English example sentences with "Oaks"

From acorns come oaks.

The morning after I arrived there, I took a walk into the woods of oaks.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

I told him that those ten thousand oaks would look grand in thirty years.

Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm.

A more barbarous form of these rejoicings took place among the rude peoples of the north where great blocks of wood blazed in honor of Odin and Thor, and sacrifices of men and cattle were made to them. Mistletoe was cut then from the sacred oaks with a golden sickle by the Prince of the Druids.

"There are various classes of Nymphs, my girl," he said, "the Melians, who dwell among the ash-groves, the Dryads, who preside over the oaks, and the Eloean Nymphs, who are guardians of the lakes."

From acorns grow oaks.

Suddenly we looked down into a cup-like depression, patched with stunted oaks and furs which had been twisted and bent by the fury of years of storm. Two high, narrow towers rose over the trees. The driver pointed with his whip. “Baskerville Hall,” said he.

Little strokes fell big oaks.

The house is a bit more than an hour away in the forest, under three large oaks.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

These oaks are over a hundred years old.

Oaks, amber, and white wagtails are some of the natural symbols that appear in Latvian ornaments and decorations.

Oaks, pines and birches grow in these woods.

Oaks, pines and birches grow in this wood.

Oaks, pines and birches grow in this forest.

Truffles are fungi that live in symbiosis with the roots of several plants, such as oaks, nut trees, beeches, poplars, and willows.

Tall oaks from little acorns grow.

Oaks can host more than 500 different kinds of caterpillars—an amazing factoid that I just looked up.

Several large families of Indians encamped under the shade of large oaks on the prairie, the boughs of the latter being their only covering.