Pine Trees

Twenty-six years after his sojourn to Egypt, on a journey through the heartland of Bavaria, the Frenchman would remark in his memoirs, "Leaving Bayreuth ... slender trimmed pine-trees recall the pillars of the Cairo mosque, or the Cathedral of Cordoba," that "cathedral" being the converted mosque left behind by the Moors in Spain. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2010)

Then you found yourself in a long, winding avenue, lined with tall pine-trees, beyond which you could catch glimpses, between the trunks of a kind of wilderness-garden, where climbing roses and flowering shrubs and gum-trees and bush plants, and a host of pleasant, friendly, common flowers grew all together in a very delightful fashion. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A tall, blue-skirted man, a rifle across the hollow of his arm, came out from the gloom of the pine-trees. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Seeing, however, that you were a visitor by the front entrance, you could not answer the beckonings of the wilderness-garden, but must follow the windings of the avenue, on and on, until the wild growth on either side gave place to spreading lawns and trim flower-beds, the pine-trees ended, and you came round a kind of corner formed by an immense bush of scarlet bougainvillea, and so found the house smiling a welcome. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The title comes from the opening line of Wallace Stevens's almost Zen-like ars poetica, "The Snow Man" ( "One must have a mind of winter/To regard the frost and the boughs/Of the pine-trees crusted with snow …"), and the epigraph is dedicatory: "For Wallace Stevens in March." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Having wrapped the Moon with warm blankets he treated her with autumn apples, gave her a cup of tea, and when she got well he took her in his boat across the dark river to the high bank overgrown with moon pine-trees. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Tapering, yet straight, like pine-trees in his grove; ❋ Unknown (2008)

As Rudolph gave his party the word to be on the alert, they reached an open glade, in which were scattered, at considerable distance from each other, some old pine-trees of gigantic size, which seemed yet huger and blacker than ordinary, from their broad sable tops and shattered branches being displayed against the clear and white moonlight. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Wherefore these are they whom I have driven frenzied from their homes, and they are dwelling on the hills with mind distraught; and I have forced them to assume the dress worn in my orgies, and all the women-folk of Cadmus 'stock have I driven raving from their homes, one and all alike; and there they sit upon the roofless rocks beneath the green pine-trees, mingling amongst the sons of Thebes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Away to the mountain take me! to the wood, to the pine-trees will go, where hounds pursue the prey, hard on the scent of dappled fawns. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I'm delighted to have an 80' tall pine tree in [my yard]! They're highly [fragrant] & smell [so fresh]! ❋ Starchylde (2016)

"You fucking [pine tree]!" "No, [turn right], you pine tree.." "Alfred, go [suck and fuck] a pine tree." "Watch out, I'm pulling out my pine tree!!" "Can I lick your pine tree?" ❋ Auzy0 (2008)

Bill possesively growled, [pulling] his [beloved] Pine Tree to his [chest]. ❋ Error 420 (2018)

"Did you bring any [goodies] back [from New York], like [pine] trees?" ❋ Paleface Coyote (2008)

"I saw her [making out] with [Caroline], What a [Pine tree]!" ❋ Melina Martinez (2007)

[Gunther] from Minnesota: "Jesus Christ was that sound I just heard... a hot rod [burning out] in gravel?" Hans from Minnesota: "No that was a [manimal] about 300 miles away giving a girl the Pittsburgh Pine Tree." ❋ Fargo Forbes The Yacht Leaser (2009)

[That fucker] [gave] me a [sticky pine tree]!!!! ❋ CrowFace (2006)

[Pine Tree] Artists are [TOO DIFFERENT] in the [rap game]. ❋ HotLavaBoi (2020)

for my [b-day] [my gf] gave me an Arctic Pine Tree, it was cold but it felt good when she [licked] it off. ❋ Adassica (2009)

Man after [work] i [got] me a [hillbilly pine tree] ❋ Javier Montanyze (2011)