Beech

(noun.) any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions.

(noun.) wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles.

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• Switches were brought in bundles, from a beech wood near the school house, by the boys for whose benefit they were intended. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• At length Clym reached the margin of a fir and beech plantation that had been enclosed from heath land in the year of his birth. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• She stood there, by that beech-trunk--a hag like one of those who appeared to Macbeth on the heath of Forres. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• White--the school teacher --now, with his long beech switch always in his hand. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• There was a large beech-tree overshadowing the place, and the small, sharp, triangular beech-nuts lay scattered thickly on the ground. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• There was a small garden on the place where the beech-tree had been. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• He had for food hazel-nuts, beech-nuts, sweet chestnuts, earth-nuts, and acorns. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In the air, the unfolding leaves of a copper-beech were blood-red. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The Bentwood Ware Factories of Austria, Hungary, Moravia (1870-73), in Vast Beech Forests Followed in other Countries. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Thou hast never known a forest of beech, nor of oak, nor of chestnut. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the copper beeches in front of the door. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I have it here and I will read it to you: 'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside public-house. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The Copper Beeches, five miles on the far side of Winchester. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Whatever landscape might lie further must have been flat, and these tall beeches shut it out. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I was standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper beeches. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• A bubbling spring prattles over stones on one side, and a plantation of a few elms and beeches, hardly deserve, and yet continue the name of wood. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Let us sit here, Selden suggested, as they reached an open ledge of rock above which the beeches rose steeply between mossy boulders. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• On the very first day that I was at the Copper Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands near the kitchen door. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• A clump of copper beeches immediately in front of the hall door has given its name to the place. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.

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