oak-trees

Again, high up, there seemed indecision; then, apparently getting her bearings, she headed east, over the oak-trees that dotted the park-like grounds.

Winged Blackmail 2010

We, its dwellers, had only to think of abundance and still more buttercups and tulips would spring up, oak-trees, deep wishing wells.

Gretel by Firelight, Part I Roberta Lawson 2011

Leaving the tower, therefore, and descending, unobserved as he thought, the knoll on which it stood, Halbert gained the little piece of level ground which extended betwixt the descent of the hill, and the first sweep made by the brook after washing the foot of the eminence on which the tower was situated, where a few straggling birch and oak-trees served to secure him from observation.

The Monastery 2008

The broken path which they pursued with some difficulty, was in some places shaded by ancient birches and oak-trees, and in others overhung by fragments of huge rock.

A Legend of Montrose 2008

And the wild oak-trees to this day, tokens of that magic strain, that grow at Zone on the Thracian shore, stand in ordered ranks close together, the same which under the charm of his lyre he led down from Pieria.

The Argonautica 2008

Among the scattered copses which here and there fringed its banks, the oak-trees only retained that pallid green that precedes their russet hue.

The Monastery 2008

When they touched the landing-place, which was partly shrouded by some old low but wide-spreading oak-trees, intermixed with hazel-bushes, two or three figures were seen as if awaiting their arrival.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

They were come by now to a long bent of the forest well grown with big-boled oak-trees, not very close together, so that short fine greensward was all underneath them; and Habundia went heedfully from bole to bole, as if she would be ready to cover herself if need were; and

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

Clifford loved the wood; he loved the old oak-trees.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

Even the snaggy craggy oak-trees put out the softest young leaves, spreading thin, brown little wings like young bat-wings in the light.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004