plane-trees

"The two engines of detonation were placed at the foot of the plane-trees before my door."

The Orchestra After Dark Hugh Raffles 2011

The rock, we have said, was bare, unless in so far as it was clothed with the foaming waters of the cataract; but the banks on each side were covered with plane-trees, walnut-trees, cypresses, and other kinds of large timber proper to the East.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

After strolling for a couple of hours in the shade of the immense oaks and plane-trees, I returned home.

Dream tales and prose poems 2006

Then the Luxellians crossed over and drew up under the plane-trees, just in the rear of the Swancourts.

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

The shade from the plane-trees fell on his neat Homburg hat; he had given up top hats — it was no use attracting attention to wealth in days like these.

To Let 2004

Steel-blue of the fallen evening, bare plane-trees, wide river, frosty air!

The White Monkey 2004

The crowd swayed round them, ate sandwiches and dropped crumbs; boys who had climbed the plane-trees chattered above like monkeys, threw twigs and orange-peel.

In Chancery 2004

The sunlight still showered on the plane-trees, and in the breeze their gay broad leaves shone and swung in rhyme to a barrel organ at the corner.

The Man of Property 2004

Under the shadow of the plane-trees, in the lamplight, he passed slowly along the railings of the Green Park.

In Chancery 2004

Some pigeons were strutting and preening their feathers in the pools of sunlight between the shadows of the plane-trees.

In Chancery 2004