The spectacle presented by these century-old trees standing close beside a spiry wall of ice, with their branches almost touching it, was most novel and striking.
Looking southward from our shelter, we had this great torrent and the forested mountain wall above it on our left, the spiry ice-crags on our right, and smooth gray gloom ahead.
Casting your eye over the general forest from some ridge-top, the color alone of its spiry summits is sufficient to identify it in any company.
Alluding to the crosses seen on the spiry rocks of Chartreuse.
The grass-plot was full of romantic light, and on its eastern margin was an etching of spiry spruce.
The splendid and spiry Engelmann spruces climb the stern slopes eleven thousand feet above the ocean, where weird timber-line with its dwarfed and distorted trees shows the incessant line of battle between the woods and the weather.
The horizon is bounded and adorned by a spiry wall of pines, every tree harmoniously related to every other; definite symbols, divine hieroglyphics written with sunbeams.
So trim and tasteful are these silvery, spiry groves one would fancy they must have been placed in position by some master landscape gardener, their regularity seeming almost conventional.
The spirymyrtle with unwithering leaf Shines there and flourishes.
Thro harvest fields the bloody myriads tread, Sack the lone village, strow the streets with dead; The flames in spiry volumes round them rise, And shrieks and shouts redoubling rend the skies.
A few of its branches hanging from a mass of heavier foliage, may appear light and feathery, while its spiry head may often form an agreeable apex to a clump.
Its pointed and spiry shoots, during the first years of its growth, are formal; and yet I have sometimes seen a good contrast produced between its spiry points and the round-headed oaks and elms in its neighbourhood.
A light, airy young Beech, with its spiry branches hanging in easy forms, is generally beautiful.
Their clumpy heads blend ill with the spiry tops of the juniors.
The Skylark Above the russet clods the corn is seen Sprouting its spiry points of tender green, Where squats the hare, to terrors wide awake, Like some brown clod the harrows failed to break.
Waste sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn, The spiry fir and shapely box adorn.
Footnote t: "Alluding to crosses seen on the spiry rocks of the Chartreuse, which have every appearance of being inaccessible.
Stationed alone upon a spiry rock Of the Chartreuse, for worship.
As on the ears of growing corn the dews Fall grateful, while the spiry grain erect Bristles the fields, so, Menelaus, felt Thy inmost soul a soothing pleasure sweet!
Her also next, Hovering and clamoring, he by the wing Within his spiry folds drew, and devoured.
There was scarce a sign of culture; only about Bleymard, the white high-road from Villefort to Mende traversed a range of meadows, set with spiry poplars, and sounding from side to side with the bells of flocks and herds.
As florets, by the frosty air of night Bent down and closed, when day has blanch'd their leaves Rise all unfolded on their spiry stems, So was my fainting vigour new restored.
The mountains, clothed with forests, rose majestic in variousspiry forms, on which we already perceived the light of the rising sun .
His slanting ray Slides ineffectual down the snowy vale, And, tinging all with his own rosy hue, From every herb and every spiry blade Stretches a length of shadow o'er the field.
The spirymyrtle with unwithering leaf Shines there, and flourishes.
Once more the spiry myrtle crowns the glade, And ruminating flocks enjoy the shade.
Well spake the prophet, Let the desert sing, Where sprang the thorn, the spiry fir shall spring, And where unsightly and rank thistles grew, Shall grow the myrtle and luxuriant yew.
Footnote H: Alluding to crosses seen on the tops of the spiry rocks of the Chartreuse, which have every appearance of being inaccessible.
Footnote D: Alluding to crosses seen on the tops of the spiry rocks of the Chartreuse, which have every appearance of being inaccessible.
Casting your eye over the general forest from some ridge-top you can identify it by the color alone of its spiry summits, a warm yellow-green.
Amid the graves a spiry building stands "Whose solemn knell resounding through the gloom "Shall call thee o'er the circumjacent lands "To the dull mansion destin'd for my tomb.
Among the graves a spiry building stood, Whose tolling bell, resounding through the shade, Sung doleful ditties to the adjacent wood, 475 And many a dismal drowsy thing it said.
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