poplar-tree

Peake fired his first charge, like a poplar-tree of black smoke, with a low following report; and the first Turkish machine got up and came for us.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

A little robin acquaintance, who never omitted his daily call at my window-ledge for his matutinal crumbs, was stretching his tiny crimson throat to its fullest extent, with quivering heart-notes of choral song, from a solitary poplar-tree in the adjacent garden on which my room out - looked, making the still air re-echo with his melody; my old retriever,

She and I, Volume 1

I was leaning on the window-sill, looking at a solitary poplar-tree that was swaying in the breeze down in the garden.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

In solemn state and swiftly, he winds up the zig-zag road leading from the piazza Popolo, (so-called from _popolo_, a poplar-tree, and not as the English will have it, from _popolo_, the people,) and at last reaches the summit of Roman ambition -- the top of the Pincian hill.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Now Mrs. Silvernail, who, like the katydid of the poplar-tree, if small, was shrill, had a way of conveying instructions to her boarders by means of parables ostensibly directed at Catharine, the tall Irish serving-maid, but in reality meant for the ear of the obnoxious boarder who had lately transgressed some important statute of the house, made and provided to meet a case or cases.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various

He kept right on swimming with the branch of a poplar-tree until he reached his food pile, which, you know, is in the water.

The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer Harrison Cady 1919

Prickly Porky the Porcupine came down from a tall poplar-tree and slowly stretched himself.

Old Granny Fox 1919

He kept right on swimming with the branch of a poplar-tree until he reached his food pile, which, you know, is in the water.

Lightfoot the Deer 1919

It seemed to be coming nearer to them -- a sound like the Autumn wind blowing through the leaves of a poplar-tree, or a great, great rain beating down upon a roof.

The Story of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1916

I were having a canoe hewn out of the trunk of a large poplar-tree in the Tennessee bottom.

With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914