hawthorn's

And sweet are forest flowers in the hawthorn's mossy shade,

Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" J. L. Cherry

The hawthorn's white, the sun is bright, And blue the cloud-less sky;.

The Story-teller Maud Lindsay

There is a common little English meadow weed, the rest-harrow, which in rich and uncropped fields produces no defensive armour of any sort; but on the much-browsed-over suburban commons and in similar exposed spots, where only gorse and blackthorn stand a chance for their lives against the cows and donkeys, it has developed a protected variety in which some of the branches grow abortive, and end abruptly in stout spines like a hawthorn's.

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

And sweet are forest flowers in the hawthorn's mossy shade,

Life and Remains of John Clare Cherry, J L 1872

The hawthorn's white blossoms perfumed the air, and a variety of wild flowers enamelled the turf.

Jack 1877 Alphonse Daudet 1868

Like signatures, each drawing reveals something about the different qualities and characteristics of the various trees as they sway in the breeze: the relaxed, fluid line of an oak; the delicate, tentative touch of a larch; a hawthorn's stiff, slightly neurotic scratches.

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And under the hawthorn's boughs are let A fairer pair were never teen To meet beneath the hawthorn green.

The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem 1812