 | 1820 - 590 pages
...short-stemmed oaks, which had wimessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious...they were intermingled with beeches, hollies, and copeswood of various descriptions, so closely as totally to intercept the level beams of the sinking... | |
 | John Young - Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 - 1810 - 432 pages
...setting upon one of the rich grassy glades ' of this ' forest: — hundreds of broad short-stemmed ' oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march of ' the Roman soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms ' over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; ' * in some places they... | |
 | 1820 - 774 pages
...short-stemmed oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march nf the Roman soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious...closely as totally to intercept the level beams of die sinking sun ; in others they receded from each other, forming those long sweeping vistas, in the... | |
 | 1820 - 856 pages
...tale is in the neighbourhood of Doncaster, in a forest, where — ' Hundreds of broad short-stemmed oaks, which had witnessed, perhaps, the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; in some places they were... | |
 | david william - 1820 - 564 pages
...that forest, which we have mentioned in the beginning of the chapter. Hundreds of broad short-stemmed oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; in some places they were... | |
 | Walter Scott - Anglo-Saxons - 1820 - 356 pages
...that forest, which we have mentioned in the beginning of the chapter. Hundreds of broad short-stemmed oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; in some places they were... | |
 | John Leycester Adolphus - English fiction - 1822 - 340 pages
...short-stemmed oaks, which had witnessed perhaps * the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung ' their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of ' the most delicious...they were intermingled with beeches, hollies, and ' copsewocd of various descriptions, so closely as ' totally to intercept the level beams of the sinking... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 550 pages
...that forest, which we have mentioned in the beginning of the chapter. Hundreds of broad short-stemmed oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; in some places they were... | |
 | John Leycester Adolphus - English fiction - 1822 - 228 pages
...setting upon one of the rich grassy glades of" this " forest : — hundreds of broad short-stemmed oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; in some places they were... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 852 pages
...mentioned in the beginning of the chapter. Hundreds of broad-headed, short-stemmed, white-branched oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march...of various descriptions, so closely as totally to in tercept the level beams of the sinking sun : in others they receded from each other, forming those... | |
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Hundreds of broad-headed, shortstemmed, wide-branched oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious greensward ; in some places they were intermingled with... 
