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Match each term to it's sentence.
Great ilexes of huge ____ stood dark and solemn in wide
glades with here and there among them hoary ash-trees, and giant
oaks just putting out their brown-green buds.
There they sat under an old ____ oak that sent its roots twisting like snakes down a steep crumbling bank.
They stood under the boughs of the woods again. No noise of the
falls could be heard, for a long southward slope lay now between
them and the ____ in which the stream flowed.
The hobbits’ packs were brought to them (a little heavier than
they had been), and also two stout staves of polished wood, shod
with iron, and with carven heads through which ran ____ leathern
thongs.
Nothing is on the road, and no sound of foot, or horn, or bowstring
is anywhere to be heard. A waiting silence broods above the Nameless
Land. I do not know what this ____s.
Frodo sighed and turned back southward. As if to mark his disregard of all such courtesy, Gollum was ____ing in the mould at the
foot of a tree. ‘Hungry again already?’ thought Sam. ‘Well, now for
it again!’
There it seemed to Frodo that he ___ied far off, floating as it were on a shadowy sea, the high dim tops and broken ____s of old towers forlorn and dark.
No living creature, beast or bird, was to be seen, but in these open places Gollum grew afraid, and they walked now with caution, ___ting from one long shadow to another.
There it seemed to Frodo that he descried far off,
floating as it were on a shadowy sea, the high dim tops and broken
____s of old towers forlorn and dark.
Sam was filled with deep suspicion, and showed it;
but Frodo gave no sign of what was passing in his mind. He sighed,
___ed his pack, and prepared to go out into the ever-gathering
darkness.