There are stretches of unbroken woodland around it and slashes where the cypress knees rise countlessly like headstones and footstones for the dead snags that rot in the soft ooze.
And he kept on followin' after the sound of it till he got way down into the thickest part of them cypress slashes that's near the middle there; and right there he run acrost it--this body.
The adjacent lowlands, and the higher levels and hill-slopes further back, are almost as difficult of penetration, owing to the dense growth of lofty pines and the interminable fire-slashes that cover large areas.
These fire-slashes are due to autumnal fires which sweep through the forests, burning the vegetable mould, so that the trees are left without support, and the first wind lays them down in the wildest confusion.
The points of slashes were often held by jewelled settings, and the long slashes were caught here and there with the same.
Slashes are now seen in most sleeves, and an Italianesque character pervaded the fashion.
The body is usually decorated with long slashes from the shoulders to the breast, or the full length, and a long slashed opening is often seen in the back (presumably to give more play to the sword-thrust).
The full sleeves were embellished with small slashes (making diamond squares), puffs, or pricked and punched designs.
One or two jostled the leader in passing and were rewarded with swift, silent slashesof his great jaws.
Also, something of these same sentiments enters into that sort of rage with which each relative beats himself, burns himself or slashes himself: a sorrow which reaches such a paroxysm is not without a certain amount of anger.
Among the Yerkla, during the initiation the young man is given a certain number of slashes which leave scars; the number and form of these varies with the totems.
But with the broadaxe he slashes about him like an angel from heaven--not so, Boris?
The woodman rims the bark near the foot of the tree, and again six feet above, and slashes it perpendicularly; then, with a blunt stick, he crowds off this thick hide exactly as an ox is skinned.
He slashes out a figure for you and then he is done.
He lays on his pigments in sweeping slashes and his divisions are large.
It stands upon the right of the turnpike to Richmond, in the midst of the flat piny region called the slashes of Hanover.
Illustration: 0441] * The word slashes is applied to tracts of fiat clay soil, covered with pine woods, and always wet.
Slip it into the hole as far as the slashes are cut in the tin, turn the piece of tin back against the wood, and fasten them with small brads or tacks.
For the chimney, remove the bottom from a round tin spice-box, and in one end of the box cut slashes an inch in depth and half an inch apart.
The one slashes away with his haphazard hoe, while he looks and talks in another direction.
Nothing told me that those first nervousslashes of my brush signalized the beginning of a picture the fame of which was destined to reach the outposts of the civilized world before the year was out.
With the sabre I was never over skilled, and yet some men have received slashes even from me.
Who would have said that, after such mighty slashes as your worship gave that unlucky knight-errant, there was coming, travelling post and at the very heels of them, such a great storm of sticks as has fallen upon our shoulders?
They dashed at the grating and escaped by it, save one that, finding itself hard pressed by the slashes of Don Quixote's sword, flew at his face and held on to his nose tooth and nail, with the pain of which he began to shout his loudest.
Slashes Small Knobs are promisquisly Scattered about which are Steep and thickly Covered with pine Common to the Countrey & Lorel.
Eye-high on the stalwart trunk of an oak were four parallel slashes from the keen blade of a tomahawk.
It was almost dusk when he found the sign, four slashes of a tomahawk, eye-high on the stalwart trunk of an oak, and a hundred yards farther on a similar sign.
For weavers, cut from paper of harmonious tone, strips equal in width to the slashes in the mat.
Cut slashes from the folded edge, not less than one half inch apart, to within one inch of edge of the paper (See Fig.
Aimery is nigh regretful that there are no slashes on his youthful countenance, although Sire Eustace, his mentor, grimly assures him "this trouble will pass with time.
Amid an expectant hush Conon rises and slashes the pasty open with a dagger.
He was attired richly in damask of a lovely, soft blue with the same slashes of crimson that the servant livery had shown, but in this case of finer material.
Even the servants were in doublet and hose of a sort of cerulean blue, with great slashes puffed with crimson silk.
Brush piles an' slashes mustn't be burned in dry or windy weather.
The lumberman who slashes off the timber may get rich himself, but he ruins the land.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slashes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
