For his arrows he used thin strong reeds at first, but later on made them of seasoned saplings too, using a smaller size.
But when such saplings had been dried for many days before the fire, they became fit to use.
Some people think it came from the use of bent saplings in making snares or traps.
Selecting two saplings about eight feet apart, the boys cut into them with the hatchet, at a point about three feet above the water, until they toppled and fell over in the same direction.
Against this cross-bar, which was about four feet from the ground, eight or ten other cut saplings were leaned at an angle of about forty-five degrees and less than a foot apart.
Over these were then arranged about a hundred palmetto fans cut within a few feet of the spot, thus forming a thatch which was protected against gusts of wind by two or three other saplings laid diagonally across.
The business required of them was the cutting down of one six-inch sapling for posts and several two-inch saplings wherewith to frame the slanting roof which these posts would support.
A few smaller twigs and saplingshad been cleared out of her way, leaving a delightful shady spot where the tent stood.
These saplings Miss Miller now chopped off at the bottom until she had formed a sharp spike on each end.
Down this they climbed with much difficulty, swinging themselves by creepers and holding on to the boles of saplings until they gained the foot of a deep ravine.
But brush and brambles had come in soon after the lumbermen left and now a thick stand of saplings also helped to choke the path.
We'll cut a couple of saplings and tie them to the box for handles," said the ranger.
Pick out some trees or saplings to sight by and you will have no trouble to keep your line straight.
The cut saplings and brush had been burned in the trail itself, but the work had been done so carefully that never a tree had been scorched.
All log cabins are much alike--a square enclosure of unhewn logs thatched with saplings and chinked with mud and moss.
He took his half-dazed brother by the arm, more to keep him from approaching too close to the well than for any other reason, and the three boys raced to where a number of saplings were growing.
Sam had noted that one of the saplings had been bent over by the wind and was partly uprooted.
Another inducement to stop at this particular point was found in a small grove of spruce saplings just across the river, which was so dense that each tree trunk tapered as regularly as if it had been turned from a lathe.
A little farther there was a spot where the ground for a yard or two was covered with small dead brown leaves, last year's, apparently of birch, for some young birch saplings grew close by.
More slender than saplings was the build of his legs!
We now placed the saplings across the top, and over these a thin stratum of cane-reeds, and above all this a quantity of long grass and withered leaves--so as to make it look as like as possible to the rest of the surface around it.
Harry, meanwhile, employed himself with the hatchet in getting long slender saplings and canes to cover in the pit.
A few seconds later he heard a shout that came from behind the saplings which, in some places, concealed the old tote-road from his view.
From the little opening he crept into the thicket of saplings and disappeared.
The sun beat down on the thicket of saplings and no breeze penetrated it.
Even after they had plunged into the thicket of saplings they could hear bullets zipping through the foliage to right and left.
It was certain that he would plunge into the thicket of saplings in pursuit.
He plunged into the thicket, whipping himself with the bending saplings in his headlong flight.
Five minutes later Harshaw broke through the saplings to the pit.
We had stuck two young stout saplingsinto the ground, one on each side of the hole, having shortened their stems so that the fork where the lowest branches were stood about three feet above the earth.
All we could do about this roof of ours was to carry up small rocks from the shore, and pile these one on another until we made a stand high enough for us to lay saplings from wall to wall.
We immediately got out the axes, and commenced cutting down the smaller saplings and straight branches of trees as rapidly as we could.
The big elephant and his companion whom I had at first met with now again espied me, and, trumpeting and shrieking, came dashing through the woods towards me, tearing down the branches, and trampling the young saplings under foot.
Hillside warbler would not be a bad name for this bird, which shows a decided preference for wooded hillsides covered with medium-sized deciduous trees and an undergrowth of saplings and small shrubbery.
Several nests were found in the top of little hemlock saplingsfrom one to five feet from the ground.
The nest is built in small upright saplings or sprouts, 3 to 4 feet above the ground, and is constructed of shredded bark from the dying chestnut trees, rotten wood, etc.
Branchport, New York, were built in birch saplingseighteen and twenty inches from the ground, and in a blackberry bush fourteen inches from the ground.
Crossed spars, which are the doglegs, placed at intervals, keep in place a low rail resting on short posts, and are themselves fixed by heavy saplings resting in the forks above.
Saplings used as stakes in vineyards have lasted twenty years or more.
Even as far north as the Fresno, I counted 536 saplings and seedlings, growing promisingly upon a landslip not exceeding two acres in area.
I also noted eighty-six vigorous saplings upon a piece of fresh ground prepared for their reception by fire.
Not only the young saplings are thus carefully covered and put to sleep in the whitest of white beds for five or six months of the year, but trees thirty feet high or more.
Then he returned and lighted a small lantern which hung to one of the saplings and for the first time his men had a good look at their captain.
In some places where the men had fought through the brush, bushes, saplings and even large trees were cut off by bullets four or five feet from the ground as clean and regularly as if by machinery.
If there be ten saplings dispersed in the fifty cubits square?
The saplings and the gourds are reckoned alike in the fifty cubits square.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "saplings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
