 | Gilbert White - 1868 - 228 pages
...called The Plestor.* In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak, with a short squat body, and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity...tree, surrounded with stone steps, and seats above t hrm, was the delight of old and young, and a place of much resort in summer evenings; where thy former... | |
 | 1872 - 196 pages
...and venerable oak, under whose branches monks had counted their beads, and which, for centuries, " was the delight of old and young, and a place of much resort in the summer evenings, where the former sat in grave debate, whilst the latter frolicked and danced before... | |
 | Gilbert White, Francis Trevelyan Buckland, Roundell Palmer Earl of Selborne - 1875 - 664 pages
...read thus : — " In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak with a short squat body, and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity...while the latter frolicked and danced before them." When standing in the Plestor the idea suddenly struck me that the song of " The Old Oak-Tree," which... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1875 - 698 pages
...The Plestor ." In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak, with a short squat body, and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity...debate, while the latter frolicked and danced before 1 Ulmiu montanus of modern botanists, and the common elm of the north of England and Scotland. It is... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1876 - 418 pages
...called the Plestor. In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak, with a short squat body and huge horizontal arms, extending almost to the...of the area. This venerable tree, surrounded with stono steps, and seats above them, was the delight of old and young, and a place of much resort in... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1877 - 588 pages
...called Tlie Plestor* In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak, with a short squat body, and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity...of much resort in summer evenings; where the former satin grave debate, while * [On the grounds now belonging to the place, and at about fifty yards from... | |
 | George Nelson Godwin - 1882 - 246 pages
...for we are told, ' In the midst of this spot stood in old times a vast oak, with a short, squat body, and huge horizontal arms, extending almost to the...extremity of the area/ This venerable tree, surrounded by white stone steps, and seats above them, was the delight of old and young, and a place of much resort... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1883 - 554 pages
...called the Plestor. In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak, with a short squat body and huge horizontal arms, extending almost to the...the delight of old and young, and a place of much report in summer evenings ; where the former sat in grave debate, while the latter frolicked and danced... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1884 - 604 pages
...called The Plestor.2 In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak, with a short squat body, and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity...debate, while the latter frolicked and danced before 1 Ulmus montanus of modern botanists, and the common elm of the north of England and Scotland. It is... | |
 | 1884 - 160 pages
...White says : — In the midst of this spot stood in old times a vast oak with a short squat body aud huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity of the area. This remarkable tree was surrounded with stone steps and seats above them, and was the delight of old and... | |
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In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak, with a short squat body, and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity of the area. This venerable tree, surrounded with stone steps, and seats above them, was the delight of old... 
