In the other case the plants remain considerably smaller and grow sparsely.

When he left the camp seen by Gregory, he would, going either south-west or west, find himself in the driest of dry country, which is even now but sparsely settled.

It is one of the hardiest species, and bears, though rather sparsely, terminal golden-yellow flowers, which are frequently produced both in spring and autumn.

The flowers are dark crimson, and nearly twice as large as those of C. floridus, but rather more sparsely produced.

A pretty lax, trailing shrub, with long, slender, flexible twigs, small linear-lanceolate leaves, and rather sparsely-produced lilac or violet flowers.

Flowers white in spicate, thyrsoid racemes, and produced rather sparsely.

It is of neat growth, with short, stout branches that are sparsely furnished with twigs, and smooth, obovate, pointed leaves, bristly serrated on the margins.

It is a sparsely-leaved species, and of greatest value on account of the flowers being produced so early in the season.

It justly ranks amongst the most beautiful of hardy climbing shrubs, and is invaluable as a wall plant, or for clothing the bare stems of sparsely foliaged trees.

"We entered a low-ceilinged room, or pen, sparsely lighted by wax candles.

"The idea when Arizona is so sparsely settled of our starting out to depopulate it in such a premeditated manner on such a beautiful morning, and all because I was such an inept whistler!

The country over which they were passing was heavily wooded, and seemingly sparsely populated.

It is very sparsely settled.

The right of the village was very sparsely held by a reduced battalion of the 5th Czech Regiment and Kalmakoff's Cossacks.

It is an absolute necessity of society that in agricultural districts cultivated by slave-labor the free population should be too sparsely scattered to support a system of schools, even on starvation wages for the cheapest class of teachers.

In the early days of the human race and also in later days among barbarous peoples, the land was very sparsely settled.

[Sidenote: Virginia sparsely settled.

Tobacco drew settlers to Virginia as in later days gold drew settlers to California and sparsely Australia.

Lights were located sparsely throughout the facility.

The fact that the western country in many sections is sparsely settled favors destruction by forest fires.

These I put in various knick-knacks of china with which the room was sparsely adorned, lit and placed where the shadows had lain deepest, some on the floor, some in the window recesses, until at last my seventeen candles were so arranged that not an inch of the room but had the direct light of at least one of them.

He has a great many services on Sunday, somewhat sparsely attended.

Both the water route and the wilderness road were infested by the savages at all times, and whenever there was open war the sparsely settled regions from which they started were likewise harried.

To port, only a few scattered gleams along the base of the cliff or atop it, showed that the sparsely settled Palisades were drawing abeam.

In this work his field of labor lay mostly in the new and sparsely settled regions of the Chippewa Valley, and along the frontiers of Minnesota.