He settled himself back to enjoy the part of the drive he had always liked best, the spring woods full of bluebells and celandines on the way to Chilham.

Huge Oregon white oak and Douglas fir stood tall around them; the living musty-yeasty-green smell of the spring woods was strong.

The mottled clothing she wore would fade into the spring woods, and the wind was wrong for him to pick out human scent from the cool decaying-wood and damp-earth smells.

"These are spring wood, and damp," he said, "but luckily that is a matter easily dealt with."

When the rings are wide, the transition from spring wood to summer wood is gradual, while in the narrow rings the spring wood passes into summer wood abruptly.

The narrow vessels of the summer wood make it richer in wood substance than the spring wood composed of wide vessels.

The triple squad of guardsmen moved along the bluff edge slowly with their line of torches flaring the late spring woods, startling the roosting and nesting birds.

Giddy laughter, the laughter of silly girls and nymphs, rang through the bleak spring woods.

Perhaps we ought to talk things over just in case ... I don't mean about our convictions-it would be absurd to try to define them in five minutes in a spring wood.

I love to stroke its polished rondure with my hand, to carry it in my pocket on my tramp over the winter hills, or through the early spring woods.