alder-trees

A valley, through which flowed a small tributary stream, exhibited the wild, but not unpleasant, features of “a lone vale of green braken;” here and there besprinkled with groups of alder-trees, of hazels, and of copse-oakwood, which had maintained their stations in the recesses of the valley, although they had vanished from the loftier and more exposed sides of the hills.

Castle Dangerous 2008

Impressed by this belief, I leaped from my horse, and turning him loose, plunged into a bush of alder-trees, where, considering the advancing obscurity of the night, I thought there was little chance of my being discovered.

Rob Roy 2005

A copse with alder-trees, softly whispering, and from time to time shuddering in the fitful breeze, lay, a dark blur, on the right of the kitchen gardens; on the left stretched the immense plain.

The Witch, and other stories 2004

On either side, the hill fell back, and the ground was broken with tufts of rush, and flag, and mares-tail, and a few rough alder-trees overclogged with water.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

It is prettily situated; just where the Leck-fells swoop into the plain; and by the course of the beck alder-trees and willows and hazel bushes grow.

The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

The stream was there no more than a winding black ribbon, bordered with leaning alder-trees.

The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

It was already night when at last they halted and made their camp under some stunted alder-trees by the shores of the stream.

The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

It was already night when at last they halted and made their camp under some stunted alder-trees by the shores of the stream.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

The stream was there no more than a winding black ribbon, bordered with leaning alder-trees.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

The sound of the river as it came to him among the alder-trees seemed the sound the wave makes in the ears of the sinking and exhausted swimmer.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro