| 单词 | oak |
| 例句 | The other brought him a triangular shield almost four feet tall, heavy oak dotted with iron studs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Yet where twin cots should have been, there was now just a long oak desk and tufted leather chairs. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He told her the whole story, from the moment Asta had spotted the man under the oak tree to the story Mrs. Carpenter in the chandlery had shown him in the Oxford Times. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He could see it plainly between the gaunt trunks of the water oaks and across the stretch of yellow camomile. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z He moved into a grove of trees: oak, chestnut. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Desperate, I leapt for the charred branches of the oak tree. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Hopping from oak to maple to hickory to tulip tree, the pigeon still in her talons, she made her way to the top of the ancient hemlock. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “I love you both. Tell your mother I love her. Tell her to think of the oak tree. Say your prayers, children, and I will hear them. Pray for Lithuania. Now run back. Hurry!” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The oak leaves were already fading from dark green to light yellow, and within the week they would turn gold and bright red. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Just a giant pile of bricks and a big dumpster filled with junk near the oak tree that Ivy fell out of when she was six and broke her right arm. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z At once Malcolm backed the canoe out of the reeds and sped towards the spot under the oak tree where the man had been standing. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z They grew directly out of the bark of the oak tree. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Hovering level with the topmost branches of an oak he called, “Come and get it, Potter!” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z She gestured to Listening Rock, winking at us through the trees in the oak grove. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It must have slipped into her boot during all the commotion by the oak. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Frightful swept down from the sky and perched in an oak tree, waiting for Sam to go hunting. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z There is no one left in the oak tree when he reaches it, only a great deal of acorns on the ground, and the sun is starting to set. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It hummed a tune in the underbrush and rustled the leaves on the huge red oak. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She alighted on the limb of an oak tree. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He heard her steps on the porch, on the crisp dry oak leaves on the path, and then he could hear her no more. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He looked up through the oak branches at the yellow-lit hills. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He sat under a scrub oak and picked up acorns from the ground around him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Outside the narrow window of my convent cell, leaves of linden and oak turned gold and brown and red and fell to the ground with every gust of wind. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z After dinner he would lean back against the base of an old chestnut oak, put his hands under his head, and watch the aerie. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z It's a ceramic floor in an old Victorian kitchen in Chicago in February, and I'm sitting on an oak chair wearing a damp towel. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The wolf's head on his shield was slashed half to pieces, raw wood showing where deep gouges had been hacked in the oak, but Robb himself seemed unhurt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Suddenly a man staggered out from behind a tall oak. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Sneaking around behind the lords and ladies, Prince Brat tied their powdered wigs to the backs of their oak chairs. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Frightful slept on the stub of the pine tree, Chup on the dead limb of his oak. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z As the road narrowed, the branches of immense oaks arched across it. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Lourdes turns, expecting to find her father at her shoulder but she sees only the dusk settling on the tops of the oak trees, the pink tinge of sliding darkness. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They met up about a hundred yards away by a big oak tree. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z We spent several days gathering white oak acorns and groundnuts, harvesting the blueberry crop and smoking fish. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Notice the freshly dug soil at the base of that oak tree? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Lightning flashed across the sky as their carriage came to a halt before the great oak front doors, which stood at the top of a flight of stone steps. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Soon they entered an archway of low-hanging oaks, the bottommost branches consumed by soft stalactites of moss. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There they were, four pigs milling beneath an oak tree, eating acorns off the forest floor. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z When we reached the spot 03-01 had designated for our supper — a spreading oak that would afiord us all shade from the afternoon sun — we stopped, and the footman helped us step down. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He felt cold gusts of wind scattering dry oak leaves in the grass. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Standing, he looked one way and then another, tracing the fencerows that had more oaks than other trees, the far lowland woods and the foothills. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I concentrated, muttered another binding, and held the oak twig above the flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Once, when Lommy Gteenhands had the watch, she shimmied up an oak and moved from tree to tree until she was right above his head, and he never saw a thing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Every morning, my family sat around a large table of reworked red oak and ate either seven-grain cereal, with honey and molasses, or seven-grain pancakes, also with honey and molasses. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Above them, the branches of the oak tree were beginning to creak and sway. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The train passes through green leafy forests filled with oaks, past farmers’ fields of wheat and oats. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z As far as I could see, there were no big trees like the giant oak that sat outside my bedroom window at home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The mountain lion came out from a grove of oak trees in the middle of the clearing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z As the wind changed direction I moved Rocinante to keep her always to leeward of our big oaks. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Chumley Prep is the school over in the part of town where there’s a country club with a golf course and where all the homes look like palaces surrounded by gigantic oak trees. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The domesticated wilderness of pine, maple and oak rolled to a halt and stuck in the frame of the train window like a bad picture. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He simply did not see them, and before long the neighbors stopped driving up the road under the oaks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Then the call came again, softly, insistently, from a clump of trees, one of which was a tremendous old oak—long since hollowed out, first by lightning and then by decay. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Up by the post office, the old oak tree, the Confederate Tree, they called it, was going to be a gallows. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They parked in the shadows beneath a live oak directly in front of B barracks. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he began to remove their oak leaf wrappings. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Had to pay a fortune for this oak,” the old man grumbled. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He would lie up on the red oak limbs and watch every move I made. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The oak table we’d gather around to play Cards Against Humanity and Taboo on weeknights after dinner. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z There was a rustle, as if the wind had moved in the last few leaves of the nine-hundred-year-old oak. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I walk barefoot over to a big oak tree and sit underneath it. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The robot walked on through the misty forest for a long time, until she was standing beneath a sprawling oak tree. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It nestled at the edge of the foothills in the mouth of a small canyon, and was surrounded by a grove of huge red oaks. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “This massive old oak tree that’s more home to you than your house but not as much as this is.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She stood by herself in the dark back yard, breaking off pieces of bark from the oak tree with her fingernails. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z But where is the form of the oak tree? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Great ilexes of huge girth stood dark and solemn in wide glades with here and there among them hoary ash-trees, and giant oaks just putting out their brown-green buds. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He had clumsily fallen off Melyngar at the moment when speed counted most; at the oak, he had behaved like a child. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The smell of last year’s oak leaves filled the air. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Swaying in his wicker basket on Hodor’s back, the boy hunched down, ducking his head as the big stableboy passed beneath the limb of an oak. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I lean on the porch railing, look out on the three mossy oak trees in the front yard. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Duchess was in a red maple, Lady was out of sight in the fern bed, and Drum was perched in an oak tree behind her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I felt like one of the oak trees that grew along the highway overlooking the Shenandoah Valley, with deep roots and a strong core. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z You need a lot of oak chips in water. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She set her feet down as lightly as she could, imagining that she was a cloud, a mist, snaking slowly but surely around the gnarled oak trees. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The porch furniture looks like my lounging chair, and the trim on the gable is a weaving of gnarled oaks and maple branches. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The bole of an oak loomed before her, and she lunged to drive her point through it, grunting "Joffrey, Joffrey, Joffrey." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Catfish and spray paint in hand, Margo threw the door open, jogged across the Worthingtons’ expansive front lawn, and then hid behind an oak tree. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z We followed him and Lidewij inside, past a huge oak dining room table with only two chairs, into a creepily sterile living room. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Notched into a cut of red clay crowned with oaks the road appeared to stop short off, like a cut ribbon. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z In response, the neighboring oaks step up their tannin production the better to withstand the coming onslaught. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He remembered oaks ringing the house, the overgrown remains of a flower garden he was never allowed into, the sounds of a road. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z They wrote their names upon their leaves, fastened them to their breast pockets, and bellied up to the long oak table that served as our communal desk. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z First thing I see are hundreds of oak trees. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Dumbledore gave the password, it sprang aside, and he and Harry went up the moving spiral staircase to the oak door. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z And another creature that looked as if it had been sprung from the limbs of an oak tree: wood nymph. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The oak front doors stood open ahead of them, light flooding out onto the drive and the lawn. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Her bedchamber was the only place that Arya liked in all of King's Landing, and the thing she liked best about it was the door, a massive slab of dark oak with black iron bands. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He knew even at that great distance that he wasn’t seeing Xan’s magic, which was green and soft and tenacious, the color and texture of lichen clinging to the lee of the oaks. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The enormous serpent, bright, poisonous green, thick as an oak trunk, had raised itself high in the air and its great blunt head was weaving drunkenly between the pillars. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The eyes were still liquid and golden brown, staring at dark mountain dirt and dry oak leaves tangled in the grass. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I duck behind the big oak tree and watch them. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Stringy, where once mighty oaks and sturdy pines stood. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The oak doors stood open to let in sunshine and whatever breeze there was. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The oak grove waved its leafy green flags at us, shouting, “Hail, Dismay!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z High in the oak trees, stuffing themselves with acorns, the tubby young bears moved along the thinnest branches. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The continuous, gentle rustling of the beech leaves was unlike the sounds to be heard in a copse of nut bushes, oak and silver birch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In a rolling meadow, beneath an oak tree, the unicorn came to a skittish halt and would go no further. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z They had playhouses under the two big oak trees in front of the house. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z So indeed was the entire mantelpiece around the fireplace in the living-room, a splendid design of fruit and foliage and intertwining branches carved in oak. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Bando has spread several of the topographical maps on his big oak table. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In the distance up ahead he occasionally caught glimpses of the cattle, trotting steadily; they appeared in clearings and disappeared into oak thickets again, still following the south boundary fence to the east. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z When he caught his first glimpse of the Wall looming above the tops of an ancient gnarled oak, Jon was vastly relieved. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Gazing out from that high place over a land of thicket, oaks and wide watercourses, I could see a smoke wisp from the woodland hall of Kirke. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a forest of cork oaks, and the sun came through the trees in patches, and there were cattle grazing back in the trees. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z As Harriet watched these men parade through the sandy streets, shaded by the tremendous live oaks, one thousand ex-slaves marching in unison, she was overcome by emotion. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A conversation between an acorn, a sapling, and a powerful oak. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Mom pulled me away from the center of the market, and we ended up next to a big oak tree. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z His back was against a gigantic oak tree next to the black walnut, now just two large skips from Listening Rock—we could almost touch it. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Homes and mills and holdfasts had risen where once the oaks stood tall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The oak grove was once again lush—green, buggy, and hot. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z After he left, I sat at the old square oak table in one of the three unmatching chairs and examined his small kitchen, with its dark paneled walls, bright yellow cabinets, and white linoleum floor. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The oak was very hard, and took real strength to work, but swimming had given Robin good muscle in his arms, so that little by little he was able to shape the staff. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z In a moment he came up again, carrying a small oak box. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z If Sounder was dead, he hoped no one would come along and see him carrying the grub hoe and shovel across the field to the big jack oak. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun itself had lifted into the sky, and its rays were warm on George’s face each time she emerged from the shade of the old oak tree. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z “A wild hive,” Moran whispered, “above him. On that oak. See it?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He had spent three days sitting inside the bole of an artificial oak tree, three nights crawling on his belly through the heather, hiding microphones in gorse bushes, burying wires in the soft grey sand. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She rose from her spot underneath their oak tree. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Quarter-cut oak just means the way the oak tree is cut into boards for Mission furniture like Devon’s Mission chest. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It belched a huge gout of flame and charged the fractured oak tree again, striking with its great blunt wedge of a head. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The places here were laid with gold, not silver, and the fourteen seats were not oak benches but mahogany chairs with velvet cushions. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I made sure to switch out my flat worker’s cap for my yarmulke before I passed through the solid oak doors. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z There were also stunted oaks, barely in leaf. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Alice, holding Lyra, had retreated further up the slope, but the open space was not very large: close-branched holm oaks with spiked leaves crowded in on all sides. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I parked my bike against the first oak tree I came to and ran into the woody grove to find my dog. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z And when Holly was long gone, soaring beneath the hallway’s ancient oak beams, Artemis said, “I don’t like lollipops.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Each house was almost hidden by huge oak trees that hovered over them. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There, from the oak tree on the corner, hung the body of Doc Machado! The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z I hurried down a set of stone steps into a quiet sunken courtyard and pushed open a carved oak door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Fina turns in a circle and points at an oak tree behind us. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Everyone in the city knew it, from bus stops and benches and lawn signs; it was as common in New Orleans as live oak or royal fern. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She turned away and sat under the oak tree. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z When I went out to the deer-lick, I climbed up into a big oak tree. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a three-foot gap in the trees directly opposite and, in case there was any possible doubt, a white blaze painted on a stout oak. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Alighting on the dead limb of an oak, he looked down and saw the rabbit. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z A lone Cyclops swept the street with an uprooted oak tree. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Grace Lutheran is different from any place of worship I’ve ever seen: a simple white building with a steeple, Gothic arched windows, oak pews, and a spare altar. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I stopped in front of the iron-studded oak door and frowned. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon, they were creeping down an infrequently traveled dirt road lined with palmettos and mossy live oaks. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He spiraled upward and sped into a cluster gathered on the extended arm of an ancient oak tree, shouting all the while. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “I don’t think I made any mistake in deciding on riven oak,” he told them. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z On the expansive property of my father’s house stood high poplar, oak, the few elm not yet fallen with disease. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was under the hugest oak tree Marly had even seen in all her life. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The forest of oak trees on the mountain beyond the town was gone. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The giant oak tree felt ancient, like the Bottle Trees on my grandparents’ farm. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The maples, the oaks, the grass, the ferns coming up beside the road, the fields. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I hang by the twisted roots of an oak, looking down into immensity. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “Have you thought about taking a walk? There’s a bird nest in the big oak out back, and if you’re really quiet you can hear the babies chirping. It’s finally starting to get warm.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z There was an old oak table in the center of the weapons den, clearly a relic from the Age of Mortality. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The ephemeral bloom of a sego lily peeks from the toe of a ninety-foot stone arch, and canyon wrens call back and forth in plaintive tones from a thatch of scrub oak. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We went along a broad, carpeted passage, and then turned left, through an oak door, and down a narrow flight of stairs and up a corresponding flight, and so to another door. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She turned up her hood to hide her swollen face and left him there in the dark beneath the oak, amidst the quiet of the godswood, under a blue-black sky. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Lee came near where her chair was set under the biggest oak tree. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He dropped to his knees beside a big oak and dug carefully with his shovel, pulling up a gnarly root. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Amari led them slowly and carefully through a maze of oak and elm and maple trees. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z A silver thread of river bisected the field and there, nestling in the fold of a meander loop, was the proud oak. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z When they finished singing, Jack Rabbit Jones took off his shades, walked over to the long, polished oak coffin where Cool Papa Byrd’s body rested, and placed the shades over Cool Papa Byrd’s closed eyes. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z It was like the room of a museum, for here was no carpet on the polished oak boards, and the display cases stood in two long rows, from one end to the other. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The Sicilian had untied the rope from its knots around an oak. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “She scared you, Peach—she sent you down into the oak grove—can’t you see that?” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He urinated against the side of the oak tree, next to which was a small mound of droppings, certainly not produced by any human being. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t by the steepest waterfall, as I thought it would be, but considerably below and under, of all things, a dead oak. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They sit in the oak tree in the afternoon sun, the five of them. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Cardan pulls a pin from his coat, a glittering, filigree thing in the shape of an acorn with an oak leaf behind it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z This was a wood of stubborn sentinel trees armored in grey-green needles, of mighty oaks, of ironwoods as old as the realm itself. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I run from the cathedral, letting the heavy oak doors thud shut, and don’t stop running until I’m at the door of Tatarska 3. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It was wedged deep, as if the two oak trees were eating it. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z At the center of the table were two massive, carved oak chairs, and the King and Queen were seated there. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z To their right, or my left, was the laurel oak tree. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a little more trouble tanning these hides because the water in my oak stump kept freezing at night. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I took a deep breath, my back stretching tall like a live oak. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Bod made for the lightning tree, an oak that had been burned by lightning twenty years ago and now was nothing more than a blackened limb clutching at the sky. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The armchairs and the lumpy sofa were upholstered in dusty brocades, threadbare at the arms: rose patterns on tan, acorns and oak leaves on mossy green. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It wasn’t hauling a boat, though; it was hauling a tree—the laurel oak that would be planted in Mike Costello’s name. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And then the frantic morning winds began to twist along the ground, and a chill came into the air, and the poison oak turned red. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z So I felled an oak over by the gorge, burned a hole in it, carried water to it, and put my deerskin in it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Tiptoeing around to the other side of a golden oak bureau that was in the hall near their bedroom door, I squatted down. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She pointed to an impressive but imitation oak desk at which sat a prissy, tiny, bespectacled individual, merged with his plethora of paperwork. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z She opened the stairwell door and we were inside a huge room with an oak table as long as two cars, and a long bank of floor-to-ceiling windows. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z We could hear his angry rumbling as he moved down through the thickets of catclaw and scrub oak. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The room smelled of oak, and flame, and December. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood under an oak tree for a while, but the rain didn’t let up. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Not ten yards from where he stood was the ideal refuge, a hollow in the base of a dead oak. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Once familiar oaks and alders appeared strange to Taran; their dead leaves clung to the tangled branches and the black trunks jutted like charred bones. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Still, I weigh it up for close to a minute and eventually decide to cross the road and sit against an old oak tree to wait. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The sagebrushes shone with new silver leaves and the oaks wore hoods of golden green. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The jaws of a drakon skull encircled the trunk, as if the oak tree were the dead monster’s tongue. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z At its far edge, a forest of oak and hickory topped a line of bluffs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “No, son, just the oak grove’s underwater. We’ve got us some flooding.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The trees grew dispersedly about the sward—great elms and oaks and beeches—and Lancelot was thinking about Guenever with a heavy heart. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know, Grandpa,” I said, “she wouldn’t bark treed at the water oak like Old Dan did.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There is tannic acid in the woods in oak trees, but it took me several weeks to figure out how to get it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z But three- and four-year-olds don’t understand that a tree can also be an oak. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We found a huge oak with branches thick as separate trees spread wide to shade a large area. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I watched Jackie every week after that, and once she was asleep, I’d sit down with the others at the huge, dark oak table in the dining room to help with paperwork. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s stopped walking and is picking bark off an oak tree’s trunk. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The older men were placing freshly cut oak tree branches with dark green leaves on the roof and the side walls. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z It felt good to walk in the shade of the two oak trees. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z As he watched, the air filled with arrows again, and the men behind the oak wall crumbled beneath the murderous fire. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The heart tree was an oak, brown and faceless, yet Ned Stark still felt the presence of his gods. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Asta saw his dæmon—a cat—moving among the lowest branches of the oak tree while he stood below and looked up and down the towpath. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z A dry oak leaf came whirling down and landed in the basket. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They leaned with all their strength against the carved oak. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z An oak tree and I are made of the same stuff. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran from the place, leaving his suitcase, leaving the quirt, leaving the oak box of money. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In a panel of the oak wall, between crossed British flags, hung a dramatic arresting photograph of Major Sir Milo Minderbinder in the dress uniform of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Giant had crammed himself inside the hollow of a dead oak. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She sat on the heap of skins that he used for sleeping while he poked the ashes into a red glow and then added a thick piece of oak branch. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Today I saw an oak tree disguised as a chestnut tree. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z With a twist, Oksi caught it in the air and returned to the oak tree. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He tied the mare in a clearing surrounded by a thicket of scrub oak. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z There is the oak tree standing in the sun. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z On a chance we tried an important-looking door, and walked into a high Gothic library, panelled with carved English oak, and probably transported complete from some ruin overseas. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z They could see the rounded green tops of the great live oaks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Osha stood across the pool, be-neath an ancient oak, her face shadowed by leaves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Giants lumbered amongst them, forty feet tall, with mauls the size of oak trees. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The moon hung low over a ridge lined with pines and oak trees. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I think about quarter-cut oak and how I still don’t actually know what that means. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z They had been cut from heavy oak planks, and they spi- raled around the massive center timber like the small bones of a spine held in place by thick wooden pegs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Now he shivered in the silence of oaks and elms. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The stars are still out when Bailey reaches his oak tree, his bag slung over his shoulder. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I knew that they grew around old live oak trees. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I’m looking at the huge oak tree out by the parking lot and creatively visualizing climbing it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z At some point in the evening it had been pushed beneath the oak tree. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “If I can find an oak tree, I can boil the bark to treat some of the blisters,” I told Poet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Nan walked behind me mumbling something about neighbors as the camera zoomed in on Arletta wearing a chambray denim shirtdress and sitting at a worn oak table. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z He lifted the spigot at the base of the oak barrel and captured a few ounces of amber liquid in a glass jelly jar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z An oak tree in the front yard shaded almost the entire house. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z I watched breathlessly as it came to an ancient oak tree, a hundred years old and massive as a greystone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Father MacPhail tapped a pencil on the oak bench in front of him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The trees agreed, each after its kind, oak and ash, pine and beech, birch and fir, that their wood could never be used to hurt Balder. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Red oaks lead long lives, longer than our daintier friends black willows, persimmons, apples, and redbuds. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Between a duck pond and a blacksmith’s forge, he came upon the tree that gave the place its name, an oak ancient and tall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Each room had the usual desks of battered oak, a platform and square teacher’s desk, one Seth Thomas clock and one picture. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Ahead, he could see the dark, blue-green line of oak trees, with the black spaces in between their trunks. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z On the far side of the house I found him pressed close against the old ironbound oak door of the chapel. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z She was usually like a live oak, tall and strong against hurricane-force winds. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z I carefully scanned the fallen leaves around a couple of oaks, hoping to spot one. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They ran under the dripping oaks to the old Sanchez house and plunged in through its open door, which squeaked restlessly on rusty hinges. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Like the time I fell out of the big live oak tree near our house and couldn’t breathe. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The wind rustles dead leaves still clinging to the oak branches by the street. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The house was on a corner between rusting, deactivated train tracks and a long line of ancient, majestic-looking oak trees. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Her husband, on the other hand, was like an oak: “He may be torn up by the roots. He may break. But he will never bend.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z One side of the head and shoulders was reddish brown and hairless; the acid of the oak leaves had tanned the surface of the wound the color of leather. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I rested a hand on the trunk of a low-branching oak. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z There they sat under an old gnarled oak that sent its roots twisting like snakes down a steep crumbling bank. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The batons were made of hardwood, Malaver explained— usually, oak or ash. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The oak slab and the half-eaten ham fell to the floor with a great thud and slid against the wall. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry could see a clearing ahead, through the tangled branches of an ancient oak. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Its floor was hard-packed dirt, and its wooden roof was an arched intertwining of roots, above which rose the tree itself, an oak. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He was a few feet away from his father now, high up in a leafless oak tree. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z I half circled the Licks till I had the breeze moving across them toward me and took cover under a wild grapevine that hung low out of the top of a gnarled oak. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z They hanged him from the branch of an oak tree with still two hours to go before afternoon prayer. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The only thing I couldn’t understand was why it was just poison oak and not a snake or something. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z There were little white boys with complete collections of football cards, and their only want was a popular girlfriend and their only worry was poison oak. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z "My husband proposed to me by that oak." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z It turns out that oak trees have three strikes against them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I stood in the hall for a few minutes, the afternoon sun shining golden on the polished oak floor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z There were heraldic devices worked or stamped on the sides—enormous Mack eagles with two heads perhaps, or wyverns, or lances, or oak trees, or punning signs which referred to the names of the owners. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z After hunting here for years, Angelo knows there are three groups of pigs sharing the oak forest in northern California where he took me hunting. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z With Jamison leading the procession, the night riders dragged the girl to the great oak in the middle of the park. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Her song brightened the cold gray day so that a cowbird thought it was spring and began to sing in the old oak tree. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The spear she held was eight feet of black oak, tipped in rusted steel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In the middle of the floor stood a crib of heavy-looking oak, and inside it there lay a baby, asleep. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The golden oak leaves glitter with the light of candle flame. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Coats hung from polished brass hooks in the foyer, and his father’s books, arranged by size, stood neatly along the glassed-in shelves of two vaultlike oak bookcases. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They marked the place with Tayo’s T-shirt spread across the top of some scrub oaks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Donnelly then called on the president of the Student Council, a tall guy in a blazer, to come up and read a statement about the laurel oak tree. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivy stared up at the structure, nestled among the gnarly branches of a giant oak near the back fence. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Then she bounded forward, straight into an oak tree. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The meadowlarks sang like water, and the wild doves, concealed among the bursting leaves of the oaks, made a sound of restrained grieving. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The oak grove was a quickly receding lake. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z They enter the training building, and I grab the heavy oak door just before it shuts, watching them through the crack. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z To go inside, we must ride between two trees, an oak and a thorn, and then straight into what appears to be the stone wall of an abandoned folly. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z An oak leaf drifted lazily in the breeze. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Lyra darted to the oak wardrobe, opened it, and hid inside, pulling the door shut just as the Steward entered. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Julian halted within twenty paces of a stunted oak. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “I know you got a big oak drunk-thumper under the bar there. And, well...” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I stopped under the huge oak that stood before the front door, still holding its full array of autumn leaves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Opposite the bench was a statue that appeared to have been shaped out of the oak stump rooted there in the ground: a deer’s head. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The fern moved slightly in the breeze, but along the path there was nothing to be seen except a scatter of last year’s fallen acorns under an oak. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The night before he left for the Tower a visitor came to his room, one wearing a brown traveling-cloak and carrying a staff of oak shod with iron. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Every day after that they managed to meet in the scrub oaks across the road and talk about when he would be a big ruler of things with her reaping the benefits. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I guess I have to put it together myself so quarter-cut oak is oak you cut with a quarter. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as we reach the sidewalk, Boomer leaps toward a squirrel, which scampers up a nearby oak tree. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z He talks about the plans for the house: the skylights, expanding the deck, planting flower beds of tulips and crocuses, clearing the poison oak, adding another wing, building a Japanese-style tile bathroom. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z We were in the library, sitting around the big oak table. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy remembered when the oak slab had had ham on it before. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside, a teenage boy was hanging light bulbs on an oak beam that ran across the ceiling. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The cemetery was up a slope to my left, and Purgatory Hill plunged down to the oak grove on my right. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z We fount this ten feet off the ground wedged in a oak. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z This postern was the least of Harrenhal's gates, a narrow door of stout oak studded with iron nails, set in an angle of the wall beneath a defensive tower. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Red was holding a .38 revolver in his hand as he emerged from the shadows of the huge oaks that masked the beginning of the clearing. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She had not stirred once, even with her body draped awkwardly over the roots of an old oak. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “There’s big patches of oak trees there. And whenever Sounder was given his head, he picked the hills for huntin’.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The two oaks grew close together; there was a gap of only a few inches between the trunks at eye level, an ideal place to see but not be seen. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They camped within a copse of oaks that night. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She looked around their yard and pointed to a pile of blue plastic near the oak tree that must have blown out of the old barn. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “I was scared, so I ran down Purgatory Hill and into the oak grove.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I’d like to pause under the beautiful red oaks where my sisters and I played in our childhood. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I drove past Holly Meadows three times before I finally found it—everything in the area was oak trees and ranch land, and Holly Meadows—lacking a sign at its entrance—didn’t stand out much. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Finally, perhaps the most important difference between almonds and acorns is that bitterness is controlled by a single dominant gene in almonds but appears to be controlled by many genes in oaks. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was like a room in Sleeping Beauty’s castle, with cobwebbed candles mounted in wall sconces, a mirrored vanity table topped with crystal bottles, and a giant oak bed. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z From her not-much-of-a-hiding place Lyra watched as the Master went to a large oak wardrobe in the corner of the room, took his gown from a hanger, and pulled it laboriously on. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z By Kristina’s twelfth birthday on April 16, 2005, pale green buds had broken out in the oaks in front of the Links’ house. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Do you remember the big oak tree in front? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Jackson Park was one square mile of desolation, mostly treeless, save for pockets of various kinds of oak—burr, pin, black, and scarlet—rising from a tangled undergrowth of elder, wild plum, and willow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Dark hearts of oak he split and trimmed for a high palisade around it, and built twelve sties adjoining in this yard to hold the livestock. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When you’re a red oak, there’s no point in feeling fidgety. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They told stories of an oak forest in Sonoma, a pine burn in the Sierras, and a backyard in Berkeley. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The sky was gray and I could tell the wind had picked up by the way the branches of the oak tree next door were jumping. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Up on the hillside, at the foot of a beautiful red oak tree, I dug his grave. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather than the thick, unbroken, monumental snarl of trees imagined by Thoreau, the great eastern forest was an ecological kaleidoscope of garden plots, blackberry rambles, pine barrens, and spacious groves of chestnut, hickory, and oak. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She flattened her palms against the door and then pressed her body to the oak. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z You can see in that one frame the animal and the butcher and the oak tree against the sun-filled sky and the pig-plowed earth. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z And in the darkest corner of the ceiling, hidden among the dark oak beams, sat a man no larger than a hand span. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z One road, shaded by beeches, oaks, maples and chestnuts, connected it to die valley. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Directly below him, in an oak tree, a crow congress had convened. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The wooden bowl burst into flames then, a huge gout of flame which singed the leaves of the oak tree far above them. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z All day the dry oak leaves drifted down from the trees until they covered the ground, and yet the trees were unchanged. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z With very few trees on the road, they moved out into the field and plopped down under the leafy branches of a large, solitary oak tree. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I remember clasping her hand as we walked to St. Joseph’s, right in the center of Kinvara, a small church made of stone with jewel-toned stained-glass windows and dark oak pews. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “Please, Jezebel, just go. Under the big live oak. Maybe you can do something before I can get Mama.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The acorns were scattered around the base of a lightning-struck oak a few full-bounds north of where he had last seen his boy. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The noise, the slaughtering and slaughtered demons black against the flames—what scenes then have been in Sherwood, where now the oak trees crowd into a shade! The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Chips of oak went flying, until the northerner lost his feet and slipped, falling flat on his back with his shield on top of him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He’d seen the oak casket lowered into the ground with Cool Papa’s body inside. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Huge colonial pieces made of blond oak and walnut arrived, along with heavy wool carpets, and lamps of hammered iron and copper. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Valley was leaning against a giant oak, eating a bright pink faeapple. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z It’s shady here due to an old oak tree standing sentry beside the steps, and I’m doing okay so far. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Yet when the darkness closed over him, he found himself in the godswood, moving silently beneath green-grey sentinels and gnarled oaks as old as time. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z My problem was not oak or water but getting a vessel big enough to put the deer hide in. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Larsen’s room is tidy and bright, and about the size of a storage closet—barely big enough for a single bed, a tall oak dresser, and a narrow pine desk with a brass lamp. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z It was solid oak, with two heavy locks, and bolts top and bottom, though Will thought that no sensible burglar would try the front door anyway. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl has silky brown hair and rich skin the color of polished oak. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Lower down the mountain, they ran through forests of oak and maple. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z It fell out this way: late in the day I had climbed into a great oak so thick with leaves it hid me completely. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I waited awhile, then put my satchel on the big rock and started to climb the oak tree. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The deer made beds in shallow niches deep within the thickets where the oaks grew tall and made canopies of limbs and branches. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Leaf blister, sooty mold, oak wilt, leaf scorch: Been there, done that. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Robbie was looking away across the park and the cows toward the oak wood that lined the river valley, the wood she had run through that morning. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I followed Burke to the big live oak beside the Good Night, Sleep Tight. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I was only about five feet off the ground, but already I was surrounded by leaves and oak flowers. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked faster the closer we got to home, where the live oak trees spread their branches wide, giving cooling relief from the sun’s embrace. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Our bodies turned with the current and Peach’s back scraped along the oak. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The bank on each side of the oak tree was bare and consisted of a light, gravelly soil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A few seconds brought him to the oak. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The linden and the oak grew from one trunk. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Just tall oaks and pines, not burning, lining the endless road. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z It was made of blackened oak, immense and broad, with steps as worn as the flagstones: far too solid to creak underfoot. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They moved quickly behind a wide oak trunk and peered out from either side. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Outside, the brook swam quietly through the woods, and up above them the warm wind blew through the newly opened leaves of the big oak tree. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The equerry galloped, there was a twinkle of armour among the leafy oaks, and Lot’s mind jumped to the trap. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a traditional enough room—dark oak and floor-to-ceiling shelving—but Artemis had jammed it with the latest computer technology. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Well, she says, I don’t know exactly what quarter-cut oak is but I do know this much: it is not wood cut from an oak tree with a quarter. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z His shoes kicked lightly against the yellow oak wood, his sludge-brown socks, garterless, collapsed in sagging circles below ankles that were surprisingly small and white. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Albert pointed to the top of an oak dresser. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It had shiny oak parquet floors, a foyer with two steps leading down into the living room—where I slept—and, off to the side, a bedroom that became Lori’s. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I am proud to say that I’m a northern red oak, also known as Quercus rubra. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He fought his way to freedom, and made it back to the bur oak tree. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The chanterelle lives on the roots of oak trees, usually very old ones. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They were driving slowly up the lumpy road of the home draw under the oak trees when Lee said, “We forgot to get meat.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Underneath the spread branches of the oaks the plants grew pale and tall, and on the hills the feed was smooth and thick. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The entrance hall contained a few last-minute stragglers, all leaving the Great Hall after breakfast and heading through the double oak doors to watch the second task. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z But I saw Father walk over to a nearby oak tree. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z From the bush he flew to a cedar tree, and from the cedar tree to an oak at the edge of the cliff-top woods. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Here, there were hardwood trees, sycamores and maples and oaks, as well as the pines that grew everywhere. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z As I knelt at the feet of the oak, my breathing grated like a rusty saw. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The peach trees had all died, but there were a couple of small oak trees still growing by an old abandoned cabin. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z We weren’t heading for our oak tree because by then, if Margaret Weylin saw us there, she sent someone with a job for me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z As I passed under the branches of the bur oak tree, I looked up into the dark foliage. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The road took them through the outer reaches of the Great Wood, winding through clumps of oaks and bay trees. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Past that oak, over that rise, past the next bend of the stream, we’U find something there. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I have forty-six quarters in my State Quarters Map now because Virginia is coming out to cut the oak tree. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She walked down the steps and into the shade of a live oak. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z They followed the tracks to a hard oak tree where he had spent a night. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A squirrel up in a tall oak tree set up a terrific chittering. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The rain roared on the oak trees in the home draw and the wind disturbed their high dignity. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Fugitive scents wisped past his nose as he ran: oak leaves, fog, jasmine, car exhaust, ocean breeze, his own sweat. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Looking somewhat like a British officers’ club, the Marshall was wood-paneled, with plush burgundy velvet curtains, several fireplaces, and oak tables fitted with brass lamps. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Dane finally arrives and sits on a nearby swooping oak branch rather than join the covey of boulders we sit on. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Family is family, he told himself as he walked up to the old oak door and knocked. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He was thinking of a big globe of the world, suspended and swaying from a limb of one of his oak trees. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The autumn before last, I’d seen two adult screechers eating spotted oak moths. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z No animal moved about, neither grass-eater nor predator, and the air was so still that the dark limbs and leaves of the live oaks stood unmoving against the Milky Way. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They put Bran in his father's oak chair with the grey velvet cushions, behind a long plank-and-trestle table. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They’d strike up a conversation about the crazy crow in the big oak tree. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He pointed at an oak about fifteen feet from where the group was huddled. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He remembered the great oaks and the clear living air, the clean sage-laced wind from the hills and the brown oak leaves scudding. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The big oak door that opens into a foyer filled with stained-glass windows. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he stood up soo and brained the boar with split oak from the woodpile. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A second later, it flashed along the trunk of a nearby oak tree. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z A screen descends until it covers the top half of the fireplace, including the three oaks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Dragging him along, Gwydion dropped to the earth under an oak tree’s spreading branches. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Steadying myself against the oak tree, I yanked a handful of acorns off a low branch. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z And when they turned away from the house, they saw another chain standing against a huge oak tree in the yard. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Along the roadside, oaks were spectacularly red against the green of pines. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Plants blossomed in the thick black earth, sprawling out in all directions while trees—palm, oak, ash, and fruit-bearing ones of every variety—reached up into the misty heights, their branches draped with vines. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I let him take a nap tied up in the shade of the big oak tree on the steep slope by the back porch. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z As they rode into the draw and under the oak trees Samuel said, “I hope you haven’t got me in a state, Lee. It’s a strange day, and I don’t know why.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Namely, the elevated tactical unit I built in the oak tree in our backyard. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Fifty yards into the clearing, about halfway to the hut, a massive oak tree jutted from the ground at a forty-five-degree angle. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He headed for an oak the width of a small cabin, swerving away at the last second. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally his father took from the shelf a flat oak slab, bigger than any of the pans or dishes, and put it on the table. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The rear door is a heavy oak, and it's immediately apparent what she meant by it not closing. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Blood dripped from his wounds and fell on the white oak leaves. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Adam sat in his chair under the big oak tree. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The day before the lighting, they dug a big hole in back of the store and filled it full of oak wood and burned it down to a glowing bed of coals. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Then, raising his head, he shook the dead leaves in the bur oak tree with his deep voice. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind him is the kid I fenced, oak grove imprinted on his uniform. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z A thin Stand Of oak trees obscures the cornfields that stretch out to the horizon. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z After the service, Gram’s ashes are buried next to Grandpa’s, under an old oak tree. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Why did olive trees yield to Stone Age farmers, whereas oak trees continue to defeat our brightest agronomists? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I filtered the fourth distillation through a mixture of charcoal, eggshells, pecan husks, and coffee grounds. I think I’ll put it up in oak for a while and see what happens.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Mrs. Hicks, finding the girl slow to move, jumped from her bed, seized an oak stick of wood by the fireplace, and with it broke the girl’s nose and breastbone, and thus ended her life. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z I sat down by a red oak tree to wait. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Two oaks stand like twin guardians by the back wall, and between them is a greenhouse. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z In Snapfinger the oak grove became a troubled tributary of the Pearl River! Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Somerset stopped near the oak tree and parked the truck. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z That was a woody hill with live oaks dark green against the parched grass where the coyotes sang on moonlit nights. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy liked to smell the oak slab. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I had taken the heavy oak pole with which I guided my skiff. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The smells filled his head, alive and intoxicating; the green muddy stink of the hot pools, the perfume of rich rotting earth beneath his paws, die squirrels in the oaks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I can see it in my head: a strong old oak tree with a wide scarred trunk and thousands of leaves reaching to the sun. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He and Jay used to pretend that those big oak trees were ancient creatures rising from the earth’s core. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z He threaded among willows and sycamores and wild blackberry vines in the riverbed, patted the trunks of live oak and scrub oak, madrone, laurel, toyon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He knelt at the edge of the thicket, looking until he found a narrow winding trail through the fringes of oak. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “I have seen the acorn before the oak. I have seen the spark before the flame. But never have I seen such as this: A dead woman living. A child born from nothing.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There it was reassembled and the entire frame was locked together with oak pegs. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z In the forest near Lwów was a beautiful old oak tree with a hollow large enough to sit in. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Down the road from Belhaven is white Woodland Hills, then Sherwood Forest, which is miles a big live oaks with the moss hanging down. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The twins were awake, and they both looked blindly and earnestly up at the wind-moved leaves of the oak tree. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She took pictures of the jungle gym at the local park, of streetlights at night, of city workers chopping down an oak that had been struck by lightning. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Most of the time, I perched up in the branches of an old oak, hoping for game to come by. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z A squirrel scratching up in an oak tree. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They looked up at the great oak door on its ornate black hinges. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A mockingbird lands on a low oak branch and scolds me. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Ahead of me, the drive tunneled between massive oaks, dark with shadows, but lit here and there with patches of moonlight. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z She flew ahead of him and waited in the oak tree for him to arrive. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The Ford stood tall and aloof and dour under the oak tree where Will had stopped it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Some miles beyond the Tallises’ land rose the Surrey Hills and their motionless crowds of thick crested oaks, their greens softened by a milky heat haze. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The live oak was so big, I imagined you could see it from space. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It was evening, and the stars were glimmering in the eastern sky as they passed the ruined oak and turned and went on down the hill between the hazel-thickets. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z It struck the door and buried itself deep in the oak, quivering. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The pot boiled and bubbled over a fire which hissed and spat, and she stirred it with a spoon as big as an oak tree. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He walks with no particular destination in mind, but the place he ends up most frequently is the very same oak tree he so often sat in with Caroline and her friends. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She stumbled over the roots of a massive, eighty-foot oak that towered above her and landed on her knees. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Citra followed a stone path through the garden to the church on which stood the sign of the fork, and she pushed her way through the heavy oak doors into a chapel lined with pews. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z At that moment, a sharp snap from the fallen oak startled her. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The wooden screen door bounced open softly with each of his knocks, and a breeze churned the leaves on the big oaks surrounding Vern Devine’s yard. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I considered the bumpy ride down Purgatory Hill and into the grove, where I would lean my bike against an old oak and go find my dog. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z His eyes slowly wandered around the room, moving lazily past the broken tables, the black stone fireplace, the huge oak barrels. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Ms. Byrd and Clayton sat in the very front pew of the church, across from Cool Papa Byrd’s long, polished oak coffin. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z The crests above the door lintels still have bumblebees carved into the oak; the ivy-covered fountain in the courtyard is shaped like a hive. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The large oak table was covered with jars of tincture and vials of essential oil, which I cleared away. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The green oak trees made cool-looking black shadows on the ground, but that was not shade enough. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Stands of palmettos and live oaks met the car as the road ribboned out straight in its last sprint to the barrier islands. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This year’s ceremony will include the dedication of a laurel oak tree in the memory of Michael J. Costello, the Lake Windsor football captain, who was killed by lightning on September 5. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The hall was not dark, nor yet was it lit, only by the high-hung bronze lamp; a warm glow suffused both it and the lower steps of the oak staircase. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The whole top of an oak tree crashed down, grazing the cottage where we watched. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind sang up in the oak trees on the block and banged the blinds against the side of the house. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The thickets of ironwood and sentinel and oak that had once grown there had been harvested centuries ago, to create a broad swath of open ground through which no enemy could hope to pass unseen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z All at once he wheeled about and flew upwards, perching at the entrance to his nest-hole in the stunted oak. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I am sorry that you were trapped in the oak grove in the water with Reach. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Polybotes ripped an oak tree out of the ground and threw it into the valley. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z After choosing the perfect one, Hyacinth and Franz made their way to the hydrangea bush in the corner of the backyard, just beyond the big oak. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z They went between the oak trees, where the deer had been standing, and plunged deeper into the wood. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The roots began to move, digging deeper as they touched the earth, anchoring the oak until it looked like it had stood in that spot for centuries. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I found the bouquet of pink baby roses and an envelope with Cam written on it over on the oak buffet my dad had refinished. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Finally Bill rented a-sander from Millsburg Plaza, and they took off the black floor paint down to the wide oak boards and refinished them. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z They made camp in a sloping pasture rimmed by enormous oak trees and pines and nut trees, a stream moving down through the center, over steps of rock. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z He liked the oak brown of her eyes and the grip of her long toes on the rocky ground, the tilt of her head like a sail catching the wind. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He tried to count the pennies nailed to the old oak, but there were too many of them and he kept losing count. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The ancient oaks of St. Charles Avenue arched over the avenue like a canopy shielding him from the mild winter sun that splashed and sparkled 011 the chrome of the motorcycle. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But they were silly, fearful creatures; and after looking at me in surprise, they both scurried up an oak tree and scolded senselessly in loud voices, shaking their tails, until I left. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z And so we walked, hour upon hour, over rollercoaster hills, along knife-edge ridges and over grassy balds, through depthless ranks of oak, ash, chinkapin, and pine. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z When she stared out at the Wood, at the trees and the sunlight and the pattern of oak leaves against the sky, it helped, if only a little. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z A ways off the path, two enormous oaks grew close together. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Dismay yelped and ran for the oak grove. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He climbed a large water oak standing about ten feet from the river and simply disappeared. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He stands over you like this little mountain, and he’s got this dark beardy shrubbery all around the peak, and arms like pines, and legs like oaks, and feet the size of small lakes. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Some even climbed oak trees and perched in branches for a good spot. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Tall oaks shaded much of the Mosses’ property, but when the temperature and humidity were both high, we were miserable. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The little fox bounded back to the fallen oak, then sprang onto its trunk. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I broke off a twig from the oak tree and stuffed it into my pocket. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z From there he had crawled some distance farther and slept under a scrub oak tree. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Before I lost my nerve, I jumped and grabbed the bottom limb of a giant bur oak tree and began to climb up. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He loved the smell of the wood he was whittling, even the acrid smell of the oak that Brother Matthew was working. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z I stumble again and with my one weak arm I cling to the huge twisted roots of an oak. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z She takes a moment to look around—at the ornate mantelpiece above the fireplace, the decorated oak moldings and brass chandelier. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I would walk past all the folks sitting in the town square beneath the big oak tree. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Joe wandered quietly on plush carpeting through a maze of corridors, leading to a full cocktail bar, then a cigar shop, then a writing room, and then a library with oak paneling and heavy beams. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I looked where Dad was pointing and saw it, the big laurel oak. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In a bright red mist, it rained out over the underbrush and rattled like sleet on the white oak leaves. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It happened in 1848, long before I was surrounded by concrete and cars, when I was just a few decades old—still a youngster, by red oak standards. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They rose upward in circles, higher and higher, until at last, slightly dizzy, Harry saw a gleaming oak door ahead, with a brass knocker in the shape of a griffin. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z It was with relief that they reached the oak front doors and eased them open. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z A stench had filled the air, like old moss and rotted oak; it was the smell of something dying. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The thieves’ footsteps thudded on the oak floor. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, yes. There’s spiritual evil as well. Take more’n an oak shutter to keep that out.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z "You have forests of tall pine and old oak. Lord Manderly has shipwrights and sailors in plenty. Together you ought to be able to float enough longships to guard both your coasts." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Live oak trees, festooned with cool scarves of Spanish moss, and gnarled by a century of storms, loomed over the street. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Acorns were falling from the oaks, and Laura and Mary made little acorn cups and saucers for the playhouses. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re moving!” screamed Peach as the current began to sweep us around the edge of the oak. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He picked up his bow and quiver of arrows, stood near the dark trunk of an oak, and looked out across the moon-silvered meadow. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z I know I can carry him if I try hard enough, and I will bury him across the field, near the fencerow, under the big jack oak tree. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tell you one thing. Wishtree or not, this oak is destroying the walkways. Messing with the plumbing, too. Roots go on forever.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He carried in so much wood and built such a high structure with it that his mother walked in fear of an avalanche of oak. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “Out of sight must truly be out of mind,” she says with the sticky bitterness of oak sap. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z A gust of wind rustles, scratches pine needles, oak leaves. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z It was filled with thousands of perfectly rendered maples, oaks, spruces, and tamaracks. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I sat alone on the marsh bank for a while, my back against the thick trunk of the old live oak we called the boar hog tree. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Clusters of sagebrush and gnarled oak trees peppered the sunbaked desert floor. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Part of the floor must’ve had planks laid down in it, ’cause when my head hit, there was a loud sound like a axe chopping a thick oak. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z We stumble behind a large oak tree that’s big enough to hide us both. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Under the big oak trees of my place at Sag Harbor sat Rocinante, handsome and self-contained, and neighbors came to visit, some neighbors we didn’t even know we had. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the house, everything was predictable, the high-ceilinged rooms, with heavy, sashed windows, the oak wall panelling and the oak doors, and the oak staircase, the massive furniture. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z And we stood there on the corner of our old farm under the oak trees, wishing we never had to come home. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Beyond that they came again to a belt of trees: tall oaks, for the most part, with here and there an elm tree or an ash. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I’d like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the side of a white oak tree. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I kept looking until she was out of sight behind the huge, old oak tree at the end of the block. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She crossed the kitchen and sat down on the cushioned oak chair next to Adelaide. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Under the live oaks, shaded and dusky, the maidenhair flourished and gave a good smell, and under the mossy banks of the water courses whole clumps of five-fingered ferns and goldy-backs hung down. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I don’t mind the work — digging the pits grinding the oak bark smearing the hides with dung. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “Sister Benedicta don’t like paying so much, but I says to her deal’s deal and oak’s oak, and she saw the sense in the end.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z At last they reached the entrance hall, slid back the lock on the oak front doors, squeezed between them, trying to stop any creaking, and stepped out into the moonlit grounds. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z They could hear him moving lumber and boxes about and he came back upstairs with a five-gallon oak keg in his arms. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Up in the sprawling oak, the goose egg was peeping and wobbling around its nest. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z So I’d slip into the backyard and sit in the tire swing, with the huge old oak tree concealing me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Then we came to an old oak tree grow ing close to the road. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z As Colin came down the stairs to breakfast, he saw Lindsey sitting at the oak table sipping a glass of orange juice. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The bronze chandeliers’ gas jets produced a softly palpitating glow, casting pools of light across the polished oak floor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z About a hundred feet away, the wreckage of the Berg lay cradled between two giant oaks almost as if it had grown there like some sort of giant metal flower. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z We heard it hit branches as it fell, a big oak tree waving its golden leaves at us as if signaling, Come and get it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Wait for it to grow like leaves grow slowly on the branches of a spring oak tree. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z And the smaller oak and maple trees, which from Dr. Hyde’s classroom had been invisible beneath the more majestic pines, showed hints of an as- yet-thermally-unforeseeable fall: Their still-green leaves were beginning to droop. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Even the sagebrush struggled to exist, and the oaks were dwarfed from lack of moisture. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Tristran and the driver unhitched the horses and roped them to the oak branch. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z In this part of Brooklyn, with its giant oak trees and multimillion-dollar brownstones, police and ambulance sirens mean that something really did go down. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z That door was three inches of solid oak with an auto lock; you'd need a chain saw to get through it. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z A screech owl calls from the dead oak, and I look up. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Goodwife Willingson had packed a cold meal for us, and we chose an inviting spot in the shade of an ancient oak. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Mama said, walking out the back door and finding Ophie under the oak tree, tears streaming down her face. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z She lifted the bar, set it adde, and pulled open die heavy oak door. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Creatures great and small lived together in the grove, hidden under a leafy oak canopy. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z DeShon’s on a blanket, with a book, underneath an oak tree. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The tops of the pines and oaks rushed in. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I looked up at the filmy bags of webworms high above me in the lush canopy of oaks bending over the river. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Can I put one half mile west of the Tate house, near the three-forked oak?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Harry tore up the stone steps, through the oak front doors, and off up the marble staircase, toward the second floor. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Huge live oak trees lined each side of the road, with dangling beards of Spanish moss hanging from each branch. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The oak was too bulbous, the elm too straggly, and in their strangeness they seemed in league. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A series of parents with nervous lads in tow sat at oak tables and asked questions about the school. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A Perilee promise is usually as solid as an oak, but this turned out to be one she couldn’t keep. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Cord on cord of oak and ash were stacked to make tall, crooked walls between the trunks of trees. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Even barren oak trees flanking both sides of the street make it seem postcard-ready. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z A few yards ahead on the towpath, just visible through the reed stems, a man in a gray raincoat and trilby hat was standing under an oak tree. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z At the foot of the steps was a heavy door of oak and iron. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Barry looked around his neighborhood—the little houses, the scraggly lawns surrounded by chain-link fences, the palm trees and big oaks. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z She came and saw me and helped me stir the hops in my old oak barrel. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I could see half the sky above us, stars twinkling down through the branches of oaks. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z There were oak trees here, with enormous trunks, wrinkled and grey like the legs of elephants. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He leans back in his chair and opens his mouth to say something, but just as he does, someone knocks on the solid oak door. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Gypsy moths arrived in 1983 and have since ravaged considerable acreages of oaks and hickories. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He noticed grease spots on the floor where the oak slab and the ham had fallen. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In the woods, I climbed an oak, singing my mothers song: Oh, don’t fall in love with a sailor boy, a sailor boy, a sailor boy—I climbed higher and higher. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z There had been a rope tied around a giant oak. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He set the backpack on the oak table, and in the dim light from above the stove, he began to pack supplies. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Just north of Mole’s Town they came upon the third watcher, carved into the huge oak that marked the village perimeter, its deep eyes fixed upon the kingsroad. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She pointed at the twenty-foot oak doors, her eyes widening at the dragons that grew out of either side of the stone wall. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z There’s poison oak on this island and I don’t want us to get it. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Tall soldier pines and gnarled old oaks closed in around them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There were tall trees here and there on either side, oak and sycamore and ash and occasionally a sweet chestnut. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z There must have been hundreds of ancient oaks on the property, but Angelo seemed to know every one of them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Or “See how I can make the ink blacker by mixing soot with the boiled oak galls.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The extensive cedar, cypress, and oak groves now belonging to her would provide the raw materials that Mark Antony required. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z She dropped down in the garden, like a leaf tumbling off the oak tree of life, just before I was supposed to meet you at Listening Rock. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It gathered on the oak leaves and drooped even those sturdy branches down. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “A little one, that lives in oak trees, and eats wasps and worms and sparrows’ eggs—it grows no greater than this. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z There was the love I had for the mute regality of tall, moss-clad oaks. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Patrolman Mancuso inhaled the moldy scent of the oaks and thought, in a romantic aside, that St. Charles Avenue must be the loveliest place in the world. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He doesn’t wanna sit down at the antique oak table to eat from the “special-occasion” dishes Dr. Rivers has taken from her china cabinet. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Do you remember the whiskey sample we put in oak in July? I think it’s time to see how it’s coming along.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Stained oak, with the intricate carvings generally associated with either the eighteenth century or the obscenely rich. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z A flock of crows watched from the oak tree, perched on the branches like mourners in a church. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Still chuckling, the captain of the Crux twirled his glass between his huge oak fingers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He planned also to coat the beach with fallen oak and maple leaves to signify the fact that Columbus landed in autumn, even though live palms and dead deciduous leaves were not precisely compatible. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Facing him was the sad but stubborn heroine with the count beside her, and their horses, tethered to a nearby oak, were neighing and pawing the ground, impatient to be off. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z There was a chair as well, carved of black oak with a red leather seat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But in the case of the oak tree, the form and the purpose are in some sense inside the acorn. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Beyond the fields, a mile or more away from the sea, rose a forest of oak, chestnut, and hickory, open and park-like, the underbrush kept down by expert annual burning. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Immediately the leaves on the oak tree turned yellow. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The sheets and duvet covers were a bright, blinding white, too, and the only other piece of furniture was an oak cabinet big enough to have lunch in. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z It was still early in the fall and only a few of the coppery yellow leaves had fallen from the oaks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z At the Tripp place the sea breeze scattered last fall’s oak leaves inside the outline of foundation stones. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The mutt dozed in the shade of the benches and the gigantic oak that dominated the green with majestic ease. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But Coach O had laid a look on him that could have withered an oak. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The oak doors groaned open, and the three of us stepped iota the entry hall in a swirl of snow. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z In the middle of the afternoon, Nancy came down to the field with her children and waited for Jethro in the shade of a big oak tree just inside the fencerow. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z We knock on all kinds of doors, iron, oak, plywood. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z A startled red-tailed hawk screamed at me from an oak tree. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z She led me past The Baron Weasel’s den and down through the woods about fifty yards to the enormous old white oak. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, I’m planning to build my house come autumn. We have marked some good white oak for the clapboards.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Ivy saw their mailbox, The Aberdeens written in curvy script, dented and on its side near the big oak tree. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Under the jack oaks and the cottonwoods there was nothing. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z From a nearby oak a raven quorked, and Bran heard the sound of wings as another of the big black birds flapped down to land beside it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Without thought I circled back around and stopped my bike at the familiar old oak tree at the end of my block, its far-reaching limbs casting much-appreciated shade. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z We shuffle to the dining room, where the gargantuan oval oak table is covered with evidence of a mass operation. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z There, the scrub oak was lying splintered and smoking over the bank, its blackened branches in the water. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Round brown acorns weighed down the thick branches of oak trees. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The oak, I saw, was a perfect foundation for a tree house. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Or a row of poplars on the horizon next to a big woolly oak, and I’m convinced for a second I’m coming up to the South Playing Field from the other side. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Elm, ash, oak, and other trees dot the landscape in clumps. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z A guardsman waited at the heavy oak doors of Katz’s meatpacking plant. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z A wave of terror rushed over him when he saw the compound—the tents, the Wreck Room, the Warden's cabin under the two oak trees. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z A mother gray squirrel ran out on the limb of a burr oak tree. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The sweater displayed the shoulder bars of a major, with gold oak leaves. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She drew out a large black key from the pocket of her skirt and unlocked the cellar door, a massive block of thick oak. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Rolling hills stretched to the horizon, dotted with oak trees and cactuses and boulders. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “I ain’t wantin’ to shame you, boy,” Grandpa said, propping his left elbow on the oak counter top and leaning forward. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They were leaning toward each other as the water oaks bent from the sea. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z On the fourth day, Kevin caught me on my way out to the cookhouse and took me to the oak tree again. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I entered the immaculate little shop, redolent of freshly sawn pine and oak, and found him working at a shrieking band saw. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z But we desert the coaches of Little League, Ben thought, leaving the river’s edge and returning to the sidewalk beneath the huge water oaks of River Street. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Why do chanterelles live on oaks and morels on pines? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He grabbed the oak tree and pulled it from the ground, roots and all. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She left the tobacco fields of her youth and the hundred-year-old oak tree that shaded her from the sun on so many hot afternoons. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Podrik Payne handed up helm and shield, heavy oak emblazoned with a golden hand on red, surrounded by small golden lions. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He made Mark step back and hid the two of them behind the large trunk of an oak. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The only furnishings were an oak chair, three stools, and a cupboard. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The hum of those insects and the twisting limbs of the live oaks stayed with us long after we'd gone north again, beating in us almost like a second heart. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z This was where generations of Masters had been buried, each in his lead-lined oak coffin in niches along the stone walls. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Fabian, sitting with his back against the oak’s trunk, put two fingers in his mouth and whistled, long and low. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I don’t know if he means to keep cutting the oak tree or work on the chest but I say, Yes, just in case he means the chest. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z One morning as they sat under the old oak tree eating their breakfast bread, Alyce told the cat again about the birth of Tansy’s twins. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all in a small clearing completely surrounded by thick oak trees and towering pines—older ones that hadn’t been completely consumed by the sun flares—standing on dry, brittle undergrowth. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The oak tree below burst into sudden, brilliant flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He caught a glimpse of a black squirrel moving through the snow-covered branches of an oak, and paused to study the silvery web of an empress spider. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Ash could smell the scent of her mother’s skin now, and it was the fragrance of the Wood, oak and moss and wild- flower. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Boomer and I duck beneath the wire and weave between the trunks, keeping clear of the patches of poison oak. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Once, when I was eight years old, I found a stone arrowhead embedded in the stump of an ancient oak tree up on the mountain behind my house. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The boy’s father took the ham from the kettle and put it on the oak slab. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything is off, in the way dreams are—the house is much bigger than I remember, and there are giant oak trees everywhere. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It began to dissolve, leaving only scraps of bone, meat, hide, and a new drakon skull whose open jaws ringed the oak tree. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A log-sized one knifed through the top of a water oak. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The land surrounding it was rockier than any other place we knew, and the path to it branched off underneath a massive fallen oak that looked somewhat like a mermaid. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z A locust’s lazy rasping sawed the air from the nearby oak trees. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Keeping low, he headed for the closest cover—a scrub oak skirted with new suckers at its base, just a few full-bounds away. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He poured it into a baby oak barrel about the size of a loaf of bread. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Red oaks are one of the most common trees in North America. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Mist hung about the ground, finches were singing in the oak tree beside the house, and there was my mother, her pregnant belly sticking out in front of her. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z On the last half-mile, turning out of the Salinas Valley and driving up the unscraped road under the great oak trees, Samuel tried to plait a rage to take care of his embarrassment. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Two figures crouched near the base of a giant oak tree. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Valley threw her hands out, and they shuffled back and behind a cluster of tall oaks. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The Captain of the Guard opened the doors reluctantly, the strong muscles of his back shifting as he pushed hard against the worn oak. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z There was a slight, persistent movement of wind through the yew tree branches, and the elms and oaks of the copse, and a rustling of the high grasses in the field. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The vice minister’s wife sits so upright that it seems as if her spine is hewn from oak. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z When I was nearly to the big oak in the middle of the pasture, she turned away from him to climb back in the car. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Knowing that I couldn’t carry him and the ax and lantern, I stuck the ax deep in the side of a white oak tree. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z We pass the mansions with the oak trees and the golf course. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The room was large and airy, with great beams of dark oak supporting the high ceiling. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Dustfinger spent most of the time perched in one of the oaks that had once given the old woman a shady place to sit outside her cottage. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z If you get bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard, you might as well go into the shade of the oak trees and lie in the hammock. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z I open the oak cabinet and, just as Max promised, there's more than enough room between the buckets of Lego bricks and rolling carts with drawing supplies to fit me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z As we stepped off the dirt road and into the oak grove, we looked at each other, but we didn’t say a word. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Tayo stopped the mare by a pine tree on a ridge near a scrub- oak thicket. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The wind is throwing the branches of an oak against the walls of the inn. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z It is three stories tall, with beige stucco walls and wide fieldstone panels flanking a varnished oak front door with leaded glass. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I say Indian field, not great-grandfather’s field, because the white oak, like my hemlock, is at least three hundred years old, maybe four. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Billy took his seat with the others around a golden oak table, with a microphone all his own. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They were like white bouquets God had stuck in the stands of ancient oaks and hickories, glistening green in their own new growth. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The oaks grew thick and close to the ground. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She got up and went to sit under the big oak. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z When we reached the oak from which my hammock hung, I asked for a lantern to read by. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z A silence came on them as they rode in under the oaks, a silence they took from the place itself. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They walked up a flight of stone steps and crowded around the huge, oak front door. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “A stump, an oak stump, would be perfect,” I said right out loud to that pretty bird. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Many valuable wild plants yielding food prized by millions of people, such as oaks sought for their edible acorns in many parts of the world, remain untamed even today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Two men who were sitting on their shoulderblades under a huge live oak tree almost sat upright at the tone of his voice. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Birdsong strafed and morsed from the oak on the village green. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z In the yard in front of the house were two beautiful big oak trees. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Finding none where the strewn leaves are, I search the other side of the oak. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside, on his landing, there was no moonlight, and he felt his way in the dark, first on the carpeted upper staircase, and then, for the last two flights, on the bare, polished oak. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “I’ve already put some of Dad’s boards up in the big oak tree on the other side of the knoll.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Filch was standing at the oak front doors as usual, checking off the names of people who had permission to go into Hogsmeade. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The moment she had put her foot on the step leading up to the porch, she saw her ripeness mellowing and rotting before a heap of red velvet scraps on a round oak table. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He shook the snow off his hair; the oak leaves had held a shell of snow around him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A thousand songbirds greeted us as we walked beneath the open canopy of trees in the oak grove. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He had found a camp for them beneath a huge old oak tree and had made himself comfortable nearby, his head resting on a great boulder. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The Delmars had a library—nothing but books in it and paneled in oak. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It smelled like moss and oak and the damp dark spaces of the Wood beyond the meadow. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Bailey climbs the oak tree to retrieve his hidden box before sunset, gazing down at the circus that sits bathed in deep orange light, casting long pointed shadows across the field. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I’d been down there since dinner, working in a stand of tall slim post oaks. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “He got away, Mama! He got out of the oak grove and out of the water! He came looking for us!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But he was a good architect; Quentin knew the house, twelve miles from Jefferson, in its grove of cedar and oak, seventy-five years after it was finished. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew it was a large white oak because it is one of the last trees in the mountains to lose its leaves. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the road, where the farm itself lay, overgrown fields stretched back to meet a thick woods of pine trees, oaks and tall, topheavy loblollies. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z You might be surprised to learn that all red oaks are named Red. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He settled himself on the fallen oak trunk again to wait. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I gave her the pulverized wing of a spotted oak moth. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Trees blaze on top of Eagle’s Ridge, and pines, oaks burnt, half burnt, make crazy, pockmarked paths. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z And just like that, Mutti packs up everything—the dishes, the pots and pans, the uneven chairs, the brown wooden table, the worn armchair, the scratched-up black oak table lamp, the two wooden bedsteads. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Not knowing what to do or say, I ducked behind the oak tree, feeling for the first time like Granny had been betrayed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z We stood in front of a huge oak tree on the edge of the meadow. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He flattened his back to the oak pew, so I could climb over him, and I hustled down the aisle to the back of the church. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z But once I drove a few feet down a dirt road through the initial roadside stand of oak and pine trees, it was every bit as desolate as Grovepoint Acres. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z In my mini journal, I confessed that I had since kissed all different lands of trees, and each family of trees—oaks, maples, elms, birches—had a special flavor all its own. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Doli jumped down, and after examining several trees ran quickly to the ruins of an enormous hollow oak. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The children crouched on the limbs of a water oak that grew outside Mary Anne’s window, listened to their mother’s laughter, and tried to interpret its meaning. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z An owl hooted in the branches of an oak tree. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Though these mountains were unfamiliar to him, the trees were the same as at home—maple, oak, and wild plum giving way gradually to pines as he climbed higher. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z It was Naomi’s voice coming from near a pair of oaks, but he didn’t see her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The summit of a hill stood out above the water, crowned with a clump of trees, mostly oaks, whose bare branches looked mournful against the gray sky. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Dimple got a waft of his cologne, something subtle but deeply male that reminded her of oak trees in the summer sun. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z And so over the course of the next hour, Colin shot the holy living hell out of the oak trees before him, pausing only to reload the gun and call his parents. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z If we swirled around the oak tree the way Dismay had swirled earlier, we’d be bashed into the rose of Sharon bushes that sprayed the bottom of Listening Rock. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z On the way, he showed me a plant called poison oak that makes you itch all over if you touch it, and told me to keep an eye out for snakes. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z She made sure that Reggie noticed her, then she continued on farther into the park, beyond the playground and basketball courts, underneath a canopy of oak trees. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z And then the source of the light stepped out from behind an oak. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It was dark under the holm oaks, so it didn’t matter if he made a face of anguish. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Hassan was already sitting at the oak table with a collection of papers in front of him. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Josiah and Robert came then and unloaded their rifles and leaned them against a scrub oak. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z By the time the noise of the river had faded to a dull roar behind them, it felt like a plank of oak under her arm. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z At nightfall they built fires with pieces of old shoes to keep the mosquitoes away, and watched the stars from beneath the big oak tree where they’d hung a rope to swing from. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z So he went to Dodona, in the land of oak trees, where the talking oaks were which declared Zeus’s will and where the Selli lived who made their bread from acorns. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The oak tree crackled overhead, its branches rasping together in the bracing breeze. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Old soldiers—some of them survivors of that brave fourteen who had gone with Beowulf against Grendel—sat with their ale in the evening under golden-budded oaks and fought over battles long-ago. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z The high scream came from the oaks again, and Nellie answered it. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z She was standing beside a gnarly oak with knotholes that made it good for climbing—I’d climbed it myself many a day. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Alum, lime, oak galls, urine, ashes, tallow, and stale beer — these are the tools of my trade. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z The trunk of the oak was so wide, it held Peach and Dismay comfortably to its bosom and kept them momentarily from swirling downstream. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z All I can say is it will take my whole entire life to get some wood cut out of that oak tree with my Virginia quarter. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of newel posts at the bottom of the staircase, an intricately carved oak monkey clung to either end of the railing. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Explosions tear and scar the land, spitting out black oaks and coal mines, street lamps and scorpions. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The door was oak and iron, and his keepers kept it barred. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Great beams of black oak supported the high ceilings. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was both bolted and locked and had an oak chair wedged under the handle. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z It slammed up against a post oak tree and sounded like a gunshot. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z An enormous oak tree stood overshadowing the cottage. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Today, he reported, as the family moved inside to escape the twilight mist that rose from the river, he had overseen the carpenter who was splitting the white oak for the clapboards. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. Could be it’s some kind of a oak- tree spirit. Better not to mess with it.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z He could see the red roof of the barn sticking up above the oak trees, and he could hear a dog barking unemotionally near the house. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z At the top of the path, near the edge of the canyon, was the massive oak tree I’d seen in my dreams. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The furniture was oak, steel and white leather - impersonal and masculine. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He was settled in the bole of an oak, eyes closed, shivering violently. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They were nothing like the happy young couple in the frame that sat on Cool Papa’s oak dresser. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z The bar was decorated with glittering bottles, and Kote was standing on the now-vacant counter between the two heavy oak barrels when Bast came back into the room, black scabbard swinging loosely from one hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The opening in the tree wasn’t small, but it was screened on one side by a mess of brambles and on the other side by the second oak. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Standing in the shadow of a huge oak tree, I looked at the house. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivy and Layla shook out the tarp, and then Mom sat down, her back against the oak tree. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Men were seated around the large oak table, which was crowded with bottles of wine and liquor, with dishes of rice and meat and salads. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Cutwater rummaged around in a black oak chest of stolen goods. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z It seemed to him that Strawberry might as well have said that his tail was an oak tree. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We came down out of the mountains and through an oak forest, and there were white cattle grazing in the forest. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “Then please take a seat,” the receptionist replied routinely, and pointed toward a row of dark oak chairs before returning to her typing. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She did an excellent job of sagging from her waist down, but from the waist up she seemed to be pulling for the top of the oak tree across the road. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I approached the old oak cautiously, my heart pumping in my chest. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He bounded over a fallen oak tree, his long claws churning up the dirt. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z She clung to Hamlet like a vine to an oak tree. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He was parked under a towering oak tree outside Johns Hopkins Hospital with three of his children—two still in diapers—waiting for their mother, Henrietta. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z As large as his old oak tree, growing right out of the ground. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And the great summer storms that came through these parts that blackened the sky and tore up deep-rooted oaks made him feel uncomfortably small and helpless. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The gypsy moth, which in its larval stage attacks the foliage of oak trees and a few other hardwoods for a few weeks each spring, now occurs in all the New England states. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z "Over there, against die oak. Yes, like that." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The old Bear People said they would come They said Prepare hard oak scrub oak pihon juniper and wild rose twigs Make hoops tie bundles of weeds into hoops. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Starlight filtered through the green canopy of towering oaks and magnolias on Lydia’s street. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He came over the top of the cliff and steered to his oak tree. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The branches of the oak trees and their dangling threads of moss sweep the ground, and the sweet scent of magnolia flowers fill the air. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z His breastplate was the aegis, awful to behold; his bird was the eagle, his tree the oak. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She sat in her chair under the oak tree, her hands clasped each to each in love and shelter. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Yard boys scared that a single gesture near the planter’s wife could leave them hanging from an oak tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He was a big strapping boy when I last seen him four years ago and now he be fifteen and must be big as a oak! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z A boy called Tarber tossed a handful of acorns on top of Praed's body, so an oak might grow to mark his place. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I noticed first the absence of parkland trees, the giant elms lost to disease I supposed, and the remaining oaks cleared to make way for a golf course. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Two children, crouched behind the low-hanging branches of a hulking oak tree on the other side of the pond, watched the flickers of scarlet in the distance in fearful silence. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I knew and could picture the very oaks and pines that had nourished the pigs and the mushrooms that were nourishing us. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The last thing he found was a square oak box with dovetailed corners and a brass plate let into the lid. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I am on a high balcony, eye to eye with an oak tree. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The pines and sentinels gave way to huge dark oaks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Some even climbed oak trees and perched in branches for a good spot. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z They scrambled away to the line of trees and dropped down, slipping behind the same large oak as before for cover. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z In the back yard there was a big oak and in the summer they had built a tree house. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z They were grounded to a branch from an oak tree and this, he said, was her Power. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z They had hauled a big box up in this oak, and Bubber used to love to sit up in the tree house by himself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z We jogged across I-Drive and then started bushwhacking through a thicket of tall shrubs and oak trees. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The oaks might be half dead, but something else was distinctly alive out there. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Coraline imagined that she was back again in her dream, with the two girls and the boy under the oak tree in the meadow, and she smiled. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Jones has hidden a twelve-foot-long boat at the water’s edge, tied to a large oak tree. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z No sooner had Hodor entered the godswood than Summer emerged from under an oak, almost as if he had known they were coming. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z There isn’t a painting I suddenly don’t want to tell this oak tree about in great detail. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z All that was left was Cool Papa’s hat rack, the bare bed, and an oak dresser. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z The noon sun filtered through the leaves of the fine oak tree where she sat and made lacy patterns on the ground. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Some young people were out under the water oaks playing croquet Mr. Pontellier s two children were there—sturdy little fellows of four and five. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the tall oaks were still holding all their leaves, like self-conscious old men. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The only trees are two old oaks on the eastern edge of the "lake." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Terrified by the eagle, Screamer had flown to an oak tree at the top of Perry’s mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z There were twin oak rockers with embroidered cushions, twin walnut end tables astride a worn bench sofa, and a plush easy chair beside a gilt brass floor lamp. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z And then, as the sun rose over the park’s majestic oak trees, a black sedan pulled up in front of the basketball courts. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The god’s will was revealed by the rustling of the oak leaves which the priests interpreted. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Keeping to the shadows and taking his time, Sammy advanced to the strategic oak and remained concealed in the shadows for over five minutes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There were enormous spreading oak trees to sit under and open lawns where we could throw Frisbees to relieve our stress. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Men I didn’t know climbed the oak trees with coils of small electric bulbs and meters of extension cords. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z So I made a cog wheel or gear out of a disc of oak by putting pegs around the edge. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the shortest nineteen-year-old Mark had ever seen, but thick as an oak tree—all muscle and sinew and veins. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z This grove of oaks is where they dig for acorns, roots, and grubs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I plucked a leaf from the oak tree we were standing under and tore it in little bits while Lightfoot studied the gravestone. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The live oaks got a crusty look and the sage-brush was gray. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She went to the window and stared out, trying to spot the bird among bare oak branches that stood out black against a broken sky of gray and palest blue. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Deeper and deeper into the ancient woods I went, past thick bracken and stately oaks, until I tripped and fell again. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Rocky was standing in a small clearing surrounded by thickets of scrub oak. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z You were not born of mythic oak or stone.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They pushed at the wheels with long oak poles and slashed at the oxen till their backs were crosshatched with bleeding welts and their noses ran pink foam. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z She gathered spongy moss and old oak punk to stuff into the cradle board and use as a diaper. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The wind riffled the ten thousand pages of the oak tree. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z They scattered, then massed again, hovering over her like a great, undulating cloud before settling back onto the branches of the oak tree. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Doing? Why, sitting, sitting in a chair under an oak tree. Her time’s not far.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z After several hours of swinging from the oak tree in their netted trap, Jack and Sarah heard the leaves stirring and then the sound of a saw meeting rope. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Huge live oaks shaded the valley, and the earth had a richness and a greenness foreign to this part of the country. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Their throwing arms were made from the trunks of old oaks, and banded with iron to keep them from splitting. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He trotted her west, across the grassy flat toward the cerros, gently rounded hills of dark lava rock which were covered with a thin crust of topsoil and grass, edged with thickets of scrub oak. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He bowed again and started to sit in a normal chair next to the heavy three-legged oak electric chair. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Yard boys scared that a single gesture near the planter’s wife could leave them hanging from an oak tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z When Taran went back to rearrange the weapons they would now be obliged to bear, he was surprised to find a large oak leaf on the ground before his cloak. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z An oak bed, a walnut bureau, a bedside table—nothing else except lamps, one curtained window, and a picture of Jesus walking on the water. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She dove, missed, and headed back to the oak tree. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Here and there pendulous clumps of green mistletoe leaves and pale white berries hung from the oak, seeming even more insignificant when seen next to the grandeur of the oak. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z At the end of the hallway were double oak doors that looked like they must lead somewhere important. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He stepped around a large oak and pulled up short. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z No: that was the same oak tree, the one beneath which the star had been sitting. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The sky was blue-green and the branches of the oak trees in the back yard were black and bare against this color. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I was staring out the window at the tall oak trees as we drove by. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Only the old oaks seemed reluctant to give up the summer, and their leaves re- mained an even mingling of gold and green. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The captain knocked out the oak plug from the end of the keg and got glasses down from the shelf that had scallop-edged paper laid on it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z My forehead hit the shiny, polished oak with a loud thump. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The mirror was mesmeric, with its triple panels trimmed with false oak. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Fortunately, I pull my bow at the last second and it sticks in an oak trunk to his left. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Erysichthon had the wicked audacity to cut down the tallest oak in a grove sacred to Ceres. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But these marvels did not check his fury; he struck again and again until the great oak crashed to the ground. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The first scatters of rain were beginning to fall, pattering into the oak leaves and pricking the bare pink skin inside their ears. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A vase full of flowers decorates the center of the oak table behind her. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Uncoiling Shadow’s climbing rope, he bound Ragear paw and claw to a sturdy oak. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Its huge limbs spread out over the small birch, ash, box elder, and water oak as if it alone were their protector. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z We have an oak tree in the backyard. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z A thick, dark green forest of oak and pine crowned pink-orange sand-rock plateaus that extended north and south beyond Nathan’s vision. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He remembered the musky smell of him, and the way he had snarled down at them from the limb of the oak. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Instead, Frith sent them strange singers, beautiful and sick like oak apples, like robins’ pincushions on the wild rose. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Um, a mastic tree,” said one, and the other, “Well, gee, I guess it was a live oak.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m standing out by the oak tree with David, taking turns on the bag swing, when I see the car and Shiloh’s head raised up in the backseat. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The Link house stands on a cul-de-sac, up a slight rise with tall young oaks raining acorns over a small front yard and a curtain of cedar and pine bordering the back. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Spurge ran his hand in wonder over some of the beautiful carvings of oak leaves and hounds and icthyods. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z I held my breath as I walked over and sat down by a post oak stump. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z One morning she returns with objects in her hands, pretty rocks and twigs and big oak leaves, and she sits down silently at the small table in our garage apartment to construct a little house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Overhead, solemn oak trees drank up most of it, so that little was left to illuminate the cocoa-dark forest floor. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The oak leaves wrinkled at the edges, though they had no notion of going anywhere for quite a long while. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z There was a grandeur about the day, about the colossal, barely stirring beeches and oaks, and the light that dropped like jewels through the fresh foliage to make pools among last years dead leaves. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He was very certain that some day his own oasis of oaks and elms would stand upon those shadeless plains: “Some day. God willing.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The wheelhouse in which they had ridden, a huge double-decked carriage of oiled oak and gilded metal pulled by forty heavy draft horses, was too wide to pass through the castle gate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I just stand across the wide oak table from her, my hands on the back of a chair. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked three houses down to a little white cottage under an oak tree. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z When she could bear it no longer, she joined the knot of girls under the live oak in a corner of the schoolyard. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The big-boled oaks gaze down at me yellow with morning, beneath complexity. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z They came to a clump of hollyberry trees sheltered by a giant overhanging oak, and they bumped shoulders and hips as they reached for kindling beneath the brush. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z If he went a few yards over the top of the ridge, he would be in the scrub oaks, out of the storm. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Second, oak trees evolved to make nuts of a size and taste suitable for squirrels, which we’ve all seen burying, digging up, and eating acorns. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He looked across the lake toward the cabin under the two oak trees. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The trees, predominantly oak, were more fully in bud, and there were occasional clumps of wildflowers—bloodroot and trillium and Dutchmen’s breeches—rising through the carpet of last year’s leaves. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In the garden, under the oak tree, she found Colin sitting on the ground. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “There is nothing more exhilarating than maroon upholstery and oak paneling, and what is that in the corner there? A sedan chair?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z He was working up a sweat from scratching his itchy side back and forth against the rough bark on a prickly oak. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He was standing at the head of the table; the rest of us perched on benches, studying the thick planks of red oak. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Once, in the middle of a dense stand of oak, they came face-to-face with three men palling a load of firewood in an ax cart, with no way for either to get around. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In the far corner of the yard was an old oak tree, and tied to one of the lowest branches of the tree was an old-fashioned swing. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z In his eagerness, Old Dan ran head on into a bur oak tree. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Today he had searched the oak clumps along the far fencerows for Sounder. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z To his left stood an oak tree about half the height of the pine tree. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The wind kicks up and whirls, and the leaves of the old oak outside my window brush up against the pane, stealing my attention. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Birds detonated out of the oak without warning and we jumped but didn't laugh about it. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z My fingers rubbed against the coarse bark of the oak, broken up like burnt cornflakes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Taran flung himself against an oak to escape the flying hoofs and the heaving, glistening flanks. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Her father visits her regularly at twilight, on her evening walks home from the bakery, and whispers to her through the oak and maple trees. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just back there, for Christ sake. One side cliff, other side brambles, and in the middle a big fallen-down oak with about this much clearance.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She was at a picnic, under an old oak tree, in a green meadow. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z He had played here as a boy, skipping stones across the cold black pool beneath the weirwood, hiding his treasures in the bole of an ancient oak, stalking squirrels with a bow he made himself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He passed the tomato field on his left, then entered the dark overhang of oak that would take him to Toomer’s bus. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There were maples and oaks to the west, and a hemlock forest to the right that pulled me right across the sweet grasses, into it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Beto, suddenly starving, followed the preacher toward the picnic tables under a stand of oaks, but all along the way they had to stop and meet church ladies. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Some species of oak release a chemical that tells other oaks in the vicinity that an attack is under way. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z |
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