What is "hemlocks"

Usage examples of "hemlocks".

The sun, about two log-widths above the hemlocks, colored the tops of the stranded logs yellow-orange.

The sun, about two log-widths above the hemlocks, colored the tops of the stranded logs yellow-orange.

In the daytime, when we all went out to browse, I took to slipping from the herd and wandering by myself through the great black willows along the creek, or up in the rise of nibbled hemlocks where the woods began.

My own, though -- which reboiled hot as it had ever in the hemlocks -- was for Hedda!

The elms and chestnuts are long gone, the stately hemlocks and flowery dogwoods are going, and the red spruces, Fraser firs, mountain ashes, and sugar maples may be about to follow.

All these hemlocks, and all the hemlocks everywhere along the trail and far beyond, are being killed by an aphid introduced accidentally from Asia in 1924.

Whole hemlocks and the limbs of alders along the unprotected bank were toppling and cracking with enough regularity that floating trunks and tangles of limbs shot along in the current beside the raft, bumping and scraping and hurrying toward the sea.

The creaks and groans of aged wood and copper plumbing were joined by the scrape and waft of thick branches from the gnarled, overgrown hemlocks that guarded it, giving the clapboard the patina of weathered copper.

The wind soughed restlessly through the hemlocks, and the branches skittered against the house like sounds from the unconscious.

Wind-twisted hemlocks and blackstone pines thrashed against the sky like chained beasts.

Young hemlocks and stone pines glistened with rime ice like bodies emerging from water.