sallows

• “Going through the woods, we were never far from the song of grasshopper warblers, our Hampshire cicadas, in the sallows of the bogs and marshes.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wildwood

• “Those bleak landscapes, the withered sallows along dismally muddy roads, the gray crows flapping across gray skies, the sudden whiff of some amazing recollection at a most ordinary corner—all this pathetic dimness, all this lovely weakness, all this Chekhovian dove-gray world is worth treasuring in the glare of those strong, self-sufficient worlds that are promised us by the worshippers of totalitarian states.”

  A true democrat ...

• “Those bleak landscapes, the withered sallows along dismally muddy roads, the gray crows flapping across gray skies, the sudden whiff of some amazing recollection at a most ordinary corner — all this pathetic dimness, all this lovely weakness, all this Chekhovian dove-gray world is worth treasuring in the glare of those strong, self-sufficient worlds that are promised us by the worshippers of totalitarian states.”

  Vladimir Nabokov on Chekhov

• “It was a deep hollow in the midst of a wide field; the shelving sides were overgrown with trees and bushes, a belt of sallows surrounded it on the top, a steep winding path led down into the depths, practicable, however, for a light cart, like mine; at the bottom was an open space, and there I pitched my tent, and there I contrived to put up my forge.”

  Lavengro

• “The very sallows by the brook seemed to appeal to him.”

  John Caldigate

• “Now, everything irritated him: the two sallows, one all gold and perfume and murmur, one silver-green and bristly, reminded him, that here he had taught her about pollination.”

  The Prussian Officer and Other Stories

• “They headed down a slope toward a cool, inviting glen with tall sallows shading a particularly green lea.”

  The Plains of Passage

• “I thought they were sallows, but I've never seen any the size of trees before.”

  The Plains of Passage

• “It resembled certain willows, but sallows never grew to the height of trees.”

  The Plains of Passage

• “The sallows and seasonal brush that seemed to be growing out of the water along the edges of the swiftly flowing stream indicated both the amount of flooding caused by the recent rains and the sizable portion of land already given up to the river.”

  The Plains of Passage

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