sentinel-pines

Updated: June 13, 2025

Not so, however; for our pathway squeezes itself between two melancholy sentinel-pines, tracing its white scroll into the forest farther than the eye can follow, and in a few moments we leave the clearing behind, and pass into the shadow of the endless avenue, and bow beneath the trailing branches of the silent, stern, immovable warders at the gate.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859