They have invaded some of our recent poetry as the canker-worms gather on our elms in June.
It has fine old woods, and noble elms to give dignity to its open spaces.
That is what I felt in my inmost brain and heart, when I only answer'd Emerson's vehement arguments with silence, under the old elms of Boston Common.
This life with Maggie, hidden away in Three Elms Farm, in the wilds of Holderness, it could not be called dissipation, but it was division.
Then he saw Steve seize her by force, and drag her back, over the fields, towards Three Elms Farm.
At Three Elms Farm he found Maggie waiting for him.
He was thinking of Three Elms Farm, and the garden and the orchard, and of the pure wind that blew over them straight from the sea.
Majendie had a small yacht moored in the creek, near where the path breaks off to Three Elms Farm.
Majendie had left the yacht lying in the creek with Pearson, Steve, and the boatswain on board, and was hurrying along the field path to Three Elms Farm.
Three tallelms stand side by side against it, sheltering it from the east, marking its humble place in the desolate land.
How he lingered by certain black waterpools hedged on every side by drooping wych-elms and black-stemmed alders, watching the faint waves widening to the banks as a leaf or a twig dropped from the trees.
He thought of his boyhood, and the old rectory, and the great elms that surrounded it.
There the wind swayed the great elms scattered on the sidewalk, the remnants of the old stately fields, and beneath each tree was a pool of wet, and a torment of raindrops fell with every gust.
He came one day into a lonely and unfrequented byway, a country lane falling into ruin, but still fringed with elms that had formed an avenue leading to the old manor-house.
Under the violent Provençal sun, the elms and beeches looked exotic trees, and in the early morning, when the mists were thick, the hills had put on an unearthly shape.
Breathing soft from the blue profound, Bearing delight where'er ye blow, Make in the elms a lulling sound, While my lady sleeps in the shade below.
Bearing delight where'er ye blow, Make in the elms a lulling sound, While my lady sleeps in the shade below.
Thanking what passed for his God, Haendl scuttled circuitously around the elms and joined Innison at the copter.
The old wheat field, south end, under the elms around the creek.
Up yonder a lark was singing, in adjoining spruce thickets we could hear the croodle of the ringdove, and in the swaying branches of the elms the solemn-looking rooks were already building their nests.
Yes, very beautiful," he answers, thinking of the stately oaks and aged elms and branching beeches that go so far to make up the glory of the ivied Towers.
I believe it's night that makes most people wicked; for fancy me going to meet Achille under theelms in broad daylight!
Nobody you know ever went down to the elms all alone by herself.
Our weather remains unparagoned; Mrs. Hastings is not more brilliant: the elms are evergreens.
I have lost two beautiful elms in a row before my windows here, and had the skylight demolished in town.
There are gardens attached to these houses, both in the front and the rear, and the smooth and peaceful roadside walks in the Grove itself are pleasantly shaded by elms of noble size and abundant foliage.
Yews and elms grow in the churchyard, and many a low tomb and many a leaning stone are there, in the shadow, gray with moss and mouldering with age.
Overhead a few light clouds are drifting, and the green boughs of the great elms are gently stirred by a breeze from the west.
While residing in Boston, Mr. Deblois planted some elms in front of the Granary, just opposite his house on Tremont Street.
In front of one of them are some fine large English elms probably planted by Gov.
Other elms of this stock were also planted, but those received by Mr. Gilbert Deblois became the most celebrated.
He guarded the infant elms very carefully and the "Gleaner" tells of his darting across the street upon one occasion and vigorously shaking an idle boy who was making free with one of the sacred saplings.
You cannot lift your eyes but they rest upon some building raised two centuries and more ago; the shade which ripples under your feet is cast by elms planted by that very hand of the past.
The fine old elms which adorned it are gone now, as have the fine old associations.
In October the superb English elms on Boston Common are still bright green, while their American cousins have passed into "the sere and yellow leaf.
THE ELMS Elms of sixteen distinct species are native to boreal and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with this single exception: western North America is without a representative.
Three of the five native elms are called water elm; three are called red elm; three are called rock elm.
It is as far removed from elmsand oaks as sheep are from cattle and horses.
The wise promoter will alternate slow-growing maples and elms with the poplars so that these permanent trees will be ready to take their places in a few years.
Overhead, the elms and chestnuts hang their wealth of golden leaves, while the beeches darken into russet tones, and the wild-cherry glows like blood-red wine.
There elms and poplar-trees and vines embower them with the pleasant verdure of rustling leaves and the perfumes of summer flowers and autumn fruits.
The intense quiet was only broken by the cawing of the rooks in the giant elms overhead, the squeaking of the rats, and the low grumbling of my uncle's voice as he pointed out the ruin that was creeping over everything.
She explained that her purpose was rest; intellectual strain had begun rather to tell upon her, and a few days of absolute tranquillity, such as she might expect under the elms of Brent Hall, would do her all the good in the world.
Just as they reached the eastern outlet of the churchyard--where the tall elms cast a pleasant shade over the rustic graves--a momentary stoppage took place.
The wind blew in fitful gusts, and scattered the yellow leaves from the elms and horse-chestnuts.
A row of magnificent, and even then venerable, elmsthrew their broad arms over this pleasant spot.
They never went out, except on Wednesdays to the Whittakers', when the indomitable Mrs. Ambrose strode unaided under the splendid elms to Willow House and laboured by stages up the narrow stairs.
The houses and the tall trees and the great old elms by William Morris' house stood rigid on their heads in the still water, and all that wide and comfortable reach between the Island and Hammersmith Bridge was beautiful in the late sun.
The shade here was not sufficient, however, and hence I went a little lower down the stream with Czar and my two turkeys, where I found a cooler resting-place under a group of elms and oaks.
Wherever the eye turned it fell on herds of deer, that were sheltering themselves from the burning sun under isolated elms and mosquito trees, and rose on our approach to be ready for flight.
Many years since, Bob Hayward died, and now None passes there because the mist and the rain Out of the elms have turned the lane to slough And gloom, the name alone survives, Bob's Lane.
All along the lane He planted elms where now the stormcock sings That travellers hear from the slow-climbing train.
Spring was much more like Spring in these wooded hollows; the noise of bees in the blossom of the elms was murmurous as limes in June.
After all, human beings would soon be degraded to wax-works if they could be lectured upon individually in this tranquil and sunny room to the sound of rooks cawing in the elms beyond the Deanery garden.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
