Their house may have been carried off; and, finding that it was sinking, they climbed into that treetop when they had the chance.
And so, after shaking hands all around, they saw the four late passengers of the floating treetop land; after which the voyage was resumed.
The family in the treetop must have discovered that the crisis had arrived in their fortunes, for even the two children temporarily stopped shrieking; and were eagerly watching the boy in the little boat.
Glad to hear it," returned the other, as he dropped his gun, and took to the paddle once more; for he knew that they must get the wretched fugitives of the flood out of the treetop before it separated from the houseboat.
Occasionally a treetop was snapped off, and these broken tops swirled wildly about, hurried forward or backward, or were floated upward on rotating, slower currents.
As the air was not stirring, I felt that he had not, and probably would not, scent me in the treetop perch.
He still climbed, but carefully now, on the side nearest the water, so the treetop would bend in that direction.
But carefully, lest his weight and the bending splinter or snap the treetop as it bent still further.
You should use the treetop cast--straight up in the air, when there's a man behind you.
I said that I was sorry, and that if he would give me a few points on the treetop cast, and then avoid sitting in the treetops as much as possible himself I thought there would be no further danger.
I could land Del even with the treetop cast, but the trout refused to be allured.
Suddenly there came from the treetop a yell which was no boyish expression of exuberance of spirits.
Had he heard that close whine and distant howl before he fairly reached the open he would have sought a treetop for refuge.
The digging went on rapidly until Ab, out of breath and tired, threw down the skin and climbed into the treetop and became the watchman, while Oak assumed his labor.
So they worked alternately in treetop and upon the ground until the sun's rays shot red and slanting from the west.
The group in the treetop on the crest realized that it had business on hand.
He unfolded his plan briefly and then he himself climbed to the treetop and out upon the limb, carrying with him the knotted strip of rhinoceros hide.
As the boat slowly approached the treetophis sharp, beady eyes followed the movement of my flies as the rod whipped back and forth.
Illustration: The Coon] Just as the boat passed the treetop and but a few feet from it, a good sized trout appeared at the surface and with a swirl and slap of his tail grabbed one of my flies and made off with it toward the bottom.
The Mayans call them tchel and are always keen to kill them, for they are very destructive to the crops; but nothing could well exceed the beauty of a dozen of them darting from treetop to treetop in the early morning sunshine.
The light was good as the boys roared along at treetop level and spotted the landmarks they had been briefed to expect.
They weren't built for hedge-hopping, but the major said they could do about four hundred miles per hour on the treetop level," Stan explained.
Pushing his way forward, he discovered a neat little copper still installed in the treetop itself.
A treetop left on the ground after logging is called the lap.
In the early evening Mijok reported, after another treetop survey, that the last of the kaksma hills was about three miles southwest.
By instinct the settlers came to know when a foe was near; the very dogs told it, the cattle and horses became restless, the jay in the treetop and the wren in the thorn-hollow chattered it.
The robin perched ontreetop tall Heavenward lifts his evening call.
Neither man nor snake will indulge in very lively antics in a treetop thirty or forty feet from the ground.
The thrasher is not due yet, I said to myself, but there was its song, and no mistake, with all its quibs and quirks and interludes, being chanted from some treetop a few yards in advance of me.
The squirrel dropped his cone and scampered up into the treetop without a chirp.
From treetop I watched one trail where it was crossed by a stream.
In the treetop the cubs remained for hours, not once descending to the earth.
There were no long hours to sit waiting on a camp-stool, and only here and there a treetop to 'sky' the wandering birds.
The owners were busily flying in and out, and a pair of big bee-birds flew down from their nest in the treetop and saved themselves trouble by lunching at this convenient ground floor restaurant.
These nests had all been very low, only four or five feet above the ground; but one day I found young in one of the common treetop nests.
To a novice an old treetop or log is best, but to me the front of a tree is preferable, with an open space in front that the gobbler may come into to be shot.
A bird trilled in a treetop near by, and a blush-rose nodded just outside the window.
Then he had a piece of luck, a looped vine tied together a whole group of branches from one treetop to the next.
His journey through those heights was awkward and he sweated and cringed when he disturbed vocal treetop dwellers.
Out from thetreetop came Collington and asked what they were doing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "treetop" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
