As he had guessed, there stood a building whose roof started from the top of the wooden barricade and descended to within a very short distance of the ground, with a gentle slope which grazed the linden-tree. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The wall above which he saw the linden-tree and the ivy evidently abutted on a garden where he could, at least, hide himself, although there were as yet no leaves on the trees, and spend the remainder of the night. ❋ Unknown (2008)
A linden-tree showed its crest above the niche, and the wall was covered with ivy on the side of the Rue Polonceau. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Jean Valjean allowed himself to slide down the roof, still holding fast to Cosette, reached the linden-tree, and leaped to the ground. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But when we were without the house, I bade our fellows go with me to another place than the wonted apple-tree of rede, and they understood my word, and I led them to a little grassy plain without the orchard, where was no covert for a wide space about it, nought but the one linden-tree under which now we sat. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Aphrodite gave them the gift of divination, and they divine accordingly with the bark of the linden-tree. ❋ Herodotus (2003)
Maigret mopped his forehead and looked at the linden-tree outside the French window, as if he needed to resume contact with a more humdrum reality. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989 (1962)
Maigret puffed at his pipe, shot an occasional glance at the garden, at the leaves of the linden-tree, and passed the letters one by one to Janvier, studying his reactions. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989 (1962)
The study was still full of sunshine, the door open on to the garden, the linden-tree noisy with birds. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989 (1962)
It was a high-ceilinged room, lit by a french window opening on to a flight of three steps, beyond which one discovered with some surprise a well-kept lawn and a huge linden-tree standing in a world of stone. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989 (1962)
In a Swedish ballad a linden-tree grows out of their bodies; in Danish ballads, roses, lilies, or lindens. ❋ Frank Sidgwick (N/A)
Hans properly belonged to the whole country round about: his loss would have been a public one: much as if the old linden-tree on the Landeck Hill close by had been thrown down unexpectedly in the night Hans was as merry as a grig when Caspar the smith gave him an old shirt, the carpenter Joseph a pair of breeches -- and so on. ❋ Various (N/A)
-- Stretching himself under the linden-tree to repose after that day's hard work, he again hears the voice of the wood-bird, which tells him of a glorious bride, sleeping on a rock surrounded by fire; and flying before him, the bird shows Siegfried the way to the spot. ❋ Charles Annesley (N/A)
The young Duchess of Brabant, Elsa the Beautiful, had gone into the woods hunting, and becoming separated from her attendants, sat down to rest under a wide-branching linden-tree. ❋ Logan [Editor] Marshall (N/A)
When the surgeon had dressed his wounds again that day, he felt so much better that he was assisted to a chair that stood under a broad linden-tree, where, a part of the time, he read and restudied Batavsky's queer diagram until it was fairly burned into his memory. ❋ Allan Arnold (N/A)
What if they sat on a beach under a linden-tree and played cat's-cradle like children? ❋ Various (N/A)
And lo! beneath a linden-tree, there sits a lady fair, ❋ Lewis Spence (1914)
The mighty spear he leaned/against the linden-tree: ❋ George Henry Needler (1914)
She draws her lover to the stone seat under the linden-tree. ❋ Gertrude Hall Brownell (1912)
