oaks

Just as the same illustrious man's essays are good hints -- useful topics -- for essays; but no approximation to what we, in modern days, understand by _essays_: they are, as an eminent author once happily expressed it to myself, '_seeds, not plants or shrubs; acorns, that is, oaks in embryo, but not oaks_.'

The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822

Perhaps in "oaks" there is reference to their idolatry (Isa 1: 29).

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Egrets perch in oaks, cormorants dive into the green water, mallards pass overhead and we hear of the recent sighting of an osprey.

Country diary: Cornwall Virginia Spiers 2010

Midnight BanjoWalking through an open bottom one day, nothing but huge, no limb for 20 feet, pin oaks every 30 or 40 feet apart.

A List of Firearms Superlatives 2007

Any beaver pond bordered by mature acorn-bearing oaks is sure to attract wood ducks, regardless of aquatic vegetation.

Beaver-Dam Ducks 2006

But that one morning, still blue dark where pin oaks and acacia trees that ran the fenceline just beyond my window were the home of many birds, mourning doves and tanagers, cardinals and mockingbirds --

POEMS FROM THE MIDLAND ERA Maggie Jochild 2005

But that one morning, still blue dark where pin oaks and acacia trees that ran the fenceline just beyond my window were the home of many birds, mourning doves and tanagers, cardinals and mockingbirds --

Archive 2005-01-23 Maggie Jochild 2005

These opportunists established the security from rival sects that was necessary for creating the "oaks" -- provincial governments and a provincial "national guard" to maintain order.

After the Fire 2008

• Careful measurements of the oxygen isotope ratios in German oaks, which are rigorously calibrated to temperature data, show a 1°C temperature decline from 1350 to 1800 the lowpoint of the Little Ice Age.

Think Progress » Link Between Global Warming And Hurricane Intensity Remains Strong 2006

High above, the bud-burst of the oaks has been a starting pistol for insects.

Country Diary: Cranleigh, Surrey 2011