Sallows

It happened to be market-day, and Nicholas, having postponed the engagements which called him thither to keep the appointment with her in the Sallows, rushed off at the end of the afternoon to attend to them as well as he could.

A Changed Man 2006

The present owner of Froom – Everard — a non-resident — had been improving his property in sundry ways, and one of these was by dredging the stream which, in the course of years, had become choked with mud and weeds in its passage through the Sallows.

A Changed Man 2006

Nicholas would enter then, and she being ready bonneted, they would walk into the Sallows together as far as to the spot which they had frequently made their place of appointment in their youthful days.

A Changed Man 2006

The Sallows was an extension of shrubberies and plantations along the banks of the Froom, accessible from the lawn of Froom – Everard House only, except by wading through the river at the waterfall or elsewhere.

A Changed Man 2006

He entered the Sallows, found his way in the dark to the garden-door of the house, slipped under it a note to tell her of his departure, and explaining its true reason to be a consciousness of her growing feeling that he was an encumbrance and a humiliation.

A Changed Man 2006

Sallows there were in plenty in and about the great wood, but she wanted one all to herself; one fit for an imperial nursery.

"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English

In Sallows we have a provincial name for the willow, cognate with Fr, saule and Lat. salix.

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

With that Angus put Grania under the border of his cloak, and brought her out unknown to Finn or the Fianna, and there is no news told of them till they came to Ros-da-Shoileach, the Headland of the Two Sallows.

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

Sallows and alders form close thickets lower than the forest trees.

Rural Hours 1887

The clump of willows is the Wood of the Many Sallows (a willow-tree is familiarly known as a 'sally' in Ireland).

Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889