There was no sound abroad except the hooting of an old owl in the top of a water-oak, and the everlasting voice of the sea, that was not uplifted at that soft hour. ❋ Unknown (2000)
Bill was eventually discovered seated on a cushion-covered nail keg beneath a large water-oak at the rear of the building. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)
As we walk up from the station through, first a wood of water-oak, sweet-gum and hickory, then an open glade with scattering persimmon trees upon it, and lastly, a fine park of postoaks draped with Spanish moss, we approach the old southern "Mansion," which was the only building of any account upon the ground when the Association purchased it in 1869, and which is still the handsomest one. ❋ Various (N/A)
But the night was safely dark: a soft gray scud from the Gulf was flying rapidly in, obscuring even the dim starlight, and no one saw them as they passed through the turngate in the fence and sat down close to the water's edge under the overhanging trunk of a huge water-oak. ❋ Various (N/A)
The sky was so wonderful and the river so winding and lovely and the air so delicious that yesterdays did not seem important and only to-day counted; and it was when we were sitting under a beautiful big water-oak that Whythe began to be terribly sentimental and say things that would have been more suitable for moonlight and shadows and things of that sort. ❋ Kate Langley Bosher (1898)
He descended the sloping bank, and, sitting on a stone in the shade of a water-oak, took off his coarse brogans, unwound the rags that served him in lieu of stockings, and laved in the cool water the feet that were chafed with many a weary mile of travel. ❋ Unknown (1895)
As they did so, the child uttered a cry of joy, sprang to the water-oak, and caught up a frightened-looking little black and white kitten that was cautiously descending the big trunk backward. ❋ Kirk Munroe (1890)
The tree was a huge moss-hung water-oak, evidently too large to be chopped down, as all the 'coon trees of Solon's stories had been. ❋ Kirk Munroe (1890)
Before us and close on our right were the dense woods of magnolia, water-oak, tupelo and a hundred other affluent things that towered and spread or clambered and hung. ❋ George Washington Cable (1884)
When this easy lope had carried the doctor around a bend of the wood, and only the measured thud of the horse's hoofs came back to his ear, the Fool rode out from under the shadow of the water-oak, and made his way thoughtfully homeward. ❋ Unknown (1879)
Men build dikes; but the besieging tides bring up their battering-rams -- whole forests of drift -- huge trunks of water-oak and weighty cypress. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
I at length lay down at the foot of a large water-oak, resolving to take only a nap, and then rise and pursue my journey. ❋ John Hill (1862)
Not a breath of air ruffled the surface of the lagoon, or stirred the boughs of the surrounding trees, -- among which were cypresses, live-oak, water-oak, the cabbage-palm, and many others, festooned with wreaths of the gorgeous trumpet-flower of crimson hue, wild-vines, and parasites innumerable; while a short way off I could distinguish a meadow of tall grass or reeds a dozen feet in height at least. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
Vegetation became more dense as, towards evening, we approached the long-looked-for river, so that we had some difficulty in making our way through the thickly-growing cabbage-palms, live-oak, and water-oak, hung with crimson and white air-plants, trumpet-flowers, wild-vines, and innumerable other parasites. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
"Look, Clough, your eyes are younger than mine -- look to the left, beyond the big water-oak, close by the blasted pine -- the very highest point of the tussock we just left." ❋ Unknown (1835)
