Witch Elm

I shall be obliged to any of your correspondents who can inform me from whence came the term _witch-elm_, a name given to a species of elm tree, to distinguish it from the common elm. ❋ Various (N/A)

Perigal tea beneath the shade of a witch-elm on the lawn. ❋ Unknown (1909)

From out a screen of hazel and witch-elm (almost directly in front of the place where the truck, that morning, had been loaded) crashed a right hideous object. ❋ Albert Payson Terhune (1907)

Mounting on an old dwarf witch-elm about seven feet high, where several could sit, he would hold forth. ❋ George Smith (1876)

On the witch-elm that shades Saint Fillan's spring, ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

But I have tied red thread round the bairns's throats, "(so her fondness still called them,)" and given ilka ane of them a riding-wand of rowan-tree, forby sewing up a slip of witch-elm into their doublets; and I wish to know of your reverence if there be ony thing mair that a lone woman can do in the matter of ghosts and fairies? ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

On the witch-elm that shades Saint Fillan's spring ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

But I have tied red thread round the bairns’s throats,” (so her fondness still called them,) “and given ilka ane of them a riding-wand of rowan-tree, forby sewing up a slip of witch-elm into their doublets; and I wish to know of your reverence if there be ony thing mair that a lone woman can do in the matter of ghosts and fairies? — ❋ Unknown (2008)

I have taught her to draw, -- an accomplishment in which I am not without skill, -- and she has already taken a sketch from nature, which, barring the perspective, is not so amiss; indeed, she has caught the notion of "idealizing" (which promises future originality) from her own natural instincts, and given to the old witch-elm, that hangs over the stream, just the bough that it wanted to dip into the water and soften off the hard lines. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

"I have tied red thread round the bairns 'throats, and given ilk ane of them a riding-wand of rowan-tree, forbye sewing up a slip of witch-elm into their doublets; and I wish to know of your reverence if there be onything mair that a lone woman can do in the matter of ghosts and fairies? ❋ Ruth Edna Kelley (N/A)

On the witch-elm that shades Saint Fillan's spring. " ❋ John Hunter (1883)

  On the witch-elm that shades Saint Fillan’s spring ❋ Unknown (1810)