 Coming up out of the earth, so slender a stem that dozens can find starting-point in an inch, it darts up, a slender straight shoot, five, ten, twenty feet, with hundreds of fine feathery branches locking and interlocking with all the other hundreds around...  Outing - Página 161885Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1890 - 746 páginas
...find starting-point in an inch, it darts up, a slender, straight shoot, five, ten, twenty feet, with hundreds of fine feathery branches locking and interlocking...inextricable network like lace. Then it bursts into yellow blossom still finer, more feathery and lace-like. The stems are so infinitesimally small, and of so... | |
 | Charles Frederick Holder - 1893 - 856 páginas
...— five, ten or twenty feet — with hundreds of fine feathery branches locking and interlocking, till it is an inextricable network, like lace. Then...yellow bloom, still finer, more feathery and lace-like. It is the terror of the farmer ; but its gold is as distinct a value to the eye as the nugget gold... | |
 | California. State Board of Education - 1893 - 248 páginas
...point in an inch, the mustard stalk darts up, a slender, straight shoot, five, ten, twenty feet, with hundreds of fine feathery branches locking and interlocking with all the other hundreds around it, till it becomes like a network of lace. The stems are so very small and of so dark a green that at a short... | |
 | 1895 - 352 páginas
.... . . that dozens can find starting-point in an inch, it darts up ... five, ten, twenty feet . . . interlocking with all the other hundreds around it,...still finer, more feathery and lace-like. . . . The cloud of blossom seems floating in the air. . . . With a clear blue sky behind it ... it looks like... | |
 | Helen Hunt Jackson - 1896 - 526 páginas
...find starting-point in an inch, it darts up, a slender straight shoot, five, ten, twenty feet, with hundreds of fine feathery branches locking and interlocking...finer, more feathery and lacelike. The stems are so innnitesimally small, and of so dark a green, that at a short distance they do not show, and the cloud... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Parsons - 1897 - 476 páginas
...find starting-point in an inch, it darts up a slender, straight shoot, five, ten, twenty feet, with hundreds of fine, feathery branches locking and interlocking...short distance they do not show, and the cloud of blossoms seems floating in the air; at times it looks like a golden dust. With a clear, blue sky behind... | |
 | Frances W. Lewis - 1900 - 334 páginas
...find starting-point in an inch, it darts up, a slender, straight shoot, five, ten, twenty feet, with hundreds of fine feathery branches locking and interlocking...bursts into yellow bloom still finer, more feathery and more lacelike. The stems are so infinitesimally small, and of so dark a green, that at a short distance... | |
 | J. Torrey Connor - 1902 - 92 páginas
...starting-point in an inch, it darts up, five, ten, twenty feet, interlocking with all the other hundreds about it, till it is an inextricable network like lace....bloom still finer, more feathery and lace-like. The cloud of blossoms seems floating in the air. With a clear blue sky behind it—it looks like a golden... | |
 | Nettie Stewart Gaines - 1910 - 272 páginas
...find a starting point in an inch, it darts up, a slender straight shoot, five, ten, twenty feet, with hundreds of fine, feathery branches locking and interlocking...it is an inextricable network, like lace. Then it brusts into bloom still finer, more feathery and lace-like. The stems are so infinitesimally small,... | |
 | Nettie Stewart Gaines - 1910 - 266 páginas
...Then it brusts into bloom still finer, more feathery and lace-like. The stems are so infmitesimally small, and of so dark a green, that at a short distance they do not show, and the cloud of blossoms seem floating in the air ; at times it looks like golden dust with a clear blue sky behind... | |
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