camphor-tree

In no part of the world does the camphor-tree flourish in equal perfection as in the districts of Maludu and Payton, in the north of Borneo.

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

The novel beauty of the Dabney gardens can scarcely be exaggerated; each step was a new incursion into the tropics, -- a palm, a magnolia, a camphor-tree, a dragon-tree, suggesting Humboldt and Orotava, a clump of bamboos or cork-trees, or the startling strangeness of the great grass-like banana, itself a jungle.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various

The bony knees of the old ascetic, covered with dust, were moveless as the black roots of the camphor-tree; and a dog of the village sat afar off on his haunches and whined at intervals, waiting for the white man to go, that he might have the untouched supper, which a woman of Preshbend had brought to Gobind's begging-bowl.

Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Will Levington Comfort 1905

Bedient was in his thirty-second year; and just at this time old Gobind left his body for a last time beneath the camphor-tree.

Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Will Levington Comfort 1905

Gobind must not be forgotten -- old Gobind, who appeared in Preshbend at certain seasons, and sat down in the shade of a camphor-tree, old and gnarled as he; but a sumptuous refuge, as, in truth was Gobind in the spirit.

Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Will Levington Comfort 1905

Then Balkis -- The Most Beautiful and Excellent Balkis -- went forward through the red lilies into the shade of the camphor-tree and laid her hand upon Suleiman-bin-Daoud's shoulder and said, 'O my Lord and

Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

They came down the marble steps, one hundred abreast, and beneath his camphor-tree, still weak with laughing, they saw the Most Wise King

Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

Balkis -- The tender and Most Lovely Balkis -- said, 'O my Lord and Regent of my Existence, I hid behind the camphor-tree and saw it all.

Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

So he went on between the lilies and the loquats and the roses and the cannas and the heavy-scented ginger-plants that grew in the garden, till he came to the great camphor-tree that was called the Camphor Tree of

Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

Presently the Butterfly, very hot and puffy, came whirling back under the shadow of the camphor-tree and said to Suleiman, 'She wants me to stamp!

Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900