Then he unbuckled his scabbard, laid it and the sword aside, and walked deliberately over to the
oak thicket.
On its farther rim stood three rugged knolls covered with dense woods of spruce and
oak. From between the knolls, a feeder to the main canyon and likewise fringed with redwoods, emerged a smaller canyon.
There was no time, just then, to inquire what the Speaking
Oak had said.
He now found himself in a nook of several acres, where the
oak and manzanita and madrono gave way to clusters of stately redwoods.
They sat under a little
oak, Tony resting against the trunk and the other girls leaning against her and each other, and listened to the little I was able to tell them about Coronado and his search for the Seven Golden Cities.
"Yes, the
oak is right, a thousand times right," thought Prince Andrew.
Speaking of
oak staircases reminds me that there is a magnificent carved
oak staircase in one of the houses in Kingston.
And as she spoke she faded suddenly, and the side of the
oak was once more as the solid rock.
As he advanced in life, the young man adopted pine and
oak as eligible materials for the display of his skill, which now began to bring him a return of solid silver as well as the empty praise that had been an apt reward enough for his productions of evanescent snow.
I followed them from the court towards the
oak grove.
The Assassins chase Pinocchio, catch him, and hang him to the branch of a giant
oak tree
The tradition was broken, the Brownon estates passed into alien hands and the only Brownons remaining in that place were underground in
Oak Hill Cemetery, where, indeed, was a colony of them powerful enough to resist the encroachment of surrounding tribes and hold the best part of the grounds.