  39. The hemlocks were partly covered with snow but their green needles were visible.

  40. It was like coming out of the desert into an oasis when a grove of hemlocks loomed ahead.

  41. He's heading toward that patch of hemlocks on top of the hill because he's been pushed hard and needs a rest, and he can rest safely there.

  42. They broke out of the other side of the thicket and came upon the place where Old Yellowfoot had left the hemlocks to slink into a stand of yellow birch.

  43. The pine-trees soon cease to follow you; the hemlocks disappear, and the balsams can go no farther.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hemlocks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.