It is hardly probable that a cornel tree would stand in a thronged city for nearly seven hundred years; and it is, therefore, most likely, that care was taken to renovate it from time to time, by planting slips from the former tree.
In autumn the cornel again becomes conspicuous in the woodlands by reason of its clusters of coral-red fruit.
I'll no say but it's offensive in a man: putting up so long with the Cornel and his ways of thinking, I'm no a bad authority on that.
Baith the Corneland his lady used to tell me that.
Fixed in the wound the Italian cornel stood, Warmed in his lungs, and in his vital blood.
At once the cornelrattled in the skies; At once tumultuous shouts and clamours rise.
For hard by the place where he did sacrifice there was a little hill, with much cornel and myrtle upon it, whereto Aeneas coming would have plucked wands having leaves upon them, that he might cover therewith the altars.
Each also had two javelins of cornel wood, and some had quivers on their shoulders, and each a collar of gold that lay on the top of his breast.
Forth whizzed the cornel through the air, cleaving its way aright, And therewithal great noise outbreaks, and every wedge of fight Is turmoiled, and the hearts of men are kindled for the fray.
On his smooth grey head he wore a soft felt hat, the brim turned up round the crown at the back but pulled out to a long point in front, and he carried a toughcornel stick in his right hand.
English cornel or dogwood (Cornus mas) has been planted in many parts of this country.
Soldiers whom Newcastle's bred, View your Cornelat your head, Who's been call'd out of his bed To serve his Country.
I could see that, though I little thought he belounged to my honoured Cornel of the ould Hunderd, and a credit to his relations and al' his friends.
Kennedy, rising with a little reluctance; "I said to mysel' theCornel behooved to have his own occasions here.
At the worst, did I ever tell a man he could rise to be Cornel but by a steedy life and doing his duty?
I now began to notice the bright red berries of the tree-cranberry, which grows eight or ten feet high, mingled with the alders and cornel along the shore.
Your father was a common so'dier and his was cornel o' the regiment!
He may be your late husband, mem, but he's my cornel yet, and I s' keep my word til him!
It would seem as though its place in North Britain was taken by a herbaceous species, the Dwarf Cornel (Cornus suecica), which grows upon Alpine moorlands from Yorkshire as far north as Sutherlandshire.
One such I examined, green with growing moss, and stark at the lowermost branch-tip of an unleafed cornel sapling, and I could not have determined its age save for a tiny weed-shoot germinating from the bottom of the cup.
The winter fare is also supplemented by cornel berries and the fruit of certain hardy shrubs.
I first saw his big, square-jowled, short-muzzled head peering out between some low cornel bushes, his brown eyes regarding me questioningly.
In the fever of his triumph at every step he flourished his thick cornel stick as if it had been a gory mace.
Uncle Cyprien who was walking straight to the carriage, flourishing his thick reddish cornel stick.
The lustrous indigo of the silky cornel hangs there in profusion.
There is also a berry of a bluish white colour, the produce of the white cornel tree, which is named musquameena, bear-berry, because these animals are said to fatten on it.
The dwarf Canadian cornel bears a corymb of red berries which are highly ornamental to the woods throughout the country but are not otherwise worthy of notice for they have an insipid farinaceous taste and are seldom gathered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cornel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
