According to the opinion of the astrologers, the planting of trees conduces to lengthen the age of man, and therefore, the khan is the more induced to encourage their propagation by his order and example.
It is not usual to see palm trees either in the Indies or in China, but they have many other sorts of trees and fruits which we have not.
These islands of Ramni abound with elephants, red-wood, and trees called Chairzan, and the inhabitants eat human flesh.
Of certain Treeswhich produce Meal, Honey, Wine, and Poison.
There are no other trees within an hundred miles, except on one side, where there are trees at the distance of ten miles.
Five hundred miles southward from Lochae, is the isle of Pentan[8], a savage place, which produces sweet trees in all its woods.
In Guzerat there is great abundance of cotton, which grows on trees six fathoms high, that last for twenty years; but after twelve years old, the cotton of these trees is not good for spinning; and is only fit for making quilts.
This river disembogues itself at the distance of five days journey south-east from Cangiu, into the sea at Zaitum all the country between being extremely pleasant, and abounding in trees and shrubs of camphor.
At a middle point on all four sides the high wall has an arched doorway corresponding to the grassy way between the fruit-trees in the middle space.
It was a wood of seedling trees that had come up naturally after an old wood of Scotch Fir had been cut down, and it seemed well to clear away all but one, or in some cases two kinds of trees in the several regions.
In such a case the path would go, not next the trees but along the middle of the neutral ground and would be so planted as to belong equally to garden and wood.
The dark trees on the right have rambling Roses growing into them--Paul's Carmine Pillar and the Himalayan R.
Now, after twenty years, the saplings have become treesand the preponderance of one kind of tree at a time has given a feeling of repose and dignity.
For what is more lovely than the bloom of orchard-trees in April and May, with the grass below in its strong, young growth; in itself a garden of Cowslips and Daffodils.
The trees would then take their place as the bounding and sheltering feature.
Set me down anywhere in the woods when there's a wind, and I'll tell ye what the trees are if it's so dark you can't see a leaf by the way the boughs blow.
House with three popple-trees in front--sets close to the road.
Well used to all the wild disorder of out-doors was Lot Gordon, and could have picked his way of a dark night among the stones and bushes and trees of many a pasture and woodland.
There was a light wind, and now and then the young trees in the lane were driven into a soft tumult of whispering leaves.
The first week in May, the cherry-trees were in blossom, and the alders and shad bushes were white in the borders of the woods against the filmy green of the birches.
The grass in the lane was grown long now, with a pink mist over the top of it; the trees at the sides leaned together heavy with foliage, and the bordering walls were all hidden under bushes and vines.
The buds on the trees opened before one's eyes, as if unfolded by warm fingers.
The ice on the trees and the pastures had locked and sealed their larders.
When she reached the fifth house below the white meeting-house, the house set close to the road, with three poplar-trees in front, she had just strength enough to stagger to the door and raise the knocker.
I can tell the trees no matter how dark 'tis by the way they move, and I can tell a Gordon by the swing of his shoulders, no matter how fast he slinks by on the other side in the shadow.
He had just come from the woods, and the smell of wounded cedar-trees was strong about him.
They had got out of the strange expanse of brown and green swamp, and after traversing a strip of meagre redeemed land, with stunted trees and yellowish vines, had reached the long narrow line of pine woods which met the beach.
By whom do you think, would all the beautiful useful things I could write, all the fiddle-faddle about trees and streams and statues and love and aspiration (fine aspiration, which never takes a practical shape!
Baldwin tied the reins to the stem of a cypress, and threw himself down on the warm sere grass on the brow of the hill, overlooking the tangle of olive and vine and fig-trees of the slopes below.
The trees were like unto the trees in our own land, and the grass was of no different color.
AFTER THE STORM Along the silent lane I found-- Where all night long the wind blew Hell-- The chestnut trees had heaped the ground With ruthless spoil of nut and shell.
It was a little hollow with trees all around so deep that in the distance their trunks closed in like a wall.
The trees were dark with leaves and brooded close above them; old water-fences and milldams cast inky shadows on the still, shallow ponds clasped in wooded hills.
In the first heats of June he climbed the tall locust-trees to put up a swing in which she could dream away the perfumed hours.
He saw his mother's grave beside his father's, in the southeast corner of the burying-ground, where the trees were thin.
There are pine-trees near the cabin cut off fifteen feet above the ground, felled in winter, John tells us, at the level of the snow!
It was a row of young trees she had planted to grace a certain turf walk at the top of the low wall that divided, by a drop of a few feet, the west lawn at Stone Ridge from the meadow where the beautiful Alderneys were pastured.
The trees are not large, but they make a good shade.
They all look for it under the trees and in the grass; but they can not see it.
Ah, by no wind are stirred those trees That palpitate like the chill seas Around the misty Hebrides!
And then those bright, sunny windows, and that bay-window looking across upon those trees was perfectly lovely.
I dropped my glove among some flowers, while I was busy putting up a wreath of lilies, and I saw him through a bower of hemlock trees walk up to the spot, and slyly confiscate the article.
We were walking in the moonlight up and down under the treesby the house.
In fact, the leaves of the trees shimmering in October light, cast reflections into the room suggestive of country life, which, fresh from the country as we were, was an added charm.
Presently, descending the ladder he returned to the garden where he fell to gazing at the trees whereupon sat birds glorifying with loud voices their great Creator.
Therewith the Prince passed into a court spacious exceedingly and all beautified with trees and waters, and the slave led him to the pavilion wherein Mubarak was sitting.
FN#91] And on return thou art allowed to pluck from the trees whatso thou pleasest, for all is thine so long as the Lamp is in thy hand.
In the front of his mansion he bade lay out a garden and stocked it with scented flowers and fragrant shrubs and fruit trees whose produce was as that of Paradise.
And granted that he return to the Enchanted Treasury and pluck them from the trees which, however, I hold impossible; yet given that he bring them whence shall he come by the girls and the blacks?
Thence we repaired to the garden and saw, planted in rows along the walks, fruit-trees of all kinds with ripe fruit bowed down, and watered with water from the river by means of brick-work channels.
He appoints his ministers to order the realm during his absence, and doffing his royal robes clothes himself in the bark of trees and takes up his abode in the desert.
Now, all this time Prince Asmund and his sister sat in their trees just outside the window and saw all that was going on.
When you have cut down one tree with it just say: "So let the forest fall," and in an instant all the trees will be on the ground.
It was not till he had left the last trees behind him, and was standing in the open plain, that he dared to look round, and then he thought a figure in white was still standing there waving her arms to and fro.
After many arguments and entreaties he succeeded in persuading the king to give him two great oak trees for his very own.
Asmund then told the prince about the two oaktrees and took him to see them.
I will bring all my pretty things and ornaments, and the trees are so near home we shall be quite safe in them.
But before he had time to close his eyes there was a great noise in the treesnear by, as if a big heavy body was crashing through them.
And up an avenue of giant place trees the peris led him, dumb with amazement.
The marriage cannot take place,' he said shortly, 'till the youth has joined to their roots all the trees he cut down yesterday.
The moon was shining on the distant river, which looked cool and inviting, and the trees of the forest seemed to stretch out their arms and beckon him near.
He flung himself on his back and watched the birds twittering and chattering in the trees above him.
Now the natives can run up cocoa-nut trees like squirrels, some using only one hand; the girls can do that.
At the expiration of the fourth day the logs are obliquely tilted against poles fixed horizontally to the trees at a height of about 4 feet in a well-ventilated and sunny situation.
The plants are epiphytal, usually springing from the decaying bark of trees and old stumps.
Mushrooms are rarely seen after the first heavy frosts, although an exception is noted in this latitude in the species Hypholoma sublatertium, which has been found growing under the snow, at the roots of trees in sheltered woods.
Those which are terrestrial in habit are generally of an umbrella-like shape, while those which grow upon trees and decayed tree-stumps are apt to be one-sided or semi-spherical.
Although this mushroom seems to prefer the elm and is most frequently found on trees of that species, it is found also upon other trees, but principally the maple, the ash, the willow, and the poplar.
The mushrooms grew within the shade of Norway spruce and other ornamental trees on the lawn in front of our house.
The gardens are beautifully kept, and are valuable as affording a sort of experimental nursery in which new plants and trees can be brought up on trial and their adaptability to the soil and climate ascertained.
His head is over his shoulder all the way as we roll back to the city under the beautiful treesof the palace grounds.
After leaving it we walked through the streets of a low-roofed village, then followed a path bordered with wild mignonette and apple trees that wound up the side of a hill covered with vineyards.
Birch woods exist in a good many places, especially in the warmer valleys; but the trees are very short, scarcely attaining more than 3 to 10 ft.
Fruit-trees will not thrive; but black and red currants and rhubarb are grown, the last-named doing excellently.
The members of both groups appear to have a power like that possessed by geckos of clinging to vertical surfaces of rocks and trees by the soles of their feet.
A few mountain ash or rowan trees (Sorbus aucuparia) are found singly here and there, and attain to 30 ft.
And beyond, on the Seine, on the hillocks, descended the serenity of night, a sort of vague bluish mist, which bathed the trees in transparent vapour.
It was descending towards the horizon, casting on the reddened trees and white thoroughfares immense sheets of pale light.
The sun rays pale in the quivering air, the old trees cast their leaves.
Opposite, rose the great reddish mass of trees on the islands.
Spring was at hand; the trees along the quays were becoming covered with leaves, with light, pale green lacework.
We are born of her, we grow of her, as truly as trees and flowers come of the mother earth and draw their life from the soil in which they are planted.
They walked along in the hot sun and then crossed the street opposite the Schweizerhof to reach the shade of the foolish-looking trees that have been stuck about like Nuremberg toys, between the lake and the highway.
We were compelled to get behind trees to protect ourselves, and after the tornado of cattle had passed, gathered our horses and took after them.
When we came up Steele was throwing his pontoon bridge over the river and his forces were digging ditches and felling trees to keep us back until they could get across.
There was a woods pasture just across the road, with only large trees in it, but I saw beyond the timber a thicket which seemed to skirt a draw or gully and I made up my mind to cross the road and take my chances.
Oriana laid herself down upon the Damsel's cloak, while Amadis disarmed, of which he had great need, and the Damsel retired farther among the trees to sleep.
About noon the horse came to sometrees that grew beside a mountain-stream, and then stopt, being weary with the heat and with the toil of last night.
We know not but there is one in yonder valley, by those great trees there, which is called the Fountain of the Three Channels.
As he was coming out, he saw the three Damsels and their Squires sitting under the trees beside a fountain, and made up to them that he might drink: but neither of them did he know.
At midday their party made camp in a grove of trees by a spring.
Somehow her heart sank at the vista which seemed to stretch out, so fair and pleasant, in Blanche's eyes.
He had set his heart on being a gamekeeper, but his mother looked upon it as an idle trade, and always hoped that he might yet show some leaning towards another employment.
I'll be whiles seein' her when I'll be passin' this road.
I do feel rather queer, papa," replied Blanche, faintly, as she staggered and leaned against her father for support.
But, sometimes, on the way home from these visits to the little graveyard, Kenneth would talk to the quiet Morag as he never had done to Kirsty.
The licorice fern often gains a foothold on the trees thus decorated, and grows luxuriantly, embedded in the deep growth of these plants.
Not only is there a difference in the trees on the different slopes of the Mountain, but there is a marked difference in the herbaceous plants as well.
There are a few trees of the Lovely fir in the lower part of the valley, and a few white-barked pines overlooking the glaciers at timber line.
In the struggle for existence at the timber line, flowers prosper, but trees fight for life against storm and snow.
This is seen in the trees at timber line, where snow rests upon them for months.
The mosses, liverworts, and lichens take possession of thetrees and cover them with a unique decoration.
There were groves of trees he must have planted, so orderly were they set out.
The trees of the park zone differ greatly on different slopes.
The principal trees of the meadow area are the alpine fir, the alpine hemlock, and the Alaska cedar.
Illustration: Wind Swept Trees on North Side, the last below the Snow line.
The great trees of the park formed a heavy mass, amid which the roof of the villa was just discernible.
He stood behind the trees and saw her naked, with all her secret charms displayed.
What is meant by the poet in the following verses: A things sans mouth or maw that eats in wondrous wise; On trees and beasts it feeds and all beneath the skies.
It chanced, one day, that Zubeideh entered the garden and coming to the basin, gazed upon its goodliness, and the limpidity of the water and the interlacing of the trees over it pleased her.
And she wept sore over what had befallen her, whilst the Persian fared on with her, without ceasing, till he came to the land of the Greeks and alighted in a verdant meadow, abounding in trees and streams.
Here I saw the damsel seated upon a throne of gold, under a canopy of brocade, midmost a garden full of trees of gold, whose fruits were jewels of price, such as rubies and chrysolites and pearls and coral.
Presently, she became aware of him and turning, saw him behind the trees and was ashamed that he should see her naked.
On my soul, if I should hang all that speak ill of thee, all the trees of the country would not suffice, so great is the number.
A little cottage nestling close at hand, fenced with box in front and apple-trees behind, thither I repaired to beg clean linen rags to wrap them in.
As we went along the paths, even the situation of the trees that skirted them added to this impression.
The gate of the porter's lodge at the end of the long dark avenue of overhanging trees was just closing upon her, when I overtook her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
