oaken

How To Use oaken In A Sentence

• Everywhere one looked, row after row of long oaken bookcases held scrolls, parchments and bound books.
• At the far end on a small dais stood a large oaken table prepared for supper. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
• Kaufmann's voice was at both its most limber and controlled here, his delivery achieving subtle colorations in the work's atmospheric hothouses, as with his nearly vibrato-less "Ich hab' im Traum geweinet" (I wept in my dream), his plangent "Aus alten Märchen winkt es" (From old fairy tales beckons...), and the oaken darkness of his "Die alten, bösen Lieder" (the old, angry songs), summing up the poet's journey. Rodney Punt: Jonas Kaufmann Triumphs in Lieder Recital for LA Opera
• They pushed forward galleries formed of hurdles of green reeds, and oaken semicircles like enormous shields gliding on three wheels; the workers were sheltered in little huts covered with raw hides and stuffed with wrack; the catapults and ballistas were protected by rope curtains which had been steeped in vinegar to render them incombustible. Salammbo
• Around the walls stood several oaken bookcases, the lower shelves of which were filled with rows of gigantic folios and black-letter quartos, and the upper with little parchment-covered duodecimos.
• The remaining curds she tapped out into a small oaken keeler. Cold Mountain
• the old oaken bucket
• He closed the oaken door behind them gently, trying to muffle the resounding clack as the lock caught in the latch with a hand.
• Now, Cappin, what did you ever see in that blasted longshanks, Oakenberg, -- that called himself a doctor -- a fellow that sickened and killed more good fellows with his yarbs and poultices than he'll ever meet in heaven, -- what did you see in that skunk of a fellow to make you do for him what you did? The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc.
• Warm light from kerosene lamps gives the impression of comfort, but despite woolen Oriental carpets insulating the hardwood floor and the heavy oaken wall panels, the cabin is unpleasantly chilly. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Channeling Characters