Quince Tree

Just outside the window a quince-tree in full blossom reared extravagant masses of pink snow against the blue overhead; beyond it a covered walk of vines shone golden-green. ❋ Unknown (2003)

It shied and bucked and came on its nose over rocks; but this time Mr. Bewicke's boy, Mohr, directed its ways, and thoroughly enjoyed cudgelling it along with a stick, helped by its rider's switch, cut from a quince-tree, which often as not hit Mohr instead of the ass. ❋ Isabel Savory (N/A)

He stood among the gently falling blossoms of the big quince-tree by the terrace. ❋ Edith Ballinger Price (1947)

So saying he commanded the slaves to strip off my vest, and, taking a stick cut from a quince-tree, he beat me upon my back and my sides until I became insensible from the violence of the blows, and despaired of my life. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Alice got up too, and she and Oswald went into the garden, and sat down on the bench under the quince-tree, and wished they had never tried to have a private lark of their very own with the Antiquities – "A Private Sale," Albert's uncle called it afterwards. ❋ Edith (1901)

I see her also cutting bits out of the robinia, the quince-tree and the cherry-tree. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

There, the quince-tree, the trunk of which attains only four or five feet in height, is so common, that it has almost become wild. ❋ Unknown (1851)

The tree that bears this fruit is about the bigness of a quince-tree, with long, small, and thick-set branches spread much abroad: at the extremity of here and there one of which the fruit grows upon a stalk of its own about 9 or 10 inches long, slender and tough, and hanging down with its own weight. ❋ William Dampier (1683)

&c. 'Many is the time we have thought of him when the wind was blowing so hard; the old quince-tree is blown down, Paul, that on the right-hand of the great pear-tree; it was blown down last ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

_star-apples_ resembles our quince-tree, but is much larger, and has abundance of broad oval leaves. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

"Look! look there -- by that quince-tree: that is the giant that was ❋ George MacDonald (1864)