Holm Oak

Word HOLM OAK
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Winding our way up the mountain roads, we caught the occasional glimpse of a Barbary ape going about its business among the cedar and holm-oak forests. ❋ SUZANNA CLARKE (2007)

Poles of laurel or elm are most free from worms, and a share-beam of oak and a plough-tree of holm-oak. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And just then she saw me looking, and hid behind a holm-oak tree; but I could still see the gleam of one shoulder and her long narrow eyes pursuing me. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He would not rest on the ground so near the evil road, and after some debate they all climbed up into the crotch of a large holm-oak, whose thick branches springing together from the trunk made a good hiding-place and a fairly comfortable refuge. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1954)

Hew also many bent timbers, and bring home a plough-tree when you have found it, and look out on the mountain or in the field for one of holm-oak; for this is the strongest for oxen to plough with when one of Athena's handmen has fixed in the share-beam and fastened it to the pole with dowels. ❋ Hesiod (N/A)

The holm-oak grows to a surprising bulk and height in this country; I have seen of them a foot and a half diameter, and about 30 feet from the ground to the lowest branches. ❋ -1775 Le Page Du Pratz (N/A)

As in the woods in winter cold the mistletoe—a plant not native to its tree—is green with fresh leaves and twines its yellow berries about the boles; such seemed upon the shady holm-oak the leafy gold, so rustled in the gentle breeze the golden leaf. ❋ Unknown (1922)

” Here Virgil definitely describes the Golden Bough as growing on a holm-oak, and compares it with the mistletoe. ❋ Unknown (1922)

Here Virgil definitely describes the Golden Bough as growing on a holm-oak, and compares it with the mistletoe. ❋ Unknown (1922)

In the morning, after doing the head's extraordinary bidding, Manuel went to feed his horse, and found tethered to the holm-oak the steed's skeleton picked clean. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)

Remember, also, that the strangeness of their escapade, the cramped attitude they had been compelled to maintain in the branches of the holm-oak, the intense cold and their frequent resort to the flask must have all conspired to exaggerate their emotions and prevent them from looking at things in a rational way. ❋ Max Beerbohm (1914)

So they rode down next day to Windsor, and secreted themselves in the branches of a holm-oak. ❋ Max Beerbohm (1914)

Virgil definitely describes the Golden Bough as growing on a holm-oak, and compares it with the mistletoe. ❋ James George Frazer (1897)

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