Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

She'd always found espaliers a little creepy. It was like somebody had crucified the poor thing.

Dangerous Women - original fiction: Lev Grossman. The Girl in the Mirror, p.389 (2013)

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There were espaliers of fruit-trees, a pear-tree in the shape of a pyramidal poplar, spherical oaks and lime-trees, an apple-tree in the shape of an umbrella

Anton Chekhov. The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories

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The garden, longer than wide, ran between two mud walls with espaliered apricots, to a hawthorn hedge that separated it from the field.

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary

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Sometimes throughout a whole season all the swarms would alight on the lowest attainable bough—such as part of a currant-bush or espalier apple-tree;

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Once a kite, hovering over the garden, made a stoop at me, and if I had not resolutely drawn my hanger, and run under a thick espalier, he would have certainly carried me away in his talons.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)