beech-tree

One wet evening last autumn some pieces of phosphorescent wood were brought to me, which had formed part of a dead beech-tree that had been cut down during the day.

Where is All Your Knowledge Gone To? scottedelman 2008

There stood close at hand a beech-tree of great size, worthy of Tityrus and of Boulatruelle.

Les Miserables 2008

A squirrel was darting up the branches of a beautiful spreading beech-tree, a whole army of rabbits were flashing with silver tails into the brushwood; swallows, blackbirds, peacock-butterflies, dragonflies on the wing, a mighty sylvan life was roaming in this lovely orderly wilderness.

Castle Rackrent 2006

Light was creeping into the wood; he could see the beech-tree against whose trunk they had passed the night.

Over the River 2004

Yes, they crossed each other in almost as intricate and fantastic a manner as I have seen the underboughs of a large beech-tree withered by the depth of the shade above ....

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

In a moment, they were on their knees on the grass; some almost immediately before the altar; others kneeling against the rocks; others again with their heads and hands resting against the trunk of a huge beech-tree.

La Vend�e 2004

Both Thomas and Bridget were unfortunately out, being, at this moment, forgetful of all sublunary cares, and seated in happiness under a beech-tree in the park.

Doctor Thorne 2004

She found Mrs Bolton under the great beech-tree on the knoll, looking for her.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

On one occasion I saw two of these monsters, probably male and female, slowly swimming one after the other, within less than a stone's throw of the shore, over which the beech-tree extended its branches.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

On one occasion I saw two of these monsters, probably male and female, slowly swimming one after the other, within less than a stone's throw of the shore, over which the beech-tree extended its branches.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003