elm-tree

But culture is something that must grow; you cannot build a tree, you can only plant it, and care for it, and wait for it to mature in its due time; and when it is grown you must not complain if you find that from an acorn has come an oak, and not an elm-tree.

The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

At last I found tongue to say, pointing to the elm-tree:

Letters of Two Brides 2007

The iron stake, and the iron chain which was to bind him to it, were fixed up near a great elm-tree in

A Child's History of England 2007

The conference was held beneath an old wide-spreading green elm-tree, upon a plain in France.

A Child's History of England 2007

I watched this delicious picture a while from my hiding-place by the great elm-tree, and should have turned away no doubt and respected their privacy, if it had not been for a chance discovery.

A Woman of Thirty 2007

And yet this Richard wore the Cross, which the Kings of France and England had both taken, in the previous year, at a brotherly meeting underneath the old wide-spreading elm-tree on the plain, when they had sworn (like him) to devote themselves to a new Crusade, for the love and honour of the

A Child's History of England 2007

Not one of those clever Frenchmen, who aspire to marry me, has had the brilliant idea of spending the night in an elm-tree at the risk of being carried off by the watch.

Letters of Two Brides 2007

The landscape lay in all its beauty, sparkling in the spring sunlight, as I stood looking out over it one morning, my back against a huge elm-tree that flung its yellow flowers to the wind.

A Woman of Thirty 2007

Far-off a cuckoo called; a wood-pigeon was cooing from the first elm-tree in the field, and how the daisies and buttercups had sprung up after the last mowing!

Indian Summer of a Forsyte 2004

A great elm-tree spread its broad branches over it, at the foot of which bubbled up a spring, of the softest and sweetest water, in a little well, formed of a barrel, and then stole sparkling away through the grass to a neighboring brook, that bubbled along among alders and dwarf willows.

Washington Irving 2004