cornels

Meaning less power in the hand of generals and cornels, more power in the hands of second lieutenant and staff sergeants, the more that tends to get done.

CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2006 2006

No papers, readily accessible to the public, contain, in a form so entirely devoid of technicalities, and so clearly illustrated to the eye, so much information relative to the nature of cornels in general, and in particular to the phenomena of this most beautiful comet of the present century.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various

He loves the hills which are half covered with young pines, viburnums, cornels, and huckleberry-bushes, and feeds upon the seeds of grasses and wild lettuce, with occasional repasts of insects and berries.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

Young strawberries from the mountains; cornels red;

The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II 43 BC-18? Ovid

"Where cornels arch their cool, dark boughs o'er beds of wintergreen," wrote Bryant; yet it is safe to say that nine colonies out of ten of this hardy little plant are under evergreens, not dogwood trees.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

The house was shaded from above by a grove of ilexes and oaks; lower down were orchards of olives, wild plums, cornels, apples.

Horace William Tuckwell 1874

The maples, the ashes, the hornbeams, the cornels, formed a nation of giants, a multitude full of proud gentleness, who lived in peace, knowing that the fall of any one of them would have sufficed to wreck a whole corner of the forest.

La faute de l'Abbe Mouret ��mile Zola 1871

On the high-reaching briars white June roses; white flowers on the lowly brambles; broad white umbels of elder in the corner, and white cornels blooming under the elm; honeysuckle hanging creamy white coronals round the ash boughs; white meadow-sweet flowering on the shore of the ditch; white clover, too, beside the gateway.

Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

Arbutus-trees, large-flowered cornels, maples, birches, oaks, four or five varieties of magnolias and sea-pines, such as are met with in South

Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery Jules Verne 1866

What she may be the noo, I dinna ken, for I haena set ee upon her sin 'she cam to the Knowe orderin me to sen' back Francie's powny: she was suppercilly eneuch than for twa cornels and a corporal, but no ill luikin.

Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864