Next he amazed his pupils by climbing the sapling until it bent down with him.
Removing his belt, Vaughn fastened it around the bear's neck, then slipped the loop over the end of the sapling which he was holding down with one hand and the weight of his body.
Twice did the sapling that he had climbed get away from him and spring up into the air, but Tad simply climbed the slender young tree again each time and bent it down.
The top of the sapling was well trimmed off with a hatchet, leaving the stub of one stout branch near the top.
I will cut a sapling or two for the frame; then we will put the camp to rights.
Few things could be finer than to see him snatch away a barbed-wire entanglement of blackberry-bushes, clutch a three-inch thorn sapling with his hairy left, and with one swing of his terrible right cut the taproot through.
The thick end of the sapling was cut or pared off along one side so it would bend in the direction of the slice, and this was put about the tree and the ends brought together and lapped.
If we can find a small hickory saplingit will be the most serviceable, because its natural strength and stiffness will permit us to use a small and light pole.
The sapling closed tight on the paw of the Lion, and squeezed it.
He now lifted this axe and drove a blow into a stout sapling which grew hard by.
The young mobility of her features suggested the easy swaying of the baby sapling in the gentlest breeze.
Suffering had given this sapling of a girl the strong fiber that enables a tree to push majestically up toward the open sky.
Slowly the sapling worked its way, till it came to a resolute stop at a distance of about ten feet in.
On a fallen sapling he crossed the brook, and ran some twenty yards up-stream.
The struggling shape moved gently up and down, now almost touching the snow, now a good four feet above it, as the sapling from which the snare was suspended lightly swung and swayed.
Jack looked at me with a face like ashes; but he obeyed, and it was horrible to see the sapling bend and play like a cart-whip with the weight upon it.
Sounds as if some animal had been climbing along a branch, or had bent down a sapling and then let it fly up again with a loud whish among the trees.
Neither did the unceasing work of the buck-saw, as it ploughed its way through an endless stream of sapling trunks, afford him anything beyond the joy of lending his assistance.
The roof was thatched with reedy grass, bound down with thongs of rawhide to the sapling rafters.
One kind they made by bending down a stout sapling until it almost touched the ground, and hooking the end of it under a notched stake driven in the earth.
Then he would scrape off the bark with a stone knife, make notches at each end, to hold the bow-string in place, and cut down the thicker end of the sapling until both ends of his bow were of the same size.
At the top of each of these posts was a fork, where the sapling had branched into limbs.
When the animal tried to pull the food off the stake, the bent sapling would slip out of the notch and fly upward, and the animal or bird would be caught in the noose.
On the end of the saplingwas a noose of cord, or gut.
The nest was situated on the top fork of a saplingabout 12 feet from the ground.
The nest, of the ordinary Bulbul type (in fact it might easily have passed for a nest of Olocompsa), was placed in the fork of a smallsapling about 6 feet from the ground.
My nest was placed in the fork of a thin sapling about 8 feet from the ground.
The nest was near the top of an oak-sapling in a dense coppice, placed close against the stem in a bunch of leaves at the top.
The nest was placed in the fork of a sapling some 12 feet from the ground.
Two stood at each cardinal point and each one grasped a sapling which he held over his upturned mouth, as if about to swallow it.
In most cases, however, I have seen the sapling used in its natural condition.
Go again and get a sapling with a smooth bark, bluish in color at the joint where a branch comes.
So the servant went out, and came back with a sapling of the kind described.
Now he pulled the arrow from a sapling where it had stuck, and showed it me.
Then we tied the steeds carefully, loosening the girths, and managed to get a sapling or two from the undergrowth set across the door to keep wandering cattle out.
This was a willow sapling which forked just above the ground, sending up two sprouts to a height of twelve or fifteen feet.
He cut the sapling off below the fork, cut off one of the main branches close to the fork and then trimmed the other branch, having thus a limber pole ten or twelve feet long with a stout hook on its heavier end.
Nothing was at hand, but not far off he saw a small sapling growing.
He made towards it, and by a supreme effort pulled the sapling up by the roots.
He fell on thesapling and the others dragged him to a spot where it was comparatively safe.
On the slopes near the lakes of the Cisco Lake chain aspens are rare, and the sapling forests on the clearings and burns are almost a pure stand of paper birch.
Paper birch--aspen stage: The continued growth of the young trees in the shrub stage leads to the production of a sapling forest of the more quickly growing species, the paper birches and aspens.
Near Gogebic Lake, also, the quaking aspen is the dominant form, though paper birches are common in the sapling forests.
The growth in these sapling forests is very thick, and the ground is nearly bare of vegetation, though it is heavily covered with dead sticks and small logs.
Some large burned areas have grown up to sapling forests of aspens.
On a tract of several acres around this rock, oaks and other hard-wood trees had supplied the place of the pines, which were the usual growth of the land; and a young and vigorous sapling stood close beside the travellers.
The sapling to which he had bound the bloodstained symbol of his vow had increased and strengthened into an oak, far indeed from its maturity, but with no mean spread of shadowy branches.
Then climbing to the summit of the rock, which on one side was rough and broken, he bent the oak sapling downward, and bound his handkerchief to the topmost branch.
As he gave a parting look, a breeze waved the little banner upon the sapling oak and reminded Reuben of his vow.
Swimmin' round under the ice, beaver comes across this fresh-cut sapling an' thinks as how he's got a good thing.
Another beaver came in sight, and then another, each partly floating and partly dragging a straight sapling like the first.
For a long time she dug, but the sapling went deeper and deeper, and at last she sat down hot and tired.
The next time Wullie was with her, and half-way up the incline they found apple blossom growing about one foot from the ground on a little sapling with a crabbed, thick trunk.
To and fro bent the sapling under his weight, threatening to snap asunder each moment and cast him into the jaws of the enraged beast.
Before they resumed their journey he cut his master another stout staff from a sapling of hard wood, the first having been lost in the stream.
The sapling had just been laid low and Allen was on the point of dragging it away when sounds broke upon his ear that filled him with surprise.
His pocketknife was still safe, and he drew it out and went to work with a will on a sapling growing some distance from the gully's edge.
Channing got a little too near thesapling in the middle.
One saplingstood up from the middle of the marsh, and laid a finger across the moon.
The sapling alone stood high above it, like the mast of a wreck in the sea.
Above the mist the baresapling stood like a pointing finger, and halfway between the sapling and the house Thresk's head and shoulders showed plain to see.
The young tree's tap root is much developed, and goes deep for moisture, and the growing sapling flourishes on ground where some other species would suffer for water.
The bark was left on, and the identity of the wood was never in doubt, because when the sapling is of that size, the bark is a fine yellow.
The lumberman or the farmer selects a hornbeam sapling as being the best material obtainable for making a wagon or sleigh tongue, a skid, or a lever.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sapling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
