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  • What bird from its covert 'mid the leafy oak or soaring pine-tree's branch will come to mourn with me, the maid left motherless, with cries of woe, lamenting, ere it comes, the piteous lonely life, that henceforth must be always mine with tears that ever stream?

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • What bird from its covert 'mid the leafy oak or soaring pine-tree's branch will come to mourn with me, the maid left motherless, with cries of woe, lamenting, ere it comes, the piteous lonely life, that henceforth must be always mine with tears that ever stream?

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • I had to push myself away from the solid comfort of the pine-tree's bole.

    Madam Will You Talk Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1967

  • Touched a great pine-tree's high and heavenward crown,

    Hippolytus/The Bacchae 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • There he hid himself under the young pine-tree's tangled branches.

    Invisible Links Selma Lagerl��f 1899

  • Blent with the pine-tree's lingering music thrills

    Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne, 1882

  • They travelled down the aisles of the level forest, sometimes the holly-trees, in their green leafage and red fruit, sometimes the cleanly pine-tree's green, enriching the brown concavity of oaks; and at the scattered settlement of Kingston, the Jackson candidate for governor,

    The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877

  • In this temple all hearing is given by inspiration, for which reason the pine-tree's language is inarticulate, as Jesus spake in parables.

    The Foot-path Way Bradford Torrey 1877

  • For myself, then, like the lowly partridge-berry vine, I would be always the pine-tree's neighbor.

    The Foot-path Way Bradford Torrey 1877

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