The whole long range of hills was clad in beech woods, and beautiful, turreted castles peeped out here and there. From Wordnik.com. [Further Adventures of Nils] Reference
But a beech is a spindly thing compared to an oak. From Wordnik.com. [The Lampshade] Reference
A native porphyritic green stone called beech-bowlder. From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
The plants are beech, which is common and of large size. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
The highest point at which we found the beech was the Col di. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
From 6,000 to 4,000 feet firs and the beech are the most prominent trees. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888] Reference
It yields a kind of nut similar to that of the beech, which is esteemed as an article of food. From Wordnik.com. [ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE] Reference
The beech is the woodpecker's tree so soon as it grows old -- birch one of the missel-thrush's. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
We may also learn from it, that the beech is a very long-lived tree, of which there are many exceedingly large in these woods. From Wordnik.com. [The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published] Reference
This template is generally of hardwood, such as beech or walnut. From Wordnik.com. [Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used.] Reference
Undisturbed ravine vegetation can be rich in mesophytes, such as beech and sugar maple. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA)] Reference
"painted" to the autumn beeches, as the foliage of the beech is the least painty of all our trees; nor when he speaks of. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference
Oak – hickory is the general forest type; undisturbed ravine vegetation is rich in mesophytes, such as beech and sugar maple. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (EPA)] Reference
The far se lowlands contain forests of deciduous trees, such as beech, oak and walnut. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Search: canada] Reference
…I’m the beech stamp because I’m the beech of the company because the beech is the mother tree. From Wordnik.com. [black-bottom cupcakes | smitten kitchen] Reference
The beech, hickory, red oak, and chestnut are good examples. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
I make notes on rose wood and sand wood, on beech wood and elm. From Wordnik.com. [A Mess] Reference
There were pine, oak, maple, beech, basswood and a very hard wood. From Wordnik.com. [The Biography of a Rabbit] Reference
The cut-leaf beech is an European beech, and I have seen the tree in. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference
You see her walking on the road before us under the row of beech-trees. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
All the beech, walnut, and butternut trees were heavily laden that year. From Wordnik.com. [The Later Cave-Men] Reference
N, O, P (see Plate III.), are copied by carving in lime-tree or beech wood. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Specimen trees of horse-chestnut, beech, ash, and hickory are also desirable. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
More resistant types take two years; these include oak, birch, beech, and maple. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
Reams of Naugahyde wrapping an insulated beech frame to keep out the Arctic cold. From Wordnik.com. [Volvo digs up its Swedish roots] Reference
Five minutes later he was signalling to me from behind the trunk of a great beech. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Then there was the view from the gate, through a frame of beech trees out towards the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
Procure two pieces of ash (or beech, as being the lighter wood), each of about 5 ft. in length. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
The banks are dark and overhung by Himalayan balsam, elder and low branches of beech and sycamore. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: North Derbyshire] Reference
Sleek Limousins peer through their gate opposite the clump of beech, which rustles in the humid air. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary] Reference
Presently he forgot all prudence, and came forth from the shelter of a beech to get nearer to his model. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It was an unusual wood, a strange wood, a wood of holly trees, with a scattered sprinkling of beech trees. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
The oak, ash, elm, beech, or birch may be taken up in lessons similar to those outlined for the study of the maple. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
It was a wild hollow, with great beech trees, and a noisy stream chaffing in a rocky bed down the middle of the glen. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
Switches were brought in bundles, from a beech wood near the school house, by the boys for whose benefit they were intended. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
In the northern area we go from the northern hardwood with the beech-birch-sugar maple, into the oaks right in the state, with. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference
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