pine-needles

What had caused his terror was the unspeakable ferocity of the face, the wild-animal glare of the blue eyes scarcely dazzled by the light, the pine-needles matted and clinging in the beard and hair, and the whole formidable body crouched and in the act of springing at him.

When the World Was Young 2010

The ground was velvety and springy to his feet, being carpeted with dead pine-needles and leaves and mold which evidently bad been undisturbed for years.

When the World Was Young 2010

It was a pine-copse, and the ground below was littered with dry brown pine-needles.

An Open Letter to Fans of South Plains Football 2010

I can close my eyes and hear them tinkling yet, sixty years after, and feel the pine-needles under my knees, and smell the wood smoke mingling with the musky perfume of her hair and the scent of the wild flowers outside her bower ... the soft lips teasing my ear, murmuring "Make my bells ring again, pinda-lickoyee* (* Literally," white-eye "; a white man ....)"

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

My stars, I thought, it's been worth it, coming to America-and that's when I remember the pine-needles under my knees, and the smell of wood-smoke and musk, and deliberately taking my time as I stroked and squeezed every inch of that hard, supple young body, for I was damned if I was going to give her the satisfaction of having me roar all over her like a wild bull.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

He knelt down on the warm pine-needles, and because he did not know where the east lay he prayed to the star.

Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn - RIP 2008

Wet sticky snow with the gravel and pine-needles coming through, but my first chance in over a month.

Nuisance snow jhetley 2006

The ground was covered with greenish moss, sprinkled all over with dead pine-needles; blueberries grew in dense bushes; the strong perfume of the berries, like the smell of musk, oppressed the breathing.

The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories 2006

But the trail was satisfying: a path brown with pine-needles and rough with roots, among the balsams, the ferns, the sudden groves of white birch.

Babbit 2004

He was convulsed with inward laughter, but made no comment; and together they walked paths strewn with pine-needles, through woods into which the golden sunshine fell only in streaks and blotches, she thus ludicrously attired.

Succedaneum 2004