spruce-tree

Mason -- far, far to the north, a spruce-tree, heavy with years, crushed out his life beneath.

The Sun of the Wolf 2010

Mason -- far, far to the north, a spruce-tree, heavy with years, crushed out his life beneath.

The Son of the Wolf 2010

Nothing grows in the shadow of the old, thick-growing spruce-tree, but Mr Darwin is a tree that spreads light, Thomas Davies thinks.

Archive 2009-09-01 David McDuff 2009

Seeing his mother go for the woods, her spotted fawn, which had been frolicking among the branches of the fallen spruce-tree, skipped from it, passed Dol with a bound which carried him a few feet, and disappeared like a whiff too.

Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook

Presently the spruce-tree saw him, and said, "Where are you going, little bird?"

How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell Sara Cone Bryant

He was a mighty woodsman now, and could make a spray of chips fly around him as he hewed his way through the trunk of spruce-tree.

Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

It oozed out of the trees in the same manner as gum from the spruce-tree and resin from the pine.

Bertha Mary Hazelton Wade

It was believed that if she were to look at the sky, the weather would be bad; that if she picked berries, it would rain; and that when she hung her towel of cedar-bark on a spruce-tree, the tree withered up at once.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

It was believed that if she were to look at the sky, the weather would be bad; that if she picked berries, it would rain; and that when she hung her towel of cedar-bark on a spruce-tree, the tree withered up at once.

Chapter 60. Between Heaven and Earth. § 3. The Seclusion of Girls at Puberty 1922

At the edge of timber-line he showed a gnarled and knotted spruce-tree, twisted out of all semblance to a beautiful spruce, bent and storm-blasted, with almost bare branches, all reaching one 'way.

The Man of the Forest 1919