elm

• The oak or the elm, the ash-tree or maple, the beech or sycamore--any of them would have been compass sufficient for me; but in that thicket of thorny shrubs I was completely at fault. —  The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
• One large elm out of the two on the left-hand side as you enter what I call the elm walk, was likewise blown down; the maypole bearing the weathercock was broke in two, and what I regret more than all the rest is, that all the three elms which grew in Hall's meadow, and gave such ornament to it, are gone; two were blown down, and the other so much injured that it cannot stand. —  Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
• Dear old elm, there needs no apology if a man love thee Who could wonder if Old Abe felt something like this for that tree? —  Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow
• The mortar (uhe) and pestle (wehe) were both made commonly of elm, although sometimes they were fashioned of white oak. —  Omaha Dwellings, Furniture and Implements Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 263-288
• The barred shadow on the lichened stones beyond the elm was cast by the hidden gate; and straight ahead, where, between a quaint chimney-stack and a bartizan, a triangular patch of blue showed like spangled velvet, lay the Thames. —  Brood of the Witch-Queen

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