Here are found rubies and many precious things, and rare plants grow abundantly, with cedar-trees and cocoa-palms.

The odorous cedar chests containing my lady's wardrobe are strapped behind or piled on top, the negroes form a grinning avenue, the whip cracks, and they are off, half a dozen servants following in an open cart.

And, lo! this great bronze-fronted shield, the dread Of many a Greek, that Hector held in fray, O never in God's nameso did she pray Be this borne forth to hang in Pêleus' hall Or that dark bridal chamber, that the wall May hurt her eyes; but here, in Troy o'erthrown, Instead of cedar wood and vaulted stone, Be this her child's last house....

Florida supplies the world with the wood required for lead pencils, and the inroads made into her cedar forests for this purpose threaten to eventually rob the State of one of its most unique features.

I was privileged to observe the following day that my neighbor's daughter was still of a dusky whiteness, the baffling, shaded whiteness of soft new snow in a cedar thicket.

Ever notice how the cedar shingles shrink in a dry spell?" I said I didn't know they were cedar.

He set out his dishes upon a flat-topped rock, replenished his fire, threw on some fresh-cut green cedar boughs for their delightful fragrance, and went to call Gloria.

We entered a cedar glade, to find our four companions unsaddling the horses and making camp.

We worked our way slowly through the cedar swamp; over logs and under logs, up ravines and down ravines, a crooked, trackless, toilsome way, till the middle of the afternoon, when we met two of our fellow passengers on their way back to the wreck.

A square hole is cut at the back of the pole, and the body of the dead, wrapped in a matting of cedar bark, is placed within, a board being nailed so that the body will not fall to the ground.

He went up-stream; there lay an old cedar log so that it spanned the current, its sturdy old trunk ten feet above the water.

It might have been the creature instinct, which in his way of life had room to grow, that led him to the cedar shelter; at any rate he found it about four hours after dark, and heard the heavy breathing of the flock.

So I goes ter de store en buys me a cedar tub and filled hit wid candy.

The interior of this interesting structure, which still remains at Jerusalem, after a lapse of more than thirteen centuries, in an excellent state of preservation, is adorned with six rows of columns, from whence spring arches supporting the cedar beams and timbers of the roof; and at the end of the building is a round tower, surmounted by a dome.

Besides the species that we regularly count upon in winter, there are more or less irregular visitors at this season, some of them summer birds also,as the purple finch, cedar-bird, gold-finch, robin, the flicker, or pigeon woodpecker, and the yellow-bellied and hairy woodpeckers.

This area was enclosed with cedar pickets.

We lit a fire without fear, for the smoke was hid in the cedar branches, and some of us roasted corn-cakes.

On the banks of the river, cedar groves are frequently seen.

Their boats are constructed of spruce or cedar boards of a quarter of an inch in thickness, "clap-boarded," as the expression is, upon "knees" of the natural crook, and weigh from ninety to one hundred and ten pounds each.

In the Medersas, one of the ground-floor apartments is always fitted up as a chapel, and shut off from the court by carved cedar doors still often touched with old gilding and vermilion.

He then moved into the country upon a farm of about one thousand acres, enclosed by a cedar hedge.

Cedar-houses bears the Atlas On his giant shoulders; flutt'ring In the breeze far, far above him Thousand flags are gaily floating, Bearing witness to his might.

you will have the cedar room on the ground floor ready for Mr. Washington and anything in the house is at his command.

Then the very soul of him shook to see the wild sheep of God stand up about him, nodding their great horns beneath the cedar roof, looking out on the wonder of the snow.

"It will not be needed again this winter," she observed, "and had better go into the cedar closet."