Forests

Examples

• What are Petrified Forests? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In those days the natives around these forests (who were half Indian and half Negro) happened to find some of this juice sticking on the tree. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The Relation of Forests to the Water Supply. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In all the grandeur of these forests there is repose; in all their freshness there is tenderness. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The great ox, or aurochs, is now extinct, but it survived in the German forests up to the time of the Roman Empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The blame of the violence shall rest with the outlaws of the Yorkshire forests. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• This decadence was in part due to the severe laws enacted against the destruction of forests, and most of the iron was then brought to England from Germany and other countries. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The abundant remains of these first swamp forests constitute the main coal-measures of the world to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There were some small clearings between Belmont and the point where we landed, but most of the country was covered with the native forests. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Bayous Baxter and Macon are narrow and tortuous, and the banks are covered with dense forests overhanging the channel. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• If the hills and forests and streams were not _your_ land or _my_ land, it was because they had to be our land. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The forests were felled, and the tree-tops removed and made into charcoal for use in the glass works of Bohemia. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The difficulty of making a way through the dense forests prevented Burnside from getting up in time to be of any service on the forenoon of the sixth. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Hevea trees are scattered through the dense forests of practically every part of the Amazon Basin, a territory more than two-thirds as large as the United States. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Changes of climate which were replacing forest by pasture, and the accidental burning of forests by fire may have assisted this development. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Porter's fleet was on the east side of the river above the mouth of the Yazoo, entirely concealed from the enemy by the dense forests that intervened. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They were separated by oceans, seas, thick forests, deserts or mountains from one another. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Of course we drove in the Bois de Boulogne, that limitless park, with its forests, its lakes, its cascades, and its broad avenues. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But the age of wood has always existed, wherever forests abounded. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• By destroying forests and by irrigation man has already affected the climate of great regions of the world's surface. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The forests of Scythia afforded some valuable furs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• THE NARRATIVE OF WALTER HARTRIGHT Early in the summer of 1850 I and my surviving companions left the wilds and forests of Central America for home. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Surrounded, too, by vast forests, from which their houses, their churches and their schools must be constructed, these pioneers naturally turned their thoughts toward wood-working machinery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• What is the meaning of all this, said he, or who is it that rifle, and ransom, and make prisoners, in these forests? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• His emotions responded to the glories of tropica l vegetation in the Brazilian forests, and to the sublimity of Patagonian wastes and the forest-cl ad hills of Tierra del Fuego. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The smelting of ore by charcoal in those places where carried on extensively required the use of a vast amount of wood, and denuded the surrounding lands of forests. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• There is many a goodly herd in these forests, and a buck will never be missed that goes to the use of Saint Dunstan's chaplain. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• After roaming about the vicinity for a short time, they started back for the deeper forests and the higher land from whence they had come. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Those are forests. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Coal fields today present abundant indications of the existence of huge ancient forests, usually in the form of coal formed from the roots of the trees. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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