He was as hard and nearly as springy as a hickory sapling.

She was a tall girl, brown-haired, comely, lithe and supple "as a hickory sapling."

He was a model soldier, active and wiry as a cat and tough as a hickory sapling.

Yet he wasn't old beyond hope, past love-asstrong and nearly as springy as a hickory sapling.

You find a nice stout hickory sapling of the right kind, and strip it of all the branches.

Bub had "growed up" like a hickory sapling.

So I came in imagination to the particular corner in the fence where I had cut my hickory sapling.

A minute afterwards, having chopped down a hickory sapling, he began to pry at the boulder which held the mass.

In age she was verging upon twenty, and she was tall, straight as an arrow, and lithe as a hickory sapling.

Then she saw him seize the hickory sapling he had leaned against the house, and burst upon the group like a thunderbolt.

The hickory sapling was indeed standing up almost straight, with the loop dangling part way down; but the snare was devoid of any victim.

With her they shall grow like hickory saplings, towering with strength.

Under his arm were two stout hickory saplings.

Sleds were made of buffalo ribs and hickory saplings, the runners bound with rawhide with the hair side down.

It was in the middle of a grove of oak and hickory saplings, and was nearly hidden by hazel bushes.

"And that hickory sapling does look like it was the toughest bow ever," Bandy-legs affirmed.