 | James Fenimore Cooper - American literature - 1848 - 468 pages
...the character of nature. The trees, with very few exceptions, were what •is called the " burr oak," a small variety of a very extensive genus; and the...singular beauty, have obtained the name of "openings;" the two terms combined giving their appellation to this particular species of native forest, under... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - Americanisms - 1848 - 456 pages
...— Perils of Pearl Street, p. 165. BURR-STONE. A species of silex or quartz occurring in morphous masses, partly compact, but containing many irregular cavities. It is used for mill-stones. — Cleveland's Mineralogy. BUSHWHACKER. A raw countryman, a green-horn. Do you think all our eastern... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American literature - 1855 - 472 pages
...the character of nature. The trees, with very few exceptions, were what is called the " burr oak," a small variety of a very extensive genus ; and the...singular beauty, have obtained the name of "openings;" the two terms combined giving their appellation to this particular species of native forest, under... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - Americanisms - 1859 - 572 pages
...Tennessee, and in Upper Louisiana near the Missouri. It is also called Overcup White Oak. — Michaux. The trees, with very few exceptions, were what is...many irregular cavities. It is used for mill-stones. — Cleveland's Mineralogy. BURSTED. A form of the past tense and participle frequently employed instead... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - Americanisms - 1860 - 568 pages
...called Overcup White Oak. — Michaux. The trees, with very few exceptions, were what is called tho burr-oak, a small variety of a very extensive genus...many irregular cavities. It is used for mill-stones. — Cleveland's Mineralogy. BURSTED. A form of the past tense and participle frequently employed instead... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Indians of North America - 1860 - 1066 pages
...negligence that one is apt to sec in grounds, where art is made to iissumo the character of nature. The trees, with very few exceptions, were what is...singular beauty, have obtained the name of " openings ;" the two terms combined giving their appellation to this particular species of native forest, under... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American fiction - 1860 - 468 pages
...the character of nature. Tho trees, with very few exceptions, were what is called- the "burr oak," a small variety of a very extensive genus ; and the...singular beauty, have obtained the name of "openings;" the two terms combined giving their appellation to this particular species of native forest, under... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1860 - 510 pages
...(he character of nature. The trees, with very few exceptions, were what is called the " burr oak," a small variety of a very extensive genus ; and the...singular beauty, have obtained the name of " openings;" the two terms combined giving their appellation to this particular species of native forest, under... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - Americanisms - 1860 - 570 pages
...very extensive genns ; and the spaces between them, always irregnlar and often of singnlar beanty, have obtained the name of " openings." — Cooper,...The Oak Openings. BURR-STONE. A species of silex or qnartz occnrring in amorphons masses, partly compact, bnt containing many irregnlar cavities. It is... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - Americanisms - 1860 - 568 pages
...Tennessee, and in Upper Louisiana near the Missouri. It is also called Orercup White Oak. — Michaux. The trees, with very few exceptions, were what is called the burr-oak, a small voriety of a very extensive genus ; and the spaces between them, always irregnlar and often of singnlar... | |
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American forest is wont to grow, with tall straight trees towering toward the light, but with intervals between the low oaks that were scattered profusely over the view, and with much of that air of negligence that one is apt to see in grounds, where... 
