A few weeks after these executions, word was brought to the Redwoods that a poor man had been robbed of some oxen in Oakland through the villainy of one of the officials in that city.
They therefore dispatched horsemen to the Redwoods to summon the people again to come and assist in the execution of the two principal criminals.
Many of the people of Oakland were highly exasperated at the audacity of the Redwoods boys, and threatened to go and hang them to their own trees.
The redwoods which towered above him were vast of girth, and it would have needed a long halter to encompass them, while there was no branch for sixty feet or so.
There are cedars and redwoods about it which except for a few in California, haven't their equal in the world, but there's nothing about that lake or valley that's quiet or calm.
These differ from the straight, symmetrical classic redwoods as Rodin's "Thinker" differs from the Apollo.
Every year the Bohemian Club produces in its summer annex--a beautiful grove of redwoods beside the Russian river--a play in praise of the forest.
The stage is a natural one, a cleared hill slope with redwoodsfor wings.
It has never been my good fortune to find this rare and exquisite little orchid, but beautiful specimens have been sent from the redwoods of Sonoma County and from Oregon.
The redwoods grow in the fog belt in the counties bordering the coast from Monterey Bay north to the Oregon line.
There is no fungus growth on the redwoods neither are the redwoods attacked by boring worms or other insects so common to other species of wood.
The redwoods thrive in moisture--it is taken into the roots, the foliage and the bark.
The Sequoia Gigantia reproduce from cones, while the redwoods reproduce from suckers that grow from the stump.
It rears its tall head from a jungle of laurel, madrone, oak, and other trees; and I doubt if so many as fifty large redwoods often stand upon a single acre.
The Urbans looked up to him; the head master had patted him on the back; the Redwoods had taken a fancy to him.
The Redwoods had given me an open invitation to drop in any Thursday evening to tea and bring a friend.
I may have; but I forbade Tempest to enter last night.
Perhaps he regretted for once in a way the policy of believing a boy guilty till he can prove himself innocent.
Try me this once," and posted them to my offended teacher.
For twelve months he had toiled with hope, strenuously hewing down the great redwoods which cumbered his possessions; and expended the rest of his scanty capital in hiring assistance.
He rose and left the house, walking with bowed head out of Sequoia, up the abandoned and decaying skid-road through the second-growth redwoods to the dark green blur that marked the old timber.
When McTavish was gone, John Cardigan sat down on a small sugar-pine windfall, his head held slightly to one side while he listened to that which in the redwoods is not sound but rather the absence of it.
But I fail to see what the loss of Cardigan's Redwoods has to do with the impending ruin of the Cardigan Redwood Lumber Company," his son reminded him.
Folks call them Cardigan's Redwoods now," he murmured.
But through all those fruitful years of toil he had still found time to dream, and the spell of the redwoods had lost none of its potency.
Between the huge brown boles of the redwoods woodwardia grew riotously, while through the great branches of these sentinels of the ages the sunlight filtered.
When I 'm no longer able to do that," she told Billy, "you can take a spade to that clump of redwoods beside Wild Water and dig a hole.
Past St. Helena, Saxon hailed with joy the unmistakable redwoodsthey could see growing up the small canyons that penetrated the western wall of the valley.
Look how beautiful it is--all covered with green woods; and I just know those are redwoods in the canyons.
On every hand opened tiny vistas of enchantment, where young redwoods grouped still and stately about fallen giants, shoulder-high to the horses, moss-covered and dissolving into mold.
For instance, you can't have redwoods without fog.
Trees That Are Strange to Us--Mahogany and other Central and South American trees; teakwood; cedars of Lebanon; redwoods of California.
Two tall redwoods rose on either side of them, like the columns before an altar.
Redwoods grow as tall as bigtrees, but do not equal them in diameter of trunk, though trees twenty feet in diameter occur.
In European markets it is known as California redwood to distinguish it from other redwoods growing in distant parts of the world.
It ranges in height from thirty-five feet, among theredwoods on the Santa Cruz mountains, to only one foot high on some of the wind-swept coasts.
Redwoods of large size are produced that way, and the stumps of very old trees send up many vigorous shoots.
That habit makes it possible for redwoods to grow in very dense stands, which they could not do if a few trees domineered over the others, and appropriated the light to themselves.
But among the redwoodsis the noblest music of all, different from that of any other trees.
And she had wished to see the redwoodsby sunset and moonrise.
The torch of sunset broke into a million stars; blazing golden spiders swung from glittering webs among the treetops; the melting crowns of the redwoods dripped rubies.
But she had been wandering on foot among the great redwoods for half an hour when Nick heard her voice calling his name.
There are other trees in this forest, besides the Sequoias; but it is on the redwoods alone that the light concentrates, just as limelight is turned upon the leading characters of a stage drama.
She hardly believed that the great redwoods which she was to see to-morrow could be grander than these immense fluted columns of cedar and pine.
Seedling redwoods come quickly from this yearly sowing, and thrive under the forest cover, unless fire or the trampling feet of grazing flocks destroy them.
Redwoods are taller than Big Trees, have slenderer trunks and branches and a more light and graceful leaf-spray.
Among the giant redwoods this tree commands the highest admiration.
The black, shaded loam, bare of grass, oozed the moisture it was saving for its evergreen redwoods against a rainless summer.
They were come now to a place where the trail ran steep and the redwoods thickened to make a Californian hillside.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "redwoods" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
