 | John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - 2693 pages
...boughs, amongst which were some branches on each side curved like rams' horns, as if they had been industriously bent by hand. This oak was of a kind...excellent, cutting a grain clear as any clap-board, as appeared in the wainscot that was made thereof, that it is a thousand pities some seminary of the... | |
 | 1859
...as straight as an arrow in growth and grain, and cutting 4 foot at the stnb, and near a yard at top. This oak was of a kind so excellent, cutting a grain clear as any clap-board (as appeared in the wainscot whiou was made thereof), that a thousand pities 'tis some seminary of... | |
 | 1859
...straight as an arrow in growth and grain, and cu1ling 4 foot at the stub, aud near a yard at top. This onk was of a kind so excellent, cutting a grain clear as any clap-board (as appeared in the wainscot which was made thereof), that a thousand pities 'tis some seminary of... | |
 | George Claridge Druce - 1897 - 644 pages
...boughs, amongst which were some branches on each side curved like rams' horns, as if they had been industriously bent by hand. This Oak was of a kind...excellent, cutting a grain clear as any clap-board, as appeared in the wainscot that was made thereof, that it is a thousand pities some seminary of the... | |
 | 1880
...bridge seems to be a corruption from " clapboard " bridge, one made of planks: Evelyn uses this word : " This oak was of a kind so excellent, cutting a grain clear as any clap-board (as appeared in the wainscot which was made thereof)." ED. MARSHALL. This word is to be found in Wright's... | |
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This oak was of a kind so excellent, cutting a grain clear as any clap-board (as appeared in the wainscot which was made thereof), that a thousand pities 'tis some seminary of the acorns had not been propagated to preserve the species. Chaucer's Oak,... 