What is "oaks"

Usage examples of "oaks".

Will through the deep snow, among great beeches and oaks bare of leaves.

Chelford told me that one of the London people said he thought Five Oaks belonged to me absolutely.

Of course the lady saw that lank and sinister man of God quite distinctly, but she did not choose to do so, and Larkin, with a grand sort of prescience, foresaw a county feud between the Houses of Five Oaks and Brandon, and now the lady had vanished.

Larkin had driven off early to Five Oaks, to make inspection of his purchase.

He dined like a king in disguise, at the humble little hostelry of Naunton Friars, and returned in the twilight to the Lodge, which he would make the dower-house of Five Oaks, with the Howard shield over the door.

The trustees of Wylder, a minor, tried, as they were advised they must, his title to Five Oaks, by ejectment.

I apologize for the squeeze, but right after we spoke, I hadda call from some guy down in Thousand Oaks needs an estimate on his roof.

Duncan Oaks showed up in a number of photographs, dark-haired and handsome.

Now that was interesting: Duncan Oaks and Benny Quintero had played the same position on opposing teams.

If Duncan Oaks was the hub, maybe Mark Bethel was the axle driving subsequent events.

Before my plane the next morning, I put in a call to Porter Yount, asking if he could lay his hands on the columns Duncan Oaks had written before he went to Vietnam.

Argus smoothed it skilfully, and they set it upon that rugged hill beneath a canopy of lofty oaks, which of all trees have their roots deepest.

Looking down from the stilts of seven hundred feet into the deep coombe of black oaks standing in the white snow, day by day, built round about with the rugged mound of the hills, doubly locked with the key of frost--it seemed to me to take on itself the actuality of the ancient faith of the Magi.

In this deep coombe, amid the dark oaks and snow, was the fable of Zoroaster.

In the quiet of the Sunday afternoon, when the clashing of the bells was stilled, there walked in the shade of the oaks a young priest and a lady.