oaken

How To Use oaken In A Sentence

• 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
• Behind the portcullis was a thick oaken door studded with steel. The Cloister and the Hearth
• 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
• 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
• He slipped into the oaken confessional box, closed the door and sat down, his head close to the grill. CONFESSIONAL
• I sadly left the clothes that my mama made me during my stay in the oaken walk-in closet in my bedroom. ICED
• 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
• 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
• Oaken, Oaken, honestly ! Paper cuts, bitten tongues, and now a nosebleed! We should put you in a helmet.
• 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