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  • They came up to within sight of the camp, and all crawled up behind a large sugar-pine tree, and sat there watching the camp.

    History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra

  • If you could go through the sugar-pine forests, you would find hundreds and even thousands of these mighty trees lying on the ground rotting.

    Conservation Reader

  • You may have seen sugar-pine cones which are over a foot long, the largest of all found, while redwood cones are the smallest.

    Stories of California Ella M. Sexton

  • Once in the Valley of the Giants, he followed a well-worn foot-path to the little amphitheatre, and where the sunlight filtered through like a halo and fell on a plain little white marble monument, he paused and sat down on the now almost decayed sugar-pine windfall.

    The Valley of the Giants 1918

  • When McTavish was gone, John Cardigan sat down on a small sugar-pine windfall, his head held slightly to one side while he listened to that which in the redwoods is not sound but rather the absence of it.

    The Valley of the Giants 1918

  • Remember the old sugar-pine windfall we used to sit on?

    The Valley of the Giants 1918

  • Eventually, however, the spell of the forest would creep over the child; intuitively he would become one with the all-pervading silence, climb into his father's arms as the latter sat dreaming on the old sugar-pine windfall, and presently drop off to sleep.

    The Valley of the Giants 1918

  • Lumber Company, informing Bryce that until more equipment could be purchased and delivered to take the place of the rolling-stock destroyed in the wreck, the latter would have to be content with half-deliveries; whereupon Bryce irritated the Colonel profoundly by purchasing a lot of second-hand trucks from a bankrupt sugar-pine mill in Lassen County and delivering them to the Colonel's road via the deck of a steam schooner.

    The Valley of the Giants 1918

  • Then, gradually, as your experience takes cognizance of surroundings, -- the size of a sugar-pine, of a boulder, of

    The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909

  • At the end of it he found himself well elevated above the valley, and once more in the sugar-pine belt.

    The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909

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