The berry of the round-leaved dogwood is of a very delicate blue. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Hours] Reference
The man sitting alone in the shade of a small dogwood is equally unaware. From Wordnik.com. [CLOUD DANCING • by J. Thomas Arant] Reference
Our dogwood is filled with white blossoms though, and I know the geese will be laying eggs. From Wordnik.com. [Sprung!] Reference
The dogwood is another of the splendid white blossoms that adorn the woods. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Manners of the Americans] Reference
When "the leaf of the dogwood is the size of a squirrel's ear," it is planting time. From Wordnik.com. [Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children] Reference
The dogwood is a seedling from our first Tennessee house, one of several herethat are now flowering size. From Wordnik.com. [Enigmatic Prose « Fairegarden] Reference
Carolyn Gail, thanks, I also thought the dogwood was our tree, but was corrected and now know it is the tulip poplar. From Wordnik.com. [Pink Dogwood Winter « Fairegarden] Reference
Large tulip poplars and beech trees are abundant, as are understory trees such as dogwood, redbud and holly. From Wordnik.com. [News for InsideNova.com] Reference
There are many varieties of dogwood in common use. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
They are made of either maple, dogwood, or persimmon. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference
Sweet gum and clay produced a purple; dogwood, a blue. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2] Reference
The Springtime am a-comin ', and the dogwood soon will bloom. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
And the rugged cliff-sides wearing robes of dogwood, snowy white. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
"Well, wouldn't a dogwood tree scare a cat?" chuckled the sailor. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove] Reference
The soft porous wood, called black dogwood, is used for gunpowder. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
For damp ground there is no better shrub than the red osier dogwood. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference
I could see where the dogwood was beginning to come out in the woods. From Wordnik.com. [W. A. G.'s Tale] Reference
Volunteer native growth of cheery, ash, dogwood and hawthorn prevails. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947] Reference
I set the bucket down an 'hit a Yankee on the leg with a dogwood stick. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
A face gleamed from a crown of dogwood blossoms -- pink and white blossoms!. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
They walk up her street amidst the fallen purple blooms of the dogwood trees. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Mothers] Reference
There used to be a view of the pretty dogwood tree in Mr. Hensley's backyard. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Wall of Suburbia] Reference
A roque mallet has a dogwood head 9-1/2 inches long, with heavy nickel ferrules. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference
As I started to run, a fallen dogwood tree tripped me up, and I fell over the log. From Wordnik.com. ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference
Stothard points out in his book that the dogwood blossom is "the flower of fidelity.". From Wordnik.com. [The Warrior] Reference
Beside her door there was a black squirrel in the dogwood she saw scratched his armpit. From Wordnik.com. [Early (Valentine's Day Challenge)] Reference
I saw a sophomore dance a jig to the music of a dogwood sprout for throwing paper wads. From Wordnik.com. [Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales] Reference
Dye for coloring the cloth was provided by collecting sweet gum, dogwood bark, and red clay. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2] Reference
It was early spring then, and under the tall, dark trees the dogwood bushes were in full bloom. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
In the forest the dogwood petals now let go and fell silently one by one through the shadowed green. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
"I've seen that dogwood one he carries about with him," Matilda answered, leaning back on her pillow. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
His glance singled out clumps of changing maple or dogwood that flamed like small fires on the slope. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
A world of lilac and dogwood and a few late apple blossoms clinging bravely through the storm to sunshine. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
They passed the buildings of the Experiment Station and continued on, amid pine and dogwood, elms and beeches. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
Country people give the bark boiled in ale for jaundice; and this bark is the black dogwood of gunpowder makers. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
The wooden clubs are usually made with either dogwood or persimmon heads and with split hickory handles or shafts. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference
In the hedgerows are hazels, guelder roses, maples, dogwood, all intwined with long trails of bryony and traveller's joy. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons on Soil] Reference
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