1757. Dyer, Fleece, I. 206. The sandy soil Of elmy Ross.
1795. Southey, Joan of Arc, X. 5. The summer breeze Moves oer the elmy vale.
1799. Coleridge, in New Monthly Mag. (1835), XLV. 225. We have elmy hedges.
1873. Miss Thackeray, Old Kensington, i. 4. The old palace that stands blinking its sleepy windows across elmy vistas.