beeches

• “The beeches are our playrooms, the elms our outlook towers;”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 7, 1917

• “The beeches are the _Fagus Betuloides_ and _Fagus Antarchia_.”

  The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure

• “The great trees, such as beeches, elms, oaks and cedars, could coil and curve their branches without the thought of being cut down for a sidewalk, or trimmed until they were frivolous nothings.”

  Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation

• “Tall trees lined the streets, old oaks and graceful beeches, their leaves rustling in the breeze.”

  Simon & Schuster: Brush of Darkness

• ““The reds from maples, oranges from sugar maples, yellows from birches, purple from beeches, all mixed in with the dark green of conifers like pine and hemlock.”

  Forbes: Beautiful Fall Foliage Drives

• “Mature oaks and elms and beeches towered among winding paths and trim green lawns.”

  Simon & Schuster: GuildWars Edge of Destiny

• “Glass walls flank an informal dining nook off the kitchen that looks out onto an ipe wood deck and a garden dotted with Japanese maples and columnar beeches.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Two Duplexes Merged Into One

• “The chief goal of our journey had been the riverside walk near the village of Mells, in modern times a haven for artists and scholars, but we went further on, north-west, in the direction of the old coalfields around Radstock, and came upon a majestic avenue of leafless beeches, ranks of tall columns like Shakespeare's "bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang".”

  The Guardian: Country diary: Mendip, Somerset

• “For my part, I'll be in Wytham, on the edge of Oxford, among the native beeches and hornbeams.”

  The Guardian: Why woodlands are wonderful

• “The wind tore the first of autumn's yellowing leaves from the tops of the beeches, but down among their trunks the air was as still as in a cathedral.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: Allen Banks, Northumberland

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