Translation for "apfelbaumholz" to english
Apfelbaumholz
Translation examples
Jeder von uns kennt die Geschichte, die in ganz Neuengland die Runde machte, von dem großen schönen Käfer, der eines Tages aus der trockenen Platte eines alten Tisches aus Apfelbaumholz hervorgekrochen kam. Sechzig Jahre lang hatte der Tisch in der Küche eines Farmers gestanden, erst in Connecticut, hernach in Massachusetts. Das Ei selbst war, wie man aus der Zahl der Jahresringe schließen konnte, schon viele Jahre vorher in den noch lebenden Baum gelegt worden.
Every one has heard the story which has gone the rounds of New England, of a strong and beautiful bug which came out of the dry leaf of an old table of apple-tree wood, which had stood in a farmer’s kitchen for sixty years, first in Connecticut, and afterward in Massachusetts — from an egg deposited in the living tree many years earlier still, as appeared by counting the annual layers beyond it;
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