The banks of the creek are covered with a lofty growth of oak and poplar, which, near the Mission, have been considerably thinned for the purpose of affording fuel and building materials for the increasing settlement.
In his thinned features we recognize Sisa's son, Basilio, the brother of Crispin.
But this should not be counted against him, for the fasts and abstinencesthinned his blood and unstrung his nerves and, as the people said, the wind got into his head.
The dust had been settled by the rain for many miles; however, beyond Palmer there began to show evidences that the storm had thinned out or sheered off, because the road gradually grew dry again.
The gray advancing line thinned at points opposite the machine-guns, but it was coming fast.
On the trading proposals Pitt's following was thinned down to 133; but the main question went through in May by overwhelming majorities in both Houses.
This brilliant success cost the assailants very few lives; but the heats of the summer and probably also the intemperance of the troops soon thinned their ranks.
But in the last years of his life the denuding influences of partisan and personal feuds disastrously thinned his following.
The artillery of the Bavarians and French thinned the ranks of the mountaineers from day to day; whole ranks of the Tyrolese being mowed down by the balls of the enemy.
But the fire of the enemy thinned the ranks of the Tyrolese fearfully; their shots became few and far between, and gradually a regular panic seized them.
At last the frantic sufferer sheered from its course, and sprang into its master's lap; he flung it out of the window, and the voice of distress quickly thinned away and died in the distance.
I thinned several of the Ben Davis quite severely, and the apples on them are fully twice the size of those on the trees that were neglected.
In fact, it has been suggested that there are so many apples the fruit will be small unless it is thinned out later in the season.
If the plant is very thick, the oldest branches may be thinned out, but do not cut out any of the young shoots, as they contain the embryo of the flower.
These should be neatly trimmed, and the branches moderately thinned out, tying in all the shoots straight and regular.
When it comes up the plants must be thinned out or transplanted; the former method is preferable.
The flowers would be much finer, and the bush handsomer, if they were regularly thinned out, divesting them of all naked and superfluous shoots.
He had thinned and sharpened; his eyes were heavy and very tired; for the moment his buoyancy had gone.
The division came out of the cedars with unbroken ranks, thinned by only its killed and wounded--but few missing.
The plague had some time before this appeared in the camp; every day the ranks of his legions were thinned by this pestilence, as well as by the weapons of the defenders of Acre.
The column dashed across the bridge in despite of the tempest of fire that thinned them.
The veteran commanded a cannonade--and, as he had 100 pieces of artillery well placed, the ranks of the enemy were thinned considerably.
Nothing could move the French: the bayonet and the continued roll of musketry by degrees thinned the host around them; and Buonaparte at last advanced.
If the plants come thickly, they must bethinned out.
Propagated by seeds sown in hot-beds in spring, and thinned out when about one-half inch high.
Increased by seeds, which may be sown in the open border and thinned out for flowering, or raised in nursery beds and transplanted.
Footsore, with thinned sides and gaunt head, he circled slowly through the swamp.
At last he came to the thinned out strip of timber that surrounded the clearing and the flare of the flames was in his eyes.
At half past seven the first lines began to give signs of exhaustion, and its march over the rough ground while struggling with the enemy, had thinned and impaired it.
He wished to recruit his thinned ranks with Kentuckians, and to procure horses for the men who had none.
Probably the crowd would have thinnedaway had not a foolish message arrived from Louis to the effect that the Swiss were to withdraw to their barracks.
Attacks by bands of Mamelukes occasionally created a diversion and thinned the ranks.
Their efforts had thinned the very Ebenezer hard by them, which building before Simcoe's advent used to be so full, that you could see the backs of the congregation squeezing out of the arched windows thereof.
Their ranks were much thinned by the absence of the men engaged in plundering the enemy's camps.
These are systematically thinned with the scissors, so that none shall crowd together; and this process, repeated from time to time, is found to produce much finer and larger berries and heavier bunches than when all are left.
The remaining fruit is also suitably thinned so that no specimens shall crowd one another.
The same moment the clouds thinned about the moon, and a pale light came filtering through upon the common in front of her.
Such are the horrors now common to almost every part of France: the prisons are daily thinned by the ravages of the executioner, and again repeopled by inhabitants destined to the fate of their predecessors.
Brockenborro and Davis were keeping an easy step with Kemper and Garnett, but their ranks were being thinned at every advance.
From the enemy's fortified position their deadly fire caused our already thinned ranks to melt like snow before the sun's warm rays.
Dallisa's voice, even thinned by the nightmare ringing in my head, held concentrated scorn.
The annual Larkspur may be grown from seed sown in heat and transplanted to the ground in May; or seed may be sown where the plants are wanted and the seedlings thinned to 1 foot.
If immediate effects are not desired, the plants should be thinned out or transplanted to stand half a foot apart.
That is, the top is thinned out from year to year, and all superfluous branches and broken or diseased wood are removed.
On all home grounds, fruits should be Thinned whenever the trees are very full.
The seed should be sown in a drill 1 inch deep, the plants thinned to stand 12 inches in the row.
Should be planted or thinned to stand 18 inches apart.
At least one-third of the berries should be thinned from each bunch; do not be afraid of taking out too many.
Peaches are usually Thinned when they are the size of one's thumb.
If Thinned before this time, they are so small that it is difficult to pick them off; and it is not so easy to see the work of the curculio and thereby to select the injured fruits.
The superfluous ones are thinned out soon after they start from the ground.
After blooming, the plants may be thinned by pruning out the straggling growths, and repotted.
With his thinned force of some 8000 men he now hurled himself against troops which not only had been greatly reinforced, but were situated behind complicated earthworks miles in length, built on the most approved system of modern tactics.
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