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Sentence Examples Then come ambrosia beetles and western oak bark beetles by the thousands, flocking to feed, tunnel out galleries, and lay their eggs. Cedary oak and lees yeastiness give excellent depth and graciously offsets the rich underlying fruit. The kitchen has fitted wall and floor oak units and laminated timber flooring. The cross piece should be pearwood or boxwood for strong external threading, but again white oak is acceptable. The table was a heavy oak farm-style one with six ladder-back chairs around it. Alder, ash, birch, cherry and oak will be planted and natural regeneration encouraged. In other festivals women most often appeared in white dresses crowned with oak wreaths. Chestnut trees, birch trees, holly bushes and alder buckthorns in oligotrophic oak groves. Live oak reestablished in 19th century agricultural fields on Cumberland Island, but saw palmetto reestablishment was limited. Of the most popular timbers maple is the hardest, with ash, beech, oak and cherry following respectively. The disease, which does not affect humans and is not a food safety concern, is also known as sudden oak death. Yawning, she walked over to the oak dressing table and ran her brush through her knotted red hair. Donald went over to his bed, an old, oak affair with knots in the wood and scratches on its frame, and sat down on it carefully. It was a large majestic oak tree, and every knot and burl on it had a memory for me. A mixture of alder, cherry, oak and other native species has attracted red squirrels as well as roe deer, hares and kingfishers. Cameron knocked twice, and the unfamiliar face of Jason Phillips appeared behind a large oak door. The only green that remained was the spreading, tired, dark foliage of the occasional live oak tree standing sentinel in sere pastureland. Clouts Wood is an area of ancient woodland of oak and ash, one mile south of Wroughton. There were also fears about the effect the fire would have on the area's oak woodlands, which are an important habitat for birds and plants. It is mainly seen in white but is also available in mahogany and cherry oak woodgrain styles. Show More Sentences Out the patio door, the wooden deck was high off the ground and made of light oak wood. The coconut oak nose is enticing and carries through to the palate where it mixes with cherry, redcurrants and zinging tannins. She finally reached the correct wall, the one beside the oak tree that would serve in concealing her as well as serving as an aid to help her up. The bed at the foot of the oak tree is currently planted with small shade-loving shrubs, reasonably enough. In Bulgaria the Kermes oak is found in the Strouma valley, to the south of the Kresna gorge as well as in the southern part of Mesta valley. The actual aging of Holandas in oak casks is what makes brandy into the drink we enjoy today. Rioja wines are associated with a lush, velvety appeal and the sweet scent of vanilla, largely the result of long ageing in American oak barrels. The aging in large Slovenian oak barrels remains the same and they are still not fining or filtering their wines. This extra ageing in oak barrels does not benefit all cognacs, and some will take on an unattractively dry, planky taste. Another method occurs in the winemaking process employing aging in new French oak barrels. The wine is aged for 3 years, with at least two years in oak barrels before release. For three years the wine is aged in new barrels made of hand-split oak staves. What I heard as raindrops are the leaves of the giant oak above me, rattling in the wind. I sighed deeply and took a seat on the grass, bracing next to a tall white oak tree. The fifth biggest tree in the east is the famous white oak at Wye Mills, Maryland. Transplant main-season tomatoes, peppers and eggplants four days after the whippoorwill first sings and finish when oak leaves are quarter size. Our horse whinnied with relief and found shelter under a tall, knarled oak tree. The timber is of the highest quality, denser than other oak timber, and in the days of wagons was prized for making whiffletrees. I caught a slight whiff of burnt oak in the smokeless breeze as I calmed my nerves. We specialise in designing oak joisted ceilings, raftered roofs, inglenook fireplaces and open-fronted cartshed-style garages. Show More Sentences The oak frames were constructed using traditional jointing and setting out techniques. It was an oil landscape of a large mansion in the distance framed by oak trees and weeping willows. It was available in oak weave or with cotton webbing, a seat covering more suggestive of indoor use. While the caterpillar will not kill the oak tree, the loss of leaves means the trees produce fewer acorns. Inside, the wooden kauri architraves and sweeping stairs were all carved with acorns and oak leaves. The church will be decorated with oak leaves and acorns to bring strength and comfort to the bereaved and injured. Imagine a sturdy, bountiful oak tree producing acorns that will germinate successive oak trees. If you must plant a pin oak in an alkaline environment, acidify the soil before planting. A lush hammock of live oak and wax myrtle engulfed the bank, making it nearly impossible to see the 50-foot-wide spring. The body was waxen and pale, grained like the ancient bark of an oak after rain. Outside the banquet hall there was a small oak table, upon which rested a yellowed parchment and a droopy quill of some exotic bird. A squirrel comes sometimes, when his home in the oak tree gets waterlogged. The kitchen has a range of fitted oak units, worktops and display cabinets as well as a double oven, waste disposal unit and an electric hob. The cabinet is made out of rift-sawn red oak with quarter-sawn drawer fronts and door panels. Roof slates were imported from Cumbria, with either oak or Spanish quarry tiles used for flooring. The walls were wallpapered in a warm red color, with a single oak bed angled next to a large window overlooking the fields below us. Entrance is through a spacious hallway with recessed lighting, oak flooring, a walk-in storage closet and a security intercom. In the mid 16th century a quarter of the walk was set with old oak and the rest with oak, thorn, maple, birch, hazel, withies, holly, and ash. According to archaeological excavations, an oak forest grew on the monticule. As I approached some old oak trees, I slowed to a walk, then stopped entirely. Show More Sentences The system is available in 19 matt lacquer colours as well as in bleached or dark oak and with a choice of six different glass doors. We toured a house for sale in Tarkio, which turned out to have three stories, solid oak wainscoting, pocket doors, and beautiful wood floors. The floor was laid in blue slate, the walls done in oak wainscot beneath swirled plaster painted a desert sand color. Sam growled into the speaker and vented all his inner frustration by banging his poor fist onto the oak tabletop. She had a small house between the villages, on a small hill near a thicket of oak trees. Thick-billed parrots are colorful, noisy, social birds that electrify the region's high pine and oak forests. For our starters we opted for oak smoked salmon with chives, and sea bream. When required, a massive sliding door of solid oak protects the privacy of the bedroom. A staircase with white oak bannisters leads to the large first floor landing which has recessed ceiling lighting and access to the attic. Likewise, the chestnut-backed chickadees hide in the branches of the scrub oak awaiting an opportunity for a quick breakfast. After running a couple hundred yards, the pig reached the first scrub oak and lay down under it. Island oak, canyon oak, and scrub oak are common, along with Catalina cherry, elderberry, and summer holly. Basal diameter and height of each scrub oak stem within the plot were recorded. Along the way, the river cuts through oak savannas, desert scrub, and grassland expanses. You can also use a combination of materials, such as an oak handrail and oak treads combined with painted hemlock balusters. Those structures that incorporated white oak were also the only residences that incorporated coniferous woods, red cedar, and bald cypress. A waxed, oak desk stood in the back of the room and it was smooth to the touch, like marble. Double doors to the right lead to a large drawing room with polished oak floor and marble fireplace. But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land. If he finds these big structures, he probably has a broad-leaf tree such as a maple or oak instead of a pine or other conifer. Show More Sentences There is a cast iron fireplace with stained pine mantelpiece and oak floorboards. Beams of ash and oak were split along the grain by wedges, and they rolled great manna ashes down from the mountains. My backstay was attached to a U-bolt which used a piece of oak for the backing plate. Just as I was trying to scent her on the breeze, I heard her call from the top branches of an oak tree. This handy wooden mallet was made from some left-over scraps of oak that I had salvaged from a pallet. As he wanted to stay a moment and savour the scene, he leaned against the thick trunk of the sturdy oak behind him. Many of the greatest white Burgundies and sweet white Sauternes are fermented in small oak barrels with stunning results. At the beach a mile later, after two deer in a patch of scrub oak bring the hikers to an awed standstill, the teachers present the day's lessons. Species of the eastern deciduous forest are northern maidenhair, maidenhair spleenwort, and oak fern. The forestry people have very generously agreed to supply every home in Clonmore parish with oak saplings and holly trees for Christmas. There are temperature controlled fermenters and storage tanks, and good new oak barrels for maturation. The combination of fruit and a magical touch of oak is irresistible, especially with new-season lamb. Since this table was a wedding gift, we had two overlapping oak leaves sandblasted in the surface at the counter shop. This is fitted with white wall and floor units and an integrated oven, and has a pitched ceiling with exposed timber beams and an oak floor. The college is a big high building and it has very thick oak beams to support the ceiling. This features a quarry tiled floor, oak timber beams and numerous storage presses. The village pub dates back to the 15th century and the renovation sees its original oak beams and tiled floors on full display. The finished apartments will have exposed original timber beams, oak flooring, glazed balconies and spiral staircases. The experiment tested whole and torn leaves from 10 bay trees, 10 oak trees, and 10 toyon trees at our research site. The garden is situated on the undeveloped edge of a large city park, among the muted tones of sagebrush, oak and eucalyptus. Show More Sentences Two suits of armour stood to attention at the foot of a wide oak staircase. When he was in Hesse he approached the town of Geismar and came upon a oak tree sacred to Thor, the German god of thunder. Made of oak slats, it protects the offices' privacy, while throwing a changing pattern of lucent gold coloured stripes across the interior. Arches hide studded oak doors, twisted iron grilles, smooth door lintels with faint carvings of faces, tools, dates. Other species of wood used include birch, which is made into besom for brooms and horse jumps and oak for rustic furniture. More native trees will be encouraged such as ash, alder, oak and rowan along streams and in the north west of the wood near Over Silton. It's not the genuine Round Table of legend, alas, just an 18-foot oak reconstruction ordered by one of the Plantagenet King Edwards. With the region's cool climate producing grapes with low sugar and high acidity, the use of new oak can give the wines more body and roundness. An inventory of the National Gallery's furniture in 1856 lists only seven and a half dozen oak chairs and one rough deal table. There was a long oak table that ran the length of the room, and several chairs around it. Inside, features include white oak floors in the entrance halls, living rooms and kitchens. The white oak group, which includes the live oak and post oak, produces acorns annually. With an original oak floor, this area also features a carved oak ceiling rose, pediments, cornices and architraves. This example is dry to off dry with just a touch of oak from four months in barrique and flavours of melon, peach, apricot and orange. There were two horses under the oak where Bryony had left Drake and she immediately recognized the second as Driscoll's roan. It is marked by sloping, carved gullies, quiet meadows and ponds, and narrow trails that wind between century-old linden and oak trees. The clear, blue water sparkled like glass, and was ringed by fifty-foot oak trees. Many dishes need a full-bodied wine with an oak overlay and would suffer in tandem with a light, fruity wine. Complex too, the wine is rich with plums, brambles, raspberry, nice touches of vanilla oak and mouth-filling tannins. The oak is hand stained with red, yellow, blue and green and then given an antique finish. Show More Sentences Lab tests suggest that a lethal disease of oak trees in California and Oregon could strike some popular garden shrubs in the rhododendron family. At the hamlet's Milbank House, a lime, a conker and a turkey oak shade a stone culvert and set their seed and nuts. On the island, I followed indistinct paths through the lime, oak and black alder trees. The gardens which surround the property include beech, lime and holm oak trees while in the eastern corner is an ancient churchyard. To the right is a large, galley-style kitchen area with limed oak units, a double oven and hob and a breakfast bar. The kitchen, to the rear, has limed oak units at ground and eye level, a tiled worktop and splashback. There is a good-sized drawing room features a French-style limed oak fireplace and polished wood floor. There are also two double bedrooms, both with fitted wardrobes and one with an impressive carved oak fireplace, and French doors to the garden. A simple glass-topped table on stainless steel legs, or else an antique oak top and metal base are likely to be popular. After doing right turns and lefts until I lost count, I came to a huge oak brown door and knocked on it. However, one cannot fix a mortise lock to an internal oak ledged and braced door. The oak tree is being more cautious, of course, and will wait a while yet before venturing into leaf. Timber from 340 oak trees was shaped with replica tools and treated with pine resin. I stared into a fire we built on the very andirons where the good oak had blazed and warmed him. The elaborately carved oak Sanctuary lamp is very ornate with acorn and vine leaf laurelling about the pedestal. A grid of supple oak laths was laid flat, then gradually lowered over 15 weeks to its undulating form. Mistletoe has made the Yule season special ever since the Druids used their silver knives to cut it from the oak trees of ancient Britain. We sheltered under the shade of the massive overwhelming oak trees whose bark was protected from vandalism by vicious spikes forced into the trunk. Features include polished oak flooring, handmade timber kitchen units with oak worktops and a cast iron fireplace with tiled inset in the dining room. I closed the thick oak door and peered in the little window. Show More Sentences The house looked just the same as it had when I'd left, except the basketball hoop in the front yard was gone and was replaced by a small oak tree that was bare of leaves. The kitchen has fitted oak units, granite worktops and a tiled floor. This large room has a rustic oak floor and pine-panelled ceilings. A special building is used for the ageing of Milmanda, a Chardonnay wine fermented in small oak casks which spends a long period in contact with its own lees. She walked down the bluestone and blacktop driveway and through shadows thrown by the branches of seven leafless oak trees. In case you haven't noticed, Jack, the place is lousy with oak trees. The dark, almost black oak trees from the ancient Monlezun forest in the Armagnac region are obligatory for any serious Armagnac. The staircase was beautiful, with dark oak banisters and ornate carving. Perhaps the arid West Texas environment and the landscape dominated by low-growing mesquite, scrub oak and cactus explained the widespread local veneration of trees. Sure it had it's elegant aspects, like polished oak tables and cabinets, and fine material for the rugs and curtains, but the room was dull, and boring. And like Cognac once again, Armagnac requires ageing in oak barrels, but not just any oak barrel. As part of a distinguished tradition of parading in front of royalty, members of the regiment marked the royal visit by wearing oak leaves in their berets. Black jack and post oak frequently co-occur with longleaf pine in fire-prone savannas of the outer coastal plain of the southeastern United States. Able to live 200 to 400 years and named for its bristly husks, or caps, bur oak goes by the names prairie oak, blue oak, scrub oak, or mossycup oak. Somewhere in between, favoring the scrub oak but found throughout the forest, smaller stands of pines such as slash, sand, and loblolly grow, as well. Built of English oak and Cornish elm, they are traditionally designed and locally built rowing boats originally used to deliver pilots to incoming merchant ships. They prefer grasslands, chaparral, and scrub oak areas to forage for food. This port is put into wooden port barrels or pipes, but instead of just two years in oak as in the case of a declared vintage port, it spends four to six years in barrel. For door experts, it is made of four plain oak boards, held in place by an edging frame and four half-round ledges, all fastened by neat clasping elongated roves. Large, permanent residences were built using durable white oak wall posts. Show More Sentences These range from the pale silvery hue of maple to the warm gold, knotty style of pine, and from the classic mid-brown of oak to the rich darkness of walnut. Another common trick is to flavor inexpensive wines with oak chips or staves. It could be that the oak tree will be a clue when it's in leaf. These forests are home to rare animals like the black stork, vultures and the Spanish Imperial eagle who depend on the rich diversity of these cork oak forests. It thrives in airy oak forests and the maquis, and prefers warm climates such as those of S. Europe, although found as far north as the south of Sweden, and in Russia. The house has been very well maintained by its owners and includes polished oak flooring, a solid pine kitchen, double glazed leaded windows and landscaped gardens. We picked up everything we could ever possibly need, matching armoires for the bedroom, a large oak dresser, tables and chairs among other things. The combo of Sauvignon Blanc and oak apparently is pretty rare, so a real balancing act, this pairing. A large manse stood proud in front of him, rising from the streets like a majestic oak from the forest floor, proclaiming to all its dominance over smaller beings. A remarkable gracefulness in movement was created in these intricate embellishments such as the acanthus and oak leaves, volute scroll and laurelling details. I had found myself clinging like a barnacle to a splintered oak beam. In the cellar, Manzanares creates drama through monumental architectonic volumes that highlight the warm tones of the oak barrels contained within them. From its subterranean source, the Wekiva meanders slow and clear past waving sawgrasses and under a moss-draped canopy of oak and laurel and longleaf pine. Primary vegetation shielding the nest was dwarf live oak and saw palmetto. Because American oak is so much less porous than European, staves of American oak can simply be sawn from each quarter, so as to maximize the yield of each log. Materials are carefully chosen to create a calm and welcoming atmosphere for instance, oiled oak floor and balustrades, white stained pine laths in ceilings. The apartments come decorated and carpeted and standard features include tiled en suite bathrooms, solid oak doors, range cookers and compact waste disposal units. Now I saw the canvas awnings pulled down over the armourer's workshop, the storehouses shut up to keep the goods from damp, the great oak doors of the stable closed. Known for its rugged canyons, expansive rolling hills of oak woodlands, and healthy population of tarantulas, the 87,000-acre park offers more than 250 miles of trails. I walked up the stairs to the double oak doors and rang the bell. Show More Sentences Like bourbon, rye must be aged in charred oak barrels for at least two years. The leaves of a tall oak tree tapped against the tiny glass window. I can imagine an intelligent bark beetle pondering why it is that the oak tree on which it has deposited its eggs is so well suited to their growth. It has oak trees that are hundreds of years old, towering cottonwoods and sycamores and secluded areas where acres of trunk-to-trunk pecan trees haven't yet grown waist-high. Oak, great balance and a good finish with stone fruits and just enough oak to round the wine to a silky smooth feel on the palate. From these various composts, special preparations are made using such things as silica, yarrow, chamomile, nettle, oak bark, dandelion and horsetail. I remember planting with my father, and having him explain how to work the soil, how azaleas liked their oak leaves or peat moss, how you tamped the dirt, gave them a drink. At its best, the wine would often need a bit of aging to tame its fierceness, would have an elegant structure, and oak would never be a dominant feature. Guyana is famous for rich, heavy rums while Haiti follows the French tradition of double distilling and extended aging in oak barrels for rich, full styles. It transpired that the oak beam supporting the floor had collapsed. Also not a brand-new offering, this company offers herbal alternatives in the form of sunblock, bug repellent, muscle pain alleviator, and poison oak and ivy soap. Aquarius Research Natural Area is particularly rich in ferns, including Western polypody, spreading woodfern, oak fern, male fern, bracken fern, and sword fern. Chablis District in northern Burgundy of France where a Chardonnay-based white wine is made, normally with little or no aging in small oak barrels. The kitchen is fitted with limed oak units, granite-effect worktops and a tiled splashback, as well as a ceramic-tiled floor with underfloor heating. At the back of the hall, the kitchen has quarry tiles on the floor, hand-crafted oak units, granite worktops, a tiled splashback and a double Belfast sink unit. The hotel contains an oak timber frame thought to have formed the end of an aisled hall, a popular form of building among well-off peasants in the 13 th century. New oak will give more flavour to the wine than an aged barrel and winemakers have the option of aging part of a vintage in new oak for a certain period and then in aged oak. Sudden oak death is the snappy title which has been given to a devastating fungal disease attacking oaks and other native shrubs throughout North America. Pedimented late colonial case furniture, for example, could not support cases of silver of the period, so they were placed instead on earlier oak chests. He lives in Denver, connected to real people in the real world like an oak tree to groundwater. Show More Sentences A YOUNG chef has used chippings from a legendary oak to create a gourmet burger. Traditional celebrations involved the wearing of oak leaves but these have now died out. He played the fading, low-banana shot as planned, and the ball whistled left of the oak tree and between the pines. Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree. Adnet asked the artist Maurice Savin to embellish his oak dining table with white ceramic caryatidlike legs. Below the tree line are wooded areas, including British and European native oak woodlands and introduced softwood plantations. There the oak and hiccory grow tall and beautiful, but the general appearance of the country is poor, broken, and rugged. On the limestone soils the oak was slower to colonize and pine and birch predominated. Folklore has it that the oak construction for York Minster provided the sawdust for smoking the ham. The first tree I knew was an oak under which I played as a small child and gathered large inkballs that I used as marbles. After the battle Henry was crowned king below an oak tree in nearby Stoke Golding, now a residential garden. However, since the early 1990s, Gypsy moth infestations have eroded the dominance of oak forests. Then inks had to be made from oak galls and other ingredients, and the books had to be hand written by monks using quill pens. An oak screen to carry the organ was added at this time to replace a stone screen pulled down in the 16th century. Engineers drove oak piles into the mud to provide a stable foundation, and surrounded the spring with an irregular stone chamber lined with lead. The Lantern Lobby features flowing oak columns forming a vaulted ceiling, imitating an arum lily. It has sweeping deer lawns, small woods, coverts and areas covered by huge solitary ancient oak trees. Holbein broke his journey at Antwerp, where he bought some oak panels and may have met the painter Quentin Matsys. Protected from excessive summer heat by river breezes and a canopy of oak trees, the house was an agreeable place to live in. The crest was all white, surrounded by 15 oak leaves to the right and 15 laurel leaves to the left. Show More Sentences The oak leaves represent the 15 founding members of the club who met at the Royal Oak pub. Pigs, which were kept by most households in the past, were able to be fattened in autumn on acorns in the extensive oak woods. Japanese oak is used in the making of professional drums from the manufacturer Yamaha Drums. The higher density of oak gives the drum a brighter and louder tone compared to traditional drum materials such as maple and birch. The second greatest center of oak diversity is China, which contains approximately 100 species. Today oak wood is still commonly used for furniture making and flooring, timber frame buildings, and for veneer production. The use of oak in wine can add many different dimensions to wine based on the type and style of the oak. American oak contributes greater texture and resistance to ageing, but produces more powerful wine bouquets. In hill states of India, besides fuelwood and timber, the local people use oak wood for making agricultural implements. If the wood is properly treated with preservatives, it will not rot as quickly as cured white oak heartwood. The European pied flycatcher is an example of an animal species that often depends upon oak trees. In a recent survey, 78 wild oak species have been identified as being in danger of extinction, from a global total of over 500 species. In the Himalayan region of India, oak forests are being invaded by pine forests due to the increase in temperature. The associated species of pine forest may cross frontiers and become new elements of the oak forests. Beginning November 1st 2011, a project began to sequence the entire oak genome. A considerable number of galls are found on oak leaves, buds, flowers, roots, etc. Examples are oak artichoke gall, oak marble gall, oak apple gall, knopper gall, and spangle gall. The oak is a common symbol of strength and endurance and has been chosen as the national tree of many countries. In November 2004, the United States Congress passed legislation designating the oak as America's National Tree. The oak is a national symbol from the Basque Country, specially in the province of Biscay. Show More Sentences Millais painted the picture in Hayes, Kent, from a local oak tree that became known as the Millais Oak. Linnaeus described only five species of oak from eastern North America, based on general leaf form. Careless suggested that the house was unsafe and recommended that the king hide in an oak tree in the woodlands surrounding Boscobel House. The king and Careless took some food and drink and they spent all day hiding in a pollarded oak tree which became known as the Royal Oak. From the oak they could see patrols of Parliamentary soldiers searching for the king. The Penderels and Colonel Careless employed coats of arms depicting an oak tree and three royal crowns, differentiated by colour. Anyone who failed to wear a sprig of oak risked being pelted with bird's eggs or thrashed with nettles. Panelling of oak and cedar and carved ceilings relieved by coats of arms in their correct colours added to the beauty of the house. The rank insignia of a field marshal in the British Army comprises two crossed batons in a wreath of oak leaves, with a crown above. On the west coast, oak and birch predominated in a temperate rainforest ecosystem rich in ferns, mosses and lichens. The roof of the new Scottish Parliament Building continues this tradition, and is supported by large laminated oak beams. These populations threaten the growth of new trees in several forests on the island, specially oak forests. It was hardly the thing for a master to sport his oak where another member of the staff was concerned. The beech are the most dominant tree, but oak can also form smaller forests. Due to the human population decrease and rural exodus, Pyrenean oak and other local native trees are colonizing many abandoned areas. Bede however was critical of the fact that the church was not built of stone but only of hewn oak thatched with reeds. The boat was constructed of oak planks, stitched together with yew withies and also fixed together with wooden wedges. The Veneti built their ships of oak with large transoms fixed by iron nails of a thumb's thickness. It is the dominant plant in most heathland and moorland in Europe, and in some bog vegetation and acidic pine and oak woodland. The name of the city in Irish is Doire Colmcille and is derived from the native oak trees in the area and the city's association with Columba. Show More Sentences The space has been roughly used and has little actual ornament, but everything is deliciously intact, patinaed like an old oak table. Some split oak suggests that particularly large structures, or possibly boats, were being constructed at the site. There was also a tradition that she was responsible for the planting of Wistman's Wood, a stand of ancient stunted oak trees high on Dartmoor. On the fertile soils chestnut and stands of hazel and oak are common, while Scots Pine and Birch colonise the poorer soils. If the caterpillars hatch in the spring and feed on oak catkins they appear green. Antlers shed in oak forest inhabited by squirrels are rapidly chewed to pieces by them. Birch, aspen, spruce, pine, larch and juniper were to be found extensively, mixed with oak and hazel. Engelhardt found weapons, tools, pieces of clothing and two intact clinker built boats, one made of oak and one made of pine. The oak boat is considered the oldest Nordic shipfind and the oldest known clinker built boat. Wood from the oak was then reportedly used to build a church at the site dedicated to Saint Peter. All was quiet for several minutes until the fog broke and a large oak tree passed outside my portside window. In the higher elevations, there are forests of pine and holm oak but these have been much reduced because of deforestation. In the northern third of the state are found Northeastern coastal forests and mixed oak forests typical of the northeastern United States. In Medieval Europe oak was the wood of choice for all wood construction, including beams, walls, doors, and floors. The state adopted the oak tree as the emblem on the Connecticut state quarter. In southern Britain, coppice was traditionally hazel, hornbeam, beech, ash or oak, grown amongst oak or sometimes ash or beech standards. It contains a rosarium with 20 thousand rose bushes, a dendrarium, and an oak forest, with the average age of trees exceeding 100 years. The centre and south west of the county, around Sherwood Forest, features undulating hills with ancient oak woodland. This is possibly indicated from the reconstruction of the fort at Carlisle in 83 using oak timbers from further afield, rather than local alder. The 15th century church tower includes sculptures by Herbert Read, who also carved the oak reredos. Show More Sentences By contrast, in the oak woodland on a steep hillside at Keskadale in Cumberland the occurrence is solely rupestral. Swamp white oak is commonly mistaken for bur oak because of similarities in their habitat and mature bark. Because the seed of swamp white oak is not dormant, it germinates soon after falling. Like Bob Dylan's, Nina Simone's, Pavarotti's, Sinatra's voice is improved by age, by years spent fermenting in cracked and whiskeyed oak barrels. One example is a substantial increase of water oak and sweetgum on upland sites. The water oak we're working on, probably over 100 years old, was brought partly down by Katrina and finished off by Rita. For landlubbers, a hiking trail winds through oak and mesquite forest, punctuated by the occasional Adam's needle cacti. Beyond the formal gardens is an arboretum of specimen trees including wellingtonia, yew, oak and ash. John Lewis Balfour table and Isabelle chairs are perfect with their painted white beech frames and the table's oak veneer top. Wheat Wine has been brewed with white coffee beans and aged in oak bourbon barrels, as well as being bottle-conditioned. A poignant moment came at a healing ceremony under a 350-year-old willow oak at Shirley Plantation on the banks of the James River. The views from Yat Rock are spectacular with colourful beech and oak trees overlooking a horseshoe bend on the River Wye. The northern hardwoods like yellow birch, oak and maple have all become larger and in high demand. You can solve for ''x'' with one of Modshop's side tables, with zebrawood, hickory, rosewood or oak veneer tops on sleek, chrome, X-shaped legs. From reclaimed mahogany to French quarry tiles, solid oak and marble, there is no compromise on quality in this property. The rift or quartersawn oak material will have less expansion and contraction and more stability. Both red and white oak also can be quartersawn and they work well in a variety of styles including Shaker, Mission and contemporary styles. Kermes scale is often discovered on oak trees this week as the first buckeyes fall to the ground. Cover crops such as redtop grass keep competing natural vegetation in check and allow oak saplings to flourish. The entrance led straight into a large hall, containing a fine, solid oak refectory table on which stood a pewter charger filled with pot-pourri. Find more words! 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