I have not heard so much as a locust over the sweet-fern these three hours. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Smaller plants are mostly grasses, lowbush blueberry, and sweet-fern. ❋ Janine M. Benyus (1989)
With sad hearts, we laid her to rest in a spot that she loved, where the sweet-fern and wild-roses were growing, -- with sad, grateful hearts, for she had been to us as father, mother, and true friend. ❋ Various (N/A)
Rachel is always doing little things for her, and bringing home bunches of sweet-fern and everlasting. ❋ Various (N/A)
Squirrels chased each other along the branches of the oaks, and the air was filled with fragrant odors of hickory-leaves, sweet-fern, and spice-wood. ❋ Various (N/A)
These poems of his are natural growths; they have their own circulation of vital juices, their own peculiar properties; they smack of the soil, are racy and strong and aromatic, like ground-juniper, sweet-fern, and the _arbor vitæ_. ❋ Various (N/A)
Linda screamed, as she was pitched headlong into a thicket of sweet-fern which grew along the roadside; but the bushes broke her fall, and, beyond the fright and a scratched hand, she received no injury. ❋ Various (N/A)
The sweet-fern and indigo in overgrown wood-paths wet you with dew up to your middle. ❋ Various (N/A)
The sweet-fern is changed mostly to russet, but still retains its wild and delightful fragrance when pressed in the hand. ❋ Various (N/A)
Bangs will smoke sweet-fern cigars under the bed-clothes, though he's set himself afire three times already. ❋ Unknown (1921)
Among senses, smell was the strongest: smell of hot pine-woods and sweet-fern in the scorching summer noon; of new-mown hay; of ploughed earth; of box hedges; of peaches, lilacs, syringes; of stables, barns, cow-yards; of salt water and low tide on the marshes; nothing came amiss. ❋ Unknown (1918)
She was in the edge of the pasture, sweet-fern at her feet, ❋ Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1918)
Just beyond, a tuft of sweet-fern uncurled between the beaded shoots of the grass, and a small yellow butterfly vibrated over them like a fleck of sunshine. ❋ Unknown (1917)
This was all she saw; but she felt, above her and about her, the strong growth of the beeches clothing the ridge, the rounding of pale green cones on countless spruce-branches, the push of myriads of sweet-fern fronds in the cracks of the stony slope below the wood, and the crowding shoots of meadowsweet and yellow flags in the pasture beyond. ❋ Unknown (1917)
The small outer islands of the bay were covered among the ledges with turf that looked as fresh as the early grass; there had been some days of rain the week before, and the darker green of the sweet-fern was scattered on all the pasture heights. ❋ Unknown (1910)
It was quite a puzzle for six-year-old Mirandy, but she got him across and under the other bars; then she set him down in a sweet-fern thicket, and bade him keep still; and he fell asleep again. ❋ Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1891)
