bay tree

How to use bay tree in a sentence

• The bay tree gives us a curious instance of the capriciousness of English plant names.

  The plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare | Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

• Talk about the green bay-tree flourishing and increasing, all a tax wants is to be let alone a few years.

  In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim | Frances Hodgson Burnett

• I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

  Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study | Dwight Moody

• "I have seen brooks of that color where the water flowed over red bay tree roots," Walter volunteered.

  The Boy Chums in the Florida Jungle | Wilmer M. Ely

• My school flourishes like a green bay-tree, and the minister of this parish will speak for the probity and sobriety of my conduct.

  Audrey | Mary Johnston