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· Albizia lebbek. aka Woman's tongue; for reforesting dry alkaline soil.
28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture 1996
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Down below her in the garden the old lebbek tree rustled stealthily in the stillness.
The Palace of Darkened Windows Mary Hastings Bradley
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She looked down into a garden, a deep tangle of a garden, presided over by a huge lebbek tree that threw a pall of shadow upon the faintly moving flowers beneath.
The Palace of Darkened Windows Mary Hastings Bradley
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It was the same garden on which her windows opened; Arlee recognized the huge lebbek tree in the center, the row of acacias, and the palms against the farthest wall.
The Palace of Darkened Windows Mary Hastings Bradley
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Around the corner of the lane the horse went racing, and down the dark, lebbek-lined avenue his flying feet struck back their sparks of fire.
The Fortieth Door Mary Hastings Bradley
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Beneath the wide-spreading lebbek a low table was laid for luncheon with two wicker chairs beside it.
The Palace of Darkened Windows Mary Hastings Bradley
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A favorite resort of the Cairo folk is the island of Gezireh; here a long avenue of lebbek trees furnishes a fashionable promenade, while games of golf, tennis, cricket, and polo, together with the races, are
Travels in the Far East Ellen Mary Hayes Peck
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For its long façade is striped with white and apricot, and there are lebbek-trees growing in its court near the two columns between which if you can pass you are assured of heaven.
The Spell of Egypt Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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I was summoned by the gold, and I went on, under the black lebbek-trees, on Ismail's road, toward it.
The Spell of Egypt Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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Black were the birds that flew low from roof to roof, black the wading camels, black the meeting leaves of the tall lebbek-trees that formed a tunnel from where I stood to Mena
The Spell of Egypt Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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