What is "evergreens"

Usage examples of "evergreens".

The gold of the departing sun crept up the snow, up tops of the rocks and the tips of the evergreens, and vanished altogether as all the world turned to blue shadows, snowy rocks, snow-blanketed evergreens and the untracked expanse of the road that had received a layer of honest snow.

HAWLEY SAID, AT THEIR WIND-BLOWN campfire that night, high on the road, in a clump of evergreens that gave them a little shelter.

He scrambled to his feet, too, struggling with the blanket and the springy mat of evergreens under them.

SHE TUCKED her hands in her pockets and kept walking, brushed by evergreens which dumped the burden of their boughs and spattered wet snow onto the melting crust.

But on this side of the gorge the wind was less, and the next switchback came up among sizeable, snow-blanketed evergreens that cut off the sight of the valley.

EVENING SHADOW ROLLED DOWN EARLY, THICK WITH CLOUD, and the black, bristling evergreens were white with snow.

Guil had no trouble spotting it among the evergreens a little above them on the mountain.

Pony served as anchor to them all, holding a position along the highest ridge directly north of Dundalis, overlooking the valley of evergreens and caribou moss.

Dundalis or Weedy Meadow, except that, being on the western border of Alpinador, it was a colder place, with more hardy evergreens and fewer deciduous trees.

The custom of decorating graves was once universally prevalent: osiers were carefully bent over them to keep the turf uninjured, and about them were planted evergreens and flowers.

They were afterwards to be supplanted by holly, rosemary, and other evergreens, which on some graves had grown to great luxuriance, and overshadowed the tombstones.

Thus it was an especial precaution that none but sweet-scented evergreens and flowers should be employed.

Now, with a weak sun falling fast behind the evergreens, she pushed the Blazer as fast as she could on roads that were starting to ice up again.

They were carefully spaced, and while his island was mostly evergreen, the only evergreens here stood off in a group on the side.

The snow dripped from notches of trees, bare earth at the foot of evergreens emitted a fertile scent, and the sap started to flow.