But they fly there no longer now, for our colonel, in a spasm of sanitation, cut down this graceful swaying clump of striped bamboos for the fear that they harboured mosquitoes.

The banks of the river are thickly studded with prickly bamboos from ten to twelve feet high.

Their mark is, generally, a long bamboo with a pennon atop, outside a low dark hut, with a broad flat verandah, or rather shed, outside the door.

Turning to discover what occasioned it, he was just in time to see a large boar cross the clearing and disappear into the bamboos on the further side.

It is equally easy to make an oblong opening in a large bamboo in which to fit the laths of a stand.

The loom, which every household constructs for itself of bamboo of course costs nothing.

They first cling to the bamboo by means of the long claw, or hook attached to the outer edge of the wing, and then gradually settle themselves.

The boatmen climbed the high slant of the bow, planted their stout bamboos against their shoulders, and came slowly down, head first, like straining acrobats.

By the side of Virginia, at the foot of the bamboos near the church of Pamplemousses, Paul was laid to rest.

The buffaloes instantly commenced hostilities, and made complete shuttlecocks of the bears, who, however, finally escaped by climbing up the bamboos beyond the reach of their horned antagonists.

loads would cover 30 to 40 miles a daysalt is got in bores sunk with bamboos to nearly a mile in depth; it takes two or three generations to sink a bore.

The yellow weaver birds sing most beautifully, as they fly from the feathery tops of the avenue of coconut palms that line the road to the clump of bamboos behind the hospital.