Crab Tree

Despair ‘getteth him a grievous crab-tree cudgel’; it was in ‘sunshiny weather’ that he had his fits; and the birds in the grove about the House Beautiful, ❋ Unknown (2005)

Fetch me a dozen crab-tree staves, and strong ones: these are but switches to ❋ Unknown (2004)

He had in one hand a lighted torch, or link, and in the other a baton of crab-tree, so thick and heavy, that it might well be termed a club. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Was graft with crab-tree slip; whose fruit thou art, ❋ Unknown (2004)

They had scarcely marched a mile when, their legs failing them, they were forced to lie down under a crab-tree, where they passed the night. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The gold-headed crab-tree cane left him by Benjamin Franklin—what better hands could hold it than those of his one surviving brother, Charles? ❋ Richard Harwell (1968)

But I know how true it is that a tree must produce its fruit -- that a crab-tree will bring forth crab apples, and that a man of meagre and acid mind, who writes a pamphlet or makes a speech, must make a meagre and acid pamphlet or a poor and sour speech. ❋ Various (N/A)

Three oak cudgels, with one of crab-tree; all bought for the use of ❋ George A. Aitken (N/A)

A learned chronologist is about proving what wood this staff was made of, whether oak, ash, or crab-tree. ❋ George A. Aitken (N/A)

He has nothing more for you, nor you for him; but he may be rich in juices wherewithal to nourish the heart of another man, and their two lives, set together, may have an endosmose and exosmose whose result shall be richness of soil, grandeur of growth, beauty of foliage, and perfectness of fruit; while you and he would only have languished into aridity and a stunted crab-tree. ❋ Various (N/A)

A saucy robin cocked his care-free eye on me from the top of a crab-tree, and I could have envied him as I stumbled by. ❋ George W. Gough (N/A)

But to draw sense out of that boy was as hard as picking cherries off a crab-tree. ❋ Richard Middleton (N/A)

It was an old crab-tree, out of which grew a great bunch of something green, quite different from the tree itself. ❋ Walter Barnes (N/A)

So when he arose, he getteth him a grievous crab-tree cudgel, and goes into the dungeon to them, and there first 5 falls to rating of them as if they were dogs, although they never gave him an unpleasant word. ❋ Unknown (1923)

Fetch me a dozen crab-tree staves, and strong ones: these are but switches to ’em. ❋ Unknown (1914)

And the jealous crab-tree found but one to overmatch itself in beauty: ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)

[Jez] is this guy at [vault], he is a [crab tree] ❋ Jera-Ziah (2010)

"[The Crab] [Tree] [Connection] is the greatest band ever!" ❋ Chris Cheverie (2008)

Hey Nate, want to play [Evelyn & Crab-Tree Hands]? Ya know, the one from [Tom Cruise's] [Top Gun]. ❋ Transatlantic Gingerz (2013)