CONES The blue mist of after-rain fills all the trees; the sunlight gilds the tops of the poplar spires, far off, behind the houses.
Now by the path along the plain there stands near the shrine a poplar with its crown of countless leaves, whereon often chattering crows would roost.
Hespere became a poplarand Eretheis an elm, and Aegle a willow's sacred trunk.
Reginald, in reply, pointed to the top branches of a young poplar gently waving in the breeze.
Thus she remained continually attended by her favourite Lita; when the band halted for refreshment, the choicest morsels were set apart for her use, and the young branches of the willow or poplar were gathered to shelter her from the sun.
When the poplar cracked and fell with a thud in the darkness, as tragically rigid as some mortally stricken hero, Felicite felt bound to wave a white handkerchief.
It thenceforward became a matter of history that Felicite herself got up every night to sprinkle the poplar with vitriol.
The young trees resisted stoutly: "Sometimes four of us would try to pull up the roots of some young poplar that had been cut down, and found it impossible; it would resist with all its might and would not die.
Carl announced to one poplar stick, "I could lick you!
Poplar becomes dry and dusty, and the bark turns to a monstrously mottled and evil greenish-white.
Sans-Cravate followed the directions he had received, and soon discovered a pretty little cottage surrounded by tall poplar trees, whose topmost branches waved back and forth over the roof.
She was nearing a frivolous grove of birch and poplar and wild plum trees.
The sunset was merely a flush of rose on a dome of silver, with oak twigs and thin poplar branches against it, but a silo on the horizon changed from a red tank to a tower of violet misted over with gray.
VI Miles Bjornstam, the pariah "Red Swede," had brought his circular saw and portable gasoline engine to the house, to cut the cords of poplar for the kitchen range.
Mrs. Kennicott, who have completely redecorated their charming home on Poplar Street, and is now extremely nifty in modern color scheme.
The poplar foliage had the downiness of a Corot arbor; the green and silver trunks were as candid as the birches, as slender and lustrous as the limbs of a Pierrot.
The pale bark of thepoplar sticks was mottled with lichens of sage-green and dusty gray; the newly sawed ends were fresh-colored, with the agreeable roughness of a woolen muffler.
Half way to the village stood the old Prospector's house, almost hidden in a bluff of poplar and spruce.
The trail wound in and out, with short curves and sharp ascents, among the hills, whose round tops were roughened with the rocks that jutted through the turf, and were decked with clumps of poplar and spruce and pine.
I remember a tall poplar of monumental proportions and aspect, a vast pillar of glossy green, placed on the summit of a lofty hill, and a beacon to all the country round.
I asked them what I might expect in the way of treatment, if we succeeded in getting into the Poplar Workhouse, and between them I was supplied with much information.
These two men, turned away from the casual ward of Whitechapel Workhouse, were bound with me for Poplar Workhouse.
They decided on the Poplar Workhouse, three miles away, and we started off.
And when they are dead and dust, which will be shortly, other fools will talk bloody revolution as they gather offal from the spittle- drenched sidewalk along Mile End Road to Poplar Workhouse.
We had long since left Mile End Road, and after traversing a gloomy maze of narrow, winding streets, we came to Poplar Workhouse.
Not so with these homeless ones who walked to Poplar Workhouse with me.
We were marching in pouring rain and darkness down a muddy, mangled road, shattered poplar trees sticking up in black streaks on either side.
The road was now perfectly straight, bordered on either side by broken poplar trees, beyond which large flat fields lay under the mysterious darkness.
By dusk we were going down a long straight road with poplar trees on either side.
All as still as still could be, except the distant intermittent cracking of the rifles coming from away across the plain, beyond the long straight row of lofty poplar trees which marked the road.
Across the flat, sombre country I could see the tall, swaying poplar trees standing near the farm.
Our first example is the White Poplar (Populus alba), a large tree frequently seen in abundance in most woods.
The assembled spectators formed a guard around a small alamo, or poplar tree, which had been selected for the gallows.
The poplar trembles before the blast, flutters, struggles wildly, dishevels its foliage, gropes around with its feeblest branches, and hisses as in impotent passion.
Nobody would deny that a weeping willow by an English river, or a Lombardy poplar in an Italian avenue, was as much of a true tree as an oak or a chestnut.
She lays her eggs in July on the sallow (Salix Caprea) or the poplar (Populus), and in less than a fortnight the young caterpillars are hatched.
The Poplar Hawk Moth, as is the case with many others, almost invariably emerges from the chrysalis in the evening--usually after dark.
The Poplar Grey (Acronycta megacephala) This is also a very common moth, to be found in all the southern and midland counties, wherever poplars abound, during June and July.
It feeds on the Poplar (Populus nigra) and Aspen (P.
Its chief food plants are the poplar, the Lombardy poplar (Populus pyramidalis), aspen (P.
Now we get on the Duke's Drive, and there, on a branch of a poplar tree, I see the great tit.
He's es straight es a poplar saplin' an' es plain ter see through es a clear spring-branch.
In a cluster of paw-paw trees there was a carpet of moss spread over ancient boulders, and off behind them stretched the nobility of forests unspoiled; of oak and ash and poplar and the mighty plumes of the pine.
They were in the edge of a little poplar thicket which jutted out from the pine forest upon the slide.
And yet right out in there it looks like a farm meadow," said Jesse, pointing to the green flats broken with willows and poplar mottes here and there.
Their trail now led through rather sharply rolling country, covered with poplaror jack-pine groves, with now and then a bit of soft bog at the foot of little valleys.
These are the galls formed by the North American poplar gall aphis.
Upon the leaf stems of poplar trees in many parts of New Zealand sac-like growths (Fig.
In spring a return migration to the poplar takes place, and galls are again established.
Wood, water, and hay were the necessaries of a Red River settler's life; to cut poplar rails for his fences in spring and burn the dried rails in the following winter was quite the authorized thing.
The streets were lined with solemn poplar trees, from which small yellow worms were continually dangling down.
Near it stood two tall poplar trees, against one of which I leaned, while my father threw himself on the grave, with outstretched arms, as if to embrace his child.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poplar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ebony; oak; tree; wood
