Some of the former had grown there almost to the dignity of trees; and two dark little yews stood at each side of the porch, like swart and inauspicious dwarfs, guarding the entrance of an enchanted castle.
The tangled garden, long and narrow, was bounded on the right, as one entered, by the Greenrush, over which hung a thicket of yews that completely shut out the first straggling houses of Wychford.
The bell had stopped immediately when the Rector arrived; and the wind seemed now much louder as it went howling round the great church or rasping through the yews and junipers.
This wicket opened directly on a path that wound through a plantation of yews interspersed with tall beeches and elms whose overarching tops intensified even in wintry leaflessness the prevalent gloom.
Even in that overwhelming gloom of night and shivering yews he recognized one of the weapons.
Tradition has it that many Danish chieftains were here defeated and slain and that here beneath the yews they rest.
Note also the long lancet windows in the chancel and the magnificent yews in the churchyard.
Colour came into the landscape, the bronze and yellow of the budding oaks, the delicate green of young beech leaves, the sables of yews and firs, the blue of the sky, the green of the fields.
The thick forest of oaks in the Mains would also be planted, with the avenues of yews and holly.
Along the lateral terraces were also at one time yews and spruces; the former are all gone, and the latter represented by a few remarkably tall and half-blasted trunks of spruces, towering far above the surrounding trees.
To the south of the green is an area covered with a number of remarkably tall trees; this is surrounded by a high wall, alongside of which on the south side are a row of yews overshadowing what have once been neat walks.
The hoop remedied the deficiencies of the feminine form, and the gardener clipped his yews into respectability.
The church-yard yews round which his fathers sleep; Every man, like Gulliver in Lilliput, is fastened to some spot of earth, by the thousand small threads which habit and association are continually stealing over him.
The steeple of the church rose up on their left, slender and ghostly against the yellow sky, out of the black yews and cypresses that lay banked below it.
The moon was shining and the yews looked almost like a real hedge.
The stone-built lily pond was finished, the turf laid, the borders dug and filled, the yews planted.
The yews were tall enough to give her their sombre background, and a group of big trees behind them helped out the unfinished garden picture.
It is an honour to poets and great men, that you think of them as parts of Nature; and anything of trick and fashion wounds you in them, as much as when you see venerable yewsclipped into miserable peacocks.
The more highly variegated Yews grow quickest when grafted on the Common Yew, and as they always keep good in after years this method can for once be recommended.
No foreign shrubs can compare with or take the place of our Yews and Hollies.
And he thanked her for coming to break his loneliness and led her through the sleeping flowers, and those figures which had died again since life had come amongst them, to the arbor made of yews where he had slept that afternoon.
In Cornish broch denoted the yew tree, the sanctity of which is implied by the frequency with which a brace or pair of yews are found in churchyards.
At the back of the Yews that form the arbour is one end of the Hidden Garden.
The entrance to the Hut is through Yews that arch overhead.
Over the stone arch and rambling partly over the yews are the vigorous many-flowered growths of Clematis Flammula.
So if a man comes forward now and swears that he watched you for nearly ten minutes standing in the shadow of the yews on the left of the house, he will not be telling the truth?
When the mistress of Beechcroft Hall stepped on to the turf in front of the library, a man who was standing under the yews a little way down the avenue moved forward to accost her.
Being winter time, the trees and bushes were bare, and he was startled to see the same gentleman, with his coat buttoned up, standing in the shade of the yews close to the Hall.
A few steps more, and slowly from among the yews came the ghost as before, and raised its long white arm.
He wondered if he were old or young--what sort of a horse he rode--whose cruel hands dragged him into the shadow of the yews and slew him, and where his head was hidden and why.
Even now, as he reached the avenue of yews from which the lane took its name, and passed into their gloomy shade, he tried to be brave.
The solemn and venerable churchyard yewslend an added air of great age to the building.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yews" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
