They grow rapidly and the cottonwood sends its roots long distances in search of water.
It takes a skillful man to run these rapidly clicking shears over the animal's body and make no serious wound.
The San Fernando Valley, a wide plain with mountains in the far distance, has been turned by the magic of water from a vast, scrubby desert into a fruitful region, rapidly becoming populous.
Six men were handling their sheep, the clicking shears moving rapidly over the big animals.
Two yellow streams came from the spouts of the machine; a great stream of chaff whichrapidly piled up in a yellow mountain, and another stream of the heavy grain, pouring thick and fast into a wagon.
The men work very rapidly and a good shearer can easily handle one hundred sheep a day.
At first General Sigel supposed it was only a scouting party that had advanced, but very soon the numbers increased so rapidly that he saw it necessary to retreat.
The work of humanity wasrapidly performed, and before night all the dead had been laid to their rest, and all the wounded, except a few who were not discovered until afterwards, were relieved as far as possible.
The rebels followed rapidly and attacked one of the angles of the fortifications, but not very vigorously.
The great puff of smoke that rose from it showed the rebels that they were taking good aim, and they poured in their shot very rapidly after that.
Suddenly they heard the sound of horses' feet behind them, and as they looked back they saw three or four men riding rapidly in their direction.
Preparations for the march into the southwestern part of Missouri were pushed asrapidly as possible, but the difficulty of getting together the necessary wagons and animals for transportation purposes consumed a fortnight of valuable time.
Illustration: 061] The opening shot of the artillery was rapidly followed by others, and then the small-arms added their noise to the firing.
General Lyon advanced as rapidly as possible, and soon had possession of the crest of the hill.
The theater was being rapidly filled, and it was evident that we were going to make our début before a packed house.
On the opposite side of the creek, going over the hill, I observed a few lodges moving rapidly away, and also some mounted warriors, who could see me, and who kept blazing away with their guns.
Next morning the command, at an early hour, started out to take up this Indian trail which they followed for two days as rapidly as possible; it becoming evident from the many camp fires which we passed, that we were gaining on the Indians.
So pushing our steeds as fast as possible, werapidly gained on him, and when within a hundred yards of him I cried to him to halt or I would shoot.
Late in the afternoon, after the train had moved on some considerable distance, I saw Steve's father, his brother Frank, and one of the neighbors rapidly approaching.
While both armies were drawn up in skirmish line near Fort Scott, Kansas, two men on horseback were seen rapidly leaving the Confederate lines, and suddenly they made a dash towards us.
She could not have done more had he been her own son, but notwithstanding her motherly care and attention, and the skill of a physician from Leavenworth, he rapidly grew worse.
The Indians were jabbering away so rapidly among themselves that I could not understand what they were saying.
At once changing my course to the direct route, I pushed rapidly on through the darkness towards Smoky Hill River.
Satanta mounted his horse, and taking the whisky with him, he rode rapidly away and proceeded straight to his village.
Pushing rapidly forward, we followed this trail to Powder River; thence down this stream to within about forty miles of the spot where old Fort Reno now stands.
On reaching the spot designated, General Mills ordered two companies ashore, while Richard and myself were ordered to take our horses off the boat and push out as rapidly as possible to see if there were Indians in the vicinity.
We could see that their village was a very large one, consisting of about five hundred lodges; and we pushed forward rapidly from this point on the trail which ran back toward Prairie Dog Creek.
The rest of the command pushed rapidly forward also, and chased the enemy for three or four miles, killing three of them.
Then Elberich the little a harp laid hold upon; Full rapidly he touched the strings every one In so sweet a measure that the hall did resound; All that him beheld then, they felt a joy profound.
After the appearance of his Faerie Queene, all distinction between the different species was rapidly lost, and Fairies became the established name of the popular Elves.
The evident friendship which his cousin felt for Kenyon added a bitterness to this dislike which was rapidly turning it into hate.
Then he wrote as rapidly as the machine ticked out the message.
That afternoon Wentworth got the letters off by the American mail, and he felt that they were doing business as rapidly as could be expected.
Edith sat in silence, looking with amazed interest at the girl, who talked so rapidly that there was sometimes difficulty in following what she said.
The weather had been bright during the early part of the day, but clouds were now drifting rapidly over the sky, and I continued riding on towards the north-west until the sun became totally obscured.
Uttering a howl of satisfaction, he was about to take a second draught, when another seized it, and it was rapidly passed on, until it was empty.
We therefore pushed rapidly forward; and, reaching the top of a slight rising, we saw a large number of black dots scattered over the plain.
On they went, whenever shelter could be obtained, running rapidly forward, but as they got on the open plain again bending down and creeping on all fours.
We were not to be deterred, however, and rode forward as rapidly as the necessary examination of the trail would allow.
My brother hesitated for a minute; then with a timid glance at heaven he put his hand in his pocket, pulled out half a crown which he gave me, and walked rapidly away.
So it was with the author, who found his joy in novel-reading diminishing rapidly as his critical knowledge increased.
Elsie, rapidly filling a pretty basket she carried in her hand.
For obvious reasons the services at the grave were made very short, and in another moment they could see the line of torches drawing rapidly nearer, till it reached the quarter and broke into fragments.
In the meantime damages had been repaired in the quarters at Fairview and Ion, and the men at the latter, secretly supplied with arms; also the rebuilding of the school-house was going rapidly forward.
Mrs. Foster leaning back upon the softly cushioned seat, as they bowled rapidly along.
The voice grew fainter and fainter, till it quickly died away in the distance as the balloon rose rapidly higher and higher into the deep blue of the sky.
The two old ladies preferred a seat under a wide-spreading tree on the lawn; but the others accompanied him in a tour of the deserted mansion already falling rapidly to decay.
Meantime those in the wood, moving as rapidly as possible under the circumstances, were plunging deeper and deeper into its recesses.
Uncle Mose was rapidlynearing that bourne whence no traveler returns.
This engagement was a great relief to the pro-librarian, and he improved more rapidly thenceforth.
Meantime Alec got better and better, went out with Mr Cupples in the gig, ate like an ogre, drank like a hippopotamus, and was rapidly recovering his former strength.
The exercise pumped the blood more rapidly through his brain, and before he reached home hope had begun to dawn.
Then I turned instinctively to poetry: with its rules I was getting rapidly conversant.
I have hopes from the book I am writing, which has revealed itself to me so rapidly and methodically that I feel it comes down from above, and that only my folly can spoil it, which I pray against daily.
But these cloudy thoughts melted rapidly away in that sunny atmosphere of success and happiness, and I went home as merry as a bird, and wrote all the morning more gracefully and sportively, as I fancied, than I had ever yet done.
So essentially nomadic are all the tribes that they cannot adopt a settled life without losing the very sentiment of their nationality, and becoming rapidly absorbed in the Slav population.
The cityrapidly acquired importance as the Sudan was opened up by travellers and traders, becoming, besides the seat of much legitimate commerce, a great slave mart.
The kingdom dwindled rapidly to its ancient limits between the Caucasus, the Volga and the Don, whilst the Russian traders of Novgorod and Kiev supplanted the Khazars as the carriers between Constantinople and the North.
Oxygen rapidly converts it into a white explosive solid.
Since being made a great naval arsenal, Kiel has rapidly developed in prosperity and population.
The best soils are the alluvium in the bottom-lands along some of the larger rivers and that of the Blue Grass Region, which is derived from a limestone rich in organic matter (containing phosphorus) and rapidly decomposing.
It has steam flour-mills and a rapidly increasing trade.
The girl nodded a slightly bewildered assent as Graydon moved rapidlytowards the others.
Jane came rapidly through the church door, out of the gloom and odour into the warm sunshine and the green glow of the world, her face bright, her eyes gleaming.
He had gone on so rapidly that she could not check his rapid speech.
Are we going as rapidly as we should, Lieutenant Bray?
Lightly and rapidly though my shorter articles came into being, this larger task was very long in hand.
It was a starlight night, the ship cut rapidly through the calm waters, beautiful songs were sung and high-flown speeches made.
Even among those which are here represented, there are many devices which are rapidly becoming obsolete, and others of which it is very doubtful how far they are used at the present moment.
Hardly ever being called upon to use any cards but his own, it is not surprising that he should rapidly acquire wealth among people whose chief recreation appeared to be gambling.
By comparing the growth of the latter tree with the Murthly table, it will be seen that the trees make their growth much more rapidly in Scotland.
A pretty yellow-flowered shrub that increasesrapidly from the root.
It has erect stems and forms dense thickets, spreading rapidly by means of the numerous underground rhizomes it sends out in all directions.
Many of the species spread rapidly by underground stems, and for this reason must never be planted without careful thought.
Not a vestige of snow was left near the road; only a patch or two on the hills, and even that was rapidly disappearing in the spring sunshine which every day grew warmer.
It makes a great deal of difference," exclaimed Mr. Franklin, who was rapidly growing angry.
The people in America are frequently informed that they are very intelligent and free, but would a very intelligent people shovel coal so furiously into the furnace of a locomotive that was rapidlyrunning their train to the devil?
While yet a yielding or molten mass, it whirled very rapidly on its axis, the surface cooled and became rigid, and the molten matter contracted.
Under the delirium of modern conditions the population is rapidly increasing, and thus are the inhabitants already beginning to crowd each other.
He reminded us of the natural tendency of matter to fly from the surface of a rapidly revolving wheel, cylinder, or globe.
Under the earlier régime the follies of the old rapidlyspread over the new world, and by 1890 most of the better lands in Zelania were parcelled out in lordly estates and owned by a few persons.
Skipping his most emphatic words, and toning down portions of his most lurid sentences, I will recite to you the substance of his fervid oration as we hurried over the plains to overtake the rapidly sinking sun.
It is practically the business, and is rapidly becoming the "polite" language of the "civilised" world.
The proprietors of the tiny epiceries must have been rapidly making their fortunes, considering the prices that they charged the unfortunate poilu, dreaming of some small luxury out of his five sous a day.
She ran a nursing paper, but her chief interest was in the woman's suffrage question, just then coming rapidly to the front.
It had ideals and was, in consequence, regarded by the general public with suspicion; but by reason of sincerity and braininess was rapidly becoming a power.
She had talked so rapidly Joan felt as if her hat were being blown away.
They pretend to fight among themselves, but it's rapidly becoming a close corporation.
Such a change was not possible, and I grewrapidly worse.
I rapidly explained to him that I was travelling alone, that a half-drunken man was with me, and I begged him to put me into another carriage.
During this time my health was rapidly failing, and in the summer of 1873 it broke down completely.
If there was a cable, I did not see it, but presently the boat turned and came rapidly towards the Hulk.
I said, and put my finger upon the rapidly growing smear.
The army, unpaid and frequently in actual distress, was so rapidly losing its morale that it might easily become a prey to demagogues.
The wind being astern, we ranrapidly along the coast, and in two hours entered the mouth of the Guadalquivir.
In spite of all efforts, the Ottoman Power is rapidly wasting away.
From the moment of his being compelled to quit her side, to inquire into the cause of Sambo's exclamation and rapidly succeeding fall, he had not had an opportunity of again approaching her.
How rapidly was the deceitful illusion dispelled, when, on entering the sick chamber of their adored parent, they beheld what every surrounding circumstance told them was not the mere bed of sickness, but the bed of death.
Matilda, rapidly changing her tone into that of earnest persuasion, "wherefore do you hesitate.
Meanwhile the preparations for the departure of the expedition for the Miami were rapidly completing.
Rolling rapidly over to the point where the knife had fallen he secured it in his left hand, and then, leaping nimbly to his feet, gathered himself into a spring upon his unarmed but watchful enemy.
Aid-de-Camp, whose apprehension began rapidly to subside, now that he had obtained the conviction that it was not the flesh of a white man.
It was the canoe which, bottom upwards, and deprived of its little mast and sail, had again risen to the surface, and was floating rapidly down with the current.
Rapidly they make their way up the steps, as though very well acquainted with the place.
His mind rapidly generated the divers manly replies he wished, with an intensity amounting to pain, he had thought of a moment before.
The disappointed customer tried to content himself with endeavoring to absorb as much of a pint as he could obtain through a rapidly consumed series of single drinks.
Yes, by one of the ladies of his party, who, it appears, is eminent as a professor of this science, now rapidly coming into a period of great vogue.
The paper goes on to say that it behooves all citizens to take thought to fortify their systems against the ravages of this terrible disease which is rapidly approaching.
