"Here is a great tree, standing close to the ditch.
The Woodman set to work at once, and so sharp was his axe that the tree was soon chopped nearly through.
By degrees as the river narrowed, and the high sandbanks fell to level ground thickly grown with trees, the sounds of the forest could be heard.
"There are tracks all through the trees there," he explained.
"I was hungry, and I didn't know the
trees were yours."
The discourse, however, was maintained with great vigor by Richard, until they reached an open wood on the summit of the mountain, where the hemlocks and pines totally disappeared, and a grove of the very
trees that formed the subject of debate covered the earth with their tall, straight trunks and spreading branches, in stately pride.
He said that he had watched by the
trees all night, but in spite of it, and as if by magic, the beautiful
trees had been robbed of all their fruit.
I remember that once, on an uninhabited island of the Gallipagos, a bird alighted on my outstretched arm, while its mate chirped from an adjoining
tree. Its tameness, far from shocking me, as a similar occurrence did Selkirk, imparted to me the most exquisite thrill of delight I ever experienced, and with somewhat of the same pleasure did I afterwards behold the birds and lizards of the valley show their confidence in the kindliness of man.
My mother recognized me, but she warned me away when I started to climb into the
tree. Lop-Ear, who was more cautious by far than I, beat a retreat, nor could I persuade him to return.
Chattering and gibbering through the lower branches of the
trees came a company of manlike creatures evidently urging on the dog pack.
The moon was riding in a cloudy heaven when Peter rose from his
tree, begirt [belted] with weapons and wearing little else, to set out upon his perilous quest.
He knew very much about the matter--but he was so impatient that for sheer longing he got a pain in his back, and this with
trees is the same thing as a headache with us.
As the shadow of a rose in a mirror of silver, as the shadow of a rose in a water-pool, so was the rose that blossomed on the topmost spray of the
Tree.
They went on together, and as they passed a cherry-tree, the giant laid hold of the top of the
tree where the ripest fruit was hanging, bent it down, gave it into the tailor's hand, and bade him eat.
As Adam lay a-dreaming beneath the Apple
Tree, The Angel of the Waters offered all the Seas in fee.