And here the youth who bore the palm away By wrestling, racing, or in chariot swift, With beechenbough was crown'd.
They determined on walking round Beechen Cliff, that noble hill whose beautiful verdure and hanging coppice render it so striking an object from almost every opening in Bath.
Down to a beechen hollow winds the track And tunnels past my twilit bivouac: Two spiring wisps of smoke go singly up And scarcely tremble in the leafy air.
Additional confirmation seems afforded by the fact that in certain places in England boys call beechen tops "bacons.
How dear to me was that humble cot with its straw-thatched roof from which the swallows sprang to greet the breaking day; where the stock-dove hung its nest in the beechen shade, and morning breezes brought perfume to its threshold.
Cowley alludes to this in the words-- "He sings the Bacchus, patron of the Vine, The Beechen bowl foams with a flood of wine.
The connection of the tree with the god Bacchus appears to have been confined to its employment in the manufacture of bowls for wine in the happy time when "No wars did men molest, and only Beechen bowls were in request.
The thick beechen stick had been feeling uncomfortably heavy in my invalid hand for some time past.
Silas was swinging a stout beechen stick in his hand, and was speaking to Jago, coarsely and insolently enough, of his moonlight meeting with Naomi on the previous night.
It was the heavy beechen stick which I had snatched out of Silas's hand, and which I had restored to Ambrose on his claiming it as his own.
Here her virgin lap with treasures Shall the green earth fill-- Waving wheat and golden maize-ears Crown each beechen hill.
Here her virgin lap with treasures Shall the green earth fill, Waving wheat and golden maize-ears Crown each beechen hill.
Full drowsily the white lambs bleat, And tinkling bell-notes faintly beat The languid air where Lacon lies In beechen shade.
Thou sang'st the simple feasts of old,-- The beechenbowl made glad with wine .
In beechen shade the hours are sweet, By mist-veiled morn or noonday heat (And sweeter still when daylight dies) So soft the wandering streamlet sighs In passage musical and fleet.
Half-sunk in sleep beneath the beechen boughs, Where thin the wood-gnats ail.
The path through your labyrinth to itsbeechen heart was hard to find," he continued, "but I can easily retrace it.
Poor Audrey, who hath never been to a ball; who only dances with the elves, beneath the moon, around a beechen tree!
Before our beechenwoods were so much destroyed we had myriads of them, reaching in strings for a mile together as they went out in a morning to feed.
I may keep my stream-- Yet would I barter beechen wood and little singing beck If I could fold my arms once more around my sweetheart's neck.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beechen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
