On the bay the warriors paddled In canoes of bark or rawhide, Or in mighty redwooddugouts Dared the currents of the narrows Training warriors to be ready To defend their shores and harbor.
When winter rains and sun have wrought in fragrant flowers A multicolored carpet on the land, A charm is in her circling hills and redwood bowers That only those who see can understand.
Then I rose and piled more branches Of the redwoodon the campfire, And the flames and sparks leaped upward, Lighting up the mournful forest, Driving back the eerie shadows.
One day they had tarried to raft redwood planks of California from the schooner in the bay to the site of Kivi's new house.
The people loved the ways of the whites and longed for homes of redwood planks and roofs of iron.
The average wood is seen in cheaper forms of indoor finish, while occasional pieces, in which the grain is distorted, are classed as curly redwoodand used for costlier decorations.
Redwood trees may be known by their size, locality, and fine, dull, evergreen foliage.
The common redwood is a large and perfect tree and supplies a wood suggesting good red cedar.
Gibbons, of Alameda, who has explored all the remains of the redwood forests in the neighborhood of Oakland, kindly took me to see the old burnt-out stump of the largest tree he had discovered.
Hence Californians have a saying that the redwood is too good a tree to live.
Only a few houses were afire, and the slow-burning redwood was smoldering but feebly.
On the last day but one of this visitation the fire, smoldering slowly in the redwood houses, had taken virtually all the district east of Van Ness Avenue, a broad street which bisects the residence quarter.
The redwood of the Coast ranges is not easily killed, for it sprouts from the stump, and will in the course of time form forests again; but the Big Trees rarely replace themselves when a grove has been cut down.
The Sequoia, as the genus is called, which also includes the redwood of the Coast ranges, is in many respects the most remarkable of all our coniferous trees.
But all along the redwood belt there are sunny openings on hill-slopes looking to the south, where the giant trees stand back, and give the ground to the small sunflowers and the bees.
Of course, both Redwood and old Ike had met with more than one "bar scrape," and the latter was induced to relate one of his best.
It was not among themselves, as Ike and Redwood both affirmed.
There was plenty of good hickory-wood near the place, and Jake, with a little help from Redwood and Ike and Lanty, soon spliced it again, making it stronger than ever.
Even old Ike and Redwoodcame into camp without game, alleging also that they had not met with the sign of a living quadruped.
Redwood and the Kentuckian, both good axemen, relieved them, and a deep notch soon began to make its appearance on each side of the log.
We saw Redwood enter fearlessly, leaving his horse hitched over a branch.
This piece of ingenuity was not original with the trappers, as Ike and Redwood admitted.
We found Ike andRedwood bitterly angry at the bull they had slain.
Ike and Redwood both declared that they afterwards had their revenge upon the Utahs, for the scurvy treatment they had suffered, but what was the precise character of that revenge they declined stating.
Ike and Redwood had at length got so close, that we were expecting every moment to see the flash of their pieces.
Redwood related an adventure that had befallen him while trapping the black bear at an earlier period of his life.
Yet he was armed with nothing more reliable than a slender redwood stick.
Now that she and her husband had decided to remain at Redwood Hall, I knew where to find her in case of necessity.
When you last wrote, you told me that Sir Jervis Redwood was not expected to live much longer, and that the establishment would be broken up after his death.
It is out of my power to send you to Redwood Hall at once," she resumed.
We stop at Belford on our way back, to see some friends of my husband, and we hope to get to Redwood Hall in good time on the 28th.
He was too deeply interested in Emily to let the housekeeper go without putting a question on his side: "Is Sir Jervis Redwood one of Miss Emily's old friends?
Early in the morning Mirabel set forth for Redwood Hall, in one of the vehicles which Mrs. Delvin still kept at "The Clink" for the convenience of visitors.
We are under a month's notice to leave Redwood Hall.
You must go to Redwood Hall tomorrow, as Emily has arranged it.
There is the true story of my first evening at Redwood Hall.
Whether they had, or had not, obtained the situation of which they were in search, neither Miss Redwood nor any one else at the Hall could tell.
Miss Redwood declared her purpose in sending for me the moment I entered the room.
Mrs. Delvin left it to Emily to decide whether she would proceed by herself to Redwood Hall, or wait for Mirabel's return.
I don't doubt that Sir Jervis Redwood is the earthly alias which he finds convenient--but I stick to that first impression which appeared to surprise you.
Leaving San Francisco, we took the little narrow-gauge railway that leads out south of the city, skirts the bay and climbs the Coast Range through the famous grove of immense redwood trees that comes down to the sea at Santa Cruz.
He telephoned in from Redwood City half an hour ago.
A man went down from his house to the road where his mailbox was nailed to a redwood post.
One afternoon two men were digging post-holes and setting in redwood posts on the side of one of the main roads in Orangeville.
Yet in the redwood and Douglas fir country stumps are cut, not four feet, but nine feet high, leaving waste enough to build a small house.
Your bed will be hemlock boughs--be sure to lay the branch-end out and the soft end in or you'll dream of sleeping transfixed and bayoneted on a nine foot redwood stump.
The club owns a fine tract of redwood forest fifty miles north of San Francisco, on the Russian River.
The Redwood city jail was torn down and all the prisoners escaped.
The slopes of Tamalpais were crowded with little villas dotted through the woods, and those minor estates ran far up into the redwood country.
Its chief industry is the hauling from the hills and shipping from the wharves the redwood lumber, whose abundance has named the town.
Near Redwood City, and for the succeeding fifteen miles, the track runs between fresh water fields on the west and salt water marsh upon the east.
From Belmont, it is but three miles and a quarter to Redwood City, The county seat of San Mateo county, on a navigable slough leading into the bay.
Four miles south ofRedwood City, Menlo Park, Terminates our excursion in this direction.
The other relative is Glyptostrobus, a sort of modified Taxodium, being about as much like our bald cypress as one species of redwood is like the other.
That the two species of redwood we are contemplating originated as they are and where they are, and for the part they are now playing, is, to say the least, not a scientific supposition, nor in any sense a probable one.
The forests of the arctic zone in tertiary times contained at least three other species of Sequoia, as determined by their remains, one of which, from Spitzbergen, also much resembles the common redwood of California.
If only I’d crossed the border and settled in Canada when I was a young man, it would have been a deal better for me all round,” he said, leaning his head back against the redwood and gazing pensively up into the sky.
Despite the work he had spoken of, the old man seemed in no hurry to go, but stood leaning at ease against the bole of a great redwood tree, talking in the dreamy fashion which always seemed to suit him much better than hard work.
All was garmented by vegetation, from tiny maiden-hair and gold-back ferns to mighty redwood and Douglas spruces.
Dawn caught us on the northern brow, and in the gray light we dropped down through chaparral into redwood canyons deep and warm with the breath of passing summer.
The celebrated "big trees" of California are not to be confounded with the redwood described above, but belong to a different species of the same genus.
The redwood resembles the cedar in habit, general appearance, character of its wood, and colour of bark and leaves.
This redwood forest begins at the south in the vicinity of San Francisco, and extends northward, mainly on the moist seaward slopes of the Coast Ranges, to southwestern Oregon, but seldom reaches more than 30 miles inland.
It is in this northern division that the great forests of redwood occur, now so largely used for lumber.
View inredwood forest of California, from photograph by U.
Then over by Redwood Meadows, and Timber Gap, by Mineral King, and over through Farewell Gap.
Susie and the twins were sitting idly on a great, shaggy, redwood log in the scanty shade of the house, fanning themselves as briskly as their tired arms would move, and longing for the cool of sundown.
Stooping over to pick up a fragment of redwood bark at her feet, she uncovered a small bag, which rattled as she touched it; and as she untied the drawstring, a shower of glittering gold pieces fell into her lap.
Also he had competition now: other sawmills dotted the bay shore; other three- masted schooners carried Humboldt redwood to the world beyond the bar, over which they were escorted by other and more powerful steam- tugs.
They passed through a narrow gap between two low hills and emerged in a long narrow valley where the redwood grew thickly and where the smallest tree was not less than fifteen feet in diameter and two hundred and fifty feet tall.
So he came West, I suppose, and bought a lot of redwood timber cheap from some old croaker who never could see any future to the redwood lumber industry.
Now, then, continue to listen: to the north of that great block of timber held by you and Pennington lie the redwoodholdings of the Trinidad Redwood Timber Company.
I took that money Pennington gave me for my Squaw Creek timber and put it back into redwood in Township Nine, slam-bang up against your holdings there.
He figures on buying all that back timber rather cheap when he gets around to it, for the reason that the Trinidad Redwood Timber Company cannot possibly mill its timber until a railroad connects its holdings with the outside world.
At forty-four he was standing on his dock one day, watching his tug kick into her berth the first square-rigged ship that had ever come to Humboldt Bay to load a cargo of clear redwood for foreign delivery.
Prosperity is coming back on the surface of the fruitful waters, but the redwood forests have not come back.
By one of those strange but charming affinities of wild life, the redwoodgrove is the peculiar haunt of lilies.
From time to time the "logging" industry cuts a wide track down the redwood forest.
This characteristic refraction from their yellowish, inch-long needles dwells about the redwood as an aura, and far on the horizon distinguishes their ranks from the hill-slopes masked with pines.
On the western slope, increasing as they go northward, the redwood holds all the open country, but it is no climber like monticola, the largest of all true pines, the captain of the Sierra forests.
This hammer, along with a number of large wire nails and a piece of redwood board, was then placed in the monkey's cage.
Sobke, Pithecus rhesus Box Stacking Experiment For this test, in the case of Sobke, three light boxes made of redwood about one-third of an inch thick were used.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "redwood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
