So I would climb a nearby oak that I may escape to take the longer view.

He picked out the tallest of the nearby oaks and pointed into the branches.

He wandered to a nearby oak and peered up into its nearly bare branches.

At a glance she saw that Kenrick's men had tossed him under a nearby oak, bound hand and foot.

Moving toward the fire, she found herself unable to ignore the figure lying beneath the nearby oak.

A cardinal flitted through the trees and perched in a nearby oak.

A few willow stems had caught in the branch of a nearby oak.

She made a bed of airmoss, tugged from a nearby live oak, and sank down on it gratefully.

A tree branch broke off a nearby oak and dropped to the ground ahead.

I wished I could sleep by day high in the branches of the nearby oak.