The surrounding hawthorn scrub provides excellent nesting habitat for small birds. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
I shall never see the word hawthorn in poetry again without the image of the snowy but far from chilling canopy rising before me. From Wordnik.com. [Our Hundred Days in Europe] Reference
The hawthorn is a part of natural English life -- country life. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
The hawthorn was the special wood used for fire-burial in Germany; hence the figurative poetical expression which would make Hagen a synonym for death. From Wordnik.com. [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference
We're big on sea-buckthorn berries here in Estonia, and I thought they're also called hawthorn berries, but yours look slightly too large for the ones I mean. From Wordnik.com. [Tea - Hawthorn Berry] Reference
The hawthorn is in bloom. From Wordnik.com. [She declares a barbecue | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"] Reference
We have three large trees, one of them a hawthorn, which is sometimes called an English dogwood, and she planted flower gardens around all three. ". From Wordnik.com. [ajc.com - News] Reference
In serrated leaves, such as hawthorn or virginia creeper, the edging stitches follow the broken outline of the leaf instead of forming an even outer edge. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Embroidery] Reference
7. Plant berry-bearing plants in your garden, such as hawthorn, holly, cotoneaster and berberis. From Wordnik.com. [Feed the birds during cold snap: Plea] Reference
When the sun 's in the west, to the hawthorn-tree. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
While whispering o 'love beneath the hawthorn tree. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
O sweet is the blossom o 'the hawthorn-tree, vol. v. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Yon hawthorn bower beside the burn I never shall forget. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
In the gloaming 'neath the bonnie, bonnie hawthorn tree. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Or forget the vows I breathed beneath the hawthorn tree. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
And on the hawthorn hedges lie soft wreathes of scented snow. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles] Reference
'T was on the banks of Ivory, 'neath the hawthorn-scented shade. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
Precisely as the hawthorn bushes were stripped of their blossoms by. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference
The spiral hedges slowly shook out dappled clusters of white hawthorn. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference
Volunteer native growth of cheery, ash, dogwood and hawthorn prevails. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947] Reference
Which spake, he departed, saying his Credo as he went, and laid him down under a hawthorn. From Wordnik.com. [The Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg Second Edition] Reference
The elder (elves 'grave), the hawthorn, and the juniper, were sacred to supernatural powers. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference
Frantz, with his long arms, would pull down the highest branches of a hawthorn, or would climb. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The mistletoe is a shrub which grows or lives upon certain trees, such as the apple, pear, and hawthorn. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
An 'upo' the very spot whaur the gulf had been there grew a wonderfu 'grove o' hawthorn trees, the finest. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference
Sprigs of ash, hawthorn, juniper, and elder, once sacred to the pagan gods, are now used as a protection against them. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference
May, of course, is "May," or hawthorn blossom, and Robin at home, from his often tearing his clothes, is "Ragged Robin.". From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
The jasmine and hawthorn are just coming into blossom, and I see what looks like a peach-tree in full bloom in Sam's yard. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference
This was at the entrance of woods of the evergreen oak, with hawthorn, many trees of each kind twined round with honeysuckle. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
The grounds are to be surrounded by a hawthorn fence, immediately within which will be a shaded, thoroughly drained path for walking. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
Seeds that are carried in edible fruits which have attractive colours, tastes, etc. Examples -- apple, grape, cherry, rowan, hawthorn. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
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