Lexicographical Neighbors of Corktrees
Literary usage of Corktrees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays by Richard Cumberland (1817)
"... of Spain: I was shewn his castle, as I passed through that dismal country,
about a mile distant from the road, in a bottom, surrounded with corktrees, ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"A rocky pathway meandered through richly cultivated vineyards, shaded by fig-trees,
corktrees, and the manna-trees, from whose feathery white flowers the ..."
3. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de ( Cervantes Saavedra, Henry Edward Watts (1888)
"The robust corktrees did shed of themselves, without other art than that of their
courtesy, their light and ample rinds wherewith men did first cover their ..."
4. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"There was a rough pathway along the banks of the Tiber, extending up the stream
for two or three miles, as far as the Ponte Molle, where the corktrees grew, ..."
5. The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria by George Dennis (1878)
"... for there was scarcely a tree twenty feet in height; but a tall underwood of
tamarisk, lentiscus, myrtle, dwarf corktrees, and numerous shrubs unknown ..."
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