Sentence Examples

1. Tarkyn knelt down, pushed the first poplar cutting into the ground and focused his attention on it for a couple of quiet minutes.
2. A few fishermen with their families indolently pass their lives away there, with their great living-rafts of poplar and alder, the flooring formed of reeds, and the roof woven out of thick rushes.
3. Sympathy with the fluttering alder and poplar leaves almost takes away my breath yet, like the lake, my serenity is rippled but not ruffled.
4. Don Quixote looked all round, and seeing nobody, at once, without more ado, dismounted from Rocinante and bade Sancho get down from Dapple and tie both beasts securely to the trunk of a poplar or willow that stood there.
5. He used to seat himself on a bench under the great poplar in our plaza, and there he would keep us all hanging open-mouthed on the stories he told us of his exploits.