Use pine in a sentence
Sentences starting with pine
- Pine forests, wheat land, corn land, iron, copper, coal-wait till the railroads come, and the steamboats! [5]
Sentences ending with pine
- I will show you, Mrs. Falchion, the biggest saw that ever ate the heart out of a Norfolk pine. [11]
- The whole room was most elaborately decorated with garlands of pine. [10]
- There is no use in trying to graft the tropical palm upon the Northern pine. [6]
- In the rear of the church are some splendid specimens of the umbrella-like Italian pine. [4]
- How different the idea of such a structure from that of the unbroken, unjointed prismatic shaft, one perfect whole, as complete in itself, as fitly shaped and consolidated to defy the elements, as the towering palm or the tapering pine! [6]
- The dream flashes by, for the west-winds awake On pampas, on prairie, o'er mountain and lake, To bathe the swift bark, like a sea-girdled shrine With incense they stole from the rose and the pine. [6]
More example sentences with the word pine in them
- For a moment you could have heard a pine needle drop on the stoop. [9]
- There was a woman about forty year old in there knitting by a candle that was on a pine table. [5]
- Great maples, heavy with leaves, stood out against the soft blue of the sky, and the sunlight poured over everything, bathing the stone walls, the thatches of the farmhouses, extracting from the copses of stunted pine a pungent, reviving perfume. [9]
- A toadstool--that vegetable which springs to full growth in a single night--had torn loose and lifted a matted mass of pine needles and dirt of twice its own bulk into the air, and supported it there, like a column supporting a shed. [5]
- The telegraph wires were thrilling almost hourly with messages of death, and the long pine boxes came by almost every train,--no need of asking what they held. [6]
- And fairer still were the faraway blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and the pine forests veiled in the mist of their summits... [2]
- Our pine forest was well scorched, the dead trees all burned up, and our broad acres of manzanita swept away. [5]
- The well-scoured floor was strewn with sand and pine needles. [10]
- One day he was sitting on the hot side of a pine near his mountain hut, soaking in the sun. [11]
- His grizzled hair was all lengths, like a worn-out mop; his hand reminded one of an eagle's claw, and his teeth were a pine yellow. [9]
- Sometimes we ran upon them in the water, where they looked like the rough-bark pine logs from the North, and Nick would have a shot at them. [9]
- The church's high-backed, uncushioned pews would seat about three hundred persons; the edifice was but a small, plain affair, with a sort of pine board tree-box on top of it for a steeple. [5]
- It was a twenty-mile drive, and the last eight miles wound down the boiling Washita, still high with the melting snows of the pine lands. [9]
- There was another tree of striking aspect, a kind of pine, we were told. [5]
- Sometimes she stopped to rest on the pine needles, and walked on again, aimlessly, following the road because it was the easiest way. [9]
- They were able to do this night what they had not done for days --dig a great grave of snow, and building a fire of pine wood at each end of this strange house, get protection and something like comfort. [11]
- They seem endless, through odorous pine woods and shady lanes, by private roads among beautiful villas and exquisite grounds, with evidences everywhere of wealth to be sure, but of individual taste and refinement. [4]
- But twice or thrice during the night I waked to see the torch still shining, and caught the fragrance of consuming pine, and minded not at all the smoke the burning made. [11]
- The sage and thickets of oak and brakes of alder gave place to pinyon pine growing out of rocky soil. [13]
- In the woods there was not much sign of animal life, scarcely the note of a bird, but we noticed as we rode along in the otherwise primeval silence a loud and continuous humming overhead, almost like the sound of the wind in pine tops. [4]
- Besides the four, there was a figure that lay sleeping in a corner on a pile of pine branches, wrapped in a bearskin robe. [11]
- The new "depot," the smartly-painted pine houses, the spacious brick hotel, the white meeting-house, and the row of youthful and leggy trees before it, are exhilarating. [6]
- He quickly entered the small reception room with its still-unplastered wooden walls redolent of pine, and would have gone farther, but Anton ran ahead on tiptoe and knocked at a door. [2]
- In front of the pulpit were simple decorations, boughs of pine covered the desk, and in their centre was a harp of yellow jonquils, the gift of Miss Louisa M. Alcott. [6]
- I dare say the pine it was cut from grew right where we are standing, before the land was cleared to build the house. [9]
- Czernowitz sat in the other room, talking to Jastro, a buzz of voices came from the hall through the thin pine panels of the door. [9]
- They talked by the hour upon all sorts of themes, the growth of the tree, the habits of wild animals, the migration of seeds, the succession of oak and pine, not to mention theology, and the mysteries of the supernatural. [4]
- The pillars of the front and back piazzas are pine stems stained, with the natural branches cut in unequal lengths, and look like the stumps for the bears to climb in the pit at Berne. [4]
- I now see the force of your reasoning, and I will go and order two or three cords of the best pine wood to-day. [5]
- At their feet the fields and meadows, at a greater height rise pine forests, which, like the huntsman, wear green robes at all seasons of the year. [10]
- As I entered the cabin door, tired but jolly, the dingy light of a tallow candle revealed Higbie, sitting by the pine table gazing stupidly at my note, which he held in his fingers, and looking pale, old, and haggard. [5]
- Doctors all say that the turpentine in pine wood is good for weak back and the kidneys. [5]
- I sometimes wish that it was a little higher, but we ought to be content with such blessings as we have, and not pine after those that are out of our reach. [14]
- Notwithstanding the fact that a great many had driven a part of their stock to the hills some time ago, there yet remains a large quantity, which General York, who is working with indomitable energy, will get landed in the pine hills by Tuesday. [5]
- Will you--an energetic student, you--a man of powerful intellect, zealous in your duty, and in favor with the gods--will you pine like a deserted maiden or spring from the Leucadian rock like love-sick Sappho in the play while the spectators shake with laughter? [10]
- It made a sound that was now like the moan of pine trees, now like the rumble of far-off artillery. [11]
- The place had simple, unpainted pine desks and benches for about two hundred persons. [5]
- Had she waited, she might have seen a solitary figure leaving the line of march and striding across to Pine Street. [9]
- Soon we were roaring seaward through the vast pine forests. [9]
- It seemed a providential time to eat my luncheon; and I took shelter under a scraggy pine that had rooted itself in the edge of the rocky slope. [4]
- But he cannot produce any change on pine and mahogany by his discourses, and the more wood he sees as he looks along his floor and galleries, the less his chance of being useful. [6]
- Over these ashes pine twigs and branches were spread, and over them again blankets. [11]
- It was yellow pine timber land--a dense forest of trees a hundred feet high and from one to five feet through at the butt. [5]
- There was another pine table in the room and another afflicted chair, and both were half buried under newspapers and scraps and sheets of manuscript. [5]
- Too often they pine in a secret discontent, which spreads its leaden cloud over the morning of their youth. [6]
- The slim young pine had indeed somewhat overtopped the gnarled oak, but the crown of the older tree was the broader. [10]
- Ah how I pine for thee! [10]
- Ah, how I pine for thee Come, sweetheart, come to me. [10]
- He also furnished pine benches and chairs for the legislature, and covered the floors with clean saw-dust by way of carpet and spittoon combined. [5]
- We carried him out, and put him beside a pine tree. [11]
- When I went on duty I found the chief editor sitting tilted back in a three-legged chair with his feet on a pine table. [5]
- Is the painter of whom you speak an Alexandrian?--I pine for the open air, but the wind blows the rain against the windows. [10]
- By the sides of the pulpit were white and scarlet geraniums and pine boughs, and high upon the wall a laurel wreath. [6]
- The fresh wreaths of the pine and cypress had waited anxiously to drop once more the dews of Heavens upon the heads of those who had so often poured forth the tender emotions of their souls under its boughs. [5]
- The fresh wreaths of the pine and cypress had waited anxiously to drop once more the dews of Heaven upon the heads of those who had so often poured forth the tender emotions of their souls under its boughs. [5]
- At the foot of a great pine he began to dig. [11]
- I heard a night-hawk go by on a lonely mission, a beaver slide from a log into the water, and the delicate humming of the pine needles was a drowsy music, through which broke by-and-bye the strange crying of a loon from the water below. [11]
- At length one night they camped in a vast pine grove wrapped in coverlets of snow and silent as death. [11]
- He ostentatiously and needlessly put another log of Norfolk- pine upon the fire. [11]
- There was the mountain, the pastures on the lower slopes all red, too, and higher up the dark masses of bristling spruce and pine and hemlock mottled with white where the snow-covered rocks showed through. [9]
- The grave was made beneath a tall pine-tree upon the hill-top of Sleepy Hollow, where lie the bodies of his friends Thoreau and Hawthorne, the upturned sod being concealed by strewings of pine boughs. [6]
- Thoreau would have liked him, as he liked Indians and woodchucks, and the smell of pine forests; and, if Old Phelps had seen Thoreau, he would probably have said to him, "Why on airth, Mr. Thoreau, don't you live accordin' to your preachin'? [4]
- Mrs Quilp was left to pine the absence of her lord, when he quitted her on the business which he had already seen to transact. [12]
- Also, the grass is warm, and I'll cover you with it and with pine branches. [11]
- If not, there is money under the white pine at my cottage. [11]
- The trees were in their early leaf in Ripton Square, and the dark pine patches on Sawanec looked (from Austen's little office) like cloud shadows against the shimmer of the tender green. [9]
- All at once, in the shade of a great pine, he stopped. [11]
- He said that in the Potomac hospitals rough pine coffins were furnished by government, but that it was not always possible to keep up with the demand; so, when a man died, if there was no coffin at hand he was buried without one. [5]
- One moonlight night I was walking my horse close to the General's over the pine needles, when we overheard this conversation between two soldiers:-- "Say, John," said one, "I guess Uncle Billy don't know our corps is goin' north. [9]
- To prevent bloodshed I removed up stairs and took up quarters with the untitled plebeians in one of the fourteen white pine cot-bedsteads that stood in two long ranks in the one sole room of which the second story consisted. [5]
- It is wonderful how the pitching of a few tents, and the busy crackle of a few fires, and the sound of voices--sometimes merry, sometimes sad, depending on the weather, will change the look of a lonely pine knoll. [9]
- Behind her deepened hospitably the spacious hall, studded and heavy beamed, with its unpainted pine ceiling toned to a good brown by smoke and time. [11]
- Marx had only himself to provide for; his wife was dead, and his sons were raftsmen, who took pine logs to Mayence and Cologne, sometimes even as far as Holland. [10]
- That we should have light, however, pine torches had been brought, and these were stuck in the wall. [11]
- He, too, was harassed and tired, and she had drawn him away from the bench and through the pine woods to the pastures to look at his cattle and the model barn he was building for them. [9]
- The azure water had a perfect setting of evergreens, in which all the shades of the fir, the balsam, the pine, and the spruce were perfectly blended; and at intervals on the shore in the emerald rim blazed the ruby of the cardinal flower. [4]
- Reaching the pine grove, thinned by a famous landscape architect, she paused involuntarily to wonder again at the ultramarine of Sawanec through the upright columns of the trunks under the high canopy of boughs. [9]
- The river was full of logs--long, slender, barkless pine logs--and we leaned on the rails of the bridge, and watched the men put them together into rafts. [5]
- The air is full of birds, and sweet with the breath of the pine, the balm of Gilead, and the new hay. [6]
- The spot chosen for the duel was some eighty paces from the road, where the sleighs had been left, in a small clearing in the pine forest covered with melting snow, the frost having begun to break up during the last few days. [2]
- She had a fear that he might pine away in consequence of the mental excitement he had gone through, and solicited his appetite with her choicest appliances,--of which he partook in a measure which showed that there was no immediate cause of alarm. [6]
- At length we emerged from a thicket of Douglas pine upon the shore of the Whi-Whi, and, loosening our boat, were soon moving slowly on the cool current. [11]
- He had an early breakfast of fried eggs and underdone bacon, and coffee which made him pine for Hester's. [9]
- Suddenly Jose paused, dropped to the foot of a pine, and put his ear to it. [11]
- Like the gentle dove in the fable she was to pine apart from me.... [2]
- She heard the dizzy din of the bees, the sleepy grinding of the grass hoppers, the sough of the solitary pine at the door, and then behind them all a whizzing, machine- like sound. [11]
- I would rather die, while making my escape, than pine away in such wretchedness. [10]
- Its pinnacles and crockets and other ornaments were, like the body of the building, all of pine wood,--an admirable material, as it is very soft and easily worked, and can be painted of any color desired. [6]
- And she, what could she do to win back the man who held every fixed resolve as firmly as the rocks of the cliff hold the pine which grows from them? [10]
- Her fond father could not see her pine and droop. [12]
- Burning like a clear oil, it has none of the heaviness and fatness of the pine and the balsam. [4]
- One night we catched a little section of a lumber raft--nice pine planks. [5]
- Eva saw there by the light of the blazing pine chips her father, sister, and brother-in-law. [10]
- The sun shone brightly, the long hedge of pine woods in the distance caught the colour of the sky, the flowers of the plains showed handsomely as a carpet of war. [11]
- You stretch pine branches, wrap in your blanket, and lie down to sleep. [11]
- The blossoms could be arranged here in the forest meadow under the shade of the thick hazel-bushes which bordered the pine wood. [10]
- Along the Whykokomagh Bay we come to a permanent encampment of the Micmac Indians,--a dozen wigwams in the pine woods. [4]
- The things looked as if they had been dragged through the Cat-a-what-do-you-call-it River, and ironed with a pine chip. [4]
- She resented General Armour's imputation, but in her heart she began to pine and wonder. [11]
- The idea that anybody could ever take my massacre for a genuine occurrence never once suggested itself to me, hedged about as it was by all those telltale absurdities and impossibilities concerning the "great pine forest," the "dressed-stone mansion," etc. [5]
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