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In midwinter he took a lover, and she was no elf but a human woman whose shining black hair fell all the way to her heels, whose eyes were the color of an aspen's bark, gray and sweet.

Dalamar the Dark Berberick, Nancy Varian 2000

The knowledge that under the chestnut's thick curtains and the aspen's tremulous foliage is a faultless frame gives the trees an honour beyond mere surface beauty.

The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing 1917

In vain the birds sang in the aspen's branches, entreating it to gaze for one moment at the wonderful One; the proud tree still held its head erect in scorn.

Good Stories for Holidays Frances Jenkins Olcott 1917

In vain the birds sang in the aspen's branches, entreating it to gaze for one moment at the wonderful One; the proud tree still held its head erect in scorn.

Good Stories for Great Holidays 1914

I don't know what a record I made in climbing that tree -- an aspen's bark is slick -- but in a jiffy I was at the top and could peer out.

Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies 1911

Fleur, leaning out of her window, heard the hall clock's muffled chime of twelve, the tiny splash of a fish, the sudden shaking of an aspen's leaves in the puffs of breeze that rose along the river, the distant rumble of a night train, and time and again the sounds which none can put

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

All the leaves of the forest were there: small, light yellow birch leaves, red speckled mountain ash, the elm's dry, dark-brown leaves, the aspen's tough light red, and the willow's yellow green.

Invisible Links Selma Lagerl��f 1899

Not a breath of air moved, and even the aspen's golden leaves stood still in the sunlight.

Wild Life on the Rockies Enos Abijah Mills 1896

The wind's kiss frets not the rowan's or aspen's hair.

Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

Wetter, cooler seasons since then - more to the aspen's liking - have halted SAD's spread.

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