 | Herbert Winckworth Tompkins - Selborne (England) - 1905 - 110 pages
...seat around its trunk. The spot was for centuries occupied by a vast oak with a " short squat body and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity of the area." But in 1702 occurred that tempest which must surely have equalled a tropical hurricane in violence,... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1906 - 304 pages
...the midst of which, again quoting from White, "stood in old times, avast oak, with short squat body and huge horizontal arms, extending almost to the...delight of old and young, and a place of much resort on summer evenings ; where the former sat in grave debate, while the latter frolicked and danced before... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1906 - 280 pages
...the midst of which, again quoting from White, " stood in old times, a vast oak, with short squat body and huge horizontal arms, extending almost to the...delight of old and young, and a place of much resort on summer evenings ; where the former sat in grave debate, while the latter frolicked and danced before... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1924 - 1030 pages
...playing-place, where, writes Gilbert White, there stood "in old times, a vast oak, with a short squat body, and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity of the area. This venerable tree," he continues, "surrounded with stone steps, and seats above them, was the delight of old and young,... | |
 | Charles Stephen Brooks - England - 1924 - 314 pages
...playing place, where, writes Gilbert White, there stood "in old times, a vast oak, with short squat body and huge horizontal arms, extending almost to the extremity of the area. This venerable tree," he continues, "surrounded with stone steps, and seats above them, was the delight of old and young,... | |
 | English literature - 1925 - 638 pages
...playing place). In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak with a short squat body, and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity...delight of old and young, and a place of much resort on summer evenings ; where the former sat in grave debate, while the latter frolicked and danced before... | |
 | Richard Wilson - English language - 1925 - 136 pages
...touched the water. (2) In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak, with a short squat body and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity of the area. (3) In deep snows I have seen the titmouse, while it hung with its back downwards, draw straws lengthwise... | |
 | Country life - 1911 - 356 pages
...tells of a vast oak with " huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity of the area." It was "the delight of old and young, and a place of...in summer evenings, where the former sat in grave twelve hundred years old, and passing round to the chancel end of the church on the northeast side,... | |
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In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak, with a short squat body, and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity of the area. This venerable tree, surrounded with stone steps, and seats above them, was the delight of old... 
