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Examples
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One or two shattered yew-trees still grew within the precincts of that which had once been holy ground.
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Have but a little patience, and I too shall sleep under yonder yew-trees, and the people will be tossing up their caps for Sir Miles.
The Virginians 2006
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Under the yew-trees yonder, I can see the vault which covers him, and where my bones one day no doubt will be laid.
The Virginians 2006
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His thoughts turned to the Isle of the Dead, outside Venice, where the graves were twined with nightshade and wolfsbane, and yew-trees dropped their berries on the silent earth.
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A little sleet was drifting out of a sky the colour of the gravestones, and against that whitish sky the yew-trees looked very stark.
The Silver Spoon 2004
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Not one buttercup open; the yew-trees already with shadows flung down!
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A sober corner, with a massive queer-shaped cross of grey rough-hewn granite, guarded by four dark yew-trees.
To Let 2004
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The squire was glad of any argument to defend his clipped yew-trees and formal terraces, which had been occasionally attacked by modern landscape gardeners.
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The church was surrounded by yew-trees which seemed almost coeval with itself.
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It was always light and cheerful and warm, for the three windows down to the broad gravel-walk before it faced south; and though the lawn was darkened just in front of them by two magnificent yew-trees, the atmosphere of the room itself, in its silent, sunny loftiness, was at once gay and solemn to my small imagination and senses, -- much as the interior of Saint Peter's of Rome has been since to them.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various
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