whitebeam

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It was only just to look on her face again, to see if she really lived like a vampire in the earth; and were she to be alive, he vowed to kill her where she lay--for into his life again he knew she must not come As he neared the whitebeam, a gust of wind blew out his lantern, and he stood in the profound darkness of the trees.

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  1. The common beam tree of England (Pyrus Aria); -- so called from the white, woolly under surface of the leaves.

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  • It was only just to look on her face again, to see if she really lived like a vampire in the earth; and were she to be alive, he vowed to kill her where she lay--for into his life again he knew she must not come As he neared the whitebeam, a gust of wind blew out his lantern, and he stood in the profound darkness of the trees. —  The Worshipper of the Image
  • While he attempted to relight it, he thought he saw a faint light at the foot of the whitebeam, as of a radiance welling out of the earth; but he dismissed it as fancy Then, having relit the lantern, he set the spade into the ground, and speedily removed the soil from the white face below. —  The Worshipper of the Image
  • And yet he thought he could throw a stone into the old woman's garden At last he came to a bank of beautiful shrubs; whitebeam, with its great silver-backed leaves, and mountain ash, and oak; and below them cliff and crag, cliff and crag, with great beds of crown ferns and wood sedge; while through the shrubs he could see the stream sparkling, and hear it murmur on the white pebbles. —  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
  • Flashing like the whitebeam, swaying like the reed. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • Flashing as in gusts the sudden-lighted whitebeam: —  Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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