beechen
- a word derived from beech.
Example Sentences
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When Sam awoke, he found that he was lying on some soft bed, but over him gently swayed wide beechen boughs, and through their young leaves sunlight glimmered, green and gold.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
“The stock-dove is there in the beechen tree, And the lulling tone of the honey-bee; And the voice of cool waters, ’midst feathery fern, Shedding sweet sounds from some hidden urn.”
From In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life by Stables, Gordon
The oak-crown’d Sisters, and their chaste-eyed Queen, 75 Satyrs and Sylvan Boys, were seen, Peeping from forth their alleys green: Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear; And Sport leapt up, and seized his beechen spear.
From The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir by Collins, William
The oak-crown'd Sisters and their chaste-eyed Queen, Satyrs and Sylvan Boys, were seen Peeping from forth their alleys green: Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear; And Sport leapt up, and seized his beechen spear.
From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various
There was a shooting-party at New Year, with pleasant al fresco luncheons in sheltered corners of leafless woods, and of an evening music, and ghost stories round a great fire of beechen logs.
From A New Medley of Memories by Hunter-Blair, David
