The low-cornel is opening; its cups are greenish now, but they will soon bleach to a pure white.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rural Hours] Reference

It was made of gilded cornel-wood, with lapis set in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King Must Die]

Each of his reeking hairs was as large and stiff as a spear of cornel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference

Put your ambarelo in the cornel, Messes Enos-Harries, and your backhead in a chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People] Reference

Falle dyle ni efelychu Lloyd George gyda'r Iddewon a rhoi cornel o'r byd iddyn nhw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lakota Sioux declare sovereign nation status] Reference

Geyvorg and his brother (who I only know as "the cornel") worked together on the farm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris in Albania:] Reference

Haply there lay a mound hard at hand, crowned with cornel thickets and bristling dense with shafts of myrtle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

Circe now drove them all together into a stye, and flung down beechmast, and acorns, and cornel berries, for them to eat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from the Odyssey] Reference

He spoke, and darting forward, hurled a weapon full on the enemy; the whistling cornel-shaft sings, and unerringly cleaves the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

Eurydike stood still, absently passing her hand up and down the shaft of the javelin; it was a good one, of smooth hard cornel-wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral Games]

Love to you cornel Holeman. (webster's and google were absolutely NO help on spelling the rank of cornel) oh well you know whata 'mean.    From Wordnik.com.  [madrigle Diary Entry] Reference

This cornel-wood staff of mine — the old man's third leg, as the Sphinx said in her riddle — when Kleobis owned it, I felt it many a time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Praise Singer]

I now began to notice the bright red berries of the tree-cranberry, which grows eight or ten feet high, mingled with the alders and cornel along the shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference

The lance of Romulus is changed into a cornel-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations] Reference

Swift through the yielding air the Italian cornel flew.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor] Reference

Cornus alternifolia (alternate-leaved cornel), West Branch, 1853.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maine Woods] Reference

Your father was a common so'dier and his was cornel o 'the regiment!'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heather and Snow] Reference

Ye wad hae thocht him a cornel at the sma'est, an 'me a wheen heerin' guts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malcolm] Reference

The rafters were set full of cornel-wood pegs till they looked like weavers-combs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference

Prelude of bloody fields, and fights to cornel Hard elements of inaufpicious war.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference

Don't put up with the massads and the dabashis, the rashid-khalidis and cornel-wests.    From Wordnik.com.  [FrontPage Magazine] Reference

In Slavonic countries we hear of poplar, pear, and cornel wood being used for the purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference

The cornel, or bunch-berries, were very abundant, as well as Solomon's seal and moose-berries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maine Woods] Reference

It is a relative of flowering dogwood, and the one of its many names I like best is silky cornel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvester] Reference

Why of Ampyx, who fixed his cornel-wood spear, without a point, full in the face of the four-footed Oëclus?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations] Reference

The soil, which was fertile, suited the wood, and it budded, and became the stem of a good-sized cornel-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Lives, Volume I] Reference

Again, on the slope of the Palatine Hill grew a cornel-tree which was esteemed one of the most sacred objects in Rome.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference

I first saw his big, square-jowled, short-muzzled head peering out between some low cornel bushes, his brown eyes regarding me questioningly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference

I have been for some time in doubt; certainly, if it were of wild ash, it would be of brown color; if of cornel-wood, there would be knots in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII] Reference

Thus were they penned there weeping, and Circe flung them acorns and mast and fruit of the cornel tree to eat, whereon wallowing swine do always batten.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odyssey] Reference

When he used a club it was of the wood of some Egyptian palm or of cornel-wood, heavily gilded; a heap of such clubs was always in readiness when he entered the arena.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference

So he made two extra helves and had a dozen cornel-wood pegs ready to drive out the bit of broken handle next time I broke it; as I did, according to his laughing forecast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference