Pigs are raised and consumed all over Portugal, from the semi-wild black hogs that root for acorns in the cork-oak forest in the southern Alentejo, to the home-reared swine whose blood and innards contribute to unctuous northern specialities like papas de sarabulho. ❋ Paul Ames (2009)
Groves of walnut and cork-oak, little orchards of almond and lemon, cover the surrounding country and grow to the foot of the walls which jut out among them in a series of sharp bastions, ingeniously contrived in the seventeenth century and never, in a long history of strife, put to the test of assault; for they enclose little of military significance. ❋ Waugh, Evelyn (1998)
They drove out of the town into the land of cork-oak and almond. ❋ Waugh, Evelyn (1998)
Those who had the wicked saw-backed bayonets attacked cork-oak branches, others gathered kindling, and within minutes the blue wood-smoke rose like a wavering signal in the evening sky. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- (1981)
The children declared that the cork-oak was the best tree of all, but they agreed with their governess that the entire oak family was made up of grand and useful trees. ❋ Ella Rodman Church (N/A)
Rebuke awaited Captain Tremayne at the hands of Lady O'Moy, and it came as soon as they were alone together sauntering in the thicket of pine and cork-oak on the slope of the hill below the terrace. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
The road winds in and out of gullies where rivulets descend from the mountains; they are clothed in cork-oak, ilex, and other trees; golden orioles, jays, hoopoes and rollers flash among the foliage. ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)
Irish corporal wriggling along the branch of a cork-oak which overhung the slope. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
It was a gloomy-looking forest of tall gum-trees; nothing but dead trees, with wide spaces between, which had been barked for ages, or rather skinned like the cork-oak at harvest time. ❋ Unknown (1873)
He had planted in the grounds of the White House the acorns of the cork-oak, black walnuts, peach, plum, and cherry stones, apple and pear seeds, and he watched their germination and growth with great interest. ❋ Benjamin Perley Poore (1853)
I am making a collection of vines for wine, and for the table; also of some trees, such as the cork-oak, &c. &c. ❋ Jefferson, Thomas (1829)
By Colonel Franks, in the month of February last, I sent a parcel of acorns of the cork-oak, which I desired him to ask the favor of the Delegates of South Carolina in Congress, to forward to you. ❋ Thomas Jefferson (1784)
I mean, you have to do it right of course, but since they don't get barky enough for harvesting till they're at least oh a decade or two old, each tree is an investment, and the cork-oak forests aren't subjected to periodic disturbance the way, say, a paper plantation is. ❋ Unknown (2010)
a gloomy-looking forest of tall gum-trees; nothing but dead trees, with wide spaces between, which had been barked for ages, or rather skinned like the cork-oak at harvest time. ❋ Unknown (2003)
