maple-tree

Win McNamee/Getty Images Lockheed Martin engineer David Sharp showing off the 'Samarai Flyer,' whose design was inspired by the winged maple-tree seeds that flutter to the ground each autumn.

Drone Time 2011

Notwithstanding the bad weather, the settlers renewed their stores of different things, stone-pine almonds, rhizomes, syrup from the maple-tree, for the vegetable part; rabbits from the warren, agouties, and kangaroos for the animal part.

The Mysterious Island 2005

Notwithstanding the bad weather, the settlers renewed their stores of different things, stone-pine almonds, rhizomes, syrup from the maple-tree, for the vegetable part; rabbits from the warren, agouties, and kangaroos for the animal part.

The Mysterious Island 2005

I did not stop for a word with my step-mother, but, passing rapidly through the house, threw my parcels on the bed in the sitting-room, and, running down the walk to the maple-tree under which my dug-out was always tied, jumped into it and sculled out into the river.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various

The poor creature crept out of the house, -- I saw her go, -- and kneeling down behind that great maple-tree, she lifted up her arms to heaven, and I heard, or thought I heard her, moaning.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

Behind the maple-tree, the wood began again; without a syllable, she stepped aside, suffered him to pass, and hastened to bury herself in its recesses.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various

Then Cyrus and the boys caught sight of it spinning over and over like a ball, towards a maple-tree with widely projecting limbs and thick foliage; for it knew well that in speed it was no match for the dog, and therefore resorted to a neat little stratagem.

Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook

Bab and Betty, for they stood under the maple-tree, and the memory of their circulating library made him forget his dignity in his gratitude.

St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 Various

A chattering squirrel, seated on the low bough of a maple-tree, with his fore paws against his white breast, his eyes like twinkling beads, and his restless little head playing bo-peep with the intruding boy, began to scold the latter for venturing into his forest playground.

Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook

Then it noiselessly dropped from the tip of the branch to the ground, alighting, like a skilled acrobat, on its shoulders, doubled its pointed black nose under its stomach, and again rolled over and over for a considerable distance, when it got on its short legs and scurried away, while Tiger still bayed at the foot of the maple-tree, thinking the vanished prey was above.

Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook