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The profound shade of a giant ilex tree engulfed him. Like a great wooden octopus, it spread its long arms abroad.
- Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow
"The house had, it is true, already in some ways the look of an institution, though of an expensive kind: it stood among pleasure-grounds dark with ilex, girt by a high flint wall." - Elizabeth Bowen, "The Inherited Clock," Ivy Gripped the Steps.