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In his hand he bore a staff of quick-beam, as it were a full-grown tree without its branches.
The Coming of Cuculain Standish O'Grady 1887
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Poplars, and has ever been the emblem of enforced restlessness, on account of which it had in Anglo-Saxon times the expressive name of quick-beam.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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The quick-beam [_ornus_, or as the _pinax_ more peculiarly, _fraxinus bubula_; others, the wild sorb] or (as some term it) the witchen, is a species of wild-ash.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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