How To Use Oaken In A Sentence
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Everywhere one looked, row after row of long oaken bookcases held scrolls, parchments and bound books.
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At the far end on a small dais stood a large oaken table prepared for supper.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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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
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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
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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.
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The remaining curds she tapped out into a small oaken keeler.
Cold Mountain
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the old oaken bucket
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He closed the oaken door behind them gently, trying to muffle the resounding clack as the lock caught in the latch with a hand.
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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.
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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.
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Aidan turned, a new oaken strength to his features.
Earl of Durkness
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He was then hoisted up by his hands, by means of the pulley and rope, in such wise that his body swung by its own weight, his hands being high over his head and his right foot level with the pointed end of the oaken "stob" or stake.
Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Now In England
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At the far end on a small dais stood a large oaken table prepared for supper.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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A heavy oaken shield was on his right arm, a steel-pointed lance clasped in his left hand.
Trial of Seven
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A lively, bustling, arch fellow, whose pack, and oaken ellwand studded duly with brass points, denoted him to be of Autolycus’s profession, occupied a good deal of the attention, and furnished much of the amusement, of the evening.
Kenilworth
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I have a servant for that kind of thing, Katoma _dyadka_, of the oaken _shapka_.
Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
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A wooden target with one or two darts sticking in it hung on the end wall and invited the Robin Hoods of the village to try their skill; a system of incised marks on the oaken table made sinister suggestions of shove-halfpenny; and a large open box filled with white wigs, gaudily colored robes and wooden spears, swords and regalia, crudely coated with gilded paper, obviously appertained to the puerile ceremonials of the Order of Druids.
The Eye of Osiris
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By the central pole stood a great oaken chest, three feet high and as long as a man.
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Though not as comprehensive as their win early in the season, Holme Wood Athletic completed a double over Oakenshaw.
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A dark chamber with a large oaken door at one end looks all the more malevolent in the flickering torchlight.
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I sat in a worn leather wingback chair opposite her ancient oaken desk.
THE HUNDREDTH MAN
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Behind the guard was another, but he seemed to be more of a mage, with flowing red robes and an oaken staff with a brilliant carbuncle sapphire in its top.
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The example he gave was "oaken", which is not quite the same as "made of oak".
Microscopic is tinier than miniscule
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So, in virtue of this last appeal, convictism had established a tacit right to converse in whispers, and to move about inside its oaken cage.
For the term of his natural life
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Beyond an oaken dressing-table, with an orderly litter of combs and brushes and dainty feminine knickknacks, there was no sign of its being used as a bedroom.
Chapter XVIII
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He studied all the books of chemistry which at that period were attainable, — a period when, in the world, it was a science far unlike what it has since become; and when Septimius had no instruction in this country, nor could obtain any beyond the dark, mysterious, charlatanic communications of Doctor Portsoaken.
Septimius Felton, or, The elixir of life
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The Chinese butler had grown familiar with Faraday's attractive countenance and his unabbreviated English, when late one warm and sunny afternoon the young man pulled the bell of the great oaken door of the
The Spinner's Book of Fiction
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Its large oaken slab was of sufficient dimensions to admit of the royal gift being spread in graceful folds over the dark surface of the wood, which the better displayed the tissue's interchanging tints, and also gave room for the disposal of the cap and gloves, which were placed in a kind of armorial crest between its gauntlets, at the head of the scarf, and at its foot was added a beautifully written inscription in old emblazoned characters, historic of the interesting relics above.
The Scottish Chiefs
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“A boar's head, as before, holding an oaken branch, vert, fructed or.”
Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe
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This is a very exciting proposal for the whole community, including the people of Oakenrod.
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Jeremy Herrin's production, filled with resonant hymns, captures precisely the oaken rituals of public-school life while conveying the agonised unhappiness of the boy-hero.
South Downs/The Browning Version – review
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Next Saturday the Paul Oakenfold hype machine hits Alberta playing his now mythic set of trance in Edmonton.
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Behind the portcullis was a thick oaken door studded with steel.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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Woe slipped into the wheel; the merchant caught up the oaken wedge, and drove it into the axle-box from the other side.
Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
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Aidan woke, blinking up into the gray of predawn, confusion at his whereabouts making him question the heavy oaken beams above his head, the draft from a rattling set of windows, and the dampness in the smelly blankets covering him.
Earl of Durkness
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He slipped into the oaken confessional box, closed the door and sat down, his head close to the grill.
CONFESSIONAL
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I sadly left the clothes that my mama made me during my stay in the oaken walk-in closet in my bedroom.
ICED
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Beyond an oaken dressing-table, with an orderly litter of combs and brushes and dainty feminine knickknacks, there was no sign of its being used as a bedroom.
Chapter XVIII
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Time was — time is — and, if I catch it not by the forelock as it passes, time will be no more — Nettlewood will be forfeited — and if I have in addition a lawsuit for my title, and for Oakendale, I run a risk of being altogether capotted.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Oaken, Oaken, honestly ! Paper cuts, bitten tongues, and now a nosebleed! We should put you in a helmet.
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Page 237 and his right foot level with the pointed end of the oaken "stob," or stake.
Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Now In England
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He lay hold on an oaken shinty stick that hung on the wall, property of the ferry-house landlord's son.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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The 2. thing, that another ship should be bought and sente out on new designes, a thing not so much as once thought on by any here, much less, not a word intimated or spoaken of by any here, either by word or letter, neither could they imagine why this should be.
Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts
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He ran into the back room and yanked the false bottom out of the old oaken desk, pulled out the cloth-wrapped parcel, and set it on the desk.
Masdy's Silver
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His back was thick enough for toting an oaken ice box, and he would most likely be voiceless, a mute acceptor of direction, of order, a pure pieceworker whose every dollar earned, you could bet, would be quaffed off before nightfall.
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Its large oaken slab was of sufficient dimensions to admit of the royal gift being spread in graceful folds over the dark surface of the wood, which the better displayed the tissue's interchanging tints, and also gave room for the disposal of the cap and gloves which were placed in a kind of armorial crest between its gauntlets, at the head of the scarf, and at its foot was added a beautifully written inscription in old emblazoned characters, historic of the interesting relics above.
The Scottish Chiefs
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A long, oaken table occupied the centre of the room, and round this in groups, seated and standing, were a score of men, all with swords at their sides; bearing, many of them, that air of careless hauteur which is supposed to be a characteristic of noble birth.
The Strong Arm
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Going into the large yard, he cut two oaken wedges, took a new wheel, and drove a wedge firmly into one end of its axle-box.
Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
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Oakenshaw only fielded five players, which is never a good tactic, and their hopes of surviving the drop appear slim.
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Our house now resembles a once-magnificent oaken beam, riddled with woodworm and crumbling into its final collapse - like the country it used to so proudly represent.
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A huge oaken door with a small hatchway halfway up loomed in front of Wolf.
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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
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Time was -- time is -- and, if I catch it not by the forelock as it passes, time will be no more -- Nettlewood will be forfeited -- and if I have in addition a lawsuit for my title, and for Oakendale, I run a risk of being altogether capotted.
St. Ronan's Well
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It had all the things that go to make the best farm-kitchens: such as red bricks and heavy smoke-blackened beams, and a deep hearth with a great fire on it and settles inside, from which one could look up at the chimney-shaft to the sky, and clay pipes and spills alongside, and a muller for wine or beer; and hams and sides of bacon and strings on onions and bunches of herbs; much pewter, and a copper warming-pan, and brass candlesticks, and a grandfather clock; a cherrywood dresser and wheelback chairs polished with age; and a great scrubbed oaken table to seat a harvest-supper, planed from a single mighty plank.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
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However, bacterial decomposition had saturated the Vasa's oaken beams with hydrogen sulfide, which eventually created a huge reservoir of sulfur.
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The Druids were known by name, but scarcely more than by name, to the Greeks, who derived the appellation erroneously from _drus_, an oak, under the supposition that the Druids preferred to perform their religious rites under the shadows of oaken groves.
The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad
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His voice may not be as oaken as Richard Burton's was, or as burnished as John Gielgud's, but it's a beautifully modulated instrument with its own somber music.
Soderbergh Goes 'Haywire' With a Fast, Stylish Thriller
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He had refused definitely to enter the atelier of the gentleman who pleased his clients by ingeniously simulating the grain of walnut; and though he had seen the old oaken ambry kicked out contemptuously into the farmyard, serving perhaps the necessities of hens or pigs, he would not apprentice himself to the masters of veneer.
The Hill of Dreams
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I sat in a worn leather wingback chair opposite her ancient oaken desk.
THE HUNDREDTH MAN
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A lively, bustling, arch fellow, whose pack, and oaken ellwand studded duly with brass points, denoted him to be of Autolycus's profession, occupied a good deal of the attention, and furnished much of the amusement, of the evening.
Kenilworth
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Labour spokesman David Oakenson says there's evidence to suggest the blame lies with Swindon Police.
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The sturdy oaken panel was flung aside and two strange men surged through followed by Ragnor, Vachel and two more.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE