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• Beyond it were slopes covered with sombre trees like dark clouds, but all about them lay a tumbled heathland, grown with ling and broom and cornel, and other shrubs that they did not know. —  The Lord of the Rings
• In head, in voice In body, and in bristles they became All swine, yet intellected as before And at her hand were dieted alone With acorns, chestnuts, and the cornel-fruit Food grateful ever to the grovelling swine 300 Back flew Eurylochus toward the ship To tell the woeful tale; struggling to speak Yet speechless, there he stood, his heart transfixt With anguish, and his eyes deluged with tears Me boding terrours occupied. —  The Odyssey of Homer
• Union of this kind occurs frequently in the common cornel (_Cornus_), wherein one of the lower flowers becomes adherent to one of the upper ones. —  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• He spoke, and darting forward, hurled a weapon full on the enemy; the whistling cornel-shaft sings, and unerringly cleaves the air. —  The Aeneid of Virgil
• Soon as he had sat down with them, he observed that the grandson of Æolus[107] was holding in his hand a javelin made of an unknown wood, the point of which was of gold Having first spoken a few words in promiscuous conversation, he said, “I am fond of the forests, and of the chase of wild beasts; still, from what wood the shaft of the javelin, which thou art holding, is cut, I have been for some time in doubt; certainly, if it were of wild ash, it would be of brown color; if of cornel-wood, there would be knots in it. —  The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII

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