baobab

• A space around it was clear, for the baobab didn't like to be crowded, and used hostile spells to drive away competitive plants. —  Night Mare
• Centaur Input Imbri reached Castle Roogna quickly, for the baobab tree was not far from it. —  Night Mare
• Once, when a man who looked like a rajah's son arrived breathless on a foaming horse and talked with the Lama under a wayside baobab, the party separated into four detachments, and Ommony lay hidden for a whole day under the blistering iron roof of an abandoned shed. —  OM: The Secret of Ahbor Valley
• On a letter she had written, 'Let others plead for pensions, I wrote to a friend I can be rich without money; I would give my services in the world from uninterested motives; I have motives for my own conduct I would not exchange for a hundred pensions She rests by the large baobab-tree at Shupanga, which is sixty feet in circumference, and is mentioned in the work of Commodore Owen. —  The Personal Life Of David Livingstone
• For a whole month before this letter was written, poor Mary had been sleeping under the baobab-tree at Shupanga! —  The Personal Life Of David Livingstone

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