Use elm in a sentence
Sentences starting with elm
- Elm Street it was called, naturally enough, for its elms made a long, pointed-arched gallery of it through most of its extent. [6]
- Elm Street was the pride of Rockland, but not only on account of its Gothic-arched vista. [6]
Sentences ending with elm
- The Pere Gilpin had the kind of science I like in the study of Nature,--a little less observation than White of Selborne, but a little more poetry.--Just think of applying the Linnaean system to an elm! [6]
- I shall never forget my ride and my introduction to the great Johnston elm. [6]
- She felt afraid, and yet her true woman's heart longed to lean upon his strength as the vine upon the elm. [10]
- When he's got a thing, he's got it like a nail in a branch of young elm. [11]
Sentences containing elm two or more times
- They had expected to see Nic; but Nic was on his way to the horse beneath the great elm tree, and from the elm tree to the State of New York--and safety. [11]
More example sentences with the word elm in them
- We were seated under the elm near the spring, and at that instant I saw Tom coming toward us. [9]
- He presently halted under a great elm, blew an answering blast, and then began to tiptoe and look warily out, this way and that. [5]
- They had left their first retreat, and were now seated among the branches of a large elm which hung far over the lake. [5]
- The doctor put the lantern at the head of the grave and came and sat down with his back against one of the elm trees. [5]
- I heard some talk of a great elm a short distance from the locality just mentioned. [6]
- What if another sit beneath the shade Of the broad elm I planted by the way, --What if another heed the beacon light I set upon the rock that wrecked my keel, Have I not done my task and served my kind? [6]
- On the other side of the brick walk, and near the iron fence, was an elm and a flower bed that was Uncle Tom's pride and the admiration of the neighbourhood. [9]
- The poor old Pittsfield elm lives on its past reputation. [6]
- There is a noble old wreck of an elm at Hatfield, which used to spread its claws out over a circumference of thirty-five feet or more before they covered the foot of its bole up with earth. [6]
- The elm comes nearer to having a soul than any other vegetable creature among us. [6]
- A certain Sunday morning, I remember, broke with a cloud-flecked sky, and as we were preparing to go afield with such ploughs as could be got together (we were to sow turnips) the loud sounds of a quarrel came from the elm at the spring. [9]
- He was to make straight for the McAlery's on Elm while I followed Powell, two short blocks away, and if Nancy went to Sophy's and left there alone he was to announce the fact by a preconcerted signal. [9]
- Yet Nicolas laughed loudly, as he perceived the queer objects in the top of the elm, and pointing upward, said: "What kind of fruits are hanging there? [10]
- It was a large chamber at the corner of the building, shaded by awnings, against which brushed the branches of an elm which had belonged to the original park. [9]
- Asher, did you know that the elm at the end of the Common was struck just now?--that splendid old landmark! [9]
- I have heard it said that all three were planted at the same time, and that the difference of their growth is due to the slope of the ground,--the Washington elm being lower than either of the others. [6]
- About sixteen feet is the measurement of a large elm, like that on Boston Common, which all middle-aged people remember. [6]
- The Sheffield elm is equally remarkable for size and perfection of form. [6]
- But, ere she had reached the gate, a man who had been concealed behind the old elm by the path stepped forward to meet her. [10]
- It is a grand elm for size of trunk, spread of limbs, and muscular development,--one of the first, perhaps the first, of the first class of New England elms. [6]
- The largest actual girth I have ever found at five feet from the ground is in the great elm lying a stone's throw or two north of the main road (if my points of compass are right) in Springfield. [6]
- Some prefer the elm, which holds fire so well; and I have a neighbor who uses nothing but apple-tree wood,--a solid, family sort of wood, fragrant also, and full of delightful suggestions. [4]
- Under an arching elm near the house was the well, stone-rimmed, with its long pole and crotch, and bucket all green with the damp moss which clung to it. [9]
- A chipmunk ran down an elm and stood staring at her with beady, inquisitive eyes, motionless save for his quivering tail, and she put forth her hand, shyly, beseechingly, as though he held the secret of life she craved. [9]
- His book had disappeared from the market long ago, as the elm seeds that carpet the ground and never germinate disappear. [6]
- It was the correct thing for a Rockland dignitary to have a house in Elm Street. [6]
- I never found but one exceed it: that was the great Springfield elm, which looked as if it might have been formed by the coalescence from the earliest period of growth, of two young trees. [6]
- The American elm betrays something of both; yet sometimes, as we shall see, puts on a certain resemblance to its sturdier neighbor. [6]
- You know who Beatty is--he owns this city--his saloon's around here on Elm Street. [9]
- I was hungry as a circus tiger--did you ever eat slippery elm bark?--yes, I was as bad as that. [11]
- They arrived hot and panting, and threw themselves down in the shade of a neighboring elm to rest and have a smoke. [5]
- The West-Springfield elm and one upon Northampton meadows, belong also to the first class of trees. [6]
- This is the American elm most like an oak of any I have ever seen. [6]
- One of these, a wych-elm (Scotch elm of some books), was so large that I insisted on having it measured. [6]
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