Though it was so broad it did not seem far to-day to the yellow cliff of the quarry, to the sward of the battlefield, and the massive heads of the sycamores under which the war had raged.
The immense sycamores stood out against the sky, with the broad green curve of their tops drawn along the blue.
Val Crassus, with a strong body of Pompeians, was coming from the sycamores direct towards him.
Then, when they had established their camp in a grove of sycamores which bordered the little river Ept, Clifford, the acknowledged master of all that pertained to sportsmanship, took command.
Under the sycamores which surrounded the duck-pond opposite the fountain of Marie de Medici, the water-fowl cropped the herbage, or waddled in rows down the bank to embark on some solemn aimless cruise.
Mysterious shadows were gathering among the ruins, the white walls stood out ghostly and still, and as a breeze stirred the clacking leaves of the sycamores a voice mounted up like a bird's.
So he went about his work and when he looked again his lady of the sycamores had fled.
In the brief freshness of the morning there was a smell of flaunting green from the sycamores along the creek, and the tang of greasewood from the ridges; and then, from the chimney of a massive stone house, there came the odor of smoke.
Melissa, standing among the sycamores below, had seen it all as a sudden, paralyzing vision.
He was not able to understand, nor is it likely that he will ever know, how it came there, or why there came over him at sight of it a memory of sycamores and running water, and the smell of sage and blooming buckthorn and chaparral.
The shifting sunlight that fell upon her through the moving leaves of the sycamores lent a grace to the angularity of her attitude.
She had the California mountaineer's worship of water, and the gurgle of the stream among the sycamores filled her with vague rebellion.
Three-quarters of an hour later, they came out into the main road, again; near the Carleton ranch corral, a mile and a half below the old camp in the sycamores behind the orchard of the deserted place.
In that bunch of sycamores back of the old orchard down there," answered the Ranger, watching the man's face keenly.
Once, he turned for a brief glance at the grove of sycamores behind the old orchard, farther down the creek.
What a power it had been in its might, floating sycamores and ironwoods as if they were reeds, lapping high against the granite walls, moving the very rocks in its bed until they ground together!
The densest point of the avenue of sycamores had been selected, where the boughs made a closely interlaced vault overhead; to these boughs the canvas had been hung, and a barrel roof was the result.
Gray remarked on the absence of red roofs, gentlemen's houses, and garden-walls, and on the uniform character of the humble farmsteads and gray cottages under their sycamores in the vales.
Tell him that there's something near those three sycamores in Coon Valley that he'd better take care of.
The wan, gray light of an overcast morning fell sadly on the wilderness when the pair came again to the three sycamores and Glory Rock.
There was nothing except the sycamores and grass right here, and none of the sycamore trunks were bullet marked.
How do you know he was shot near them three sycamores in Coon Valley?
Smoky, Ted's experience told him, never would have moved from beside the sycamores if this bullet had mushroomed.
When he was dressed, he sat down and wrote a note: Dad; Meet me at the three sycamores near Glory Rock and bring Tammie with you.
Timing was very important, and certainly Al Harkness was never going to show himself at the three sycamores if he saw Loring Blade anywhere near them.
Smoky was near the three sycamores when he thought he saw something move.
In about half a mile, or right here, you'll come to three sycamores near a big boulder.
I tell him, 'There's somethin' near them three sycamores in Coon Valley you better take care of.
A half mile from the Fordham Road, Ted came to the three sycamores near Glory Rock.
For lack of something else to do, he went twice more to the three sycamores near Glory Rock, the scene of Smoky Delbert's shooting.
Perhaps, too, sycamores and palm-trees cast their shadows over the external walls.
Palms and sycamores appear to have been planted about them, and here and there, perhaps, the care of survivors succeeded in rearing flowers which would shed their perfumes for the consolation of the dead.
The line of sycamoresopposite us were green and still against the blue; the morning sun lighting their white trunks and framework.
A big dark brown form flew down the avenue of sycamores ahead of us, followed by a mob of all the feathered house owners in the neighborhood.
Finding that we did not offer to go, the poor old crone took to her wings; but as she passed down the line of sycamores she roused the blackbird clan, and a pair of angry orioles flew out and attacked her.
On June 14, when I went to the nest, the mowers had been at work around the sycamores and the oat-field was full of cocks.
The air was ringing with songs, thesycamores were noisy with the chatter of blackbirds and bee-birds, and the bushes were full of sparrows.
The weather was gloomy and the prospect for the spring's work looked discouraging, when one morning I rode over to the line of oaks and sycamores at the mouth of Ughland canyon I had not visited before.
ON our way back and forth along the line of oaks and sycamores belonging to the little prisoners, the little lover, and the gnatcatchers, Mountain Billy and I got a good many hints, he of places to graze, and I of new nests to watch.
The large brown hummers probably stop in the valley only on their way north, but the little black-chinned ones make their home there, and the big spreading sycamores and the great live-oaks are their nesting grounds.
My conscience smote me for driving her out among her enemies, but on our return to the sycamoresall was quiet again, and a lizard was sunning himself on the edge of the old owl's chimney.
On the road to my sycamores was a deserted whitewashed adobe.
But this line of sycamores was off from the highway, and the bird was not used to prying equestrians; so when she found Mountain Billy and me planted in front of her door, she doubted the wisdom of showing us that it was her door.
On the east side was the Ughland canyon, at the mouth of which the little lover and his neighbors nested; while below it straggled the line of sycamores that followed the Ughland stream down through my ranch.
The cottage crouched; the sycamores behind it rustled; and the wind that stirred the sycamoresbrought to him the sound of a voice.
The voice was that of a man, deeply melodious without being exactly musical, and came from beyond the cottage somewhere by the clump of sycamores behind.
Against the light, inky sycamores ruffled, stars entangled in their leaves.
Down through the sheltering sycamores he plunged, and burst out into the open.
Already the leaves on the sycamoreswere shrivelled; and a rusting chestnut was hung with nuts prickly as sea-urchins.
A faint breeze ruffled the sycamores upon the knoll.
Dead men as dung upon the grass here in the holiness of evening, and a robin singing in the sycamores overhead.
As we ate, the moon came up higher and higher, and silvered the white trunks of the sycamores till they looked like a row of ghosts standing with outstretched arms along the creek.
The palm-trees and sycamores were silvered by the moonlight and threw strange fantastic reflections onto the red waters of the Nile--red from the fiery glow of the houses on their shores.
The branches of the sycamores and plane-trees drooped and floated on the waves, but the boughs of the tall silver poplars strained upward, as if anxious to avoid the watery world beneath.
Often when the wind shrieked about the old house, and the sycamores groaned under the lash, Mistress Lynn would listen with eager ears for the sound of Barbara's footsteps on the threshold.
As he stood in the gloaming with the dark farm buildings all about him, and the sycamores shuffling overhead, and the water gurgling at his feet, his eyes burnt, and he wetted his dry lips with his tongue.
The forest-trees which skirt its banks are the largest in North America, while the variety is endless; several sycamores were pointed out to us upon the shores from thirty to fifty feet in circumference.
The finest point from which to view the little "City of the French" is from beneath the enormous sycamores upon the opposite bank of the Mississippi.
The view of the water and the opposite forest from the elevated mouth of the cavern is very fine, and three or four broad-leafed sycamores fling over the whole a delightful shade.
On the day some eight or nine months later that we moved into it the sycamores were budding, and there were faint spring scents in the air.
The stark sycamores along the creek-bank rose gaunt and gray, and the ragged picket fence and stile and barn were black etchings against the frosted hills.
She went with lithe tread and pliant carriage down beyond the saw-mill to a spot where the sycamores hung low by the waters that swirled in a cascade over a litter of huge rocks.
The storm set in with a whirl of snow and with a wind that raved like a madman and broke the spectral white arms of the sycamores by the river.
Beyond thesycamores lay the wide river, beyond the river lay Virginia.
The trees of life will stand on either side, like those great sycamores that lean over the water so gracefully.
Out through the opening in the hollow, Humphreys saw the green sea of six-feet-high Indian corn in the fertile bottoms, the two rows of sycamores on the sandy edges of the river, and the hazy hills on the Kentucky side.
The island was covered with a tangle of oak and maple, with a few lordly sycamorestowering above all.
A line of sycamores two hundred yards to my right marked the bed of the Tippecanoe; and on my left hand, beyond a walnut grove, a little filmy dust-cloud hung above the hidden highway.
Islay had shed its crimson drupes; the cactus fires had died down to the dull purples of the fruiting prickly pear; the sycamores by the dwindling waters of the arroya had scarcely a palsied leaf to wag.
For some reason the air of the marshes is friendly to the mistletoe infesting the oaks and sycamores which stand back from the tide-line; but the marshes themselves are treeless.
Pushed aside by the compelling tides, too undisciplined to make proper banks for themselves, they are neglected by all but a few fringing willows and shapeless sycamores in which the herons nest.
Though I knew the field I was in well, I didn't remember the young sycamores growing in one corner of it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sycamores" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
