arbutus is a great fuelwood tree since it burns hot and long. From LearnThat.org. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbutus]
The arbutus is now open everywhere in the woods and groves. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Hours] Reference
"'The arbutus is particularly fond of pine-woods and light sandy soil'" Frontispiece. From Wordnik.com. [Flower Stories] Reference
They tell me that the arbutus is particularly fond of pine-woods and light sandy soil. From Wordnik.com. [Flower Stories] Reference
It, too, is a kind of arbutus, but of great rarity, and found nowhere else except in Italy and Ireland. From Wordnik.com. [Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania] Reference
So he bought two bunches of arbutus and nothing else. From Wordnik.com. [Our Holidays Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas] Reference
"Have you the trailing-arbutus there?" asked Mr. Dudley. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
"How I'd like to go for arbutus this spring," I told him. From Wordnik.com. [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference
She lifted a small cluster of trailing arbutus and gave it to. From Wordnik.com. [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference
And the arbutus in beauty, 'neath her fairy footsteps sprung. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Legends of Minnesota] Reference
The wood violets and the trailing arbutus blossomed among the grass. From Wordnik.com. [Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days] Reference
He never had become accustomed to an arbutus landing characteristics. From Wordnik.com. [The Lani People] Reference
The man's hands trembled among the arbutus -- did the admiration touch. From Wordnik.com. [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference
She found him contemplating the sprigs of arbutus he had picked for her. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference
She placed the box of arbutus in the garden path and laid her hand on his arm. From Wordnik.com. [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference
The May flower, or trailing arbutus, has been aptly styled our national flower. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
The maid of honor in pink was as refreshing to look upon as a bouquet of arbutus. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands] Reference
"The arbutus," he explained, with a lingering touch of his finger upon the blossoms. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
The ground was covered with myrtle and arbutus, and presented a wild but beautiful aspect. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference
The trailing arbutus trailed everywhere; the lady slippers grew even in the front dooryard. From Wordnik.com. [Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens] Reference
I promised David I'd come home for arbutus and the inspiration came to go home for the whole spring and summer. From Wordnik.com. [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference
I'll never forget the glorious hour when we were on our knees and pushed away the leaves and found the arbutus. From Wordnik.com. [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference
And she led him to a tall plane tree, beneath whose shade grew arbutus, and lentisk, and purple heather bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
The trailing arbutus, the blueberry and the wintergreen are some of our native plants belonging to the same family. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
She opened the box, separated half of the arbutus from their mates and laid them in the uplifted corner of her coat. From Wordnik.com. [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference
Pines, arbutus, and heaths cover the mountains, while the more fertile plains and valleys have vineyards and fields. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Others quickly plait a soft wicker bier of arbutus rods and oak shoots, and shadow the heaped pillows with a leafy covering. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
IT was a balmy day in April when Phœbe and David drove over the country roads to the mountains where the trailing arbutus grow. From Wordnik.com. [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference
On this Annie heaped bloodroots and anemones, a few early violets, and one or two arbutus-sprays, and then looked up to see if I was satisfied. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
Meantime they had been active, and each had gathered a fair quantity of pretty flowers -- arbutus, violets, anemones, and cherry blooms; to which. From Wordnik.com. [Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir] Reference
Her thoughts were with the man who was going home to his mother, going with trailing arbutus in his hands and some great unhappiness in his heart. From Wordnik.com. [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference
An arbutus filled him with the wonder of things, a sense of eternity, a swift, inexplicable compassion, a longing for service to the needs of men. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
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