| 单词 | pitch pine |
| 例句 | Here, too, were boys of gold on pedestals holding aloft bright torches of pitch pine to light the great rooms, and the night-time feasting. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “We even brought the pitch pine back,” Mr. Blonsky said, referring to a type of tree. Central Park, Bucolic but Aging, Is in a Quest for $300 Million 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z One of his favorite sections contains sweeps of the grass little bluestem and the perennial sweet everlasting amid scattered plantings of pitch pines. A native plant designer’s memoir reflects on a life in the field 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Over the past century, however, land managers have suppressed natural fire to the detriment of such iconic species as the pitch pine, which evolved to prosper in droughty, acidic and fire-prone conditions. Some Surprising Places Are at Risk of Devastating Urban Wildfires like Maui’s 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z New Jersey says the cutting will center on the smallest snow-bent pitch pine trees, “and an intact canopy will be maintained across the site.” Fire plan would cut 2.4 million New Jersey Pinelands trees 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z The house, where the couple have lived since 2018, is hidden at the end of a narrow quarter-mile-long road and surrounded by eight acres of pitch pines and red maples. 'I’m just ready to live life.' Carli Lloyd content at home in early days of retirement 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z On April 22, a spring wildfire roared through Penn State Forest in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, sending 100-foot flames shooting from the crowns of the pitch pines. Take a Look at How Quickly a Forest Can Recover From Fire 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z DEC wants the public to report recently dying pitch pines and red pines. Destructive beetle found in Albany Pine Bush Preserve 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z By midcentury, some 40,000 square miles of the pitch pine forests from eastern Ohio to southern Maine will be hospitable to the beetle. Tree-Eating Beetles Set to March Northward as Winters Warm 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, pitch pines — small trees common in drier environments like Cape Cod that sprang up here when the bog was full of sand — are struggling. The ‘Rewilding’ of a Century-Old Cranberry Bog 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z But after 72 years, Pinus rigida 212-45-C, the state’s champion pitch pine, has died and will be cut down at the Washington Park Arboretum. Farewell, giant pine: Climate change kills a champion at Washington Park Arboretum 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z To the right is the open living room, dining room and veranda, all under a peaked ceiling of pitch pine with exposed rafters. House Hunting in ...Trinidad and Tobago 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Here’s the original clubhouse: And here’s the tennis court: The Links went dormant during the Depression and the Second World War, and they became overgrown with Chappy's newest residents: scrub oak and pitch pine. The other Royal & Ancient golf club -- this one in the United States: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z The beetle, which resembles a chocolate sprinkle, is viewed as a threat to all pine species, including pitch pine, the predominant tree found in the 100,000-acre environmentally sensitive Long Island Pine Barrens region. Destructive southern pine beetle appears in Northeast states 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z The state Department of Environmental Conservation says the vacant parcel consists of mixed deciduous and chestnut oak forest with patches of pitch pine, oak and heath. Land preserved in New York’s Hudson Highlands 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z The pitch pine’s rugged form and spiny cones belie a gentle presence. Farewell, giant pine: Climate change kills a champion at Washington Park Arboretum 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Off the hallway is the kitchen, with pitch pine floors, black tile countertops and a mix of pitch pine and purple heart wood in the cabinets. House Hunting in ...Trinidad and Tobago 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z The timbers were of elm, spaced about 9 inches apart, and the seats pitch pine, secured with galvanized-iron double knees. Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z Fuel was scarce a large part of the way until west of Fort Laramie, the pitch pine in the Black Hills made such fires as delight the hearts of campers. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z In this sport, an iron pan, filled with blazing knots of pitch pine, is carried by one of the sportsmen. Curiosities of Human Nature 2012-04-03T02:00:27.167Z Oak very soon becomes destroyed with water; the same trouble is experienced with pitch pine. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z I have never seen floors of more costly materials than “pitch pine,” which certainly takes a good polish if rubbed, but which in that case are very disagreeable to walk over. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z Here and there were torches of pitch pine that threw a smoky splendor over the scene and hid all the squalor and sordid poverty that had been so evident in the broad light of day. Bert Wilson at the Wheel 2012-01-14T03:00:19.827Z The wood of the pitch pine is of comparatively little value for the joiner, but it is useful for very many purposes. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z Gummy exudations of this pitch pine make it peculiarly liable to running fires. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z It is a valuable thinner to use in the reduction of paints for the priming of resinous lumber and refractory woods such as cypress and yellow pitch pine. Paint Technology and Tests 2011-09-15T02:00:12.263Z No daylight entered these cabins; therefore a fire of pitch pine and oak chips was kept up. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z But he approved of the rows of rush-seated chairs in place of pews, and he admired the simple pulpit of pitch pine. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z The negro touched the blazing match to splinters of lightwood, as the southern pitch pine is called when dry, and instantly he stood in a circle of light, his features revealed in every detail. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z Starved as is its existence, the pitch pine springs up with amazing vigor after a fire. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The use of cypress, pitch pine, and other faulty woods, is often the cause of the failure of a paint, which on good wood would show up well. Paint Technology and Tests 2011-09-15T02:00:12.263Z "The hired man is out, but if one of these sailor men will bring in some wood from the yard, I'll get some pitch pine knots and have a fire in no time." Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z Oil-stoves were already burning, however, at various points, and their odour compared unfavourably with that of the pitch pine. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z Picea, the classical Latin name for the pitch pine. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z Its wood is soft like that of the white pine with which it grows, and though resinosa means "full of resin," it is not so rich as several other pitch pines. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Then we cut a lot of pitch pine dry wood in short lengths and split, ready to replenish the fire from time to time during the autumn night. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. By the light of pitch pine torches we consulted a map and decided that we had found the right place. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day There was a pleasant smell of pitch pine in the church. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z Known in the English market as pitch pine. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z Below the ridge at a distance of three hundred yards or more apart they had placed inflammable pitch pine in dry brush and timber. The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon A Search for Treasure They feed usually on rabbits and partridges, and these are to be found in young growth of such trees as pitch pine, birch and poplar. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. In consequence of the scarcity of English oak many foreign timbers, such as Dantzic and Italian oak, Italian larch, fir, pitch pine, teak, and African timbers were tried with varying success. Ancient and Modern Ships. Part 1. Wooden Sailing Ships The crackle of the pitch pine was loud as musketry already. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z The chief exceptions are pitch pine and, to a remarkable degree, the redwood, Fig. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z All this way the land very indifferent and rough, the timber mostly pitch pine and hemlock, some white pine, also birch, mirtle, and some beach, elm and spruce. The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental Regiment from May 1 to October 3, 1779, in General Sullivan's Campaign Against the Western Indians With an Introduction, Copious Historical Notes, and Maps of the Battle-field of Newtown and Groveland Ambuscade The heap was composed of pine needles, pine cones, and resinous pitch pine, and once fairly started would have set the house on fire, past all saving, in a very short time. Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim A Story for Girls In order to get more light for their work, they piled pitch pine on the fire; then they hung the deer on a tree, and began the disagreeable task of skinning and dressing the animal. Northern Diamonds On the lower slopes are many species of oaks, with hickory, hemlock, pitch pine, locust, dogwood, chestnut. Our Southern Highlanders Picea, the classical Latin name for the pitch pine; rubens refers to reddish bark, and perhaps to the reddish streaks in the wood. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z Here now are low forests of stunted pitch pines, sending their rich resinous aroma on all winds. Old Plymouth Trails The chancel choir stalls are of good modern oak; the sittings in the nave and the roof being of pitch pine. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time The road-bed is made of pitch pine, mounted on sixty-five trestles, three feet from the floor, and the track extends to 276 feet, of a double line of rails. The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 He then took the ax and made all haste to gather an armful of dry pitch pine, with which he soon had a roaring fire going in the ancient fireplace. Louisiana Lou A Western Story Up and down the aisles between the open pews of pitch pine went the workers of the Mission, marshaling the men into their seats. The Combined Maze There she stands in the dusk nearby and only by putting my hand on the prickly needles and the rough trunk do I recognize a familiar pitch pine. Old Plymouth Trails The sittings in the nave, and the roof timbers, are of pitch pine. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time And there were cedar trees and chestnut trees and birch trees of three kinds; and there were white pine trees and pitch pine trees, and the pitch pine trees were sticky all over. The Doers Then he got up and got a piece of wood, a stick of pitch pine, which he began to whittle carefully into fine slivers. Louisiana Lou A Western Story The others readily agreed, and, while Chris was cooking supper, the boys prepared a number of torches from fat pitch pine and looked over their fowling-pieces carefully. The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades A flight of pine warblers was on and the oaks and pitch pines were alive with them. Old Plymouth Trails The roof is of pitch pine, the timbers being supported by plain corbels. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time Yellow or pitch pine, grows in several counties of Missouri, especially on the Gasconade, from whence large quantities of lumber are brought to St. Louis. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West Another variety were covered with pitch pine gum. The Sheep Eaters This roof was of pitch pine and oak, twenty-four inches thick, and covered with iron plates two inches thick. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 At the time of year when Standish and his men patrolled its beaches, it is no wonder they saw savages behind every liliputian pitch pine and heard them shouting in the wind and sea. Old Plymouth Trails The roof, like the sittings, is of pitch pine. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time Some kinds of pine, such as the pitch pine, have a great abundance of gum and turpentine. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study I put some pitch pine pollen on the female flower of another species and seed resulted. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 Two large boats filled with birch bark and pitch pine were tied together and set on fire. Four American Indians King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola Taking a torch of pitch pine knots, he began searching round in the forest for the plant he desired, which he succeeded in finding very soon. The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West The Reading Desk, on the north, is part of the chancel sedilia; this, with the Lectern, p. 59slightly carved, in front of it, and all the sittings, are of pitch pine, stained. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time The vessel is fully rigged as a barque, and has pitch pine masts, iron wire rigging, and patent reefing topsails. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Hard gas light shewed237 no adornment, nothing but pitch pine panelling, spittoons, bottles on shelves and an almanac. The Man Who Lost Himself Log cabins, two-roomed, of the crudest build, thatched with wildgrass, the chinks between the logs filled with clay, the floors made of split logs; lighted at night with pieces of pitch pine. The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth The first thing that attracted the attention of all were the magnificent trees, among them a species of pitch pine, together with immense redwood trees, and numerous oak species abounded. The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages Scattering ourselves amongst the trees of the bank, some splinters of the pitch pine were procured, and matches kindled each splinter into thick crimson flame. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 The room was about 15 by 30 feet and was lighted by three candles, a kerosene lamp, and a blazing fire of pitch pine. A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 In thin soils and upon bleak sites the trunk is for the most part crooked and twisted, the head scrubby, stunted, and variously distorted, resembling in shape and proportions the pitch pine under similar conditions. Handbook of the Trees of New England Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them in a mortar with size. The Ten Books on Architecture From this he soon made a fire among the pitch pine chippings he had previously prepared. The Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 469-532 I have measured in all eight pitch pine stumps at the Tommy Wheeler hollow, sawed off within a foot of the ground. The Last Harvest The Confederates had loosed a fleet of fire ships loaded with pitch pine cargoes. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis After supper the boys busied themselves drying their clothes by the roaring fire of pitch pine which blazed and crackled in front of the tent, making the air within like that of an oven. Captain Sam The Boy Scouts of 1814 In their front was a forest of pitch pine, on their right a marsh covered with thick brush wood, on their left a low hill. With Wolfe in Canada The Winning of a Continent The walls and ceilings of the rooms were sheeted with pitch pine and varnished. Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland In the pitch pine country, the best kindlings after we have caught a tiny blaze are splinters taken from the heart of a decayed pine log. Outdoor Sports and Games In the white pine there are five needles to each cluster, in the pitch pine three, and in the Scotch pine two. Studies of Trees Hank had taught him the value of pitch pine, and Jack remembered it now with a wry twist of the lips. The Lookout Man Poor people often made light by burning pine knots, or bits of pitch pine chopped out of old stumps. Stories of American Life and Adventure Internally, the hall and corridors are to be laid with tiles; the wood finishing on ground floor to be of walnut, and on first floor of pitch pine. Scientific American Supplement, No. 388, June 9, 1883 The slender gray birches and pitch pines of that neglected pasture had never before seen a hat and coat exactly in the fashion. A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Was it only the pitch pine whispering of the old free days in the scented woods? Pearl of Pearl Island The pitch pine is the common growth of the interior, and under a new system would form a valuable article of commerce as lumber, and as yielding the now so much required turpentine. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Yellow deal may be selected for the boards; pitch pine is better, but it costs considerably more. Things To Make Their ideal winter sport so far is to calk up every chink in the bunk house, fill the air-tight stove full of pitch pine and set down with a good book by Elinor Glyn. Ma Pettengill Chilled to the bone, I gathered some pitch pine and soon had a fire going with my flint and tinder. The Light in the Clearing This is said to give remarkably good results on beech, pitch pine and poplar. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Four wooden battens of pitch pine, 4 inches by 1½ inches, and bolted on to each cant of the angle iron superstructure, with ⅞ inch galvanized iron bolts and nuts. Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 Lumber of pitch pine, in rough or prepared for buildings. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison Dry, too, and almost ready to live in, and all the joinery of pitch pine. Don Orsino Samuels threw an armful of pitch pine on the smouldering logs of the fireplace that balanced the massive cook stove. The Rules of the Game As for firewood, for which our crosscut saw was intended, pitch pine and yellow pine and spruce were all odorous and inflammable woods, but they did not make good firewood. Tales of lonely trails Open fires are comfortable morning and evening throughout the year, and the pitch pine wood burns beautifully. The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) In winter the creoles took their negroes to the hills, where they made tar from the pitch pine, and this they exported, as well as indigo, rice, tobacco, bear's oil, peltry, oranges, and squared timber. The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 "What's the use of cones, any way?" asked Malcolm as he picked up some very large ones under the white and pitch pines. Among the Trees at Elmridge On this the man tossed a handful of pitch pine. The Rules of the Game The pitch pine of the Eastern States produces many sprouts, few of which live and develop into marketable timber. The School Book of Forestry The pitch pine, with its monotonous and somewhat rigid form, had disappeared; the white pine became scarce, both being displayed by the slim spires and silvery green of the miniature silver spruce. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains A pitch pine fire speedily changed the temperature and shed a blaze of light on the wild lava-slope and the straggling storm-bent pines around us. Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon There is the Norway pine, or red pine, which in Maine and New Hampshire is often seen in forests of white and pitch pine. Among the Trees at Elmridge In previous years I had often gone prospecting over some bare hillside, where a pitch pine wood had formerly stood, and got out the fat pine roots. Walden The trees that reproduce by sprouts include the oak, hickory, basswood, chestnut, gum, cottonwood, willows and young short-leaf and pitch pines. The School Book of Forestry All these ridges are heavily timbered with pitch pines, and where they come down on the grassy slopes they look as if the trees had been arranged by a landscape gardener. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains All the interior woodwork is of selected pitch pine, the hall being boarded throughout. Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 I also discovered that more of this man's life had been expended in sitting on a pitch pine log than in prayer. Remarks The sulphur-like pollen of the pitch pine soon covered the pond and the stones and rotten wood along the shore, so that you could have collected a barrelful. Walden Black walnut, pitch pine, and sequoias have been used in the staircase, and joiner's work to the principal rooms. Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 The desk was neither pitch pine nor teak, but mahogany. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 1, 1919 His wrists were swollen to an immense size, and his back, from hip to shoulder, lacerated and burned to the bone by torches of pitch pine. Metlakahtla and the North Pacific Mission Hastily seizing an axe in one hand and carrying a lighted pitch pine knot in the other, she hurried to the scene of action, and found Grimalkin feasting sumptuously on her plumpest pullet. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" In the course of the summer I had discovered a raft of pitch pine logs with the bark on, pinned together by the Irish when the railroad was built. Walden There is a bookcase of pitch pine, which contains six hundred books, with glass doors to prevent your getting at them. What Every Woman Knows The groves of pitch pines and the bare, brown fields and knolls dimly seen through the fog looked moist and forsaken and dismal. Galusha the Magnificent They were made of pitch pine, painted and grained, but so scarred and whittled as to have the appearance of long use and abuse. Manuel Pereira A light is used, a bright, smoking blaze of the pitch pine. The Bontoc Igorot The approach to this was through a succession of descending grassy hollows, full of young pitch pines, into a larger wood about the swamp. Walden Against their whiteness the pitch pines and cedars stood darkly green and the skeleton scrub oaks and bushes cast delicate blue-penciled shadows. Cy Whittaker's Place The path along the edge of the high bluff entered a grove of scraggy pitch pines about a mile from the lighthouse and the picnic ground. The Portygee The road, little used and grass grown, twisted and turned amid the dunes until it disappeared in a distant grove of scrub oaks and pitch pines. The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights The smell of pitch pine was sweetly overpowering. The Last of the Plainsmen Their summits were crowned with extensive tracts of pitch pine, checkered with small patches of the quivering aspen. Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains |
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