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Example sentences for "hawthorns"

Lexicographically close words:
hawser; hawsers; hawss; hawsses; hawthorn; hay; haya; hayan; haycock; haycocks
  1. Let us pause on the brow of this hill, and recal a few of the stirring scenes which these aged hawthorns have overlooked.

  2. We landed upon the island where I saw the whitest hawthorn I have seen this year, the generality of hawthorns are bloomless.

  3. The sloe in blossom, the hawthorns green, the larches in the park changed from black to green in two or three days.

  4. The hawthorns in the valley fading away; beautiful upon the hills.

  5. The hawthorns on the mountain sides like orchards in blossom.

  6. The hawthorns are black and green, the birches here and there greenish, but there is yet more of purple to be seen on the twigs.

  7. I sigh'd to see the flow'ry green Skaith'd by the ruthless pleugh; Likewise the bank aboon the burn, Where broom and hawthorns grew.

  8. The spot where the hawthorns were planted to show the dimensions of the Great Michael is still known, but there is nothing to mark it.

  9. The hawthorns were, it would appear, planted round the excavation, which was tilled with water and aquatic plants, and remained as an ornamental pond till about the time of the battle of Waterloo.

  10. How lovely, Nith, thy fruitful vales, Where bounding hawthorns gaily bloom; And sweetly spread thy sloping dales, Where lambkins wanton through the broom.

  11. A little later she came to meet him from behind the hawthorns that grew along the cart-track--a tall woman with a little bend in her walk.

  12. The evening darkened rapidly, and he walked in a vague diffused light, inexpressibly sad to find Moran waiting for him at the end of an old cart-track, where the hawthorns grew out of a tumbled wall.

  13. The hawthorns will be in flower in another week,' he said; and he began to wonder at the beautiful order of the spring.

  14. From the hawthorns to the elms, and from the elms to the oaks, the cuckoos continually circulate, calling as they fly.

  15. Upon some of these hawthorns mistletoe grows, not in such quantities as on the apples in Gloucester and Hereford, but in small pieces.

  16. The west front, shown in a neighbouring sketch, overlooks a wide tract of park land, studded with gnarled hawthorns and ancient oaks, and watered by the meanderings of the stream whence the place derives its name.

  17. They crossed a zone of huge, wind-writhen hawthorns and came to a road, or rather a rutted track of wheels that cut the hill-side diagonally.

  18. The hawthorns have small oval leaves with variously cleft borders.

  19. At the end of the avenue of plane-trees, alternating with secular hawthorns cut into pyramids, we could see the square mass of the villa just peeping over the immense clumps of trees.

  20. The next afternoon when he reached The Hawthorns he heard that Caesar had already come--indeed, he had divined as much by Mrs. Walford's jubilant air.

  21. He was due at The Hawthorns the following afternoon at five o'clock, and his impatience to see the girl again was intensified by the knowledge that he was about to see her in her home.

  22. Of his wife's family he saw a good deal, both at The Hawthorns and at No.

  23. Cynthia had told her mother how hard he was working, and once, when they were spending an evening at The Hawthorns some weeks after their return, his industry was mentioned.

  24. He went to The Hawthorns daily, and Mrs. Walford was so good as to look about for a house for them in the neighbourhood.

  25. About the beginning of March, Vulp deserted the "earth" prepared by himself and the vixen for their prospective family, and took up his abode among the hazels and the hawthorns in a thick-set hedge bounding the woods.

  26. The fox turned, made for the hedgerow, and gained the friendly shelter of the hawthorns just as the dog crashed into the ditch.

  27. There's a man hangs odes upon Hawthorns and elegies on Brambles.

  28. The hawthorns were silvery, the buttercups golden.

  29. One might as well pretend that the may is consciously white and red on all the hawthorns of the parks and squares in honor of the season.

  30. While the may was still hesitating on the hawthorns whether to come out, there were plum and peach trees in the gardens which emulated the earlier daring of the almonds.

  31. You are not obliged to have a householder's key in order to hear them; and when the hawthorns and the horse-chestnuts blossomed you required a proprietorial right as little.

  32. At the end of the avenue of plane- trees, alternating with secular hawthorns cut into pyramids, we could see the square mass of the villa just peeping over the immense clumps of trees.

  33. The estates of the Rosebuds and the Hawthorns were united, and MARY and JERRY made the happiest of the happy.

  34. Mrs. Melcombe had left Melcombe while it was at its loveliest, all the hawthorns in flower, the peonies and lilies of the valley.

  35. Sometimes, when the pink hawthorns were in flower, or the guelder-roses, he would throw a ball at one of them just to see what showers of bloom would come down; and then what a commotion such an event would make among the birds!


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