Already had the frost touched the maples in the low-lying grounds, and the forest trails were deep with fallen, yellow beech leaves, so that the comings and goings of all the wild things were rendered doubly silent.
The mapleswere in bud; food was plentiful enough now, and all the herd scattered, glad to be free.
One evening in late spring, before the maples were out, almost before the ice had gone from the brook, along came Mrs. White-Spot and her four kittens wandering down the trail.
There are no red maples here, but the Virginia creepers and some of the dogwoods give the red, and the hickories, tulip trees and beeches a brilliant yellow, sometimes almost orange.
The Japanese maples were still in full leaf and were turning the most beautiful shades of scarlet imaginable.
Mrs. Maples will pack a basket for the journey; she will judge.
In the autumn, when the maples have reached perfection, the populace turns out in holiday attire to celebrate a grand national fAªte.
These giants held up their majestic heads far over the tops of oaks andmaples in the woods.
A state forester declared: "If I could replace the maples in the state forest by poplars to-day, I would do it gladly.
Only the pussy willow, the quaking asp, and the earliest maples bloom as early as the elm.
In the warmer South our buttonwood is a stalwart, large-limbed tree of colossal trunk, that shelters oaks and maplesunder its protecting arms.
To each careful gardener who has patiently toiled to bring his maples to perfection, it is sufficient reward that the people make this annual pilgrimage to view them.
These little maples lend a wonderful charm to the edges of forest highways in the Eastern states.
The wise promoter will alternate slow-growing maples and elms with the poplars so that these permanent trees will be ready to take their places in a few years.
Against the green of a hemlock forest these maples show their color like a splash of blood.
The wind tore the red robes from our swamp maplesand sassafras and scattered them in tatters over the lawn.
Two soft maples are found in the eastern part of the country, their sap less sweet, their wood softer than the hard maples, and their fitness for street planting correspondingly less.
We used to tap all the sugar maples on the place every spring.
The elm leaves turned yellow but did not fall; the ash-trees lighted up the woods like gigantic lanterns set in amber; single branches among the maples slowly crimsoned.
The paths which crossed the Court-house yard were flecked with steady shadow, the strong young foliage of the maples not moving, having the air of observing the Sabbath with propriety.
Then together they set forth over the sun-flecked pavement, the maples swishing above them, heavier branches crooning in the strong breeze, under a sky like a Della Robbia background.
Norbert looked at the cupola of the Pike Mansion, rising above the maples down the street.
Manitoba maples form the foliage of the North-West, and anyone who has seen the giant maple leaves of British Columbia will say the maple leaf is the natural emblem of Canada.
Oh, we are the men of the northern zone, Where the maples their branches toss; And the Great Bear rides in his state alone, Afar from the Southern Cross.
We who have missed your voice so long-- Even as March might miss the song Of the sugar-bird in the maples when They're tapped again.
Most of the maples contain a large amount of juice, which flows freely when the stem of the tree is cut.
The heat was overpowering, the party had no food with them, and, to add to their troubles, Mr. Maples sprained his leg so badly as to make progress after sunset impossible.
James Penhallow sat on the back porch in the after luncheon hour to get with the freshness of October what sunshine the westerning sun was sifting through the red and gold of the maplesbeyond the garden walls.
The thoughts of all the maples who shall name, When the sad landscape turns to cold and grey?
The oaks had donned garments of somber brown, the hickories had lost their leaves, while here and there along the river shores the flaming sentinels of the maples had changed their scarlet uniform for one of duller hue.
The smallest Sugar-Maples in our streets make a great show as early as the fifth of October, more than any other trees there.
Let us have Willows for spring, Elms for summer, Maples and Walnuts and Tupeloes for autumn, Evergreens for winter, and Oaks for all seasons.
By the twenty-fifth of September, the Red Maples generally are beginning to be ripe.
I do not see what the Puritans did at this season, when the Maples blaze out in scarlet.
Let us have a good many Maples and Hickories and Scarlet Oaks, then, I say.
In the Chisos Mountains, they frequented especially the young maples and deciduous oaks along the banks of the dry, boulder-strewn stream bed, and elsewhere on the steep mountain slopes their preference for clumps of small oaks was noted.
During the nesting season, it will not be found to any extent in the better class of hardwood trees of the uplands; in fact, this warbler shows a strong liking for areas where large elms and soft maples and black ash are the dominant trees.
After you pass Albion village, with its streets shaded by elms and maples and its outskirts embowered in blossoming orchards, you wind along a hilly country road that runs between grassy fields.
The somber pines made a deep-toned background; patches of sumach gave their flaming crimson; the goldenrod grew rank and tall in glorious profusion, and the maples outside the Office Building were balls of brilliant carmine.
How she longed for the great, roomy kitchen in her old home, with its spotless floors and floods of sunshine streaming in through the maples outside.
There was something even in the red buds of the maples at Sweetwater and in the long, smoking stretches of hillside fields that sent a thrill through my veins, finer and subtler than any given by old wine.
The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry Of bugles going by.
At every turn themaples burn, The quail is whistling free, The partridge whirs, and the frosted burs Are dropping for you and me.
English maples, Norway spruces, lindens, horse-chestnuts from Versailles, Japanese maples and Greek planes and orange trees from along the Mediterranean.
She looked out on the late spring foliage, on the tulips and Japanese maples a-quiver with June, on the purple fleur de lis and peonies, dewy with color against the long sparkling ribbon of the morning river .
Charley nodded, and they left the office together and moved away under a long avenue of maples to where, in the shade of a high hill, was the house of the uncle of Kathleen Wantage, with whom she and her brother Billy lived.
The few cases he had won so brilliantly since the beginning of his career, he had studied at night in his luxurious bedroom in the white brick house among the maples on the hill.
Slowly failing maples glowed first with the hectic flush of disease, but gradually warmer hues stole into the face of Nature, for it is the dying of the leaves that causes the changes of color in the foliage.
The sugar-maples were beginning to unfold their leaves and to dangle their emerald gold flowers from long, drooping pedicles.
Foliaged deep, the cool midsummer maples Shade the porches of the long white street; Trailing wide, Olympian elms lean over Tiny churches where the highroads meet.
Grandfather usually reached this part of the story just as we arrived under the big maples that stand on each side of the cemetery gate, and always stopped short to say solemnly: "Thank the Lord!
There was the usual residuum of those who came because the others did, and, also as usual, they were among the most brilliant figures in the procession which filed along, one October morning, under the old maples of Middletown campus.
Then, when the maples have burst out into color, showing like great bonfires along the hills, there is indeed a feast for the eye.
I saw where he had bored several maples in the vicinity, but no oaks or chestnuts.
The snow beneath the maples they frequent is often covered with bud scales.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maples" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
