A happy day it would be for the Seneschal of Auvergne when they should learn that the last yew bow was over the marches.
The bow was made in England: Of true wood, of yew wood, The wood of English bows; So men who are free Love the old yew tree And the land where the yew tree grows.
Each had a yew or hazel stave slung over his shoulder, plain and serviceable with the older men, but gaudily painted and carved at either end with the others.
Mrs. Lambert was sitting in a yew parlour under a blue silk umbrella that was almost a pavilion, and she received them with many comments upon the energy of walking so far on this hot afternoon.
Mrs. Lambert asked, when they joined her again in theyew parlour.
At the point where they stood, the Manor House was hidden from view, and only the squat old tower of the church was visible, and the yew tree rising above the wall against the golden field.
The graveyard of Stoke Revel owned a yew tree, so very, very old that the count of its years was lost and had become a fable or a fairy tale.
I wish you would come into the music-room and sing to me," said Tom, struck with a bright idea.
If we capsized yew we should capsize ourselves too, and what's more, our missuses at home, and that wouldn't do.
I'm going tew put yewchaps aboard o' that schooner if I sail on for a week.
Guess yew arn't got such a thing as a saw in your pocket, hev you, either on yew?
Shakespeare also refers to the custom of sticking yew in the shroud in the following song in "Twelfth Night" (Act ii.
The yew has from time immemorial been planted in churchyards besides being used at funerals.
The door pillars were of red yew curiously carved, having feet of bronze and capitals of carved silver, and the lintel above was a straight bar of pure silver.
She towered above her aged companion, straight as a pillar of red yew in a king's house.
By his thigh hung a short sword in a sheath of red yew and beside it the polished and nigh transparent horn of the Urus, suspended in a baldrick of knitted thread of bronze.
Hollies suffered especially, but even yew and rhododendron, oak, sycamore, and chestnut did not escape.
Greenfinches (green linnets in Cheshire) abound; in early spring they are more than usually conspicuous, as in their brightest feather they pursue one another in and out among the hollies and dark yew hedges.
In October, 1910, there was a cock that used to amuse himself by sitting for half an hour at a time on the broad top of a clipped yew hedge.
Even in the principal use the Yew was put to, the tree maintained its connection with death, for from its wood man fashioned an instrument of warfare and destruction.
The Breton nobles were long accustomed to offer up a prayer beneath the branches of a venerable Yew which grew in the cloister of Vreton, in Brittany.
When Yew is out, then Birch comes in, And many flowers beside, Both of a fresh and fragrant kin, To honour Whitsuntide.
The custom of planting Yew trees singly in churchyards is also one of considerable antiquity.
Branches of Yew were, in olden times, often carried in procession on Palm Sunday, instead of Palm, and as an evergreen Yew was sometimes used to decorate churches and houses at Christmas-time.
There IS a yew tree at the bottom of the garden," admitted Mrs. Riversedge.
Mr. George Black, on theyew in Shakespearian folk-lore.
Sir Stephen Scroop, when telling Richard of Bolingbroke's revolt, declares that "Thy very beadsmen learn to bend their bows Of double-fatal yew against thy state.
The custom of sticking yewin the shroud is alluded to in the following song in "Twelfth Night" (ii.
From certain ancient statutes it appears that every Englishman, while archery was practised, was obliged to keep in his house either a bow of yew or some other wood.
There was a yew tree on the outskirts of the playground into which she climbed to read Goldsmith's "Animated Nature.
Meg heard the wish as she sat perched on the yew tree.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yew" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: black; ebony; mourning; oak; tree; wood
