It may be necessary to draw upon this source of income to meet the debt charges; but, should this misfortune be spared us, then we have in such windfalls the nucleus of a reserve fund for development.
But it is the part of a prudent finance minister to base his forecasts on the normal only, and to accept windfalls as gifts of Providence, to be used for special purposes.
I wandered around among big, gray rocks and windfalls and clumps of young oak and majestic pines.
Here we got into trouble in the windfalls of timber and the pack drew away from us, up over the mountain.
We had an hour of winding in and out among windfalls of timber, and jumping logs, and breaking through brush.
A former method of fighting this pest was as follows: bands of burlap four inches wide tied around the tree furnished a hiding-place for larvæ that came from windfalls or crawled from wormy apples on the tree.
The larva that emerges from the windfalls moves generally to a tree, crawls up the trunk, and spins its cocoon under a ridge in the bark.
I do not pasture orchards; it might be advisable to turn hogs in to eat up windfalls affected with codling-moth, but never any other stock.
Windfalls would furnish a thin population with a sufficient supply of such material, and if occasionally a growing tree was cut, the injury to the forest would be too insignificant to be at all appreciable.
Many of these poverty-stricken ones are the psychological windfalls of society.
And when the fruit is formed from a very few only of these innumerable blossoms on the trees, a limited number only of the whole attain to maturity and perfection, while the ground is strewn with the windfalls and the useless.
The snowshoe rabbits were completely buried under their windfalls and shelters, and lay quietly in their warm nests.
Ceaselessly he was nosing under windfalls and among the rocks, and Miki was always near him, always on the QUI VIVE for battle with the thing that Neewa was hunting out.
Fast time was made on this slope, at the bottom of which began a dense forest with snow still deep in places and windfalls hard to locate.
Everywhere were windfalls that had to be avoided, and not a rod was there without a fallen tree.
Why should we go to the far end to gather fine fruit when windfalls may answer?
Apples there were, but such poor things, windfalls and rots, that even the enthusiastic Arden began to feel discouraged.
Windfalls are especially common among shallow-rooted trees, as hemlock, basswood and spruce, on sandy soil and on shallow soil underlaid with solid stone, especially where open spaces give the wind free sweep.
The strips are cut in the proper direction so that the prevailing winds will cross them, both for the sake of avoiding windfalls and to help scatter the seed.
Now, all these hearty old people have passed away, and in their stead is a solitary pair, whose appetites are more than satisfied with the windfalls which the trees throw down at their feet.
Meantime other trees begin to cast their ripening windfalls upon the grass; and when I taste them, and perceive their mellowed flavor and blackening seeds, I feel somewhat overwhelmed with the impending bounties of Providence.
In the course of the forenoon, the rain abated for a season, and I went out and gathered some corn and summer-squashes, and picked up the windfalls of apples and pears and peaches.
Under each tree a ring of windfalls lay in the grass.
Possessing more windfalls than they know what to do with, all picked up in their immediate neighbourhood, my Lycosae have built themselves donjon-keeps the like of which their race has not yet known.
Unfortunately, such windfallsdo not often find their way into my sweeping-net.
A Year's Windfalls On the wind of January Down flits the snow, Travelling from the frozen North As cold as it can blow.
If he didn't even want the windfalls and the objects vowed to him, why had he beaten down their crops and broken their houses?
Now a jumping, smashing, crackling rush through the underbrush halts you suddenly, with quick beating heart, as you climb over one of the manywindfalls across your path.
Then he lays his great antlers back on his shoulders, sticks his nose far up ahead of him, and with long, smooth strides lunges away over the windfalls and is gone.
The ground was nearly free from brush, beautifully carpeted with flowers and ferns, and, except where bushy windfalls obstructed the way, was singularly open to the gaze for several hundred yards ahead.
We soon found, however, that it was utterly impossible for us to get through these windfalls in the darkness and with our heavy loads, and decided as a last resort to get into the bed of the creek and wade up it.
His faculty of traversing dense jungles and windfalls is equally astonishing.
These windfalls were neither more nor less than the old tracks of these whirlwinds and tornadoes, that had swept down the forest trees.
And indeed these windfallshad never produced much effect upon the family, who heard of James' gifts vaguely without profiting by them.
So long as, by hook or by crook, he could manage to stave off the evil day, so long was he happy enough, and he had managed this by all sorts of semi-miraculous windfalls up to the present time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "windfalls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
