"spring" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He settled himself back to enjoy the part of the drive he had always liked best, the spring woods full of bluebells and celandines on the way to Chilham.
- Huge Oregon white oak and Douglas fir stood tall around them; the living musty-yeasty-green smell of the spring woods was strong.
- The mottled clothing she wore would fade into the spring woods, and the wind was wrong for him to pick out human scent from the cool decaying-wood and damp-earth smells.
- "These are spring wood, and damp," he said, "but luckily that is a matter easily dealt with."
- When the rings are wide, the transition from spring wood to summer wood is gradual, while in the narrow rings the spring wood passes into summer wood abruptly.
- The narrow vessels of the summer wood make it richer in wood substance than the spring wood composed of wide vessels.
- The triple squad of guardsmen moved along the bluff edge slowly with their line of torches flaring the late spring woods, startling the roosting and nesting birds.
- Giddy laughter, the laughter of silly girls and nymphs, rang through the bleak spring woods.
- Perhaps we ought to talk things over just in case ... I don't mean about our convictions-it would be absurd to try to define them in five minutes in a spring wood.
- I love to stroke its polished rondure with my hand, to carry it in my pocket on my tramp over the winter hills, or through the early spring woods.
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