ash-tree

• “As evening thinned, the lanes cooled with clear sky seen through dark, pointed tracery of ash-tree leaves.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: Wenlock Edge

• “Away from the place of gaping graves and crumbling cairns and breaking crosses they seated themselves, and under the shade of a well-rooted ash-tree Colum-cille told his companion this prophetic story.”

  St Patrick's Day

• “The father had split an ash-tree on the hill behind his house, and had wedged the hole open with two chunks of oak.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wildwood

• “May is a thrush singing "Sun up!" on a tip-top ash-tree”

  Lilacs

• “The songs of the Edda made a lasting impression on her, and she wrote that the lectures about them were 'the only ones that go too quickly... the translation of a description of a chieftain: "Helgi rose high above chieftains as the nobly-born ash-tree above the thorn-bush or as a young deer, dew-sprinkled, rises above all other deer, and his horns burn high to heaven itself.”

  Archive 2009-10-01

• “Chinese; the Japanese “Pheng” and “Kirni”; the “wise and ancient Bird” which sits upon the ash-tree yggdrasil, and the dragons, griffins, basilisks, etc. of the Middle Ages.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “And you ash-tree a long brother of once called Pierpaolo, a memory is all I have of your vainglories as if at bottom ambition were to cast the last look from the last bridge.”

  Amelia Rosselli

• “The squirrel called Ratatoskr runs up and down the ash-tree, carrying hateful words between the eagle and Nidhogg.”

  Archive 2008-05-01

• “He stopped, and struck the smooth trunk of a young ash-tree with the flat of his hand.”

  The Woodlanders

• “He is an honest fellow, with no more brains than this ash-tree over us.”

  Mary Anerley

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