Save weak half-curls, like beechen boughs that spread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ionica] Reference

When Spring unfolds the beechen leaf, and sap is in the bough.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

And a snowdrift 'neath a beechen bough Her neck and nut-brown hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [She Lived Beside the Anner] Reference

Find in the Glossary the meaning of: beechen; russet; train; jet; unapt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference

Apparently it comes from “beech” as in beech tree because the Saxons and Germans usually wrote runes on pieces of beechen board.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Things « So Many Books] Reference

Before the day was passed there came a beautiful black steed, upon which was a beechen saddle, and a suit of armour, both for man and horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference

And Sport leaped up, and seized his beechen spear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Union Speaker] Reference

Stood beechen bowls; and these were shining clean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ovid's Metamorphoses, tr. by dr. Garth, and others] Reference

X. Time was when, ftretch'd beneath the beechen fhade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The poetical works, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of the life of the author] Reference

Woodman spare that tree, 595. spare the beechen tree, 516.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference

Poet of the happy Tityrus piping underneath his beechen bowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Virgil] Reference

And thou shalt find it leading o'er the heaths to the beechen-wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of the Wolfings] Reference

A beechen bowl was filled with warm water, that their guests might wash.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age of Fable] Reference

The essence of clover and grass and dandelions and beechen woods is here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Friend John Burroughs]

Inner Court, the fourth or eastern side being overshadowed by a beechen grove.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

Many times, in my musings, I seem to be once more sitting under the beechen trees of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference

Under lovely beechen boughs, and through a glade of oak and first we are ushered into.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway] Reference

There was a thick beechen stick standing by the chimney corner, and old Zeke was not far from it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Ticonderoga or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys] Reference

The red-bird flutters lower down in the coppice of green pawpaws, or amidst the amber leaflets of the beechen thicket.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scalp Hunters] Reference

It was the very season at which the birds were accustomed to visit the beechen woods that girdled the colonel's plantation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire] Reference

So close on midnight Proud Rosalind once more crept up to Rewell Wood; and on its beechen skirts the white hart came to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard] Reference

When this ceremony is over, with the last gleam of day, they retire for the night to the deep beechen woods of Tisted and Ropley.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2] Reference

The Countess bade them bring out a beautiful black steed, upon which was a beechen saddle, and a suit of armour, for man and horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mabinogion] Reference

A brazen gorget; and my feeble crosier Shall be a beechen lance: my noiseless prayers I '11 bartep for the j wagg'ring roar of Mars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two plays: Mantuan revels, a comedy, in five acts; Henry the Seventh, an historical tragedy, in five acts] Reference

As already stated, these beechen forests of America remain almost intact, and so long as they shower down their millions of bushels of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire] Reference

She was out in the beechen woods when she read the letter, and laying her face in the grass she sobbed as she had never sobbed before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aikenside] Reference

A beechen saddle, and a suit of armour, for man and horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mabinogion Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference

"melodious plot of beechen green and shadows numberless" where Pan holds his court.    From Wordnik.com.  [Luca Signorelli] Reference

A mile or more; but since the beechen woods have been greatly thinned they are much decreased in number.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1] Reference

"The path through your labyrinth to its beechen heart was hard to find," he continued, "but I can easily retrace it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audrey] Reference