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  • noun Plural form of hemlock.

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Examples

  • The hoary trunks of the ashes are particularly fine in such situations; they are the lightest in coloring among our larger trees, as the shaft of the hemlocks is the darkest.

    Rural Hours 1887

  • And, looking upward, there were the dark tops of the evergreen trees, such as hemlocks, pines, and spruces, starred and bespangled, as if wetted with a great rain of molten crystal.

    Tales and Sketches, Complete Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

  • And, looking upward, there were the dark tops of the evergreen trees, such as hemlocks, pines, and spruces, starred and bespangled, as if wetted with a great rain of molten crystal.

    The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

  • And, looking upward, there were the dark tops of the evergreen trees, such as hemlocks, pines, and spruces, starred and bespangled, as if wetted with a great rain of molten crystal.

    Margaret Smith's Journal Part 1, from Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

  • Emerald ash borer, the little bugs killing all the hemlocks in the Smokies, anything at Walmart ........ does anything good come from imports from the East??

    Flying Carp & Broken Jaws 2009

  • Emerald ash borer, the little bugs killing all the hemlocks in the Smokies, anything at Walmart ........ does anything good come from imports from the East??

    Flying Carp & Broken Jaws 2009

  • Dark morning sleet whitecrusts the world once more, shrouds remains of January thaw: butts, bits of Styrofoam cups, the black-hoofed leg bone of a deer, dragged home again and again and again by our dog; the same bone I heave into the hemlocks each time I go for wood.

    February Ginnah Howard 2012

  • For example, when hemlocks are completely infested with woolly adelgid, homeowners should get rid of the plant so they don't have to continually spray.

    Prime time to tame overgrown lawns 2010

  • All submitted comments are subject to the rules set forth in our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. deer bed in hemlocks after snow

    Field & Stream 2009

  • But pines, spruces, hemlocks and most other evergreens tend to become giants over time, outgrowing their spaces.

    Tough Love, Garden Style 2010

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