For three hundred years this venerable tree had witnessed elections like this, but never one conducted so speedily.

The venerable tree was tufted with new, shiny leaves, glittering and yellow-green in the morning sunshine.

Some of the other venerable trees on the women's club property are also a testament to long abandoned horticultural practices.

Gardeners working late, still pruning the orchards as though those venerable trees would go on forever.

And what if the huge, venerable tree then turns out to be infested with insects because of previous religious observances involving the tree's supposed powers?

I look upon these venerable trees around me, and feel that I do not dishonor them.

"In fact, they are among our most interesting, beautiful and venerable trees," he said.

Certainly, so old and venerable a tree would have been marked as holy by the Druids.

Finally he spied what he had been looking for: a venerable tree bent its head over the wall, affording him the possibility of entry.

The present name Beyağaç literally means "the venerable tree", a reference to ancient black pine forests that surround the town and which are under protection.