"My wife Cathy and I were married on an oak-tree hilltop near Stanford University in June 1975," a reader emailed me. ❋ Unknown (2009)
There sat an orphan maiden beneath the old oak-tree of appointment. ❋ Unknown (2008)
So says the story that king Volsung let build a noble hall in such a wise, that a big oak-tree stood therein, and that the limbs of the tree blossomed fair out over the roof of the hall, while below stood the trunk within it, and the said trunk did men call Branstock. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Close by the cross, of much greater antiquity, and scarcely less honoured, was an immensely large oak-tree, which perhaps had witnessed the worship of the ❋ Unknown (2008)
Four beaten roads, each leading from an opposite point in the compass, meet before the principal door of the chapel; and ever and anon, as a good knight arrives at this place, he passes in to the performance of his devotions in the chapel, having first sounded his horn three times, till ash and oak-tree quiver and ring. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He threw himself from the pinnacle of the cliff once more into the arms of the projecting oak-tree, whose boughs waved in middle air, anchored by the roots in a huge rift or chasm of the rock. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The night-raven screamed from the old oak-tree, the fox howled on the hill, the hoarse waterfall replied with its echoes; but there was no human answer. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Two hours after daylight, the minister himself appeared, and, on the report of the watchers, caused the country to be alarmed, and a general and exact search to be made through the whole neighbourhood of the cottage and the oak-tree. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The branches of an oak-tree, which shot straight out from the face of a tall cliff, proffered to his bold spirit, steady head, and active limbs, the means of ascending it as a place of out-look, although the enterprise was what most men would have shrunk from. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The credulous thought that the evil spirit, under whose influence she seemed to have acted, had carried her away in the body; and there are many who are still unwilling, at untimely hours, to pass the oak-tree, beneath which, as they allege, she may still be seen seated according to her wont. ❋ Unknown (2008)
When they were done, they went out-a-doors, and Birdalone and the old man laid them down under an oak-tree, and the children sported about anigh them. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Nonetheless, she had gone but a little way ere a terror took hold of her, though she saw no child of Adam anigh, and she turned and ran back swiftly to her old place and sat down under a twisted oak-tree hard by the Sending Boat, and abode there panting and quaking, and scarce daring to look up from the grass for a while. ❋ Unknown (2007)
On a day she went to the wood, and sat down under her oak-tree, and it was far and far out of sight of anyone standing in the meadow by the lake; and in the wood Birdalone looked to see nought at all save the rabbits and squirrels, who were, forsooth, familiar enough with her, and fearless, so that they would come to her hand and sport with her when she hailed them. ❋ Unknown (2007)
There was a large oak-tree in that place, on a spot called Moushold Hill, which Ket named the Tree of ❋ Unknown (2007)
In fact, it's the _branch_; we are the ancient oak-tree. ❋ Walter Jon Williams (2007)
Herr Klüber, for his part, did everything he supposed conducive to the mirthfulness of the company; he begged them to sit down in the shade of a spreading oak-tree, and taking out of a side pocket a small booklet entitled, ‘Knallerbsen; oder du sollst und wirst lachen!’ ❋ Unknown (2006)
When the milking was done they washed their pails and hung them on a many-forked stand made of the peeled limb of an oak-tree, set upright in the earth, and resembling a colossal antlered horn. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I jumped up, clapped on my cap, and set off to the corner of the forest, to the old oak-tree. ❋ Unknown (2006)
There were thrushes singing, and here and there an oak-tree stood in the roadside, perfect in its solitary beauty. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Autumn was getting hold of the old oak-tree, its leaves were browning. ❋ Unknown (2004)
