Next with his knife he cut a lot of light poles and scrub spruces and, sticking the butts in his snowbank, laid the tops, like the sticks of a wigwam, firmly against the big stub.
I followed them into the timber, and finally they went into a place where the spruces grew low and so thick that you could not see through them, and there I gave up the trail.
It crooned in the old spruces around the graveyard and ruffled Faith's splendid curls as she sat on Hezekiah Pollock's tombstone with her arms round Mary Vance and Una.
There was a grove of young spruces in this hollow, with a tiny, grassy glade in its heart, opening on the bank of the brook.
There ain't any gumspruces down at Four Winds," said Mary.
It was without a track of any sort, after the lake trail ended, that she and I stopped in the thick spruces and put on our snowshoes for the last lap of the way to Skunk's Misery.
Down and down they dropped, through spruces and pines and larches, growing ever taller and larger, till suddenly the trail went into the most wonderful forest Joe had ever seen.
This very night Rockwell and I skated for the third time, Ah, but it was glorious on the lake, the moon high above us in a cloudless sky, the snow and ice on the mountain sides glistening and the spruces black.
It is most dramatic; the spruces about us deepen the shadow to black while above them the stone faces of the mountain glisten and the sky has the brightness of a kind of day.
We saw the glowing sky where the sun had set, the mountainous islands to the southward, and our own cove and its mountain ramparts--beautiful in the black and white of the spruces and the snow.
When the travelers reached the rocks they tied their horses to some little spruces and started to breast the steep ascent on foot.
For the first half, the way was over steep open mountainside, dotted here and there with small spruces and cedars, and the soil was now wet with the melting snow, and often slippery.
At first it was so overgrown by willows and spruces that he could not fish, but not far beyond this the trees stood farther back from it and he began to cast.
Meet me to--night, under the spruces where we had that quarrel.
There were straggling pines and spruces that soon hid the cabins.
Only the babble of swift water and the sough of wind in the spruces greeted her ears.
The straight spruces and stately firs point ever upward and never cease to call "Excelsior!
The moon, the white aspens, and the dark spruces pile it with romantic shades, and on a sunny day it is often touched by the fleeting shadow of an eagle in the sky.
On top of this mountain the pines and spruces are merrily growing, unmindful of the buried past--of the tragic tree history beneath.
Some of the woods are poplars of various kinds, others spruces and firs.
It is easy to distinguish the conifers as spruces and firs are called, for the reason that the trees bear cones.
So the talk ran on, as the boys made their way to the clump of spruces where Chet had had his adventure.
He reeled away to where a clump of stunted spruces made a shelter against the gale and lowered her to the ground, still swathed in blankets.
Grabbing an axe from young Peter Leary, he set to with a fury of effort and unheeding skill that brought the slimspruces flapping to earth.
Their night camp was made among the solemn spruces by the side of a little brook winding its way to the nearby river.
XVII ROOTS AND HERBS THE dawning of the second day in the camp under the great spruces found Prime still struggling desperately with the problem of what to do.
The bright sun cast purple shadows of the pines and spruces upon the clean white snow.
As I retreated into the woods, a breeze whispered and the spruces made stately movements.
Wandering on across the burn toward the fire-line, I came to the place where a ragged-edged and beautiful glacier meadow had reposed, a poetic park among the spruces dark and tall.
A segment of wind-distorted trees, a few enormous rock domes, a fine pile of boulders, and a strip of willow with clumps of spruces and firs combine to give a charming border.
The limbless bases of the spruces were set deep in snow, and their lower limbs were pulled down and tangled in it.
As the night advanced, the shadow of the spruces shortened as their shadow points moved round to the north.
Each flower paused in the midst of its part, the music of the thrush broke off, the tall spruces scowled stiffly, and the slender, observant young trees stood unwillingly still.
Entire spruce groves had been tilted to sharp angles by the slipping and dragging snow weight on steep places; among them were tall spruces that appeared like great feathered arrows that had been shot into snowy steeps.
Here through the night my fire blazed and faded in the edge of a meadow before a templed cluster of spruces on a rocky rim above the lake.
Others are hidden away in black forests; tall, crowding firs and spruces rise from their edges and hide them completely, even when one is only a yard or two from their shores.
Rare shadow etchings the tall, short-armed spruces made, as they lay in light along the eastern border of this moon-filled park.
Yellow pines and Douglas spruces killed in an intensely hot fire are so cooked and preserved that they will resist weathering or rot for decades.
Now and then a plunging landslide forms an island, on which the spruces and firs make haste to wave triumphant plumes.
The spruces had become towering folded flags of fluffy black.
The evergreen conifers that one is likely to plant may be roughly classed as pines; spruces and firs; cedars and junipers; arborvitæ; yews.
It is a common notion that, since sprucesand other conifers grow so symmetrically, they will not stand pruning; but this is an error.
Whatever else is done to the spruces and firs, the lower limbs should not be trimmed up, at least not until the tree has become so old that the lowest branches die.
Most of the pines and spruces are too coarse for planting very close to the residence.
The first sight of luxuriant Engelmann spruces creeping close to the ground instead of rising 150 feet or more straight and true as masts arouses keenest interest.
Others which have succeeded in lifting their heads in spite of winds have not succeeded in growing branches in any direction except in the lee of their trunks, and suggest big evergreen dust brushes rather than spruces and firs.
Young Ethan Frome walked at a quick pace along the deserted street, past the bank and Michael Eady's new brick store and Lawyer Varnum's house with the two black Norway spruces at the gate.
He pulled the sled out, blinking like a night-bird as he passed from the shade of the spruces into the transparent dusk of the open.
It stood at one end of the main street, its classic portico and small-paned windows looking down a flagged path between Norway spruces to the slim white steeple of the Congregational church.
It was so dark under the spruces that he could barely see the shape of her head beside his shoulder.
The spruces swathed them in blackness and silence.
They had reached the crest of the Corbury road, and between the indistinct white glimmer of the church and the black curtain of the Varnum spruces the slope stretched away below them without a sled on its length.
In the black shade of the Varnum spruces he caught up with her and she turned with a quick "Oh!
Here my seat was on the edge of the bank, high above the stream, shaded by a group of black and battered old spruces that looked as if they had faced the storms of a hundred stern Maine winters, as probably they had.
Elise shivered in a hitherto unknown terror as she crept into the still deeper shadow of the stunted spruces that fringed the talus from the mountain.
It was completely hidden from the trail by a semicircle of tall spruces which, sweeping from the cliff on either side of the fall, bent in graceful curves to meet at the margin of the dividing brook.
On all firs the cones stand upright on the branches, while on spruces they hang down.
The needles of the firs are also blunt, while those of the spruces are sharply pointed.
Trapper's Lake lay before him, a beautiful sheet of water, mirroring the black slopes and the fringed spruces and the flat peaks.
The trail led out over open grassy shores, with a few pines straggling down to the lake, and clumps of spruces raising dark blurs against the background of gleaming lake.
Columbine rode into a thick clump of spruces that had long, shelving branches, reaching down.
The shadows of the long spruces gradually merged into the darkness of night.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spruces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
