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Example sentences for "pine needles"

  • The nest is lined with fine hay, if it abounds in the neighborhood, or pine needles if they are nearer at hand.

  • I have seen a nest made chiefly of pine needles on a base of dry leaves.

  • Matsue carefully dragged Teogo underneath its sheltering branches, and then set him down upon a couch of pine needles, where he soon regained consciousness and warmly thanked Matsue for her kindness.

  • One night the great silver face of the moon peered through the branches of the pine tree and looked in vain for the two sitting together on a couch of pine needles.

  • Teogo did not go back to his own country, for, after a few happy months had gone by, he married Matsue and on her wedding morn she wore her dress and sash of pine needles.

  • A second match, touched to another bunch of pine needles, gave another flame, lasting only an instant.

  • The bunch of pine needles flared up for two or three seconds, and then went out, but the light was enough to show that for six or eight feet further in there was a smooth floor to the cave, paved with small stones.

  • He climbed up to it, cut off a number of the long bayonet-shaped leaves, selected a straight dead stick, and went back to his pile of pine needles.

  • A meadow lark went lifting above the Ridge dropping silver arrows of song; and a little flutter of phantom wind came rustling through the pine needles.

  • She remembered the roil of the raging waters, the floating star blossoms on the muddy swirl, the light sifting in beaten rain dust through the silver pine needles, the curve and dip of the joyous swallows.

  • They were slipping along over the pine needles, their eyes intent on the trail ahead.

  • The deep carpet of pine needles, wet from the recent rains, dulled the sound of the horse's hoofs.

  • They trudged up, over the carpet of pine needles.

  • Don't build fires in leaves, rotten wood or sawdust, or pine needles.

  • The creek foamed and rushed; its water was amber, as if stained by pine needles.

  • The trapper's body was struck down as if felled by a meteor, and the power of the impact forced it deep into the carpet of pine needles.

  • And because of the carpet of pine needles, the forest creatures could hardly hear them come.

  • The blow caught the man at the temple, his arms fell away from the girl's body, he staggered grotesquely in the carpet of pine needles.

  • While he was making ready to depart and clearing his bed of pine needles out of the way, I thought pityingly of his sordid little theft.

  • Here I collect a few armfuls of pine needles, button my jacket tight, and take a long time to settle.

  • In the morning I burned the man's bed of pine needles; it made a lively fire of crackling pine in the hut.

  • She had closed her eyes in a deserted hut lying on a bed of pine needles.

  • As she did so, she turned to address some words in rather broken French to a tall, dark-eyed old woman who stood at the foot of the bed of pine needles.

  • We sleep on pine needles in the hut, and they are so soft and snug; and, Anton, I don't want to leave it.

  • Nielsen had started a fire, that blazed and roared with burning pine needles.

  • No foot save an Indian's had ever trod those gray rocks or brown mats of pine needles.

  • Ellen wiped the tears from her eyes, and as she knelt there she swept to her breast a fragrant spreading bough of pine needles.

  • A queer, still pang came to her at sight of pine needles tangled in her brown locks.

  • The ground was covered with a soft bed of pine needles, brown and fragrant.

  • The snap of a twig, the very crushing of pine needles, sufficed to disturb that calm.

  • Splintered stumps projected stiffly from the conifers; sometimes a fallen trunk lay across the way; the peaty ground was soft with pine needles.

  • The boughs chafed, and the plumed foliage clashed together, loosening a rain of cones and showers of pine needles.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    already know; but because; but could; cases treated; correctly translated; election petitions; hear something; here reproduced; lost child; partly through; pine away; pine barrens; pine cone; pine forest; pine needles; pine wood; pine woods; pineal gland; ruinous state; search after; sexual excitement; solid silver; sometimes nearly; that what; unable longer; various occasions