This was one of the planted forests of Germany, where a sapling is put in when a big tree is taken out, to conserve the timber supply. From Wordnik.com. [Three Times and Out: A Canadian Boy's Experience in Germany] Reference
With limited billing counters around at the 15-stall event, buying a sapling was a tedious process. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
It may be known as sapling clover, and is accounted a perennial, though it is little more so than the red. From Wordnik.com. [Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement] Reference
First they had to find the right kind of sapling, springy and strong. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
The tree directly behind the small sapling which is being planted, and on a line with it, is Max O'Rell's. From Wordnik.com. [The Amateur Garden] Reference
A sapling is just a very young tree. it is still a tree, despite the term "sapling" being applied. From Wordnik.com. [jillstanek.com] Reference
It had grown into a sturdy young sapling by this time. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Then the sapling sprang up and jerked the snare upward. From Wordnik.com. [The Later Cave-Men] Reference
The sapling, jarred out of the notch, springing upward!. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
Down went the sapling into the ravine and I along with it. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference
In a few minutes he was back dragging the sapling after him. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference
It was Fleetfoot, and he was tired of being tied to a sapling. From Wordnik.com. [Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens] Reference
You are so slim and straight and vital -- like a young sapling. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Her body bent toward mine like a sapling and we kissed in the hallway. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 6] Reference
It took the weight of both of them to bring the sapling to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
She made those two sculptures outside: the sapling and the miniature goat. From Wordnik.com. [Capture This Thing] Reference
A sapling tree lay on the ground near the site where the factory had stood. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophers' Problems] Reference
After placing the noose inside the bark, they fastened it to a bent sapling. From Wordnik.com. [The Later Cave-Men] Reference
He says, plucking a six inch maple sapling from the muck and tossing it down. From Wordnik.com. [The Boys] Reference
The sapling is bent down to it and fitted into the notch, which holds it down. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
A certain hare lived here beneath a palm sapling, at the foot of a vilva tree. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore] Reference
Hast thou not sense enough left to understand thou art but a sapling in my hands?. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Near the walls, Holaf chopped a thirty-foot sapling, which we carried to the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
She jumped as far as she could, gnashed her teeth, and tried her best to climb that sapling. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
As I did so, I felt the sapling giving away, and I made a desperate attempt to recover myself. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference
He was a willowy sort of fellow, like an oak sapling with long tapered fingers and a bright open face. From Wordnik.com. [Summer Lawn] Reference
If a sapling can survive its first three years, it usually has a chance at a long life of providing shade. From Wordnik.com. [Love of trees in the District seems to be at a high point] Reference
Brooks, the tall young sapling whose extraordinary height made him a conspicuous mark, had fallen pierced by. From Wordnik.com. [The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster] Reference
The sapling and I fell directly on a fire of branches, from which came the light at which I had been gazing. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference
Just then he spied a sapling poking out of the snow; he worked it free and lashed his shoe together in time to rejoin his march. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Days Of Auschwitz] Reference
He perfectly describes a newly emerged cicada: "Its body was tinged with green like the living subcutaneous layer of a sapling.". From Wordnik.com. [Three books on deadly creatures] Reference
Von Rotten was taller than Penny by at least a foot, and was as skinny and fragile as a newly planted sapling. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 6] Reference
He pressed one hand to his mouth, he staggered to his feet -- the staff bent under him to and fro like a sapling swayed by the wind. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
It was perched on a hill-side, the rain falling in torrents, and every man being obliged to hold to a sapling to keep from going down. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service] Reference
The other boat had been fastened by a short rope to a stout sapling, but this latter boat was ten feet under water, held down by the rope. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
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