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Sentences ending with elms
- The College plain would be nothing without its elms. [6]
- I was curious to know how the size of the trunk of this tree would compare with that of the trunks of some of our largest New England elms. [6]
- We walked under Mr. Paddock's row of English elms. [6]
- I have something more to say about elms. [6]
- Many of the houses are old-fashioned and square, some with colonial doors and porches, irregularly aligned on the main street, which is arched by ancient and stately elms. [4]
- 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]
- Nobody knows New England who is not on terms of intimacy with one of its elms. [6]
- She made herself a rude hammock,--such as are often used in hot climates,--and swung it between two elms. [6]
More example sentences with the word elms in them
- Elm Street it was called, naturally enough, for its elms made a long, pointed-arched gallery of it through most of its extent. [6]
- Behind the crowd was a row of old-fashioned brick houses, on the walls of which were patterned, by the cold electric light, the branches of the bare elms ranged along the sidewalk. [9]
- Presently they came to the avenue of elms that led up to the long, low buildings of the school. [9]
- The capital was then, and still remains, a typically beautiful New England city, with wide streets shaded by shapely maples and elms, with substantial homes set back amidst lawns and gardens. [9]
- Not so with the row of elms which you may see leading up towards the western entrance. [6]
- It turned down the Moon-street, keeping to the middle of the road which was planted with elms, and had on each side of it a raised foot-way, which at this time of night no one used. [10]
- She loved best the moment when the Common came in view, when through the rows of elms the lineaments of those old houses rose before her, lineaments seemingly long familiar, as of old and trusted friends, and yet ever stirring new harmonies and new visions. [9]
- In front of the minister's barn under the elms on the hill Cynthia pulled the harness from the tired horse with an energy that betokened activity of mind. [9]
- I am not sure that I remember any other first-class elms in New England, but there may be many. [6]
- One evening, the summer after their marriage, they were walking in the Mall under the great elms that border the Common on the Tremont Street side. [9]
- Austen, on the steps, stood gazing across at a square mansion with a wide cornice, half hidden by elms and maples and pines. [9]
- They have invaded some of our recent poetry as the canker-worms gather on our elms in June. [6]
- They found the sharp new heap they were seeking, and ensconced themselves within the protection of three great elms that grew in a bunch within a few feet of the grave. [5]
- There is a row of elms just in front of the old house on the south. [6]
- It has fine old woods, and noble elms to give dignity to its open spaces. [6]
- I belong to no flock; my home may be among the palms of Syria, the olives of Italy, the oaks of England, the elms that shadow the Hudson or the Connecticut; I build no nest; to-day I am here, to-morrow on the wing. [6]
- Nature had stored my keepsake tenderly in her bosom; the glossy, faintly streaked blades were there; they are there still, though they never flower, darkened as they are by the shade of the elms and rooted in the matted turf. [6]
- The carriage turned into a street arched by old elms, and flanked by the houses of the most prosperous townspeople. [9]
- This office was in what had once been a large residence, and from its ample windows you could look out through the elms on to the square. [9]
- Just as we have two trees alike in many ways, yet not the same, both elms, yet easily distinguishable, just so we have a complete flora and a fauna, which, parting from the same ideal, embody it with various modifications. [6]
- As luck would have it the very next evening in the level light under the elms of the Square I beheld sauntering towards me a dapper figure which I recognized as that of Mr. Cheyne himself. [9]
- On the other hand, they were not so radical as to agree with the old painter who came every summer to paint the elms of the St. Barnaby meadows. [8]
- In our long drives we have seen everywhere the same picturesque old cottages, with the pretty gardens, and abundant flowers, and noble trees, more frequently elms than any other. [6]
- The Dwyers, the Cartwrights, the Haydens, the Brices, the Ishams, and I know not how many others had sent their tributes, and Honora's second cousins, the Hanburys, from the family mansion behind the stately elms of Wayland Square--of which something anon. [9]
- Jake pulled him by the sleeve toward the road, and pointed to the low gable of the little parsonage under the elms on the hill beyond the meeting-house. [9]
- It must pass by the garden; but the road could scarcely be seen from the little castle--the lindens, beeches, and elms were too tall and their foliage was too thick to permit it. [10]
- It was shaded by elms and butternut-trees, and a long spit of sand and pebbles ran out from it into the brawling stream. [4]
- The American elms are quite bare, and have been so for weeks. [6]
- The English elms are of a more robust build, and stand defiant, with all their summer clothing about their sturdy frames. [6]
- No natural Gothic arch compares, for a moment, with that formed by two American elms, where their lofty jets of foliage shoot across each other's ascending curves, to intermingle their showery flakes of green. [6]
- As I rode along the pleasant way, watching eagerly for the object of my journey, the rounded tops of the elms rose from time to time at the road-side. [6]
- Also, I have a very pretty letter from Norwich, in Connecticut, telling me of two noble elms which are to be seen in that town. [6]
- We can get a useful lesson from the American and the English elms on our Common. [6]
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