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

She rode o'er hill, she rode o'er plain, She rode by fields of barley, By morning-glories filled with rain, And beechen branches gnarly.

From Blooms of the Berry by Cawein, Madison J.

It is a voice of the beechen woods in summer, of the far-up cloud of green, translucent leaves, with open spaces full of green shifting sunlight and shadow.

From Birds and Man by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

When beechen buds begin to swell, And woods the blue-bird's warble know.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry

Thy dew is bright upon this beechen spray!

From The Lord of Misrule And Other Poems by Nichols, Spencer Baird