| 单词 | pollard |
| 例句 | They bounce through a string of small green towns where pollarded trees line sleepy canals. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z By Rennes, the sun has dropped low over the horizon, and the smell of warm manure comes through the open windows, and lines of pollarded trees whisk past. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In a pollarded tree, all the sprouts of the previous year are removed to their base each winter. Don’t commit a ‘crape murder’ 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Another option is to adopt a pruning regime known as pollarding, which maintains a tree at a given height permanently. Don’t commit a ‘crape murder’ 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z You can convert a topped tree into a pollarded tree, but this is viable only on young crape myrtles whose trunks are no more than three inches across, and preferably smaller. Don’t commit a ‘crape murder’ 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Another option is to adopt a pruning regime known as pollarding, which maintains a tree at a given height permanently. Don’t commit a ‘crape murder’ 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z This permits the tree to develop knobbly structures called pollard heads, which form natural defenses against wound decay. Don’t commit a ‘crape murder’ 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z One of the most conspicuous displays of pollarded Natchez crape myrtles is at the National Gallery of Art’s Sculpture Garden on the Mall. Don’t commit a ‘crape murder’ 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Here, more than 20 have been pollarded every winter to reduce the canopy. Don’t commit a ‘crape murder’ 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z The pollard heads are now the size of softballs, or larger. Don’t commit a ‘crape murder’ 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z You can convert a topped tree into a pollarded tree, but this is viable only on young crape myrtles whose trunks are no more than three inches across, and preferably smaller. Don’t commit a ‘crape murder’ 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Here, more than 20 have been pollarded every winter to reduce the canopy. Don’t commit a ‘crape murder’ 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z One of the most conspicuous displays of pollarded Natchez crape myrtles is at the National Gallery of Art’s Sculpture Garden on the Mall. Don’t commit a ‘crape murder’ 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z The pollard heads are now the size of softballs, or larger. Don’t commit a ‘crape murder’ 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Rather than the conical shapes of cypress common to Italian landscapes or the groomed and pollarded vegetation associated with his architecture, Mr. Graves gives his trees “more character,” he said. A Top Architect Settles Into a New Niche 2011-01-30T02:30:04Z In a pollarded tree, all the sprouts of the previous year are removed to their base each winter. Don’t commit a ‘crape murder’ 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z This permits the tree to develop knobbly structures called pollard heads, which form natural defenses against wound decay. Don’t commit a ‘crape murder’ 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z In my work as an arborist, I often visit wonderful woodlands — ancient forests of bristlecone pines, immense groves of redwoods, endless woods of quaking aspen or pollarded oaks. Opinion | The Lessons of a Hideous Forest 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z Mr McBride, who records ancient trees in Wales, said the oak had enormous cultural significance as it was a pollard - it had not grown in the field naturally. 1,000-year-old oak on Offa's Dyke falls 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z One of them I called the Queen Beech: a 400-year-old, low-slung pollard with four enormous branches that touched the ground, like a weird, marine gastropod. There Is Such a Thing as Plant Intelligence An old pollard in Savernake Forest that could date back to Saxon times. 'Tree of the Year' shortlist issued 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z On most mornings in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza, elderly Asian women practice tai chi under the pollarded sycamore trees. The Fight over San Francisco’s Public Spaces 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z After pollarding the oak produced "a good crop of acorns", said Mr Partridge. Surgeon saves 'last Hitler's oak' 2013-12-28T08:29:35Z I had no guide, but neither had those in front of me; and luckily at this point a row of pollard willows defined the line between the road and the river. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z One object, to which the attention of every visitor is directed, is the old pollard of enormous girth standing near the house. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z The "sewers" are clear rapid streams, margined by grass and dandelions, and shaded by ash trees and pollard willows in their first flush of green. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z Tree surgeon Ashley Clarke said the tree was pollarded in early summer and "looked pretty drastic" when the work was complete. Surgeon saves 'last Hitler's oak' 2013-12-28T08:29:35Z In April, 1868, a strange discovery was made in Warwickshire, seven dead cubs having been found in the top of a pollard oak. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z Boiled cold oatmeal porridge is the best food for ducklings for the first ten days; afterwards barley-meal, pollard, and oats, with plenty of green food. Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. 2012-01-19T03:00:19.390Z "Sit here, sister," said he imperiously throwing himself under the shade of a pollard tree that overhung the winding brook, "sit here and talk." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z The roller is a noble iron instrument, instead of an old pollard. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z Archie, lad, everything was very foreign to me; the very trees looked strange and uncouth, especially the docked pollards, that stood by the banks of the sluggish streams. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z He was bracing himself preparatory to this great mental effort, when he perceived round the next bend of the stream Mr. Anthony Clare, pensively leaning against the rugged stem of a pollard willow-tree. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z The idea came some centuries ago from Holland, but has been so thoroughly Englished that the university, and, indeed, all England, would scarcely be itself without its pollard willows. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z The nest is placed in soft rotten wood of pollard willows and other trees, in hollow trees and under the thatch of buildings. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z We then walked on to the village, distant about a mile and a quarter, along an avenue of pollarded oaks, backed by fir trees. My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills 2011-10-26T02:00:28.847Z The stumps are called "pollards" and the trees "pollarded willows" whose discouraging task has been to grow a yearly crop of withes for the basket-makers; yet each spring finds them bristling with the new growth. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Dod′dle, a pollard; Dod′dy, a cow without horns. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z In half an hour he reached it, and found a waggon track which, as the boy had said, after a while led him into a wood—scattered pollard oaks, hawthorn bushes, and fir plantations. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z There was a large hollow willow or pollard in the hedge. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z In the osier-bed the brook-sparrow chatters; there, too, the first pollard willow stands, or rather leans, hollow and aged, across the water. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Fortunately the bark of the limbs supplies the demand; many a veteran tree still suffers the pollarding process, serving one generation of schoolboys after another. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The best “natural” sticks are those which when growing were themselves young trees, sprung up direct from seed or shoots—saplings, which are stronger and more pliant than those cut from a stole or pollard. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Away, some fifty yards distant, stood an enormous pollard oak, its vast gnarled root coiled round just above the earth, forming a broad ledge about the trunk. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z It had been pollarded, and the step from the tree to the top of the wall was rather a long one. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z In the meadows of the vale the waters of the same stream irrigate numerous scattered withy-beds, pollard willow trees, and tall willow poles growing thickly in the hedges by the brook. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z A flare shot up into the night, and by its light the two motionless officers close to the pollard looked at what they had found. Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z "Sit here, sister," said he imperiously, throwing himself under the shade of a pollard tree that overhung the winding brook, "sit here and talk." The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z Copses that seemed islets, with the tufted heads of pollarded willows rising weirdlike out of the water, were the conspicuous features of the flooded landscape. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z There are not only fine thriving oaks, throwing out their gigantic arms, but sturdy pollards without end, which seem to have set time and season and decay at defiance. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z Though so swift, the kingfisher is comparatively easy to shoot, because he flies as straight as an arrow; and if you can get clear of bushes or willow pollards he may be dropped without trouble. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Then he slipped back against the pollard, the two ends grasped in his right hand.... Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z To see pollard willows in perfection she spent six weeks last spring in the flattest parts of Holland, and thought it lovely—'the willows so fine and the boat-life so healthy.' Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z Only the grey glimmer of water, with here and there the top of a pollard willow. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z But the main features were single oak-trees with pollarded tops and gnarled branches, which stood about all over these lofty slopes, and gave them a melancholy and dilapidated aspect. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z There is indeed a boundary, but it is at a distance and concealed: it is the trout stream in the hollow far below, winding along the narrow valley, and hidden by osier-beds and willow pollards. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z It came all back to him, and it had been over by the stunted pollard that he'd tripped up. Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z She paints foxgloves in fresco and makes little sketches � la Ruskin in the tiniest of books—chiefly of pollard willows, which she declares are the most beautiful things in nature. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z So they ran down the rise and across another road and over some more fields and past a wood, until they came at last to a stream, running rather sluggishly between some pollarded willows. Half-Past Bedtime 2011-01-23T03:00:13.247Z But at all events, these old, gnarled, hollowed stumps, with their tufts of branches starting from the pollarded trunk, are a really classical feature in the country, and deserve, therefore, a passing notice. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z You might have said that large puffs of cotton wool hung in the air upon invisible threads, above which emerged the tops of pollarded willows. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z Why the throbbing brain should have imagined it would be cut there, I know not; perhaps he associated it particularly with the pollard—and after all he was the Company Idiot. Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z Motion is the sovereign remedy for the vagabond's disease, and lo! through the leafy barrier of the pollarded limes bordering the Green, jingle the bells of the tram-car with its trotting team of three abreast. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z In the vineyards the vines, naked at first glance, were just beginning to flower, and the rows of pollarded planes from which they were festooned showed a glory of young leaf. Beggars on Horseback It was an old house set far back from the high road and reached by a long drive between pollarded acacias. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Indeed Osier-Willows are pollarded, or cut off, from time to time, by the cultivator, for the purpose of producing a crop of slender adventitious twigs, suitable for basket-work. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools And anon they floated down betwixt banks of rushes, with here and there a row of pollard willow-trees and thickets of alder. The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions Try as he might, Dalroy, crouched behind a pollard oak, could not overhear the spy’s words. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 High up above the thirty-foot retaining-wall, behind its palms and pollard acacias, the chalet was pouring forth a stream of light from its open door. Shadows of Flames A Novel Perhaps the most exciting catch of all happened, close to the shutting in of a September dusk, in the avenue of pollarded acacias. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Many of the trees named, if their tops spread too near the houses, may, with good effect, be pollarded about 10 feet from the ground. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens At that sight he was greatly astonished, and he said: "Fair damsel, I prythee tell me what is the meaning of this sight and why those shields are hung to yonder pollard willow-trees?" The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions “I should like to be a bird,” said Fin, placing one foot on an excrescence of a stumpy pollard oak, and, making a jump, she caught hold of a low bough. Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One These have not been used until recently when, by the efforts of the Agricultural Department, a number of these trees have been pollarded and the new shoots have been found quite satisfactory for the purpose. Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products With its multitude of pollards, its desolate great fields, its chilling breaths, the countryside might have been Flanders. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday The common Plane is much used on the continent for green shelters; the trees are pollarded at about eight feet high, and the vigorous young growths trained down horizontally to a slight framework. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens And beside the river were banks of reeds and rushes and pollard willows and thickets of alder and aspen. The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions ‘And the dicky-bird sang in the tree,’” she trilled out, as step by step she drew herself up into the crown of the stumpy, gnarled pollard. Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One The ascent from this point carried us through forests of pollard oaks, in which it was quite impossible to see either a path or any obstacles which might lie in one's way. Etna A History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions It was an old pollard willow, the branches of which were cut off every year, so that only the crown of it remained, surrounded by young shoots. Eyes Like the Sea The trees in this case are standards pollarded at about 8 feet from the ground, the form in which they are generally sent out from the nursery. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens Only here and there a row of poplars or pollard willows is flung out as a screen against the open sky. A Journal of Impressions in Belgium They walked on from dense copse to meadow, through goodly fields of grain, and down in deep little vales, with steep sides covered with fern, bramble, and stunted pollard oaks. Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One Why should not pear and walnut-trees supply the place of oaks, elms, and ash; the apple, plum, cherry, damson, and mulberry, that of the birch, yew, and all pollards? A Morning's Walk from London to Kew I left the feeding and care of my few fowls to Mrs. Blades, and finally made her a present of them, after paying several bills for their pollard and grain. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography The way to Rosendal was over the sandy road for two English miles, when the entrance gate was reached, leading up an avenue of lime trees that had been pollarded. A Danish Parsonage Another fungus is obtained from the pollard head of the black poplar. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses They came presently to a high corner in a lane, where, over the bank on which the pollard oaks stood in line, they could look across to the other side of the valley. Angelot A Story of the First Empire It must be the pure, wild volition and energy of the creation which they follow—not subdued to the furrow, and cicatrized to the pollard—not persuaded into proprieties, nor pampered into diseases. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) By cutting off the tops or pollarding such trees, a very great number of adventitious branches can be made to grow. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination The storms would certainly have pollarded them in a more irregular manner than the hand of man. A Danish Parsonage These pollard blocks continue to bear for from twelve to fourteen years. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses They were drawing up in single file by the side of the road, close under the steep bank, pressing into it, in the dark shadow of the pollards. Angelot A Story of the First Empire She took one step out, on to the verandah . . . then she heard a rustle from behind the pollarded acacia tree and a rustle amongst its leaves. A Bride of the Plains Grains, potatoes, malt dust, pollard, and turnips now constitute their common aliment. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families The road dropped from their feet through an avenue of pollarded poplars ghostly with frost. Rosinante to the Road Again The willow, with its blood relation, the poplar, is often "pollarded," or trimmed for wood, and its abundant vigor enables it to recover from this process of violent abbreviation more satisfactorily than do most trees. Getting Acquainted with the Trees It was spirit-stirring when, full in view of these grand natural features, our numerous cavalcade wound down the hill in scattered groups to the plain beneath, among pollard cork trees, just now shedding their acorns. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Two pollarded acacias are planted near the door of the inn, above the lintel of which a painted board scribbled over with irregular lettering invites the traveller to enter. A Bride of the Plains I glanced up at the pollard willow over head, against which I had been leaning to steady my field glasses as I watched our artillery "strafe" the Germans who were attacking the Ghurkas. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders I passed the place last summer; they are still there, as well as the old pollard willow stump. Hints on Driving The thick turf, shaven and level, runs to the foot of mossy brick walls; an avenue of pollarded elms leads from the south door; all round stand little, old red houses. Highways and Byways in Surrey The desolate flat marshes look still more weird by reason of the tall pollards that lean over them like spectres. Dickens-Land There, just in front of her was the pollarded acacia, behind which the murderer had cowered for an hour—on the watch. A Bride of the Plains The ground was perfectly flat and the outlines of several pollard willow stubs, with a bundle of small branches growing out of them, etched themselves on my memory. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders In their latter days these women resemble the pollard oaks, which linger on year after year, and finally fall from sheer decay. The Toilers of the Field The centre street of the village, near the church, is quaintly arched by a pair of elm trees, cropped and pollarded to meet overhead. Highways and Byways in Surrey The whole countryside is dotted over with this tree, so cut as to resemble the pollard willow. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Canals, in the shape of a capital L, with the foot reaching to the river, intersected prim gardens, and rows of little limes, pollarded like willows, edged the banks. Chelsea The Fascination of London Everywhere tall lines of elms and stubs of pollard willows filled the landscape. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders On this supposition, eight pounds of wheat yield seven of flour consumed by man, and one of pollard and bran which are given to animals—chiefly to poultry and pigs. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 ‘Do what?’ he said, and climbed the stile by the pollard oak. Puck of Pook’s Hill A mixture of pollard and palm-nut meal is an excellent fattening food. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock They stop presently at the most likely place, and Jeanne sits down under a pollard willow. Child Life In Town And Country 1909 Between them were a sea of hedges and green brown boles of pollard willows. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders An old pollard oak stood near it, and from the oak there came a low discordant sound; it was the hungry cry of young ravens, awaiting the belated return of the parent bird. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 The crow would no longer have a fee-simple of the oak, the jackdaw of the steeple, the rook of the elm, the fox of the burrow, or I of my pollard. Wood Magic A Fable The chaff has a small quantity of flour or pollard mixed with it, is moistened with water, and the whole mass turned over; this is done the day previous to using it. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Philip did “come on,” and the boys swam up stream towards the willow pollard which overhung the river about fifty yards off. Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home He looked wildly to the right, and saw that the pollard willows were rising just out of the water, like heads with the hair standing on end. The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne She went swiftly from me, and as the voices drew near I saw her pick her way noiselessly into one of the great ditches, and stand motionless in the water, obliterated against a pollard willow. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy So they all stood off a good way, except Sir Bevis, who came closer to the pollard to hear what the voters said, and to see that all was done fairly. Wood Magic A Fable In top-working, therefore, it is found necessary in order to get the cambium sufficiently active, to stub back the branches to mere pollards. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913 Two French divisions were promptly despatched to make use of that advantage, while at the same time an ambuscade was laid among the pollard willows which lined the ditches beyond the retreating Austrians. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) We see in his pages the trees of the wood moved by the wind; the willows by the water-courses; the fresh branches sprouting from the stock of the pollard oak or terebinth. The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 On either hand small red or white houses trend away in a broken line along the edge of a flat, grass common, backed by plantations of pollarded oak trees. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance "And I," said Kauc, the crow, settling down on a branch of the pollard. Wood Magic A Fable Many ouzels' nests are placed on the stumps of pollard trees, and in such cases the shoots which grow out of the stump often serve to hide the nest from view. Birds of the Indian Hills By the waterside stood pollarded trees, scraggy and black, ranged along the shore like naked negro boys, big-headed, with shaggy lumps of wool, hesitating before a plunge. The Car of Destiny This change may be frequently seen in the horse-chestnut, particularly in the young shoots formed after the trees have been pruned or pollarded. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Upon some rivers the willow would contest the position, perhaps, but Fate demands that it should run to pollard, and so get too high up in the world to be a close companion to man. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler I, myself, to begin with, I and my ancestors, for many generations, have held undisputed possession of this pollard. Wood Magic A Fable It was intensely still, and no sound broke the silence save the intermittent croaking of some bull-frogs in the dark shadows of the pollards on the further bank. A Master of Mysteries This meadow path was hidden—partly by the garden wall, and partly by the growth of alder and pollard at the side of the stream—and a man came marching along it, unobserved. Bulldog And Butterfly From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray The pollard was inwardly rotten to the core—a snug retreat for snakes, to which the only entrance was a water-way. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character They looked a little more sheepish when they took boat to the pollard tree swim and found two very young gentlemen with Hawkins seated in a punt. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler "Something must be done," said the owl, as he went down into the pollard to sleep the rest of the day. Wood Magic A Fable But if my wife did catch a zight O' zome queer pollard, or a post, Poor soul! she took en in her fright To be a robber or a ghost. Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect With this he turned upon his heel, and marching sturdily down the path and across the little bridge, disappeared behind the withies and pollards. Bulldog And Butterfly From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray The jack that lived in the deep below the pollard grinned, but said nothing. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character There is a line of pollarded willow trees down in that hollow, and the hounds have already left these behind them; they are rising the opposite ground. Kate Coventry An Autobiography The rook sat on the oak, no great way from the squirrel; Kauc, the crow, chose a branch of ash which projected close to the pollard. Wood Magic A Fable We landed in a soiled meadow among some pollards, and there smoked a pipe in a flaw of fair weather. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) The trees which lined the road were much lower, being indeed mere pollards, and allowed them to see the sky overhead. From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure Let’s see, opposite those three pollard willows in the big horseshoe bend. The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias The natural gracefulness of the mulberry foliage is entirely destroyed by the unmerciful pruning and pollarding which it undergoes in this country, in order to concentrate it for gathering. Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 Reynard, the fox, and Sec, the stoat, his friend, waited the approach of the king by some fern near the foot of the pollard. Wood Magic A Fable Some of our common oaks bear their leaves green all winter; but they are generally pollards, and such as are shelter’d in warm corners and hedge rows. Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees Some short distance to the left of this wood, very plainly visible on the high, rather bare hill, is a clump of pollarded trees near a few heaps of red brick. The Old Front Line When trees are pollarded, they make abundant lateral growth, but they cease to climb upward. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular Clarissa was thus forced to saunter alone, and after she had got to the brook and the pollards, she sat down, and leant her arms on the bars of an old farm gate. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes The king perched on the top of the pollard, just over the owl's window, and the eight magpies sat above and around, but always behind him. Wood Magic A Fable Ruth drew the old condemned cottages, with the long lines of pollarded marshy meadow, and distant bridge and mill in the background, but it was a sketch she never cared to look at afterwards. The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers On this side it is all canals, bogs, and pollards, and the eternal mud. Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Low, stunted and pollarded willows lining some distant ditch, with their thick trunks showing notched against a distant blue hill-side like a row of soldiers. Letters from France The pollard willows between here and Adinkerke are all being cut down to build trenches. My War Experiences in Two Continents Ki Ki perched on a tree at the side of the pollard, and his warriors ranged themselves around him: a terrible show, at which the mouse verily shrank into the ground. Wood Magic A Fable We had now reached a low waste of unenclosed land, with sedge and gorse pricking up everywhere through the snow, and with long lines of pollards marking the bed of a frozen stream. The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers Drake laughed and brought his craft alongside an old wharf near which an ancient farm-house stood, half-hidden by a huge pollard willow. Days of the Discoverers The land was flat as the palm of one's hand, its monotony relieved only by lines of pollarded willows on which some sappers had strung a field telephone. Leaves from a Field Note-Book "Have you found that anything is missing from here?" inquired Mrs. Farnum, while Mr. pollard searched and explained at the same time. The Submarine Boys' Trial Trip "Making Good" as Young Experts At these words Kapchack became as pale as death, and could not keep his perch upon the pollard, but fluttered down to the ground beside the weasel. Wood Magic A Fable Our path lay through much pollarded forest, troublesome to walk in, as the stumps send out leafy shoots. 26th November, 1872.—Started at daybreak. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi The frozen canal ran straight towards the sunset, into a flooded country where only a line of pollard willows, with here and there an alder, marked the course of its left bank. Hetty Wesley Large districts are kept to about the size of hop-poles, growing on pollards three or four feet from the ground, by charcoal burners, who, in all instances, are smiths too. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 Markham adds the whole straw wheat, the great brown pollard, the white pollard, the organ, the flaxen, and the chilter wheat. A Short History of English Agriculture The weasel, obedient to orders, lay still at the foot of the pollard, humbly hiding his head. Wood Magic A Fable Always too cloudy and rainy for observations of stars. 15th December, 1872.—The country is now level, covered with trees pollarded for clothing, and to make ashes of for manure. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi Scarcely any tree coppices more vigorously or makes more useful pollards on dry grass land. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 It is all covered with dense forest, which in many cases is pollarded, from being cut for bark cloth or for hunting purposes. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 That is, their tops are cut off, which makes a large crop of young shoots spring out, giving a shock-headed effect which in gnarled old pollards by river-banks is picturesque enough. Miscellanea Ilex very common, and much used for charcoal, the trunk being eight to ten inches in diameter; almost all are pollarded. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries The garden was perfectly still, with tomb-like avenues, pollard poplars, and trampled lawns—half dead. The Cathedral Trees he endures only so long as they are obedient and equidistant: he likes them in avenues or straight lines; if they grow otherwise they must be pollarded. A Wanderer in Holland He stood so long that the day died, and twilight began to rub out first the hills and then the long, white lines of flooded meadow and blurred pollard willows. Red Pottage There is a pollard oak growing close to a small pool; you, no doubt, have noticed the spot often. Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood Hals would have approved—would he not?—the pollard aspens, these pollard aspens deciduous and wistful, which the rime makes glistening. A Christmas Garland The only trees are dwarfish pollards, reduced to bare trunks with thin tufts of green atop by the practice of stripping off the sprouts every two or three years to make fodder for the goats. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 These millions of pollarded willows which one sees from the line have a deeper significance than might ever be guessed at: it is they that are keeping out Holland’s ancient enemy, the sea. A Wanderer in Holland Like some pollard oak, he seemed all knotted with muscle and vigour. The Fall of the Grand Sarrasin Being a Chronicle of Sir Nigel de Bessin, Knight, of Things that Happed in Guernsey Island, in the Norman Seas, in and about the Year One Thousand and Fifty-Seven From almost any of the upper windows the pollard oak could be seen. Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood They are a little chapped with the north-west wind that makes the pollard aspens to quiver. A Christmas Garland At one point, where pollarded trees stand like a Hobbema sketch against the sky, a group of officers were coursing a hare, following a big black hound on horseback. Carry On Letters in War-Time In a hedge that joined a wood, and about a hundred yards from it, there was a pleasant hiding-place beside a pollard ash. The Amateur Poacher The nails are cut, the cuttings carefully wrapped in paper, and placed in the hollow of a pollard ash, concealed from the birds; when the paper decays, the warts disappear. Notes and Queries, Number 30, May 25, 1850 A man was pacing slowly up and down an avenue of pollarded limes which divided the rose-garden from the park. Elizabeth's Campaign The brook, which fed the pond, was fringed by ancient pollard willows; it wound through luxuriant meadows with ploughed land or cornfields still farther back. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor The nest is neat and cup-shaped, placed in the forks of bushes or pollard trees, and is composed externally of the dried stalks of forget-me-not, lined with fine grass-stalks. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 The pollard, indeed, was dead inside, and near the ground the black touch-wood showed. The Amateur Poacher The line dwindled as the shorn pollards gave up their withes to bind the vines to the dwarf maples. The Collectors There is a row of pollarded willows standing parallel to our front, a hundred and fifty yards away. The First Hundred Thousand These irregular brooks, bordered throughout their whole course with pollard willows, made a charming feature and gave great character to the picture. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor It was in a pollard tree beside a stream among some thick branches about 20 feet from the ground. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 It was another magnificent chance; but again three pollard willows interfered, and as I fired the bark flew off one of them in small strips. The Amateur Poacher I will,—the day these pollards send forth shoots! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 9, 1890 And another time he spoke with passionate dislike of the pollarded trees, because such things are unknown on Tweedside. Penny Plain They were then well furnished with long and heavy poles, which were severed close to the head of the pollard with a sharp axe. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor The country, too, is sufficiently well wooded; and apple and pear trees every where take the place of the pollard oaks and elms of our hedge-rows. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 I leaned mine against a hollow withy pollard, and called 'ready.' The Amateur Poacher This word well describes the appearance of old pollard willows after they have been cropped; but its full propriety may escape notice. Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems By and by came a line of stunted pollards, a hamlet, and a little dreary cemetery. In the Days of My Youth The roots of the pollard willows helped to keep them to their regular path by holding up the banks, but sometimes when an old tree fell into the water it had an opposite result. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor Following it, they passed over a small tributary stream that wound between lines of pollard willows, and so headed off to their right and regained the Avon's bank. True Tilda When we reach the double-mound, his talk entirely ceases: he is as silent and as rugged as a pollard oak. The Amateur Poacher Then pollard itself is from poll, and means an animal that has lost its horns as well as a tree that has been 'pollarded'. Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems Here and there rises a line of pollard willows or clipt elms, and now and then a church spire. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 The miserable ranks of distorted and pollarded trees stood sadly in pools of yellow-stained water, or stuck out of heaps of half-melted and uncleanly snow. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil When all the roots were grated, I filled the two bags closely with the pollard, and my wife sewed the ends up firmly. The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island Some of the lesser birds have crept into the ivy around the elms, and which crowns the tops of the withy pollards. The Amateur Poacher But Simon Attwood went down to the river, and sat upon a flat stone under some pollard willows, and looked into the water. Master Skylark Poultry will eat the meal of them, if it is steeped in hot water, and mixed with an equal quantity of pollard. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 The rows of Willows, so frequent by the way-side where the road passes over a wet meadow, afford the most common examples of the pollard forms. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 When I thought the pressure was complete, we relieved the bags from the lever, and opening one, drew out a handful of the pollard, still rather moist, resembling coarse maize-flour. The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island Both Orion's followed; but the distance, the intervening pollard willows, or our excitement spoilt the aim. The Amateur Poacher The young have been taught to admire the laurels of Parnassus, but only after they have been clipped and pollarded like a Dutch shrubbery. Literary and General Lectures and Essays Patrick's deft pencil was constantly at work, taking graphic notes of "glorious bits" Dilapidated farm-buildings, old windmills, pollarded willows, were rapidly noted, to be afterwards revisited and made immortal by his brush. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight. The War of the Worlds Behind my dugout was a rapid small stream, on its far bank a row of pollard willows, then 30 yards of field, then a road with two parallel rows of high trees. In Flanders Fields and Other Poems There was a little stream, with pollards on both sides of it, that ran through green fields, and it made him happy, he knew not why, to wander along its banks. Of Human Bondage They had moored their boat one night under a bank veiled in high grasses and short pollarded trees. The Innocence of Father Brown To him the houses, the willows, the obscure fields beyond, were apparently regarded not as brick residences, pollards, meadows; but as human dwellings in the abstract, vegetation, and the wide dark world. Jude the Obscure At last she got away, and did not stop in her retreat till she was in the thicket of pollard willows at the lower side of the barton, where she could be quite unseen. Tess of the d'Urbervilles Smokeless chimney-stacks deleted whole pages of stars, but put me more in mind of pollards rising out of these rigid valleys, and sprouting with telephone wires that interlaced for foliage. Mr. Justice Raffles Calmly thou standest now Upon thy sunny mound; The first spring breezes flow Past with sweet dizzy sound; Yet on thy pollard top the branches few Stand stiffly out, disdain to murmur too. Georgian Poetry 1918-19 But methinks I see the man for whom we wait coming down under the shadow of yonder line of pollard willows.' Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arabella smiled grimly as she resumed her way, and practised dimple-making all along the road from where the pollard willows begin to the old almshouses in the first street of the town. Jude the Obscure The pollard willows, tortured out of their natural shape by incessant choppings, became spiny-haired monsters as they stood up against it. Tess of the d'Urbervilles Two officers in general's undress uniform were walking up and down under the pollarded lime-trees, talking as they walked. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places She had seated herself on a bench that commanded a view of the river, and her dreaming eyes were looking far away along the dim perspective of mist and water, bare pollard willows, ragged sedges. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger Somewhat bare, flat, and treeless was the route along which our journey lay; and slimy canals crept, like half-torpid green snakes, beside the road; and formal pollard willows edged level fields, tilled like kitchen-garden beds. Villette A pollard willow stood close to the place, and that willow was different from all other willows in the world. Jude the Obscure The dreary pollard- willows had vanished, and evergreens occupied their places. Run to Earth A Novel Brian had been fastening his boat to a pollard willow as he talked. The Golden Calf But here it was, in this cavern, that he elaborated his system of reform, treating Christianity as a French peasant treats an oak tree, pollarding it, and lopping off every lateral, natural outgrowth. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe The pollards along the brooks grew lovely to his heart, and were not the less lovely when he came to understand that they were not so lovely as God had meant them to be. A Rough Shaking From the bosom of the marsh itself, rose bulrushes and pollard willows, towered over by gigantic noisy reeds. A Love Story But he has left out the pollard willows, says another censor, and the lines of pollard willow are the prominent feature in the valley of the Colne, even more so than the "hedgerow elms." Milton The bow window looked out upon the garden and across the garden to the Thames, which at this point took a wide curve between banks shaded by old pollard willows. The Golden Calf Even the stems of the pollard willows were white, but only on the side against which the wind had blown. Dame Care Their wooden shoes clattered softly in the powdery sand of the white road; when they had gone very far, their voices still rang loud and their figures looked like wandering pollards. The Path of Life There was a rustle under the boughs of the old hollow-hearted pollard- tree. My Novel — Volume 11 On the right the bank was lined with willows which, not having been pollarded for many years, stretched their long, thin branches well over the river. The Yeoman Adventurer One summer afternoon about five years after his first coming to the Potwell Inn Mr. Polly found himself sitting under the pollard willow fishing for dace. The History of Mr. Polly Alas, on the man’s left hand an old pollard leant into the water, barring all downward movement. Prose Idylls, New and Old There was one row of pollards where they always began laying first. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Faith is an oak that may be a pollard, and yet live. Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. A winding river flowed down through the midst of this valley, very quiet and smooth, and brimming its grassy banks, where were alder and sedge and long rows of pollard willows overreaching the water. The Story of the Champions of the Round Table For breakfast we had pollard, boys, it tasted like cobbler’s paste. The Old Bush Songs The best fisherman, however, will come to shame in streams bordered by pollard willows, and among queer nooks, which can be only fished down-stream. Prose Idylls, New and Old On the pollard willows the long wands are yellow-ruddy in the passing gleam of sunshine, the first colour of spring appears in their bark. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies The islands are thickly clothed with tamarisks and pollarded acacias and stone pines, and are reputed to be somewhat malarial. With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement While he was a prisoner, his brother Charles caused all the limes in the avenue at Brambridge to be pollarded, and sold the tops for gun stocks. John Keble's Parishes Up in the pollard ashes and willows here and there wood-pigeons built. The Life of the Fields The leaves of some pollarded willows whitened when the breeze shot them up to the light, and a moment after became quite distinct in the glare and the steam of an approaching engine. Spring Days "Hallo!" exclaimed the groom, as they halted under shelter of a pollard willow. Under the Storm The clumsy pollards were each one mass of undivided green. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood Gaffer Bartram had seemed as much a part of their lives as the sun or the wind or the old pollard willow. Masters of the Guild Beyond it is an oak, just apart from the bushes; then the ground gently rises, and an ancient pollard ash, hollow and black inside, guards an open gateway like a low tower. The Life of the Fields "Shoo! shoo!" cried Watty, contemptuously; but he found that shoo'ing horns was useless; the beast still butted furiously against the harmless pollard. Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 She was twenty-three years old, and had been engaged to a prosperous young man at Bungay in the meal and pollard line, to whom old Ruggles had promised to give £500 on their marriage. The Way We Live Now The pollards did not look half so dreary. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood It stands in what was once a very pretty and charming little park, with an ancient avenue of pollard trees, lime and elm. At Large Nearly half way home, under a great, old pollard ash, we saw a little brown figure. My Young Alcides Seeing no prospect of escape by leaping stile or hedge, he hopped the green turf like an encaged lark, and happily reached a pollard in the midst of the meadow. Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 But Ruby had taken it into her foolish young head that she did not like meal and pollard, and now she had received the above very dangerous letter. The Way We Live Now But, as I have said, I had not yet learned to honour pollards, and therefore they made me more miserable than I was already. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood The river flowed lazily beneath the pollard willows, as if complaisant enough to let these see their reflection in the water. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl Around the keep stretched the new-ploughed fields and the pollarded mulberry orchards; but these, with the clustered hovels of the village, formed a mere islet in the surrounding waste of marsh and woodland. The Valley of Decision It was raining hard now, and the wind hummed drearily through the pollarded trees. The Vultures It's no more use my going down about meal and pollard, nor business, and she up here with that baro-nite,—no, no more nor nothin'! The Way We Live Now Quoth the irrepressible weaver: “Dear neighbour, since you knew the Forest some time ago, could you tell me what truth there is in the rumour that in the nineteenth century the trees were all pollards?” News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance Although incapable of feeling, her mind noted trivial things with photographic accuracy—a bit of straw on a bush, a white cloud near the sun, the lonely appearance of an isolated pollard willow. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl The country mostly arable, with rows of elm and maple pollard. The Valley of Decision They were passing through a plain now, broken here and there by pollarded trees, great spaces of marsh-land, with big, low-roofed farms standing back on the slightly rising ground. The Vultures He was able to make out a bill for meal or pollards, but did little beyond that in the way of writing letters. The Way We Live Now The son of one of them, a wood-cutter, was perched high above their heads, pollarding one of the churchyard elms. Howards End The son of one of them, a wood-cutter, was perched high above their heads, pollarding one of the churchyard elms.� Howards End Only the walnuts and the great oaks, some of them pollards of a thousand years of age, remained stark and stern in their winter dress. A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa Then they went to the pollard, and as Giles's hand was hurt the Red-faced Man climbed up it, though Giles tried to prevent him. The Mahatma and the Hare You see that pollard about one hundred and forty yards off? Maiwa's Revenge "Then why oughtn't the elms in the churchyard to be pollarded?" Howards End Just before the window was a row of pollard trees, looking black on one side and with a silvery light on the other. War and Peace The hedge folded around three sides of it, while ancient pollard elms bent over it, and chequered with their foliage in it the reflection of the sky. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Grampus stretched his hand down into the hollow of the pollard and dragged up a rotting fox by its tail. The Mahatma and the Hare One or two old pollards almost conceal the winding road that leads down the descent, by the side of which a spring as bright as crystal runs gurgling along. Our Village After he had gone about a mile it narrowed to pursue its way between two broad ditches lined with pollard willows and brimful of brown peaty water. Okewood of the Secret Service The first time we met, to speak, he was sitting with his back against a pollard willow, smoking a clay pipe. Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green When she had secured it she fastened one end of her rope around the stump of an old pollard squatting on the bank like a sturdy gnome, and the other end she knotted around herself. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard "There's an old pollard, Squire, about five yards away down near the fence, which is hollow and handy," said Giles. The Mahatma and the Hare A great pollard oak it was, standing upon the very edge of the stream, easily distinguishable by its unusual size and the fact that at some time or another it had been riven by lightning. My Lady Caprice Cattle were grazing here and there, and a windmill rose in the distance above the pollard willows that fringed the low horizon. Armadale It would be far more sensible if there were tall pines and fine oaks growing here instead of sickly-looking lime-trees, yellow acacias, and skimpy pollard lilacs. The Wife, and other stories On this sad day of which I write I knew that Lily, whom I loved, would be walking alone beneath the great pollard oaks in the park of Ditchingham Hall. Montezuma's Daughter When he had got to a canal where the pollard willows were already sending out their tiny red buds, Henri sat down again. The Amazing Interlude The mysterious wind of will drove me to you, as the tempest brings the little rose-tree to the pollard window. Modeste Mignon I pointed to where our village lay, on the flat in-shore among the alder-trees and pollards, a mile or more from the church. Great Expectations |
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