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yew
1. I catch a glint of water behind round the edge of a beautifully clipped yew hedge
2. The staff looked just like the yew wands they say sibyls use to cast their spells
3. His beautifully crafted bow was made from the finest supple Yew
4. Ornate windows surrounded the courtyard, with a large Yew tree at its center
5. Lady Anne Clifford planted the Yew tree in 1659
6. "Hey, they got this guy, Lee Kwan Yew, the ex-Prime Minister of Singapore,
7. We buried him beneath some boughs cut from a yew, and thought no more on it
8. The cliffs were scattered sparsely with yew and slick with surf and the scat of seabirds, and I had to be careful not to slip
9. He carried me up the hill half covered in its yew wood, and then we were pushing through black cuirasses and wet, glinting mail
10. He backed away from the yew wood, pulling one of his fellows back with him
11. For an instant the yew wood seemed to grow, to circle round us, a sea of ancient trees stretching from horizon to horizon
12. Yew was full of knots and they had to be left and worked around
13. 'And … you'll put the yew trees back to how they was and return the materials what has been stolen from Master Hulle?'
14. Yew should see it
15. Methodically, he stepped out from the smith’s shed into the sunlight, pulled the yew bow from his back, and seated the arrow with mechanical precision and swiftness
16. You see the yew tree
17. to the dead yew
18. The houses were larger here and stood back from the road, shielded by sheer walls of laurel and yew, guarded by silent sentries of beech and sycamore
19. They were going along conversing in this way, when they saw descending a gap between two high mountains some twenty shepherds, all clad in sheepskins of black wool, and crowned with garlands which, as afterwards appeared, were, some of them of yew, some of cypress
20. Two thousand a year without debt or drawback--except the little love-child, indeed; aye, I had forgot her; but she may be 'prenticed out at a small cost, and then what does it signify? Delaford is a nice place, I can tell you; exactly what I call a nice old fashioned place, full of comforts and conveniences; quite shut in with great garden walls that are covered with the best fruit-trees in the country; and such a mulberry tree in one corner! Lord! how Charlotte and I did stuff the only time we were there! Then, there is a dove-cote, some delightful stew-ponds, and a very pretty canal; and every thing, in short, that one could wish for; and, moreover, it is close to the church, and only a quarter of a mile from the turnpike-road, so 'tis never dull, for if you only go and sit up in an old yew arbour behind the house, you may see all the carriages that pass along
21. The good understanding between the Colonel and Miss Dashwood seemed rather to declare that the honours of the mulberry-tree, the canal, and the yew arbour, would all be made over to her; and Mrs
22. They will feed on barley-meal and flour of wheat, baking and kneading them, making noble cakes and loaves; these they will serve up on a mat of reeds or on clean leaves, themselves reclining the while upon beds strewn with yew or myrtle
23. It was impossible to mistake the scene of the young lady's adventure, for the road runs between the open heath on one side and an old yew hedge upon the other, surrounding a park which is studded with magnificent trees
24. At eleven o'clock next morning my friend and I were walking up the famous yew avenue of Holdernesse Hall
25. Only a few of the rabbits remained under the yew tree
26. The roof was made of the interlaced sprays of the yew tree, stiff twigs twisted in and out, over and under, hard as ice and set with dull red berries
27. "We're going to carry the yew berries home in our mouths and eat them in the No!" cried Fiver
28. The projecting point of one strand had lacerated his neck and drops of blood, dark and red as yew berries, welled one by one down his shoulder
29. The light, full and smooth, lay like a gold rind over the turf, the furze and yew bushes, the few wind-stunted thorn trees
30. Where the Houghton-Millers’ street was uniformly grand white stucco or red-brick houses, punctuated by yew topiary and large cars that seemingly never got dirty, Martin Steele’s road appeared resolutely un-gentrified, a two-storey corner of London where house prices were spiralling but the exteriors resolutely refused to reflect it
31. They walked down Yew Avenue, an older section of the cemetery
32. "They would shoot at us with their great bows of yew," he said, "for they would think we were after their sheep
33. Now he shot with a great yew bow, till all his arrows but one were spent
34. They were armed with short broad-bladed swords, not with the curved scimitars usual with Orcs: and they had bows of yew, in length and shape like the bows of Men
35. vervain and yew into the mortar that already held her
36. I used a yew branch and my
37. depended on the safety of the yew branch, so I hid it inside the stonework in the western turret
38. After Toria helped me retrieve the yew branch from the castle wall, we took it to the library, where Evan, Professor Astor, and Joshua were waiting for us
39. It’s a description of the mechanical brain, don’t you think? I sometimes wonder whether the poet studied basic tenets of mathematical series, for his images in the Quartets are often Fibonacci objects: the sunflower, the wave, the yew cone, for instance
40. He could lick any man in England, with one hand tied behind him; and he could take his yew bow and plug a ten-cent piece every time, a mile and a half
41. "What's a YEW bow?"
42. Suddenly, as I turned round, I thought I saw something like a whitestreak, moving between two dark yew trees at the side of the churchyard farthest from the tomb
43. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom
44. We were starting forward, but the Professor's warning hand, seen by us as he stood behind a yew tree, kept us back
45. There was much moonshine, and as I looked I could see Quincey Morris run across the lawn and hide himself in the shadow of a great yew tree
46. I, too, in the grey, small, antique structure, with its low roof, its latticed casements, its mouldering walls, its avenue of aged firs—all grown aslant under the stress of mountain winds; its garden, dark with yew and holly—and where no flowers but of the hardiest species would bloom—found a charm both potent and permanent
47. “Down superstition!” I commented, as that spectre rose up black by the black yew at the gate
48. Two thousand a year without debt or drawback—except the little love-child, indeed; aye, I had forgot her; but she may be ‘prenticed out at a small cost, and then what does it signify? Delaford is a nice place, I can tell you; exactly what I call a nice old fashioned place, full of comforts and conveniences; quite shut in with great garden walls that are covered with the best fruit-trees in the country; and such a mulberry tree in one corner! Lord! how Charlotte and I did stuff the only time we were there! Then, there is a dove-cote, some delightful stew-ponds, and a very pretty canal; and every thing, in short, that one could wish for; and, moreover, it is close to the church, and only a quarter of a mile from the turnpike-road, so ‘tis never dull, for if you only go and sit up in an old yew arbour behind the house, you may see all the carriages that pass along
49. The good understanding between the Colonel and Miss Dashwood seemed rather to declare that the honours of the mulberry-tree, the canal, and the yew arbour, would all be made over to HER; and Mrs
50. In our own country the larger titmouse (Parus major) may be seen climbing branches, almost like a creeper; it sometimes, like a shrike, kills small birds by blows on the head; and I have many times seen and heard it hammering the seeds of the yew on a branch, and thus breaking them like a nuthatch