oaklings

Updated: July 25, 2026

'He had no shelter, he says, but under the great overgrown ivy, which spreads wildly round the heads of two or three oaklings; and that was soon wet through. You remember the spot. You and I, my dear, once thought ourselves obliged to the natural shade which those ivy-covered oaklings afforded us, in a sultry day.

Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2