may-tree

Yet she knew now that the occasion would have been more beautiful if, standing under that may-tree, she had looked up into Richard's eyes.

The Judge Rebecca West 1937

And the castle has eight towers – four round and four square ones, and a courtyard in the middle, all green grass, and heaps of stones – stray bits of castle, I suppose they are – and a great white may-tree in the middle that Mrs. Bax said was hundreds of years old.

New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

Mrs. Red House was sitting under the may-tree when we got there, nursing her baby, in a blue dress and looking exactly like a picture on the top of a chocolate-box.

New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

Everybody laughed at this, except the existing baby, and it was asleep on the waggonette cushions, under the white may-tree, and perhaps if it had been awake it wouldn't have laughed, for Oswald himself, though possessing a keen sense of humour, did not see anything to laugh at.

New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

The shining and apparently weightless drops come pattering into the may-tree with a sound of soft laughter; one alights on a white petal with a little inaudible tap; then petal and raindrop fall together down the steeps of green and white, accompanied by troops of other petals, each with her attendant drop and her passing breath of scent.

The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing 1917

I know quite a lot about America from a grey squirrel who rents my may-tree on Mitten

Living Alone Stella Benson 1912

When she stood by the gate watching for the neighbour's cart that was to take them, she looked as full of white budding promise as the may-tree above her.

Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904

She had no reply for that, and they came in silence to the tormented may-tree where the horse was tied, his black mane and smooth back strown with faded, faintly coloured blossom.

Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904

The may-tree by the gate knew its perfect moment, covered with crystal buds that shone like rain among the bright green leaves.

Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904

And coming to a little may-tree in full blossom, he thus addressed it:

The Burning Spear John Galsworthy 1900