"Dwarf oak" Quotes from Famous Books
... very cloistral one, with a ribbon of gravelly road, bordered on each side with a rich margin of turf and a scramble of blackberry bushes, green turf banks and dwarf oak-trees making a rich and plenteous shade. My attention was caught firstly by a bicycle lying carelessly on the turf, and secondly and lastly by a graceful woman's figure, recumbent and evidently sleeping against the turf bank, ... — The Quest of the Golden Girl • Richard le Gallienne
... thing, Tom. Just a continuation of those same old dwarf oak trees. But why do you ask that? What's the matter ... — Air Service Boys Over the Atlantic • Charles Amory Beach
... husbandry that can penetrate such a soil as this, has entered here; and I am sorry, for the primitive vegetation has disappeared. No more thyme, no more lavender, no more clumps of kermes oak, the dwarf oak that forms forests across which we step by lengthening our stride a little. As these plants, especially the first two, might be of use to me by offering the Bees and Wasps a spoil to forage, I am compelled to reinstate them in the ground whence ... — The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre |