As you approach the village, while it is yet unseen, you observe a tall, overshadowing canopy of elm-tree tops, beneath which you almost hesitate to follow the public road, on account of the remoteness that seems to exist between the precincts of this old-world community and the thronged modern street out of which you have so recently emerged.

He stood at the door and followed him down the walk with his eyes, watching him as he wentnow disappearing behind the blossoms of an apple-tree, now climbing one of the little mounds, and now getting up into the elm-tree, and looking about him on all sides, his sickly face absolutely shining with pleasure.

So there remained in the nest in the maple stump four little helpless orphan bluebirds, and in the swaying nest in the elm-tree over the brook were four young orioles with only the mother bird to care for them.

All things are newthe buds, the leaves, That gild the elm-tree's nodding crest, And even the nest beneath the eaves There are no birds in last year's nest.

The front of the house was well shaded by maples and near the gate stood a giant elm-tree, around the trunk of which ran a circular seat.

There was an old elm-tree which Colin had taken for his Summer god, and which he was never tired of painting.

And gallant robin, when thou seest her pass, Trill out thy merriest lay her ears to greet; And elm-tree branches, drooping low above her, Whisper to her that I came by and love her.

In spite of these inharmonious tendencies in Browning, his poetry at times shows a lyric lightness, such as is heard in these lines: "Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In Englandnow!"

Sir Launcelot said: "Yea, Lady, and there she hangs, caught by her lunes in yonder elm-tree.

The sun was almost down by now, and its slanting rays slid lengthwise through the elm-tree aisles along our route.

Well do I remember the patriarchal appearance which you presented, seated in your own garden, (I think you took the prize for pompions at the county exhibition soon after,) under your own wide-spreading elm-tree, reading for facts in one of those confounded cigars, with which, being proof against them yourself, you were in the habit of poisoning your friends.

Do you recollect how close the great elm-tree boughs come to your window?" "I can put out my hand and nearly reach them," said Moppet; "you remember Reuben cut the bough nearest, but oh, Betty, the tree has a limb which runs an arm's length only from the north chamber.

From here was one of the loveliest views in the place, for our mother had made a wide opening under the arched bough of a fine elm-tree which stood like a grand old sentinel in the foreground.

She walked on with Mrs. Villars in silence until they came under the shade of the elm-tree walk, and then, fixing her eyes upon Mrs. Villars, she stopped short.

I felt, therefore, no surprise when I saw that I was approaching, through a field at the back of my garden, the old elm-tree.

It was as natural as possible for Burr to commence talking with the Doctor on scenes and incidents in the family of President Edwards, and his old tutor, Dr. Bellamy,and thence to glide on to the points of difference and agreement in theology, with a suavity and deference which acted on the good man like a June sun on a budding elm-tree.

" When the apparition disappeared in the house by the side door, Sandy stood in the yard for several minutes, under the shade of an elm-tree, before he could make up his mind to enter the house.

They come from a little town I the northwestern corner of the State, on the Ohio River, named Hendersonnamed from that Richard Henderson who in the year 1775 bought about half of Kentucky from the Cherokees, and afterwards, as president of his purchase, addressed the first legislative assembly ever held in the West, seated under a big elm-tree outside the wall of Boonsborough fort.

It carried him down with the speed of a mill-race, Lincoln raised his voice above the roar of the flood, and yelled to Carman to swim for an elm-tree which stood almost in the channel, which the action of the high water changed.

There was a very large elm-tree before the door, with steps to climb up, and seats among the branches.

There the great elm-tree, with its ladder of exposed roots, stretched over the water.

Ten minutes later the boys were diving from the roots of the elm-tree into the deep water on the other side of the creek.

They were following Piggy's dare, dropping into the water from the overhanging limb of the elm-tree.

The boys in the water swam noiselessly upstream to the roots of the elm-tree, where he saw them looking at his disgrace.

Where the far elm-tree shadows flood Dark patches in the burning grass, The cows, each with her peaceful cud, Lie waiting for the heat to pass.