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Ancient Oaks, PA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 3161
Housing Units (2000): 1125
Land area (2000): 2.195120 sq. miles (5.685335 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.195120 sq. miles (5.685335 sq. km)
FIPS code: 02416
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.535715 N, 75.590045 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Usage examples of "ancient oaks".

It was time for rest and food underneath three ancient oaks beside a small stream, one leaning far out, on a grassy bank with driftwood scattered along the stream.

It was not conjoined to other dwellings, as many in that quarter were, but isolated at the edge of a grove beneath ancient oaks and olives.

Ahead lay a line of ancient oaks and ash--many of which had the tips of branches burned to nothing.

They sat upon a bench in the garden, amid red and purple flowers and the stately boles of a few ancient oaks.

At dawn, when the night retreats across the Pacific toward distant Asia, it is reluctant to go, leaving deep black pools in alleyways, under parked cars, in culverts, and beneath the leafy canopies of ancient oaks.

He had designed his residence, his forest palace built not in or of a grove of tall oaks, but as part of that grove, a many-chambered mansion that did not require the felling of ancient oaks but demanded that rooms and stairways, atria and sudden secret gardens, be built in such a way as to let the grove of trees guide the shaping.

This tucked-away place with its ancient oaks and magnolias hummed quietly.

Dhrun lost his sense of direction and instead of traveling south to the edge of the forest, he wandered first west, then gradually around to the north and ever deeper into the woods: under ancient oaks with gnarled boles and great outflung branches, across mossy outcrops of stone, beside quiet streams fringed by ferns, and so the day passed.

New grasses had sprung up overnight and bluebells were in flower around the feet of ancient oaks.

A loudspeaker had been hung from one of the ancient oaks, and a large crowd gathered around it after the building was full.

After a while they came to a belt of tall and very ancient oaks, and beyond these to a high thorn-hedge through which you could neither see nor scramble.