And the new animal was among them by the dead elms.

A dead elm, taken long ago by lightning, stood to the west, its leafless branches black against the paling sky.

It is particularly common on dead elm and is also found on living maple trees.

I did the chimney and dead elms, the frayed, silken cords of scorn.

Black wings outstretched they glided across the river, perched in the branches of a dead elm, watched him bale fully.

Ahead lay the only landmark Linden had seen in the whole of the clachan-a broad ring of dead elms.

The road was a windy country lane lined with the wintry silhouettes of leafless oaks and dead elms.

He's cutting down two dead elms for Janet.

He'd noticed several dead elms that needed felling in the corner of the estate; probably one of those was the culprit.

He cuts down the dead elms, finally, and they burn them in the stove.