14 Verbs to Use for the Word maple

We have seen maples, elms, and basswood trees, fifteen feet or more high, transplanted in this manner, without failure.

But when the hemlock and fir trees began to crowd out the maples and oaks, Helma said quietly one day, "We are nearing the sea."

They simplified themselves to her simple nature in a brief soliloquy, as she sat looking at the splendid haze of October, glorifying the scarlet maples and yellow elms of Deerfield Street, now steeped in a sunset of purpled crimson that struck its level rays across the sapphire hill-tops and transfigured briefly that melancholy earth dying into winter's desolations.

Good, steady men we were, most of us,none of your blundering Irish, that wouldn't know a maple from a hickory, with their gin-bottles in their pockets,but our solid, Down-East Yankee heads, owning their farms all along the river, with schooling enough to know what they were about 'lection day.

" She laughed with him at this, and leaving the shady maple they walked up to the hotel, where Benton proposed that they get a canoe and paddle to where Roaring River flowed out of the lake half a mile westward, to kill the time that must elapse before the three-thirty train.

"I remember marking that great maple with the blaze on its trunk, when last I went with the governor to Montreal.

Malcolm only means the maples that we saw in blossom yesterday and thought of such a pretty color.

"Yes, dear, I remember it very wellan innocent little red maple that would put on its flame-colored dress when it should have been all in green, like its sisters; but it was too green at heart to be in a blaze.

So the week passed, the day came when we were to leave Williamsburg, and at six o'clock one cool October morning, the great coach of the Washingtons rolled westward down the sandy street, the maples casting long shadows across the road.

We picked up chips to simmer the sweet maple sap down.

On Saturday mornings there were griddle cakes and maple syrup from their own trees; for Osh Popham had shown them in the spring how to tap their maples, and collect the great pails of sap to boil down into syrup.

In the Lake States, a branch of the veneer industry which uses maple, birch and basswood is located.

Baxter, the carpenter, says that when he works for enjoyment he chooses curly maple.

We stood a moment in the autumn silence outside the hotel door, watching a maple across the street, the line of its boughs showing strong and black amid its airy yellow plumage.

14 Verbs to Use for the Word  maple