30 Verbs to Use for the Word sapling

With the former he cut saplings, or small trees, to throw across the roads, which, in many places, were almost impassable; while with his rifle he killed squirrels, wild turkeys, or such game as the forest afforded, for their provisions were in a few days exhausted.

"Did you hear that?" "I guess he told Skinny we were going to chop down some saplings to-morrow for stanchions on the boat," Westy said.

Choosing among them, he presently found a sapling to his liking.

And in six hours, we rolled the trees down to the shore, and did begin then that I lash the saplings across the trees, and thiswise to hold them secure into a raft.

Some of the fellows chopped and some of them cut off the branches and tied the saplings together, three or four each, because we were going to haul them as far as the bridge and then float them down to the landing.

Illustration #4 "We towed the saplings and started down stream" All the fellows were there except Skinny, because the doctor made him stay home on account of being all played out.

The principal Trees at once agreed to so modest a request, and unhesitatingly gave him a young ash sapling, out of which he fashioned the handle he desired.

All the fellows went along the road, too, because nobody felt like hauling the saplings that day, and I didn't, that's sure.

So Mr. Darren marked some saplings with chalk and said we could take those.

I also noted eighty-six vigorous saplings upon a piece of fresh ground prepared for their reception by fire.

Wabigoon led, weighted under his pack, selecting the clearest road for the toboggan and clipping down obstructing saplings with his keen-edged belt-ax.

After she had bent down a young sapling and fastened it to a fallen log, she busied herself making a second one.

Anyway, he made up his mind to put out the warning for others if they came that way, and over the dead Indian's balsam shelter he planted a sapling, and at the end of the sapling he fastened a strip of red cotton cloththe plague-signal of the North.

Each Indian must procure two long saplings, leaving the boughs upon them.

When the moose stepped on the loop it would release the sapling, and up it would bound, catching him by the leg.

In the clearing there were great piles of dry logs, and in the center of all there rose eight ten-foot tree-butts crotched at the top; and from crotch to crotch there rested a stout sapling stripped of bark, and on each sapling was spitted the carcass of a caribou, to be roasted whole by the heat of the fire beneath.

He was not much in a race, and he decided to climb; so selecting a smooth-barked, perpendicular ash sapling, he started with might and main towards the top.

No one ever looked out of those front windows, or appeared to notice how fast the fruit-trees by the house, and the forest-trees from the glen, were reaching out their arms and sending forth their young saplings towards it, as if to close it in and swallow it up.

We found elk tracks everywhere and some fresh sign, where the grass had been turned recently, and also much old and fresh sign where the elk had skinned the saplings by rubbing their antlers to get rid of the velvet.

"Now ye sling a couple o' saplings acrost the durrt ye've chucked out.

I would, however, say in conclusion that persons who have the opportunities and the inclination can verify the truth of a portion, at least, of what I have stated, in a simple manner and in a short time; for instance, by cutting two or three young fir or spruce saplings, say about six inches in diameter, mark them when cut, and also mark the stumps by driving pegs marked to correspond with the trees.

Next to the large pine stood two smaller saplings side by side and a few inches apart.

A ring is made, of about sixty feet in circumference, by sticking saplings in the ground, and bending their tops down, fastening them together.

They are consumptive, stunted little saplings without sufficient energy to grow into real trees.

Then I let him go, but no sooner had I turned my back on him, than he picked up a small sapling that was lying around and struck me over the head with it.

30 Verbs to Use for the Word  sapling