They seem all to be just startled from their sleep by the sound you made when you unloosed the brazen clasps, and opened the curiously-carved oaken covers, that turn on hinges, like the great gates of a city.
Breakfast was soon ready, and was served up at the head of the stairs, on an old-fashioned oaken table in the great hall, into which the chambers opened.
There he sat staring before him, for the sudden vision of Gyp sitting on that oaken chest, at the foot of her bed, had blotted the girl clean out.
Then the Macedonians, running to him, desired to be told his password, and some put oaken boughs upon their heads, because they saw them worn by the soldiers about him.
Claire crossed her arms and set her back to the oaken panels.
Once King of England, he held the title to the last, and in defence of it broke his power against the oaken bulwarks of that stiff-necked isle.
She could have brained him with a blow--the angle of that solid oaken seat crashing down upon the shining bald head which harboured so many secrets and had worked out so many plots.
No, the Abbe John was uneasy because he wished to move his little three-legged stool nearer to the black oaken settle at the corner of which sat Claire Agnew.
The Professor of Eloquence, stung by the affront, lifted his only weapon, a stout oaken cudgel.
He mutters something inaudible, that carries no blessing in its tone, but yet, as though fascinated by her beauty, he stands still and follows each step she takes upon the polished oaken flooring.
She acknowledges unwillingly the fact that she comprehends this meaning by a sign, silent but perceptible: she colors deeply, and, still looking down, continues her tattoo upon the oaken flooring of the corridor.
The isle is flat, and in the midst I saw Dun smoke ascending from an oaken bow'r.
It was a long and low apartment, with oaken walls, grown dark in the continual smoke, and a floor which was thickly sanded, but of no immaculate purity.
A heavy oaken table and two forms were in the middle of the room, and there was the dreary, fusty smell of want of habitation.
The high-backed oaken chairs had been pushed out of their places; the green-cloth cover had been drawn half off the massive table, and hung in trailing folds upon the ground.
Round the inscription hung oaken garlands, within each of which was written the name and date of the battles in which he had been engaged against the French.
You see, in fancy, the oaken chest in which that drapery has been kept for the last half century; and you wonder who is to wear it next.
Gathered and pressed on the right day; kept in the right temperature, the mellow juice holds its sweetness and tone far into the winter, and in the oaken staves leaves something of its savor to the contents of another year.
Meantime, the helper, whose name was Henry Jones, was hewing an oaken cross-beam which supported the ceiling, and which I could not pass under without violently knocking my head.
Observing Henry Jones though fully, I became convinced that the oaken frame of our house was nearly indestructible.
Mayhap he might acquaint me whether those rolls of paper left by Master Christopher in hisoaken chest be worth the ten shillings he died owing me.
I have no pretensions to such a valet (said Tom) but if you should do me that office, and overheat yourself, I have here a good oaken towel at your service.
After I had wandered through at least a half dozen more rooms, a lucky turn brought me into a spacious hall, from which descended a broad oakenstaircase adorned with antique carved work.
In the middle of the room stood a heavy oaken table, and on the table the great basket which Christel had brought from the town.
What sweetness, unto me More sweet than amber honey to the bee That builds in the oaken hole, And sucks the essential summer of the year To store with sweetest sweets her hollow tower?
In the centre of this apartment was placed a large oblong oaken table, covered with crimson velvet, and surrounded by a circle of high-backed chairs, with cushions covered with the same material.
Opening a drawer in her oaken press, she took out pen, ink, and paper, and sitting down at the table wrote a letter.
Miss Tranter awaited him, candle in hand, and preceding him up a short flight of ancient and crooked oaken stairs, showed him a small attic room with one narrow bed in it, scrupulously neat and clean.
Mary had taken a clean tablecloth from an oaken press, and was spreading it out for dinner.
Young Kullervo, quick preparing Made an oaken flail for threshing, Threshed the rye to finest powder, Threshed the barley into atoms, And the straw to worthless fragments.
The walls of the chapel were profusely ornamented with the richest carving; and the oaken panels of the chancel, were adorned with those exquisite festoons of fruit and flowers, so peculiarly English.
Round the table were placed beautifully carved oaken fauteuils, of a very old pattern.
The richly carved oaken confessional--now a reading desk--first attracted the attention.
The only entrance was guarded by an enormous gate of oaken planks, which were banded together with thick and broad bars of burnished bronze.
They worked their tough oaken propellers through upper and lower oar-holes in the side of the galley.
Old Rudulf's fist fell upon the table in a blow that split the oaken board.
Last of all, he mounted the great arch above the entrance, whose oaken doors stood ajar to welcome the retreating gate wardens.
The first look on many faces was one of resentment; but then, just beyond the oaken throne, Roland sprang up and came running with a cry of greeting: "Olvir!
The harp was shrouded and dumb upon the platform, the oaken floor polished and dark with the night-long slide of slippered feet.
From the top of the corral above the bear-cage they made shift to slide the oaken gate built across an opening into the adobe corral.
He picked up the oaken stick, examined it critically for the last time, although he knew well that it was polished smooth as glass from its work on other riatas, twisted the riata once around it and signed to the other peon.
To his left rose the dingy form of a thin, upright clock in an oaken case; beyond the clock, a spit and a musket were fastened in parallels to the wall.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oaken" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
