Within the swamp the huge and ancient trunks of cedar and tamarack crowded in a sort of desperate confusion.
The bear, who had but recently finished his meal of fish, was lying half asleep on the dry tamarack needles between the roots.
White birch is excellent for camp-fires; dry or green and dry tamarack is one of the best of camp-fire woods.
Green pine, cedar, fir and tamarack burn slowly and require much dry wood to help keep them burning.
As we slipped into the corner of the tamarack swamp my heart was beating high, my pulses racing with the recollection of all the tense moments in that grove ahead, since first I met her there.
South of the orchard it had grown to sugar maple for a brief space, then to young pine, evidently seedlings of some big trees now cut down, with a little tamarack swamp in the far corner.
The grove was dripping wet, the brook high, and when I had stacked up the slash from as far as the tamarack swamp, I brought down some old planks from the house and made a walk with them over the wet corner.
Then the path led through a corner of the tamarack swamp where in wet weather I should have to put down some planks, and where the cattails grew breast high on either side.
Finally we skirted the tamarack swamp, took the path up through the fringe of pines at the southern end of the field crops, and let it come back to the house beside the hayfield wall.
It had gone back to the tamarack and was almost hidden by the tree's foliage.
Twenty feet from the ground, it perched close to the trunk of the gloomy tamarack and enjoyed a nap.
In the middle branches of a tamarack that had shed its needles, a great horned owl ripped at a muskrat which it had plucked from a slough's surface.
Back of this were swamps and bogs with low moss-covered mounds running through them, and grown up with scattered tamarack and spruces.
Took packs early in day and hurried across to tamarack pole fishing place.
At the Height of Land, and for some miles beyond, the country is flat and boggy, and sparsely wooded with tamarack and spruce, many of the tall, slender tops of the former being bent completely over by the storms.
Regel has been found in Michigan and in Tamarack Swamps in Hennepin, Pine and Anoka Counties, Minnesota.
Dense woods of yellow pine whose giant trunks hold all the shades of faded rose, and silvery-green Colorado spruce overshadow us and once we find ourselves in a grove of yellow tamarack hung with streamers of black moss.
Perhaps their denseness is the reason for the wealth of rank-growing weed and shrub that forms one vast screen beneath the spreading branches of pine, tamarack and kingly cedar trees.
Even now it is easy to fancy that the fire still burns and each tall tamarack is a pillar of living flame.
In mid-afternoon of the third day she led the way down from the knoll and out across the quaking glooms of the tamarack swamp.
In the heart of a tamarack swamp, some leagues south from Nictau Mountain, was a dry little knoll of hardwood and pine undiscovered by the hunters, out of the track of the hunting beasts.
But before that other day came around, the bear encountered Fate, lying in wait for him, grim and implacable, beneath a trapper's deadfall in the heart of the tamarack swamp.
It was of her craft, too, that she had found this knoll in the heart of the tamarack swamp, and had guarded the secret of it from the herds.
We have traveled a great deal, and followed many trails, but this one discovered in Tamarack Hills offered the biggest prize.
Louise, let's get horses to-morrow and ride over Tamarack Hills?
He died suddenly the year before the Scouts found their way into Tamarack Hills, where they crossed the path of Peg, the now fifteen-year-old daughter.
Grace gave the usual announcement, and this time the girls had opportunity for a close-up view of the interesting, original Girl Scout of Tamarack Hills.
Benny himself, being brother to Grace, was chosen color-bearer, and he started his company off for Tamarack Hills with many compliments following in the wake of the trusty, valiant Boy Scouts.
But it was all so novel, and the woods smelled so of the pines and cedars and larches--no wonder that spot had been given the name Tamarack Hills.
So Peg of Tamarack Hills was a queer girl in many ways, and the mystery surrounding her home life always served to excite the curiosity of strangers, but had not, as yet, been explained.
But to Morton School fromTamarack Hills was a long distance, mostly covered by woodlands, and when others came in autos or by wagon, why shouldn't Peg come on horseback?
Then they carried a newly dipped pail of fresh spring water back to camp, for their first supper under the tamarack trees.
Dick Porter, the night-watchman on the grounds around Tamarack Hills, rubbed his eyes and heaved the sigh of another task completed.
However, it was not much over an hour after leaving the island that they spied the lights of Pine Camp from the top of the easy rise leading out of the tamarack swamp.
But she began to confide in Tom after this evening of her return from the tamarack swamp.
To tell the truth, little Margaret Llewellen was not the only person who thought it odd that Nan should want to go to see the Vanderwillers in the heart of the tamarack swamp.
Straight tamarack poles formed the timbers of the roof.
Their habitations were teepees, made of tamarack bark or of skins of wild beasts.
At eight that night we camped on a "tundra island," a slight rise in the general flatness on which grew a few tamarack trees.
After supper, which consisted of several brace of fat ptarmigan, brought down that afternoon with my shotgun, each man took his deerskin and spread it on a pile of elastic tamarack boughs.
Set the pine in the clay and it will turn yellow; the willow will not flourish on the hill; the tamarack is healthiest in the swamp; the tribes of the sea love best to hear the winds that blow over the salt water.
He had a light, tough spar of tamarack that he could raise on occasion, and with a little contrivance, his duck was spread to the wind in a sufficiently professional manner.
It has a peak behind it, glinting above the tamarack pines, above a breaker of ruddy hills that have a long slope valley-wards and the shoreward steep of waves toward the Sierras.
They come to it about the level of the heather, but they have no such affinity for dampness as the tamarack pines.
At times he would reach out for the crock of buttermilk that stood beside him and drained a draught of the maddening liquid, till his brain glowed like the coals of the tamarack fire before him.
From time to time he rose and cast a fresh stick of tamarack into the fire with a savage thud that sent a shower of sparks up the chimney.
When I have said that it is the Old Homestead and Xmas Eve, and that the farmer is in great trouble and throwing tamarack at the fire, surely you ought to guess!
The men took the pin out of the ox yokes and let the oxen down into the water and they grazed while the men went on a half a mile to borrow an ax and cut tamarack poles to fix the bridge.
We built our bedsteads out of green tamarack poles peeled, using the bark for ropes to hold it together and made a table of two boards which were found floating in the Bay.
White men likewise made use of tamarack roots in boat building, but the roots were different from what the Indians used.
The Indians sewed pieces of bark together, using the long, slender roots of tamarack for thread.
It is otherwise known as tamarack and hackmatack, which names are oftener applied to the eastern tree; red American larch, western tamarack, and great western larch.
The name tamarack or larch should be applied only to trees of the genus larix.
The bark for the shell came from paper birch, threads for sewing the strips of bark together were tamarack roots, resin for stopping leaks was a product of balsam fir, and the light framework of wood was northern white cedar.
Tamarack forests frequently stand on ground so soft that a pole may be thrust ten feet deep in the mud.
Tamarack is still employed in the manufacture of boat knees, but not as much as formerly.
Boat builders use tamaracknow for floors, keels, stringers, and knees.
Tamarack is a familiar tree in parks, and it grows farther south than its natural range extends.
A tamarack swamp in summer is cool and pleasant--provided there is not too much water on the ground--but in winter a more desolate picture can scarcely be imagined.
Tamarack is a common name for this pine in much of its range; it is likewise known as black pine, spruce pine, and prickly pine.
An indistinct trail leads through the tamarack forest and over a field of rugged lava to the base of the peaks.
Upon the right is Wizard Island, a volcanic cone] Forests of fir and tamarack have spread over the once barren slopes of lava and pumice which extend back from the cliffs.
In summer, its willowy thickets, its groves of tamarack and forests of pine, are the favorite haunts and nesting places of the quail and grouse.
In going to a tamarack grove to get some wood, Mr. Clark was surprised to find the fresh track of the bear cub, which had recrossed Alder Creek and ascended the mountain behind the tents.
She's a handsome woman, dearest, and she never looked quite so well to me as when she came picking her way beneath the dark tamarack boughs.
I'll forget my scruples, you get me a pair of rubber boots, then we'll drive to the tamarack swamp and experiment.
To see if I could go to the tamarack swamp and bring from it with the same tools and material, a more artistic production than an Indian woman.
I never saw her so interested in anything as she was that day at the tamarack swamp," said Leslie, "and her heart was full of other matters too; but she recognized the songs I took her to hear.
You were waiting for Nellie the night she came from the tamarack swamp with me, and she told me you had a little box, and that with its contents you had threatened to 'freeze her soul,' if she had a soul.
Granted the freedom of the tamarack swamp, could you have done better?
He shut himself in his room and worked with his violin until time to start to the tamarack swamp.
What others could do, she could, if she chose; in this instance she chose to penetrate a tamarack swamp at six o'clock in the morning, to listen to the notes of a bird.
Malcolm came from the land of the tamarack obsessed.
They were commonly of maple, but Christopherson's canoes had spruce or tamarack thwarts, the latter being his preference.
When he laughs there is a noise in his throat like the crackle of tamarack twigs, freshly lighted.
I may as well tell you; they are surveyors' stakes and tamarack fence-poles.
When a fire is lighted with birch bark andtamarack knots, we sit beside it and are more merry than you could believe.
Mossy or grassy ground in woods or open places, especially under or near tamarack trees.
Swamps and damp mossy ground under or near tamarack trees.
The camp is within easy walking distance of Giant Forest and is a convenient base for trips to Tamarack Lake, Hamilton Lake, or Kaweah Gap.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tamarack" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
