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  • Well, you see the house is called The Acacias, and it seems rather silly not to have at least one.

    If: a play in four acts Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

  • Past research has indicated that rural people have a distinct preference for local species of fuelwood, such as Acacias on account of their characteristic long-burning quality.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • They retired to the remote "Allee of the Acacias," and solemnly took their airing away from the bustle of the new world, incidentally setting a fashion that has held good to this day; the lakeside being now deserted, and the "Acacias" crowded of an afternoon, by all that Paris holds of elegant and inelegant.

    Worldly Ways and Byways Eliot Gregory 1884

  • The Sutherland award for the director of the most original and imaginative feature debut screened at the festival went to Argentinian Pablo Giorgelli for his road movie Las Acacias.

    We Need to Talk About Kevin scoops top prize at London film festival 2011

  • Las Acacias emerged as a worthy winner, largely because of the originality of its conception.

    We Need to Talk About Kevin scoops top prize at London film festival 2011

  • It happened at the beginning of the business day around 10 a.m. at 17008 Avenida De Acacias.

    The Geezer Bandit 2009

  • In 2003 Erlich published an anthology containing The Time of the Acacias, which she divided into two parts, as well as a collection of essays under the subtitles “Outros Tempos I and II” (Other Times, I and II), and an essay on The Dybbuk.

    Sara Riwka B���raz Erlich. 2009

  • New York: 1981; The Time of the Acacias: On the Way to Shekhinah (trans. into English by Frank Murphy in collaboration with the author).

    Sara Riwka B���raz Erlich. 2009

  • The narratives gathered in The Time of the Acacias emphasize nostalgic descriptions of objects that testified to her upbringing, such as the Russian tea urn (“The big and yellow samovar”) and pans brought from Europe (“The copper pans that crossed the ocean”).

    Sara Riwka B���raz Erlich. 2009

  • In The Time of the Acacias she compares the Israeli landscape, mainly the desert in its fervent beauty, to the torrid northeastern scenery of her childhood.

    Sara Riwka B���raz Erlich. 2009

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