All the forests of North America were examined and exhaustively studied and the selection was Sugar Pine and California White Pine,--"the largest pines that ever grew" and production started at Westwood in 1914.
The Winter of the Deep Snow, when even the tallest White Pines were buried, Brimstone Bill outfitted Lucy with a set of Babe's old snowshoes and a pair of green goggles and turned her out to graze on the snowdrifts.
The lumberman's division of the pinesis a convenient one.
Hard pines retain the leaf sheath until the leaves are shed.
Here grow the most gigantic trees in the world, and the sugarpines are nobler even than the giant "big trees," for the latter are often decrepit, while the sugar pines are hale and youthful by comparison.
Among the giant sugar pines and red firs it lifts a wonderfully regular, rounded dome so far above the aspiring arrow-tips of its neighbors as to make the best of them look like mere saplings.
The uses of pines are not all counted in terms of the lumberman.
THE SOFT PINES The outward and visible sign of a soft pine is the loose, deciduous sheath of its leaf bundles.
Caribaea, Morelet The Cuban pine stands third in the triumvirate of lumber pines of the South.
Careful forestry improves upon nature's method, and so the pines are being restored on land unfit for agricultural crops.
Before long massed pines were above and below them; their jagged stems and branches sharply imprinted on stretches of sunlit glacier, and on the pathway in mottled patches of shadow.
Higher up they emerged on an open space of roadway, where the pines came abruptly to an end; and the path shelved sheer from its broken railing to the Visp Valley below.
A shuddering wind set the dense pinesabove and below them swaying and moaning, a sound of strange and infinite melancholy.
These sheets were thrown away, and came into our hands in a great disorder of papers, mostly worthless, which left The Pines after Watts-Dunton's death.
Her favorite asters bloomed all about, and the pines sang overhead.
Now he lies in Sleepy Hollow among his brothers, under the pines he loved.
We decide to go to Rome for the winter, as May pines for the artist's Paradise; and war will not trouble us I hope.
As if in silent accord, we turned our steps towards the lonely shaded walks of the evergreen island, beneath the pines and cypresses, laurels and camellia trees.
The skiff drew a broad furrow in the molten silver that seemed to drip from the oars; the pines by the villas on the shore intercepted the moonlight with their broad fans.
The Sarus Crane (Grus antigone) is with some reason regarded as a model of conjugal fidelity, from a belief that, if one of a pair of these handsome birds is killed, the other pines and never mates again.
He travels on a more lofty story of the tree-terraces, progressing through the pines in a succession of leaping feats, performed with the ease, deliberation, and precision of perfect gymnastic art.
The blue incense from the pipes mingled with the sunshine falling freely through the bare branches; the stream which ran by the lodge rippled and shone, and the wind rose and fell in the pines upon its farther bank.
From the ranks of the women beneath the reddened pines rose shrill laughter and applause as they sat or knelt, bent forward, watching the dancers.
The sun was now low, and the pines in the square and the upright of the pillory cast long shadows.
Save where grew pinesor cedars there were no shadowy places in the forest.
There are pines beyond, and smooth going," he answered; "but if ever I thought to run from an Indian!
When the red rim of the sun showed like a fire between the trunks of the pines came my Lord Carnal, and with him Master Pory and Dr.
Ere we reached it the pines had fallen away, the haunted wood was behind us, our steps were set through a fairy world of greening bough and springing bloom.
I looked to right and left, and saw only the tall, straight pines and the needle-strewn ground.
The pines were bronze-red, the woods beyond a dead black.
The leafless trees gave way to pines and cedars, and the closely woven, scented roof hid the heavens, and made a darkness of the world beneath.
Over the tops of the pines they went, far away into the heart of the forest.
The pines swayed solemnly in the faint morning breeze, sending down showers of bright dewdrops far and wide.
In the same letter the husband added: "Livy pinesandpines every day for you, and I pine and pine every day for you, and when we both of us are pining at once you would think it was a whole pine forest let loose.
On the basis of color, specimens we have examined from the Long Pines clearly are assignable to T.
A young forest growing up under your windows, and wild sumachs and blackberry vines breaking through into your cellar; sturdy pitch-pines rubbing and creaking against the shingles for want of room, their roots reaching quite under the house.
Hence the superlative value of pinesin masses for shelter.
After a a while he disappeared among the pines and I saw no more of him.
The great pines and fir trees of the forest contrasted strongly with the snow of the land.
I knew that he was seeking his winter lodgings, because he was going round and round a big cluster of pines before entering it.
When they turned in at the Ingleside gate Walter stopped in the shadows of the oldpines and drew Rilla close to him.
When the word had come that Jem must go she had her cry out among the pines in Rainbow Valley and then she had gone to her mother.
When they had finally arrived at the outermost edge of the Millsdorf heights where the road enters the dark pines of the "neck" the solid front of the forest was already prettily sprinkled by the flakes falling ever more thickly.
Cuba granted to the United States two very valuable coaling stations, and the United States on its part agreed to enter into a treaty by which we should relinquish whatever title we might have to the Island of Pines in favor of Cuba.
There was a delightful odour of cooking about the little island, the overhanging branches of the evergreen pinesseeming to hem it in.
You may ask with reason, perhaps, whether he ever pines for London or a city.
I dare say the old pines have seen similar figures beneath them before now.
In two strides he made for the door, opened it, and took wing; Dolly saw him flitting among the branches of the pines in mysterious occupation.
There the pines stop abruptly, in the leaning immobility of a man who has almost trodden upon a flower.
I see it all--I see it still, in your hurried fantastic lines, as I saw it when we two sat amidst the pines and beheld the blue lake stretched below.
Gloomy firs and pines frowned along the sides of the mountains, silvered by the rays of an unclouded moon.
Half-way to the top there were, in the summer-time, green grass and low brush in which the small game could hide; but above that rose a sheer wall of rock clear up to where the soil had gathered and the pines taken root.
It lay in brown and blue-gray patches, with dashes of dark-green on the highlands, where the pines grew.
It hustled through the pines like winged fiends let loose from the north.
They were soon picking their way along a shady fragrant trail, tall, straight, noble pines about them seeming to be vieing with each other in their efforts to reach the blue sky.
Once let it fall behind and it is lost; it is overwhelmed by the sturdier giants; it pales and pines and seems to lose its ambition.
Soon after dark the sky became overcast, the pines began dripping moisture, and a gentle breeze was heard murmuring in the tops of the trees.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
