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Example sentences for "dogwood"

Lexicographically close words:
dogmatizing; dogme; dogs; dogskin; dogtooth; dogwoods; doibt; doigt; doigts; doilies
  1. A flowering dogwood bathed in its ethereal light shimmers like a bridal veil adorning a wood nymph.

  2. Betty," she called, "will you and Angela get us some more big branches of dogwood or apple blossoms?

  3. A few minutes before the bell rang, Angela and Betty returned, laden down with dogwood and apple blossoms.

  4. Easter vacation, spent at Atlantic City with Uncle Roddy, came and went, so that when this chapter opens, spring was fully established and Seddon Hall was a mass of dogwood and violets.

  5. There was no riding in the afternoon; they were in country where the tangle of dogwood and undergrowth was so thick that to take a horse through it meant only lost time, and hindered the thoroughness of the quest.

  6. The men are getting some of the dogwood down, so that we can carry him out better.

  7. In the forest the dogwood petals now let go and fell silently one by one through the shadowed green.

  8. Lord of April, in my hour May the dogwood be in flower, And my angel through the dome Of spring twilight lead me home.

  9. Starry dogwood is in flower, Gleaming through the mystic woods.

  10. The drumming of a partridge in his solitary transport sounds where reddened dogwood glorifies a clump of firs.

  11. Dogwood boughs are gorgeous as a sunset, and the thick scarlet clusters droop from the mountain ash.

  12. It's true enough, and my best dogwood charcoal makes the strongest powder to be had.

  13. Certainly I sell powder to go abroad along with my guns--powder made of the softest dogwood charcoal we can burn.

  14. But, Wat, how if they don't ride by the Dogwood Spring?

  15. Butler; "she called it the Dogwood spring.

  16. Do not ride by the Dogwood Spring to-morrow, nor take the right hand road at the first forks: there are wicked men upon that road.

  17. Remember the orders I issued at the Dogwood Spring, this morning.

  18. Tell Hugh to be ready at the Dogwood Spring, at the latest, by eight o'clock.

  19. An extract from dogwood used as a febrifuge.

  20. Spring came again with the dogwood and the honeysuckle and the strawberries, the gay, returning birds, the barred and striped and mottled serpents.

  21. When the dogwood and the strawberry bloomed, England-in-America had a population of but sixty.

  22. Many a grave on the sun kissed hillsides, where the dogwood blooms in springtime and ripe chestnuts come rattling down in the autumn, marks the spot where some lusty mountaineer lies buried.

  23. Now and then as they hurried forward the dew drenched branch of dogwood or rhododendron slapped them full in the face.

  24. I do think Ike was the maddest man that ever stuk an axe into a tree, for his har stuck rite strait up, and his eyes glared like two dogwood blossoms!

  25. Thus the common Dogwood is not an umbelliferous plant, though its flowers grow in umbels, because its fruit is a berry.

  26. That's the title, 'When the Dogwood Is in Bloom.

  27. To-night was the preview of that much talked of picture, "When the Dogwood Is in Bloom.

  28. You are planning to make a success of the scenario I wrote, 'When the Dogwood Is in Bloom.

  29. When the dogwood is in bloom," she murmured softly.

  30. Ah, yes," she breathed, "it must be truly wonderful when the dogwood is in bloom on Big Black Mountain.

  31. When the dogwood is in bloom," she murmured.

  32. We will come in spring when the dogwood is in bloom.

  33. She had been shown among the dogwood blossoms on the movie lot, on the Enchanted Island with a hundred beautiful children crowding about her, in a gondola riding down the lagoon like a queen.

  34. When the dogwood is in bloom," she whispered a moment later.

  35. There is mountain ivy, rhododendrons and dogwood in bloom.

  36. When the dogwood is in bloom," she whispered.

  37. You shall have your way, your ivy and your dogwood and what was it you said?

  38. From the bark of American dogwood (Cornus Florida).

  39. In its general effects, American dogwood approaches the cinchonas, and is said to be not inferior to them in the cure of intermittents.

  40. This over he broke and trimmed a young dogwood for a staff, and with it in hand he went southward a considerable distance through the woods, then crossed to the road.

  41. He saw wholly every little dogwood tree, every stalk of the long grass by the roadside; the cadence of the earth was his, and the taste of existence was in his mouth.

  42. The stars rimmed it, and a low whispering wind went from cedar covert to sweet-gum copse, from pine to oak, from dogwood to judas-tree.

  43. And now the Southern woods were gloriously a-riot with blossoms; with dogwood and magnolia, with wild tropical blossoms of orange and scarlet; and the moon hung wild and beautiful above the Everglades.

  44. As he talked, Morg plucked a dogwood blossom that peeped around the corner of his shack like a gossipy old woman.

  45. Make an early ritual For the mountain side; Pine and beech are spectators, White dogwood a bride.

  46. On the way down to the dummy station, Paul picked a dogwood blossom.

  47. I know mother always gathers the dogwood roots to make a scarlet dye.

  48. A large number of the dogwood roots were put into a huge iron kettle, the kettle filled with water, and hung over the fire.

  49. The pokeweed berries will color a good red," continued Mrs. Scott; "but for scarlet we must use the dogwood roots.

  50. He jumped from the boat and away he went up the bank, through a thick growth of young wood and undergrowth of alder and dogwood and buckthorn and maple and huckleberry bushes.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dogwood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ebony; flower; oak; tree; wood