wood-giants

Updated: May 23, 2025

I know groups of trees that ravish the eye with their perfect, picture-like effects: rude oak, delicate birch, glossy beech, clustered in contrast; and ash-trees, stately as Saul, standing isolated; and superannuated wood-giants clad in bright shrouds of ivy." From Emily Bronté's 'Wuthering Heights' For some days after that evening Mr.

- Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6