quince-tree

Just outside the window a quince-tree in full blossom reared extravagant masses of pink snow against the blue overhead; beyond it a covered walk of vines shone golden-green.

Australia Felix 2003

It shied and bucked and came on its nose over rocks; but this time Mr. Bewicke's boy, Mohr, directed its ways, and thoroughly enjoyed cudgelling it along with a stick, helped by its rider's switch, cut from a quince-tree, which often as not hit Mohr instead of the ass.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

He stood among the gently falling blossoms of the big quince-tree by the terrace.

The Happy Venture Edith Ballinger Price 1947

So saying he commanded the slaves to strip off my vest, and, taking a stick cut from a quince-tree, he beat me upon my back and my sides until I became insensible from the violence of the blows, and despaired of my life.

Nights 9-18. The Story of the Second of the Three Ladies of Baghdad. 1909

Alice got up too, and she and Oswald went into the garden, and sat down on the bench under the quince-tree, and wished they had never tried to have a private lark of their very own with the Antiquities – "A Private Sale," Albert's uncle called it afterwards.

The Wouldbegoods Edith 1901

I see her also cutting bits out of the robinia, the quince-tree and the cherry-tree.

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

There, the quince-tree, the trunk of which attains only four or five feet in height, is so common, that it has almost become wild.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

There, the quince-tree, the trunk of which attains only four or five feet in height, is so common, that it has almost become wild.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

The tree that bears this fruit is about the bigness of a quince-tree, with long, small, and thick-set branches spread much abroad: at the extremity of here and there one of which the fruit grows upon a stalk of its own about 9 or 10 inches long, slender and tough, and hanging down with its own weight.

A Voyage to New Holland William Dampier 1683

&c. 'Many is the time we have thought of him when the wind was blowing so hard; the old quince-tree is blown down, Paul, that on the right-hand of the great pear-tree; it was blown down last

Cousin Phillis Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837