"Linden tree" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... played in Tristan's ancestral home in Brittany, whither he has been conveyed by Kurvenal, who vainly tries to nurse his wounded master back to health and strength. The sick man is lying under a great linden tree, in death-like lethargy, while Kurvenal anxiously watches for the vessel which he trusts will bring Ysolde from Cornwall. She alone can cure his master's grievous wound, and her presence only can woo him back from the grave into which ...
— Stories of the Wagner Opera • H. A. Guerber
... A hind 'neath a linden tree he spied, A maid beneath the willows sitting; The Knight outspread his mantle wide, Within that ...
— Proud Signild - and Other Ballads • Thomas J. Wise
... had just risen, was shining brightly upon the imperial free city of Nuremberg; its rays found their way into the street leading from the strong Marienthurm to the Frauenthor, but entrance to the Ortlieb mansion was barred by a house, a watchtower, and—most successfully of all—by a tall linden tree. Yet there was something to be seen here which even now, when Nuremberg sheltered the Emperor Rudolph and so many secular and ecclesiastical princes, counts, and knights, awakened Luna's curiosity. True, ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... and the woode of this tree, there bee thin pellicles or skins lying in many folds together, whereof are made bands and cords called Bazen ropes."—PHILEMON HOLLAND'S Pliny's Nat. Hist. xvi. 14. The chapter is headed "Of the Line or Linden Tree." ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe |
