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You know the spot, about nine miles due west of Ailuk, and between two sandy atolls covered with a scant growth of cocoanuts and pan-danus palms.
The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 Louis Becke 1884
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They are for the most part but narrow strips of sandy soil, densely clothed, it is true, with countless thousands of stately cocoanut palms varied with groves of pan-danus and occasional patches of stunted scrub, but flat and unpleasing to the eye.
The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 Louis Becke 1884
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Beautiful things they seemed, as the sailing isle drew nearer, beautiful and naked, and brave with purple pan-danus flowers, and with red and yellow necklets of the scented seed of the pandanus.
'That Very Mab' Andrew Lang 1878
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Ethruscarum antiquitatum fragmenta : quibus vrbis Romae, aliarumque gentium primordia, mores, & res gestae indicantur Inghirami, Curzio, 1614-1655 1637
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In 899 they ravaged, says Hepi-danus, the country of the Lombards (?
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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