What is "spruces"

Usage examples of "spruces".

Following the sound with her eyes, she looked down across the valley and into the deepest depths of the spruces, whose needles shone black as night.

The spruces stood black against the dying glow, as did the gibbet in the center of the yard, and the grisly remains that swung from it.

The great silver spruces vied with the yellow pines for supremacy over the forest glade.

They were working in a muskeg, and the mother, observing a clump of gnarled spruces a little way off, sent her daughter there to see if there were any berries.

Its uneven surface was studded with countless grassy hummocks, many of them crowned with willow and alder bushes or gnarled and stunted spruces or jack pines.

The trail to the log cabin of the Beams climbed many a ridge and slope and foothill, all covered with manzanite, mescal, cedar, and juniper, at last to reach the canyons of the Rim, where lofty pines and spruces lorded it over the underforest of maples and oaks.

It was not alone the murmuring, clear brook of cold mountain water that enchanted him, nor the stately pines, nor the beautiful, silver spruces, nor the wonder of the deep, yellow-walled canyons, so choked with verdure, and haunted by wild creatures.

The tips of the green pines, the crests of the silver spruces, waved about masses of vivid gold aspen trees, and wonderful cerise and flaming red of maples, and crags of yellow rock, covered with the bronze of frostbitten sumac.

Little patches of snow began to drop off the branches of the pines and spruces, and then larger patches, until by mid-afternoon white streams and avalanches were falling everywhere.

Over a low swale the pine monarchs towered and the silver spruces sent their exquisite spiral crests aloft.

Although Ed picked his trees carefully--strong, broad spruces rather than weak, slender birches --Paul claimed that he had never seen anyone, even a local islander, clamber up a tree the way Ed did.

While Paul went to get Jack, Ed set about defining the edges and the center line of the architectural room, and tagged the birches and spruces near the shore that were to be saved.

The forest itself was edged by green-black spruces whose petticoats brushed the ground.

Between two trunks with one eye she studied dark spruces thick as walls of thorns.

More arrows whistled from close blue spruces before the tribe broke through, then they were barging under the canopy of maple and ash leaves.