There was brush, and stands of pine that no grass could grow under, and places so steep that cattle wouldn't stop to graze.

The ground was covered with soft pine needles and the slope was gentle.

It was a bold, dark castle of pine boughs that stood like a medieval fortress, eclipsing the sun and human time.

It was in a wild district, thickly covered with pine forests and brushwood.

The first federal immigrant inspection station was an enormous three-story tall structure, with out-buildings, built of Georgia pine, containing all of the amentities that were thought to be necessary.

Known as " Ofioussa " ( having snakes ) and " Pityoussa " ( having pine trees ) in antiquity, during the medieval age the island was ruled by a number of external powers and has also been known as Scio ( Genoese ), Chio ( Italian ) and Sakız ( صاقيز — Ottoman Turkish ).

Each overlap was stuffed with wool or animal hair or sometimes hemp soaked in pine tar to ensure water tightness.

The hull was waterproofed with animal hair, wool, hemp or moss drenched in pine tar.

The pine timber was found to be not resilient enough for masts and this industry was also abandoned.

Often an oil, such as linseed, was boiled with a resin, such as pine resin or even frankincense ; these were called ' varnishes ' and were prized for their body and gloss.

Treated pine that was traditionally treated using chromated copper arsenate or CCA, a toxic chemical mix for preserving timber that may leach chemicals into the soil which in turn can be drawn up into the plants, a concern for vegetable growers, where part or all of the plant is eaten.

Wood from Swedish pine trees was used in the delegates ' area for the railings and doors.

Although different native acacias were used, as was the wood from the local sycamore and tamarisk trees, deforestation in the Nile valley resulted in the need for the importation of wood, notably cedar, but also Aleppo pine, boxwood and oak, starting from the Second Dynasty.

However, one of its original authors, Laurence Lundblade, insists this was never the case and that it started off simply as a word and not an acronym, and that his first choice of a backronym for pine would be " Pine Is Nearly Elm ".

Shaker craftsmen made most things out of pine or other inexpensive woods and hence their furniture was light in color and weight.

In its earlier years, its only use was to feed the boilers of donkey engines bringing in the valuable pine and fir logs.

In the American South, use of knotty pine plank paneling covered with orange shellac was once as common in new construction as drywall is today.

The word " pineapple " in English was first recorded in 1398, when it was originally used to describe the reproductive organs of conifer trees ( now termed pine cones ).

The term " pine cone " for the reproductive organ of conifer trees was first recorded in 1694.

A new church, constructed with walls and great pine beams brought from nearby Figueroa Mountain, was dedicated on July 4, 1817.

One of these candies, sometimes referred to as a ' chamber spice ', was made with cloves, ginger, aniseed, juniper berries, almonds and pine kernels dipped in melted sugar.

Estimates of the woodlands in County Kilkenny include the Forest Inventory Planning System ( 1998 ) which estimated Kilkenny had 2251 ha of mixed woodland and broadleaf woodland not dominated by beech, representing 1. 09 % of the county and the National Forest Inventory 2004 and 2006 which estimated that 4430 ha of the county is native forested land, Scots pine was regarded as non-native, representing 2. 15 % of the county .< ref name = native-woodlands >

Out of the church and into his big car, it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college, his expansiveness, the quaint little pine board tourist courts, cabins really, with a cute naked light bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight, like the one on the corner where you used to play when you were a kid, where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs, watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ), a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls, an insect Highway Patrol with feelers waving.

In classical Greece, celery leaves were used as garlands for the dead, and the wreaths of the winners at the Isthmian Games were first made of celery before being replaced by crowns made of pine.

The same law provided for replanting mountainous regions of the country with pine to be used for fuel.

In what has come to be known as " the Pine Tar Incident ," umpires discovered illegal placement of pine tar ( more than 18 inches up the handle ) on third baseman George Brett's bat after he had hit a two-run home run off Gossage that put the Royals up 5 – 4 in the top of the 9th. The baseball bat used by Kansas City Royals third baseman George Brett ( baseball ) | George Brett in the Pine Tar Incident on July 24, 1983.

Other timber used were ash, elm, pine, spruce and larch.

The bristlecone pine, being exceptionally long-lived and slow growing, has been used for this purpose, with still-living and dead specimens providing tree ring patterns going back thousands of years.

In America it is mostly used with basswood, butternut, pine, or mahogany.

Cedar of Lebanon pine cone showing flecks of resin as used in the mummification of Pharaoh | Egyptian Pharaohs.

Built by Minamoto no Yoritomo as an imitation of Kyoto's Suzaku Ōji, Wakamiya Ōji used to be much wider, delimited on both sides by a 3 metre deep canal and flanked by pine trees.

Phloem of pine trees has been used in Finland as a substitute food in times of famine, and even in good years in the northeast, where supplies of phloem from earlier years helped stave off starvation somewhat in the great famine of the 1860s.

Bedding made from red cedar ( Eastern or Western ) and pine, both softwoods, were commonly used in the past, however these materials are now believed to contain harmful phenols ( aromatic hydrocarbons ) and oils.

Softwood panel is usually made either of cedar, Douglas fir or spruce, pine, and fir ( collectively known as spruce-pine-fir or SPF ) or redwood and is typically used for construction and industrial purposes.

Other scents can be used ( for example pine tar or eucalyptus ), but using any scents other than birch leaves is frowned upon by the traditionalists.

At one time, the Blue Diamond Match Company in Akron used three million board feet ( 7, 000 m³ ) of white pine lumber per year for the manufacture of its matches.

It was named for a lone shanty made of bark, which was used to make shingles from pine.

Commonly used woods include sandalwood, rosewood, agarwood, birch, cedar, juniper, and pine.

The Tongva called them ti ' at and to build them, they used planks that were sewn together, edge to edge, and then caulked and coated with either pine pitch, or, more commonly, the tar that was available either from the La Brea Tar Pits, or as asphaltum that had washed up on shore from offshore oil seeps.

Within the vast forests of pine that covered this region, a glade surrounded by poplar trees sheltered a large spring at the crossroads of two trails, where local Indians used to meet and camp.

In the summertime, they used to set out over what then was open range in a Model-T station wagon, looking for resinous heart pine.

The name was selected because the cooperative movement in the United States in the 1940s used a circle encompassing two pine trees as its symbol.

Sixteen years later the dam was rebuilt to provide water for a series of splash dams that were used to float white pine logs to the sawmills on the West Branch Susquehanna River at Watsontown.

Jeffrey pine, which resembles Ponderosa Pine, produces a resin that, when distilled, yields almost pure n-Heptane, a volatile hydrocarbon which is highly flammable: therefore it cannot be used to make turpentine.