His axe would flash and bite into a sugar-tree or sycamore, and down it would come. ❋ Browne, Francis F (1913)
To-morrow he would take Juba and the horses and the child and go down into the valley; not back to the sugar-tree and that yet smouldering pyre, but to the woods on this side of the stream. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
One of the company beneath the spreading sugar-tree laid his pipe upon the grass, clasped his hands behind his head, and, with his eyes on the azure heaven showing between branch and leaf, sang the song of Amiens of such another tree in such another forest. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
The woman whispered to the child, and the latter ran to the cabin, filled her upgathered skirts with the loaves of her mother's baking, and came back to the group upon the knoll beneath the sugar-tree. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
The rangers gathered fallen wood, and kindled two mighty fires, while the gentlemen of the party threw themselves down beside the stream, upon a little grassy rise shadowed by a huge sugar-tree. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
There she laid off her gorgeous dress, and drew the ornaments from her dark hair that was long as Molly's had been that day beneath the sugar-tree in the far-away valley. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
The other glanced in the direction of the sugar-tree, raised his eyebrows, shrugged his shoulders, and returned to his fishing. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
She was glad to slip from the Governor's encircling arm, and from the gay ring beneath the sugar-tree; to take refuge with herself down by the water side, and watch the fairy tale from afar off. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
Turning from the ruin, he walked across the trampled sward to the sugar-tree in whose shade, in the golden afternoon, he had sung to his companions and to a simple girl. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
Audrey of the garden had shining eyes, a wild elusive grace, laughter as silvery as that which had rung from her sister's lips, years agone, beneath the sugar-tree in the far-off blue mountains, quick gestures, quaint fancies which she feared not to speak out, the charm of mingled humility and spirit; enough, in short, to make Audrey of the garden a name to conjure with. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
The child that had thus brought loaves of bread to a governor's table spread beneath a sugar-tree, with mountains round about, had been no purer of heart, no more innocent of rustic coquetry. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
What if the cabin, the sugar-tree, the crystal stream, had sunk from sight, like the city in one of Monsieur Gralland's fantastic tales? ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
Oh, the clear stream, and the sugar-tree, and the cabin! ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
The packhorses were again laden, the rangers swung themselves into their saddles, and the gentlemen beneath the sugar-tree rose from the grass, and tendered their farewells to the oreads. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
The frozen grass was strewn with wrenched limbs, and here and there was an ash or a sugar-tree splintered and prostrate, but wily Uncle Ephraim was looking for a yule-log that would burn slowly and burn long; for as long as the log burned, just that long lasted the holiday of every darky on the place. ❋ John Fox (1891)
Governor Berkeley of Virginia, writing in 1706, called the maple the sugar-tree; he said: -- ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)
When the leaves on the tall sugar-tree are as red as the breast of the robin, ❋ Hanford Lennox Gordon (1878)
They told the slaves how to tap the sugar-tree to let the liquid out, and to boil it down so as to get the sugar from it. ❋ Francis Fedric (1863)
