larchwood

Even above the hissing boom of the larchwood, that spread its bristling, leafless, wolfish darkness on the down-slope, she heard the tinkle as of tiny water-bells.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

There all round me hissed the larchwood, dry beneath, and laced with its dry-fretted cords.

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories 2003

The old woman shot him a keen glance as she hovered over the tiny flame that licked at the twigs of dry larchwood.

The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

Coming back, where the water lay in shadow beneath a larchwood which as yet had not wholly lost its vivid vernal green, he disturbed the paddling moor-hens and put up a mallard from a clump of swaying reeds.

Vane of the Timberlands Harold Bindloss 1905

In a few minutes more a small bright blaze of almost smokeless larchwood was lighting up and warming the interior of the igloo.

Isobel : a Romance of the Northern Trail James Oliver Curwood 1903

But I had made him sad, and myself; then when you sent me out he came too; we walked up that path, you remember, beyond the larchwood, up to the top, where the stream goes under the road.

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

But I had made him sad, and myself; then when you sent me out he came too, we walked up that path, you remember beyond the larchwood, up to the top, where the stream goes under the road.

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

He'll cut away from the sex for a paragraph on the blue butterflies swarming around a nearby bush, and then return with something like: "He had resolved to deal first of all with her legs which he felt he had not feted enough the previous night, to sheath them in kisses from the A or arched instep to the V of velvet, and this Van accomplished as soon as Ada and he got sufficiently deep in the larchwood which closed the park on the steep side of the rocky rise between Ardis and Ladore."

Sex, Swoony and Otherwise Walter Jon Williams 2007

He'll cut away from the sex for a paragraph on the blue butterflies swarming around a nearby bush, and then return with something like: "He had resolved to deal first of all with her legs which he felt he had not feted enough the previous night, to sheath them in kisses from the A or arched instep to the V of velvet, and this Van accomplished as soon as Ada and he got sufficiently deep in the larchwood which closed the park on the steep side of the rocky rise between Ardis and Ladore."

Archive 2007-11-01 Walter Jon Williams 2007