may tree

Historical Examples

• The may-tree was nearly at the end of the garden, down by the shrubbery.

  Johnny Ludlow, Third Series

  Mrs. Henry Wood

• Then the riders race to the May-tree, which has been set up a little way off.

  The Sacred Tree

  J. H. Philpot

• When he got too excited, she scrambled up a may-tree, and sat licking herself in placid triumph, while the terriers barked below.

  Our Bessie

  Rosa Nouchette Carey

• Here and there in the wide sweep of tall growing things stood a tree—a may-tree shining like silver, a laburnum like fine gold.

  The Incomplete Amorist

  E. Nesbit

• In many an old German village there stood a tree, often a May-tree, which the villagers guarded as the apple of their eye.

  The Sacred Tree

  J. H. Philpot