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Definition of Alders
1. alder [n] - See also: alder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alders
Literary usage of Alders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Plant Diseases by Paul Sorauer, Gustav Lindau, Ludwig Reh (1922)
"can also create a predisposition to fungus attacks but, if the alders are enabled
to make a healthy growth, the disease disappears. When alders are found ..."
2. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1845)
"KILLING alders. We publish with pleasure the following article, though confessedly
unprepared to admit the idea of lunar influence as therein expressed. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1892)
"alders AND REEDS. I WAS about to dive down into one of the numerous hollows in
some woods which I frequented much, when I was hailed by a stalwart young ..."
4. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"All alone, Low scrubby alders kneeled down over it ; Drenched willows flung them
headlong in a fit Of mute despair, a suicidal throng : The river which had ..."
5. The Sin of David by Stephen Phillips (1904)
"alders, and a distant view of the Fens. Various military officers are standing
in silence, with bowed heads and folded hands, as in prayer, around a table ..."
6. The Jonson Allusion-Book: A Collection of Allusions to Ben Jonson from 1597-1700 by Jesse Franklin Bradley, Joseph Quincy Adams (1922)
"He used very much to frequent the Half-Moon-Tavern in alders gate-street, through
which was a common Thorough fare; he coming late that way, one night, ..."
7. A Dictionary of Artists of the English School: Painters, Sculptors by Samuel Redgrave (1878)
"He enjoyed a reputation in the reign of James Ï. He designed alders- gate (pulled
down in 1761), and carved on it in bas-relief the figure of James I. on ..."
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