sugar-trees

The farmers come daily into camp, whining because our men cut down their sugar-trees, or "find" a few cabbages or apples; but, as the

Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive Alf Burnett

Their sugar was obtained from the sap of the sugar-trees; their meat was supplied in the greatest abundance by a few hogs, and by the inexhaustible game of which the forests were full.

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906

The gentlemen were young and of cheerful countenances; the rangers in the rear sat their horses and whistled to the woodpeckers in the sugar-trees; the negroes grinned broadly; even the Indians appeared a shade less saturnine than usual.

Audrey Mary Johnston 1903

The narrow brook which flowed at my feet, burying itself from time to time among the thickets of oak -, willow -, and sugar-trees, and reappearing a little farther off in the glades, all sparkling with the constellations of the night, seemed like a ribbon of azure silk spotted with diamond stars and striped with black bands.

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I Various 1885

The red birds were singing bridal songs in the sugar-trees, and the shy hermit thrush betrayed his domestic secrets by husbandly notes piped from the spice-brush thicket.

A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett William Henry Venable 1878

About four miles higher up the Shenandoah, we went through most beautiful groves of sugar-trees, and spent the better part of the day in admiring the trees and richness of the land.

The Farmer Boy, and How He Became Commander-In-Chief Morrison Heady 1872

She manufactured all the soap and candles they used, and prepared her sugar from the sugar-trees on their farm.

Domestic Manners of the Americans 1832

The sap continued to flow for four or five weeks, and it was the opinion of the observers that it must have yielded as much as sixty barrels [l,800 gallons]. "] -- are scattered among the sugar-trees; for the

The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841