They met under the amber-tinted sugar maplein the heart of the hollow.
Cromwell Biron passed her in the hollow under the bare boughs of the maple that were outlined against the silvery moonlit sky.
The cold, clear light threw into strong relief each giant maple tree darkly looming against the silvery evening sky.
The glory of the maple and the sumach had departed, and a dingy russet brown had succeeded the more brilliant tints of early autumn.
So he went after a load of maple wood and Jabez come and tinkered and hammered and pounded and then sayin' with some of his pride returned into his port: "It will go now like clock work.
MAPLE WOOD The ground of this wood, like light oak, should be of a delicate cream tint.
The maple [acer minus] (of which authors (see Salmasius upon Solinus, c.
Bessie is sitting over on Maple Point in a big drafty house with two maids and a butler, a two-thousand-acre estate, and her pockets full of Victory Bonds.
Looking through the maple and alder fringe before his house MacRae saw the fishing boats coming one after the other, clustering about the Blanco.
Indeed he had seen castles across the sea from whose towers less goodly sights spread than he could command from his own front door, now that winter had stripped the maple and alder of their leafy screen.
You have an income of twelve thousand a year from the Maple Point place," Gower recited in that unchanging, even tone.
The alder, the maple and the wild cherry, all the spring-budding trees and shrubs, were making thicket and foreshore dainty green and full of pleasant smells.
Am I to let them lay alongside, hand you aboard, and then sail back to Maple Point, laughing at us for soft and simple fools?
Across the front of the house extended a wide porch which gave a look at the Cove through a thin screen of maple and alder.
He could shut his eyes and see the old log house behind its leafy screen of alder and maple at the Cove's head.
At a spot where the road ran close to the edge of the lake, under a wide-spreading maple tree, they laid out B'lindy's lunch.
Shall men taste only the sweetness of the maple and the cane the coming year?
But I am suspicious of that Brittonner, who advertises so many cords of good oak, chestnut, and maple wood for sale.
One end was heaped with corn ready for husking; the floor was neatly swept; and overhead the rafters were concealed by heavy garlands of white pine, golden maple leaves, and red oak branches, that swept from the roof downwards like a tent.
Again the maple trees shook their golden boughs above them, as if they had been hoarding up sunshine for months, and poured it in one rich deluge over their billowy and restless leaves.
Away they went sweeping up the broad winding sheet between double columns of young maple trees, through which the white houses gleamed tranquilly and dream-like on the eyes of those city children.
It seemed as if some of the maple boughs had taken fire, they kindled up so like living flame.
It will interest you to know that this isMaple Sugar time, and that all through New England the manufacture of the delicious Maple Sugar is in full swing.
Maple trees are only tapped once in two years, so that they may have time to recover from the loss of sap, and thrive and grow into fine healthy trees, for the tapping of the trees by no means kills them.
In the maple tree this sap is sweet, and it is from the sap that the Maple Sugar is made.
When the sap has been drawn from the tree it is generally boiled down until it crystallizes or sugars; it is then poured into moulds, and hardens; this is the favorite way among the farmers for keeping Maple Sugar.
The men used first to tap the trees, and then boil the sap over wood fires that they would build in the neighborhood of the sugar bush, as the maple grove is called.
When the sun rose, the Deer Mouse went to sleep in the maple tree.
The Catbird, who sang from the tip of the topmost maple tree branch long after most of his bird friends were asleep, said that when he tucked his head under his wing the Hawk-Moths were still flying.
Then she got acquainted with her brothers and sisters, many of whom had also eaten their egg-shells, although two had begun at once on maple leaves.
She began life on a mapleleaf with a few brothers and sisters, who hatched at the same time from a cluster of flattened eggs which their mother had laid there ten days before.
The sugar, from which the common name is derived, is to my taste the best of sweets--better than maple sugar.
They found that Mrs. Creighton had prepared one of her fine breakfasts of wheat cakes and maple syrup, with coffee and pure cream on the side, and the way they ate and the comments they made were very gratifying to her.
Then, after a rub-down that set the blood tingling all through their bodies, they sat down to wheat cakes, maple syrup and coffee, with generous dishes of strawberries and cream on the side.
She raised her eyes from the tumbling water before her and looked off through the maple tangle.
Some one had paused at the farther edge of the maple brake and dismounted, as she had, for a more intimate enjoyment of the place.
The fellow turned and fled through the maple tangle, Armitage after him, and Shirley ran back toward the bridge where she had left her groom and met him half-way hurrying toward her.
I can eat a dozen cakes this morning, with the maple syrup and the sausage gravy mother makes.
The big wagon rolled along, first on the asphalt streets, under tall elm and maple trees that lined the thoroughfares, where the houses were so close together that they reminded the boy of New York.
Father used to tap the maple trees, but we could not get any sap for the Indians drank it all.
The next spring my father made maple sugar and was able to buy a cow and six hens from a man who came overland from southern Illinois, driving several cows and bringing a box of hens, and so we began to live more comfortably.
About this time the settlers on Lake Minnetonka were clearing their claims in the "Big Woods" burning most of the timber, but some of the hard maple was cut as cordwood and hauled to Minneapolis and sold for from $2.
This maple vinegar was made from maple sugar and none could be better.
Then we bought some maple sugar of the Indians--very dark and dirty looking.
We used to tap the maple trees in the forest on Nicollet Island.
Our floor was of maple split with wedges and hewed out with a broadax.
An Indian woman brought in first a wooden bowl full of maple sugar which she placed on one end of the table with bowls and wooden spoons at the three places.
The bright anticipations vanished when the meal was seen to consist solely of clabbered milk with black looking maple sugar.
The second spring my father and another settler securing some brass kettles, went to a maplegrove a mile below their homes on the river bank and commenced gathering sap for sugar.
In the cellar also was a keg and a two gallon jug of maple vinegar.
Some of the Indians raised good crops of corn and vegetables and they also made several thousand pounds of maple sugar annually.
When this has been accomplished to satisfaction, a piece of maple without curl or knot must be cut a little thicker than what has been removed, but as to superficial area, fitting to a hair's breadth if skill will allow.
It must be borne in mind thatmaple or other tough wood will not bear the forcing that a piece of pine will.
Most of the instruments treated in this way may be recognised at a glance, the curl of the maple is brought out strongly, in fact overdone.
Gently and by degrees the mass of superfluous maplewill have to be removed.
A solid cylinder must be cut with great exactitude, of maple or the same kind of wood if obtainable as the scroll.
It has the property of throwing up the threads of the pine and the nutmeggy parts of the maple without impairing seriously the clearness of the grain under the varnish.
The ashes were boiled much as maple sap is boiled in order to obtain sugar.
The hot fat was then poured off into a tin pail, and hung in a little spotted maple near one end of our camp-shed.
We used to hang all our tin dishes and ladles here, for the maple had low limbs, which we had cut off so as to leave the stubs for pegs.
Divide into small pieces; with floured hands shape into rolls; place on greased shallow pan close together; allow to stand 10 to 15 minutes before baking; brush with milk and sprinkle with a little maple or brown sugar.
II 1 cup maple syrup whites of 2 eggs Boil syrup without stirring until it spins a thread; add slowly to stiffly beaten egg whites; beat with wire whip, preferably on platter, until stiff enough to spread.
Griddlecakes, melted butter, and maple sirup taste good, but the cakes make a pasty mass difficult for digestive juices to penetrate.
Glass is the cleanest top, painted steel and hard maplecoming next in order.
Serve with butter and sirup or scrapedmaple sugar.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maple" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
