Above the Gulch begins a pine wood with sparsely grown thickets of lilac, azalea, and odorous blossoming shrubs.
When such a storm portends the weather-wise black-tail will go down across the valley and up to the pastures of Waban where no more snow falls than suffices to nourish the sparsely growing pines.
In spring the long, coarse, sparsely leafy branches begin to rise from the woody base, often making the slopes silvery; and by May these have fully developed their loose, narrow panicles of pale flowers and yellowish buds.
Stout; simple below; parted in the middle into numerous widespreading branches; two feet high; succulent; sparsely villous.
Gray, is a very tall, slender, sparsely leafy plant with fragile, airy white flowers.
When the process of its growth is complete, it stands from two to five feet high, with slender, widespreading branches and rather sparselyscattered flowers.
In sparsely inhabited places, we make all we can of each encounter; but when it comes to a city, we keep to ourselves, and never speak unless we have trodden on a man's toes.
For we passed through a stretch of blighted country, sparsely covered with brush, but handsomely enough diversified with factory chimneys.
These parterres were sparsely filled, the sunnier beds being set with Spring bulbs; and there were always the yellow Day Lilies somewhere in the flower beds, and the white and blue Day Lilies, the common Funkias.
The dull blue, sparsely set flowers of the various members of the Mint family have no beauty in color, nor any noticeable elegance; the Blue Sage is the only vivid-hued one, and it is a true ornament to the border.
The little, deep yellow, globular blossoms appear in early spring andsparsely throughout the whole summer.
She, at least, was one who had not heard the rumor which since early forenoon had been spreading through the sparsely settled neighborhood.
All of those in which the institution survives are small in area and are situated in the more sparsely populated mountain districts where conditions of living are primitive and where there is little occasion for governmental elaborateness.
It chiefly consists of bare rock, shingle, and loose sand, alternating with firm sand, sparsely clothed with vegetation.
The region is now so sparsely occupied that no conflicting interests of individuals or of jurisdiction are likely to interfere to the delay or embarrassment of the actual location of the line.
The island is but sparsely settled, while it has an area sufficient for the profitable employment of several millions of people.
With a vast territory like ours, much of it sparsely populated, but all requiring the services of the mail, it is not at present to be expected that this Department can be made self-sustaining.
In a country so vast in area as the United States, with large portions sparsely settled, it must be expected that this important service will be more or less a burden upon the Treasury for many years to come.
The sparsely settled country and the long distances made any organized work an impossibility, although a number of individuals were strong advocates of equal suffrage.
While in Wyoming women had Full Suffrage, it was a sparsely settled Territory, with few newspapers and far removed from centers of political activity.
To hear this was unpleasant to the Syndic; it ha never occurred to him that his rural, illiterate, and sparsely populated district would have contained any person educated enough to think of inquiring in Rome about this local matter.
The day of the little Hyracothere was at the beginning of the great series of changes by which the lake country of the West, with its marshy flats and rank vegetation, became transformed into dry uplands sparsely clad with fine grasses.
The US relinquished all claims to the sparsely inhabited Phoenix and Line Island groups in a 1979 treaty of friendship with Kiribati.
The first day's ride is interesting, although the country is sparsely populated and semi-arid.
Its eastern part is mountainous and very sparsely settled, the great bulk of its population living in the highly cultivated central valley.
Native grass grew sparsely on the great table where it stood; rains had guttered the soil near its door.
This country to which the general agent had sent him was becoming more and more sparsely settled.
But he felt sure that he should find her track: and its direction where the fells were so sparsely peopled must tell him much.
At Wool the rail parts company with the Dorchester turnpike and soon after leaves the valley of the Frome, traversing a sparsely populated district served by one small station in the ten miles to Dorchester, at Moreton.
The Avebury road now ascends the sparsely inhabited chalk hills, part of the range known under the general designation of the Marlborough Downs.
Yet that is almost the case in the ancient Jewish law; for the exceptions are such as would reappear in England if it were more sparsely populated and manners were rougher.
In Australia, for example, highway robbery under arms and violence to women are capital crimes, just because the country is sparsely inhabited and the households unprotected.
In colour it is dark reddish brown, mottled with creamy white and pale green, and is sparsely supplied with a few isolated hairs (Fig.
The latter are bordered with flashing crimson, the legs and under surface being reddish-brown, sparsely clothed with white hairs.
West of the Jordan, a confused mass of hills rises into sight, their sparsely covered slopes affording an impoverished soil for the cultivation of corn, vines, and olives.
North of it is the fourth zone, only sparsely wooded.
Except in the regions near the large cities, only a small part is even sparsely settled now.
It was a high, park-like expanse, sparsely wooded, beautiful in summer, but cold and bleak in winter.
At any rate, I intend to represent the policy that will change this State from the sparsely settled battle-ground of a lot of mounted hobos to a State with an honorable place among the other commonwealths.
