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That grand oak tree may shed Dodonian influence.

From A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by Venable, William Henry

Then was the faire Dodonian tree far seene Upon seaven hills to spread his gladsome gleame, And conquerours bedecked with his greene, Along the bancks of the Ausonian streame.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund

They are curiously oracular, like the whisperings of those fabled Dodonian oaks of his fatherland; they heave with a darkly-virile mysticism.

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman

If further she should go, will she not see That other Argos, the Dodonian land?

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert

After this the Dodonian oracles were always delivered to the Bœotians by men.

From Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship by Anonymous