On this side it is all canals, bogs, and pollards, and the eternal mud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915] Reference

Scarcely any tree coppices more vigorously or makes more useful pollards on dry grass land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884] Reference

The line dwindled as the shorn pollards gave up their withes to bind the vines to the dwarf maples.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collectors] Reference

I'm also not sure that our recent spate of laughing at 'chav's' and 'vicki pollards' is particularly helping either.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Poverty in the UK a Denial of Peoples Human Rights] Reference

In top-working, therefore, it is found necessary in order to get the cambium sufficiently active, to stub back the branches to mere pollards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference

Presently the shattered pollards of the Steenbeek are left behind and flickering Verey lights cast into weird relief the rugged surface of the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference

Thames, now a smooth and verdant meadow, edged round with old willow pollards calmly reflected in the bright, clear waters, but giving back in the twelfth century a far different scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference

Temptation grew, nevertheless, in orchards and rows of small pollards (usually of ash), which formed the hedges in this part of France, not to mention a wood at the lower end of the village.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference

Pictures Of The Week. ohh wat happens at pollards?.    From Wordnik.com.  [All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News] Reference

The clumsy pollards were each one mass of undivided green.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood] Reference

There was one row of pollards where they always began laying first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference

Originally Posted by enterfunnyname ohh wat happens at pollards? spoiler.    From Wordnik.com.  [All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News] Reference

Along every hill-side, down every glen, lie orchard-rows of the precious pollards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prose Idylls, New and Old] Reference

As for the pollards, they'll hope Pre-K's back by the time little Cole and Nicolletta are ready to go.    From Wordnik.com.  [News Channel 9: Local News] Reference

He was able to make out a bill for meal or pollards, but did little beyond that in the way of writing letters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way We Live Now] Reference

The trees which lined the road were much lower, being indeed mere pollards, and allowed them to see the sky overhead.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure] Reference

But, as I have said, I had not yet learned to honour pollards, and therefore they made me more miserable than I was already.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood] Reference

You can walk through the wide open plains, explore the coppices and see the natural sculptures that are the ancient pollards.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Forest some time ago, could you tell me what truth there is in the rumour that in the nineteenth century the trees were all pollards?.    From Wordnik.com.  [News from Nowhere] Reference

Only the walnuts and the great oaks, some of them pollards of a thousand years of age, remained stark and stern in their winter dress.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa] Reference

This is the ufual treatment of old rough liedges in which pollards and flubwood abound, and which conftitute the principal part of the hedges of Eaft-Norfolk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The rural economy of Norfolk: : comprising the management of landed estates, and the present practice of husbandry in that county.] Reference

There was a little stream, with pollards on both sides of it, that ran through green fields, and it made him happy, he knew not why, to wander along its banks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of Human Bondage] Reference

Clarissa was thus forced to saunter alone, and after she had got to the brook and the pollards, she sat down, and leant her arms on the bars of an old farm gate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes] Reference

It was intensely still, and no sound broke the silence save the intermittent croaking of some bull-frogs in the dark shadows of the pollards on the further bank.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Master of Mysteries] Reference

'Why, that clump of pollards still emerging from the water on the left,' cried Claude, 'was the Barreux Island, where we used to chat together, lying on the grass!.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Masterpiece] Reference

Large districts are kept to about the size of hop-poles, growing on pollards three or four feet from the ground, by charcoal burners, who, in all instances, are smiths too.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868] Reference

We had now reached a low waste of unenclosed land, with sedge and gorse pricking up everywhere through the snow, and with long lines of pollards marking the bed of a frozen stream.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers] Reference

Rotterdam and rushed out imperiously into the plain of windmills and pollards beyond, I reflected that this must be my good day, so kindly had some fairy godmother shepherded my footsteps since I had left the café.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man with the Clubfoot] Reference

"but then there will be an inducement, and I shall gradually get intimately acquainted with all the hedges, gates, pools and pollards of this part of Highbury.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Emma]

Some of our common oaks bear their leaves green all winter; but they are generally pollards, and such as are shelter’d in warm corners and hedge rows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees] Reference