And in like manner as the inhabitants sleep upon the sea by night, and dwell in the city by day, so the apes infest the city by night and sleep in the forests by day.
I journeyed on through strange places, meeting no human being nor any of my present kind in the forests and deserts through which I passed, and subsisting on berries which I gathered from the trees.
The Japanese Red Pine forms extensive forestson the mountains of central Japan.
From these elevations the flat alluvial country around could be seen in every direction, which with its forests of oaks and cottonwood interspersed with extensive plantations, formed a picture of great panoramic beauty.
The dense forests of cottonwood, sweet gum, magnolia, sycamore and tulip trees festooned with long gray streamers of moss were interspersed with cypress swamps and a network of bayous.
On foot," said Prince Oducalchi, "through forestsand morasses infested with robbers and wild beasts.
Being a practical young woman, she had pictured this as happening (repeatedly) at sunset, by moonlight, in the depths of romantic forests or on the tops of romantic mountains.
The darkness of the dense, towering forests on either hand impinged in no wise on the melancholy realm of wan light in which the Mississippi lay, unshadowed, solitary, silent as always, its channel here a mile or more in breadth.
He looked vaguely at the moon riding high in the heavens above the long, broad expanse of the Mississippi and the darkling forests on either hand.
The forests were giving way, the region of swamp and bayou.
Multitudinous as leaves fall dropping in the forests at autumn’s earliest frost, or birds swarm landward from the deep gulf, when the chill of the year routs them over seas and drives them to sunny lands.
Engstlen-alp westwards towards the Hasli-thal, passing through long stretches of the pine-forests which so often separate the upper pastures from the valleys.
There are more forests standing in Canada than have been cut.
Though the forests bow down, and the mountains Wax dark, and the tribes of them flee, His delight is more deep in the fountains And springs of the sea.
Evidently the news had been carried through the pine foreststhat it was safe for deer to come near our home.
During the period when the coal forests were growing over what we now know as England, there were innumerable amphibians, and even to-day their petrified footmarks are found in sandstone.
The elder, he who stood on the ground and was to move on on foot, kept his gaze steadily fixed on the rocks and forests lying beyond the smooth green turf.
The forests of Germany are reverberating with the blows of axes which Rome's missionaries wield against Donar's Oaks.
It looked as if the worst blizzard of all was raging already on the west side of the range, where Tom was tracking, all alone, miles from any human being, in the deep forests of the canyon!
That kind always chooses a place where there hasn't been a slide before, wipes out forests as it comes, and sometimes houses and people in the valleys.
He invades the forests and shears the hairs of the earth, shaving it as a barber a beard.
The last of these forests seems to have lingered on into Roman times.
But the Great Spirit has been angry with his children; he has taken their forests and their hunting grounds, and given them to others.
IT was in the spring of 1848, that several Dahcotahs were carefully making their way along the forests near the borders of the Chippeway country.
Wabashaw was one of the hostages given up in consequence of the murder, and the Governor of Canada required that these Dahcotahs should leave the forests of the west, and remain for a time as prisoners in Canada.
The wide stretch of forests of the Taunus, well stocked with game, and the proximity to such markets as Frankfort and Mainz, offered him a prospect of doing a good business in this line.
In several of theseforests and woods there were not only subterranean villages grouped about the burrow of the chief, but also actual hamlets of low huts hidden under the trees.
The gloomy Breton forests were servants and accomplices of rebellion.
Mountain, hill and valley were clothed with magnificent forests of oak, chestnut and ash.
Our national emblem is the eagle, and there is an eagle spirit in the American people which likes the cliffs and the forests better than the boulevards and the parks.
They did not find these, as they planted their tents in the great forestsof northern Ohio.
They were directed to keep scouts of faithful men to range the forests to discover the designs of the enemy, and give intelligence should they make their appearance near the frontier.
Through brake and tangled copse, for much he loathed All populous haunts, and roam'd in forests rude, To hide himself from man.
Not Radcliffe's brush did e'er design Black Forests half so black as mine, Or lakes so like a pall; The Chinese cake dispersed a ray Of darkness, like the light of Day And Martin over all.
The country was mountainous and there were deep and thick forests by the way--forests so far-reaching and with such thick undergrowth that full-grown men could easily have hidden themselves.
The breath of the forests below was sweet about them, and soundlessness enclosed them which was of unearthly peace.
They heard more or less of it all through the Lost Prince story, because Prince Ivor had loved lowland woods and mountain forests and all out-of-door life.
In the forests on the mountain sides were bears and, in the high places, chamois.
He wanders in the forests surrounding Tiffauges, dark, impenetrable forests like those which Brittany still can show at Carnoet.
There was the same melancholy, heavy sky, the same sun, which seemed older than in other parts of the world and which but feebly gilded the sorrowful, age-old forests and the mossy sandstone.
Yes, to the lowest savage in the forests of the Amazon, comes a hunger of the soul, and whispers from the unseen world, to remind him of what he might have been, and still may be.
In southern Georgia there are millions of acres of magnificent yellow pine forests of great value for house or ship-building, and in these forests turpentine plantations have been opened.
It is covered with magnificent forests of oak, and its shores are skirted with palms, palmettos, and tropical shrubbery.
The spread of giant unbroken forests spoke in their brawny arms and legs.
The Boy Lieutenant was the first lumberman to put axe into the virgin forests of Wisconsin.
Vast reaches of untouched forests stretched away in all directions.
With swift stealthy tread, Johnston was moving through the dense forests of the wild region to the south.
