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Example sentences for "treetops"

Lexicographically close words:
treeless; treelike; treenails; trees; treetop; trefoil; trefoiled; trefoils; treiben; treillage
  1. Over the treetops came a twin-engined Mitsubishi bomber, but she was not heading toward the two B-26’s.

  2. Better keep below the treetops where you can, Barry.

  3. 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.

  4. I decided to work deliberately, without haste and excitement, and to get my flies caught in the treetops as infrequently as possible.

  5. She, from some obscure sense of imitation, stared at the treetops and the sky as the second man had done.

  6. The air blew freshly, the treetops began again to rock over her head, and the incident was forgotten.

  7. Anderson Crow squinted up through the leafless treetops toward the setting sun; then he looked at the shadow of a sapling down on the bank.

  8. Jethro was given the best chamber, because he had succeeded and came from Chicago; but Dilly had a little room that looked straight out across the treetops down to her own home.

  9. Below them the cliff dropped away so steeply that they looked out above the treetops as from the summit of a true precipice.

  10. Over the treetops the moon was rising slowly.

  11. Finally he awoke to find that the wind had lost much of its force, and looking upward through the treetops he saw the glimmer of a star.

  12. The wind howling and shrieking through the treetops brought to the lad's ears a constant reminder of what might have been his fate, and served to add to the snugness of the shelter and cozy cheerfulness of the fire.

  13. The wonder is that a bird will leave the apparent security of the treetops to place its nest in the way of the many dangers that walk and crawl upon the ground.

  14. It led, indeed, quite a humdrum sort of life under the roots and fallen treetops and among the loose stones.

  15. I sang into the morning light As loud as I could sing, The treetops bowed in sheer delight Before the slanting wing.

  16. I RAN into the sunset light As hard as I could run: The treetops bowed in sheer delight As if they loved the sun: And all the songs of little birds Who laughed and cried in silver words Were joined as they were one.

  17. In a flash they were all down out of the treetops and dancing around old Granny Fox, cooling her off.

  18. They seemed to be in the treetops over her head.

  19. Outside, the treetops shook tremulous black lace across the silver deeps of the sky and jigged with ebony boughs upon the circle of the moon.

  20. The incessant swaying of treetops in the tireless wind occasionally causes a smoke from friction at points where overlapping limbs or entangled trees are rubbing.

  21. Fire and sparks were hurled explosively outward, and a number of blazing treetops rushed off in gale-currents.

  22. The wild, irresistible, cyclonic rush of fiery wind carried scores of tree-limbs and many blazing treetops hundreds of feet above the summit.

  23. But when the poor old man tried to look through them, he cried out in fright: "I see nothing but dark treetops with sleeping birds and flying bats!

  24. She tucked up her skirt, put her arm about Betushka, the musicians in the treetops struck up, and off they whirled.

  25. The air was warmer; the wind seemed to have changed its fiber; and then he saw that the treetops opposite him were shaking and glistening in a glory of light.

  26. From above, the great flowers hung down against the dull red of the sunset sky; and from below the distant treetops on the terrace pointed up with glimmers of the lake between.

  27. And all the roofs and treetops of the quarter, and the two tall towers of Sainte Clotilde, seemed translucent; for the gold of the sunset to shine through.

  28. On three sides of the kitchen there are charming blue mansarde roofs and black crooked chimney-pots, and on the fourth side there are the treetops of an old garden.

  29. I looked quite away out of the windows to the treetops and the blue roofs and the wet close sky.

  30. The crows are back already in the garden; the bare black treetops were full of them this dark morning, and not one of them stirred or made a sound.

  31. The rising sun lifted its first curved rim of dazzling light above the dark line of distant treetops just as the brigade band began a new tune--"The Faded Coat of Blue.

  32. Looking upward, Lafe saw above the treetops nearest him, piling skyward on the wind, a great writhing wall of black smoke.

  33. Then it all vanished, sinking like a beautiful dream-lake behind the treetops as they descended into the wooded valley.

  34. Elizabeth knew as well as though they had shouted it from the treetops that they were going fishing.

  35. The Agvar fell, screaming--until he crashed through the treetops and was still.

  36. He couldn't see through the treetops to make sure.

  37. Here and there a few treetops were discovered and then whelmed again; and for one second, the bough of a dead pine beckoned out of the spray like the arm of a drowning man.

  38. The fog, sunny white in the sunshine, was pouring over into Lake County in a huge, ragged cataract, tossing treetops appearing and disappearing in the spray.

  39. He moved more cautiously than was his wont, for he knew that men with guns could reach him quite as easily in the treetops as on the ground.

  40. But from time to time he raised it to gaze at the stars through the open spaces between the treetops and went forward parting the bushes or tearing away the lianas that obstructed his path.

  41. It delighted Jewel that the place held as much charm for her mother as for herself, and that she listened with as hushed pleasure to the songs of birds in the treetops too high to be disturbed by the presence of dwellers on the ground.

  42. The breeze in the treetops was his only answer; so after listening for a minute to the soothing sound, he took the Book of Life from his blouse and opened it.

  43. As explosion-waves passed over the ground, a faint, unanimous movement of the treetops became visible.

  44. Here they could see over the treetops in a truly extensive view.

  45. On and on the driver went, world without end, until we caught the first faint line along the west that marked the treetops of the Neosho Valley.

  46. Just ahead of us, as we hurried, I caught sight of a flat slab of the shelving rock slipped aside and barely balancing on the edge, one end of it bending down the treetops as if newly slid into that place.

  47. It caught, too, the splendor of all the sunrise beyond the mist-filled valley, and the full moon in the level east above the oak treetops made a dream of chastened glory like the silver twilight gleams in Paradise.

  48. Crossing along by the edge of the bluff we passed the steepest part and were coming again to where the treetops and bushes that clung to the side of the high wall reached above the crest, as they do across the street from my own home.

  49. Between him and Springvale the Neosho rushed madly, and the oak grove of the bottom land was only black treetops above, and water below.


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