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Quotes About Hawthorn

It was one of those golden autumn afternoons and there were blackberries and splashes of old man's beard in the hedges, and the hawthorn berries were ripening scarlet for the birds when the cold winter came along. There were tall trees here and there on either side, oak and sycamore and ash and occasionally a sweet chestnut.
~ Roald Dahl
Om vinteren lå almænningen er stille og hvit og fuld av sne under nordlyset, om sommeren luktet det av hægg og barskog så det var en stor vederkvægelse. Det var som ta ind et måltid av stærke sjøfuglægg.
~ Knut Hamsun
The mixture which helped the witcher gain full control of his body was chiefly made up of veratrum, stramonium, hawthorn and spurge.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
This ploughman dead in battle slept out of doors Many a frozen night, and merrily Answered staid drinkers, good bedmen, and all bores: "At Mrs Greenland's Hawthorn Bush," said he, "I slept." None knew which bush. Above the town, Beyond `The Drover', a hundred spot the down In Wiltshire. And where now at last he sleeps More sound in France -that, too, he secret keeps.
~ Edward Thomas
And every shepherd tells his taleUnder the hawthorn in the dale.
~ John Milton
If only I had patience. If only I could sleep till spring. If only I were the hawthorn tree, too old to love, too wise to hate.
~ Joanne Harris
She was a very old lady indeed, or at least she looked it. She leaned on a hawthorn stick, enveloped in garments she must have
~ Diana Gabaldon