may tree
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The squirrel rippled higher up the may tree.
From Living Alone by Benson, Stella
So it will be a happy meeting under the pink may tree of Laburnum Lodge when these two are restored safely to each other after the excitements of the day.
From Not that it Matters by Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)
By reason of the working of it in the particles they could by no possibility arrange themselves into a may tree or a lilac bush.
From The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty by Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir
And the clipped privet bush by the trellis and the may tree by the gate.
From Life and Death of Harriett Frean by Sinclair, May
It must be jolly, for instance, to live in Laburnum Lodge with its pink may tree.
From Not that it Matters by Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)
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