walnut-trees

The rock, we have said, was bare, unless in so far as it was clothed with the foaming waters of the cataract; but the banks on each side were covered with plane-trees, walnut-trees, cypresses, and other kinds of large timber proper to the East.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

The kine and the goats must she milk, and plough and sow and reap the acre-land according to the seasons, and lead the beasts to the woodland pastures when their own were flooded or burned; she must gather the fruits of the orchard, and the hazel nuts up the woodlands, and beat the walnut-trees in September.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

As to that great tree, strong-trunked and broad-armed, which guarded the gable nearest the road, it seemed to defy a spring-night frost to harm its still bare boughs; and so did the leafless grove of walnut-trees rising tall behind the house.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

But at present one might fancy the house in the early stage of a chancery suit, and that the fruit from that grand double row of walnut-trees on the right hand of the enclosure would fall and rot among the grass, if it were not that we heard the booming bark of dogs echoing from great buildings at the back.

Adam Bede 2004

Then was it that they rode as hard as they could towards the walnut-trees to meet with them, and left the monk there all alone, with his two foresaid men to guard him.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

In the meanwhile, whilst these made a stop under the walnut-trees, the monk pursued on the chase, charging all he overtook, and giving quarter to none, until he met with a trooper who carried behind him one of the poor pilgrims, and there would have rifled him.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Then was it that they rode as hard as they could towards the walnut-trees to meet with them, and left the monk there all alone, with his two foresaid men to guard him.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

In the meanwhile, whilst these made a stop under the walnut-trees, the monk pursued on the chase, charging all he overtook, and giving quarter to none, until he met with a trooper who carried behind him one of the poor pilgrims, and there would have rifled him.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

I recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrel-shooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

"Perhaps we should have been, if your roads were better, and the holes in them filled up with stones instead of walnut-trees," returned

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various