mulberry-tree

Even the mocking-bird that had warbled for hours in the old mulberry-tree had sung himself asleep.

The Awakening 2000

Lichfield, and they bought this house and garden, we supposed, so that they might "live happily ever afterwards"; but the parson, who must have had a very bad temper, was so annoyed at people continually calling to see the mulberry-tree that he cut it down.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

This is, at first sight, a plain and straightforward description of the silkworm; but we know that it was not till long afterwards, nearly a thousand years after, in Justinian's reign, that the silkworm and the mulberry-tree which is its food were brought out of the East into Byzantine Greece.

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

Snuff-boxes made from Shakespeare's mulberry-tree, twigs from

Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing George Barton Cutten

It was at another house in the town that Shakespeare wrote his plays and planted a mulberry-tree in the garden.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

Shakspere's mulberry-tree, which had been cut from a block that belonged to David Garrick, and was sealed with his seal (a head of Shakspere), as

The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 Various

A small mulberry-tree, now only a few feet high, and standing in front of the house, not far distant from the canal, where it was fixed by Lord Nelson's own hand, may hereafter rival the celebrated mulberry-tree at Stratford upon Avon, planted by the immortal Shakspeare; the first dramatic bard, and naval hero, "take them for all in all," the world is ever likely to know.

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison

Eventually the site became a public garden, where a slip of the mulberry-tree may still be seen.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

They afterwards happened to find a mulberry-tree, all holes, for it was eaten by old age; and the snake asked it if it was right to eat the man who had saved its life.

Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane

This mulberry-tree used to be one of the objects of interest at Stratford, nearly every pilgrim who arrived there going to see it.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor