Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
elder .
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Examples
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On my way to the house, however, I went up to my seat under the elder-tree, and looked up at
First Love 2006
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All of a sudden Pobyedimsky came into sight from behind an elder-tree at the turn of the avenue.
The Wife 2004
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German, of course, whereas Hulda was to present the elder-tree scene of _Käthchen von Heilbronn_, with Lieutenant Engelbrecht of the
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various
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It is not permitted to "food-reformers" to make "wine," but those readers who are fortunate enough to possess an elder-tree might well preserve the juice of the berries against winter coughs and colds.
Food Remedies Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses Florence Daniel
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Snow and frost held all the night through; _all that night the Dog (devourer) of the elder-tree howled with unwearying jaws and worried the earth with grim fangs of cold_.
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The village-charmer was summoned; he first cut off a slip of elder-tree, and made a notch in it for every wart.
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The elder-tree is exactly like that of France, only that its leaf is a little more indented.
History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz
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The berries of the elder-tree are not palatable enough to be used as a common article of food, but in the days when nearly every garden boasted its elder-tree few housewives omitted to make elderberry wine in due season.
Food Remedies Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses Florence Daniel
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"Tom," said Maggie, as they sat on the boughs of the elder-tree, eating their jam-puffs, "shall you run away to-morrow?"
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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German folk-lore, men should take off their hats in the presence of an elder-tree.
Food Remedies Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses Florence Daniel
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