a tree named _luma_, for axle-trees and the poles of carriages; of a particular kind of hazle for ship-building, which answers excellently for oars; they likewise make chests and boxes of a species of cypress, and of a tree named _ciruelillo_. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
Bleaks in a boat in a Summers evening, with a hazle top about five or six foot long, and a line twice the length of the ❋ Unknown (2007)
Immediately upon their receiving this name, the trumpet is sounded, and they all leave the hill and return for Mecca, and being gone two or three miles on their way [,] they then rest for that night34; but after nomas, before they go to rest, each person gathers nine-and-forty small stones about the bigness of an hazle nut; the meaning of which I shall acquaint you with presently. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Three hundred years ago the British scientist Thomas Harriot wrote, “Those weapons that they have, are onlie bowes made of Witch hazle, and arrows of reeds; neither have they anything to defend themselves but targets made of barcks; and some armours made of sticks wickered together with thread.” ❋ Jeffery Deaver (2001)
-- The common wild hazle of our hedges has been improved, by chance or cultivation, into the several varieties of red and white filberts and cob-nuts. ❋ Various (N/A)
Working them upon the hazle, or upon themselves, is necessary; because, it not only makes them more fruitful, but also brings them sooner into bearing. ❋ Various (N/A)
John Aubrey, who knew him personally, thus describes him: 'He was of a middling stature, pretty strong set, roundish cherry-checked, hazle-eyed, brown-haired.' ❋ Various (N/A)
Apprentice, aged 15 years, small of his age, has short black and lank Hair, dark hazle Eyes, good complexion a little freckled, speaks good English and a little French: had on when he went away ❋ Various (N/A)
And harebells bloomin 'bonnie, O! Below a spreadin' hazle lea, ❋ Various (N/A)
Sir ROGER was proceeding in the character of him, when we saw him make up to us with two or three hazle-twigs in his hand, that he had cut in ❋ Various (N/A)
Take the flesh of a hinder part of a hare, or any other venison and mince it small with a little fat bacon, some pistaches or pine-apple kernels, almonds, Spanish or hazle nuts peeled, Spanish chesnuts or ❋ Robert May (N/A)
The timber along the bottom, ceador, hemlock of the largest size, under brush, hazle, briars, aldar, and sundry other srubs; the soil very rich and black. ❋ Unknown (1918)
I have been told also that sometimes they used hazle wood for bows. ❋ George Bird Grinnell (1893)
Maple, and also Wich-hazle, wherof the inhabitants vse to make their bowes. ❋ Unknown (1871)
A paved causeway led from the house to the fire-place, on which was a quantity of ashes, charred wood, half-burnt turf, and hazle-nuts. ❋ Mary Frances Cusack (1864)
"Just look at the sweet, little, silvery-mouthed hazle-eyed, rosy-cheeked cherub," said Mrs.C. "'Tis little Richard, I declare," shouted Charlotte, springing forth to see him. ❋ Andrew Learmont Spedon (1857)
Am I not an automative vegetable, a witch-hazle in moccasons? ❋ Unknown (1851)
Her dark clear hazle eyes, her fair white skin, the leaves and flowers, made a pretty vision. ❋ Unknown (1851)
The plain is now grown up with poplar, hazle-bush, scrub-oak, and whortleberry. ❋ Schoolcraft, H R (1851)
-- This bush or shrub bears tags a little similar to those of witch hazle, from which it derives the name of Tag Alder. ❋ Richard Foreman (1849)
It's [hazlenut] ❋ Thepenguin9 (2015)
[Hi] [hazl] [your cool] ❋ Hhhhhhhhhj Rrrrrr Jjjj (2021)
When [ever] ‘hazlee’ [walks] it [jiggles] ❋ Hazlee (2021)
