The sages from the madrono grove strayed in for wordy dinners — ­and wordy evenings, except when Paula played for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER XVII] Reference

He found himself in a partly new flora, to which she was the guide, pointing out to him all the varieties of the oaks, making him acquainted with the madrono and the manzanita, teaching him the names, habits, and habitats of unending series of wild flowers, shrubs, and ferns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XV] Reference

There's a trail to the right of the big madrono tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susy, a story of the Plains] Reference

Why should she not rest awhile under the shade of a madrono?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories] Reference

He was as clean and refreshing looking as a madrono-tree in the dust-blown forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Partners] Reference

The sages from the madrono grove strayed in for wordy dinners — ­and wordy evenings, except when.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London] Reference

It was the first time the sages of the madrono grove had heard Dick's song, and they were loud in applause.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Lady of the Big House] Reference

You'll find him under that big madrono, if he has not already wound himself up with his lariat by walking round it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crusade of the Excelsior] Reference

The sages from the madrono grove strayed in for wordy dinners -- and wordy evenings, except when Paula played for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Lady of the Big House] Reference

The distinguishing madrono near the entrance to the rancho had changed its crimson summer suit and masqueraded in buff and green.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susy, a story of the Plains] Reference

He now found himself in a nook of several acres, where the oak and manzanita and madrono gave way to clusters of stately redwoods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter VIII] Reference

He had scarcely reached the madrono tree again and remounted his horse, before he heard the sound of hoofs approaching from the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susy, a story of the Plains] Reference

Sometimes, when all seemed fair, the lack was a railroad, sometimes madrono and manzanita trees, and, usually, there was too much fog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 17] Reference

It was a pretty triangular valley lying at the foot of three sloping mountains, dark with pines, and fantastic with madrono and manzanita.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Argonauts] Reference

On entering the deeper defiles, above them towered dark green masses of pine, and occasionally the madrono shook its bright scarlet berries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference

He closed his eyes oddly enough on a dim dreamy recollection of Susy in the old days, in the little madrono hollow where she had once given him a rendezvous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarence] Reference

Indeed, he was hardly in the vein for a gentle tryst, as he entered the wooded ravine to seek the madrono tree which was to serve as a guide to his lady's bower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susy, a story of the Plains] Reference

Thus, on the ranch here, a patteran could be made of manzanita and madrono, of oak and spruce, of buckeye and alder, of redwood and laurel, of huckleberry and lilac.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Lady of the Big House] Reference

As early as six o'clock the designated ground -- a little opening in the madrono grove -- was occupied by Culpepper Starbottle, Colonel Starbottle, his second, and the surgeon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories] Reference

And when she did permit herself to think a little gravely, it was to admit that Shaw and the sages of the madrono grove might be right in their diatribes on the hunting proclivities of women.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Lady of the Big House] Reference

On either side of the glade was a fence, of the old stake-and-rider type, though little of it was to be seen, so thickly was it overgrown by wild blackberry bushes, scrubby oaks and young madrono trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Turtles of Tasman] Reference

He had been at work here, and a steep and slippery horse trail now crossed the creek, so they rode up beyond, through the somber redwood twilight, and, farther on, through a tangled wood of oak and madrono.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XXIV] Reference

Unable in the darkness to penetrate the thickets of manzanita and other undergrowth, utterly bewildered and overcome with fatigue, he had lain down near the root of a large madrono and fallen into a dreamless sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Such Things Be] Reference

A gradual and gentle ascent at the end of two hours brought the cavalcade to a halt upon a rugged upland with semi-tropical shrubbery, and here and there larger trees from the tierra templada in the evergreens or madrono.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crusade of the Excelsior] Reference

Unable in the darkness to penetrate the thickets of man - zanita and other undergrowth, utterly bewildered and overcome with fatigue, he had lain down near the root of a large madrono and fallen into a dream - less sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Such Things Be]

Below the porch, the hillside, covered with scrub-oak and chaparral and madrono trees, and the stumps where redwoods had been, dropped sharply to the little river, which came tumbling down from the wooded mountains to plunge roaring into one end of the big power - house, and which foamed out at the other side to continue its mad rush down the valley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby] Reference

Miss Jo loved the madrono.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories] Reference

The trunks of madrono, all aflame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Poetical Works] Reference

Also there are great firs, tanbark oaks, maples, live-oaks, white-oaks, black-oaks, madrono and manzanita galore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack London's Beloved Beauty Ranch] Reference