Citations:appletree

English citations of appletrees and appletree

• 1720–23, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (1726), part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag, chapter v, in The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. (new edition, nineteen volumes), volume VI (1801), ed. Thomas Sheridan and John Nichols, page 126:

  I remember, before the dwarf left the queen, he followed us one day into those gardens, and my nurse having set me down, he and I being close together, near some dwarf appletrees, I must need show my wit, by a silly allusion between him and the trees, which happens to hold in their language, as it does in ours.

• 1879, Charlton Thomas Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, “mālus²”:

  mālus², i, f., Gr. μηλέα, // I. an appletree: “malus bifera,” Varr. R. R. 1, 7: “et steriles platani malos gessere valentes,” Verg. G. 2, 70: “malus granata,” the pomegranate, Isid. 17, 7, 6: “felices arbores putantur esse quercus…malus, etc.,” Macr. S. 3, 20, 2.

• 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Penguin Books (1964 revised reissue), →ISBN (10), →ISBN (13), page 250, entry for the 5th of April:

  O life! Dark stream of swirling bogwater on which appletrees have cast down their delicate flowers.