smoke-tree

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"Are you the same?" say both kinds of eyes, intent, absorbed with the wish that has been starved small through the last three months, but now grows again like a smoke-tree out of a magicked jar, "Really the same and really loving me and really glad to be here?"

Young People's Pride Stephen Vincent Ben��t 1920
And the smoke-tree puffs dun blossoms into the blue air.

1777 1917
And Washingtons armies away over the smoke-tree to the southwest.

1777 1917
Smith and Townsend, quoted. smoke-tree.snowball. snow-berry.snowdrop. snowflake. soap insecticides.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906
And the smoke-tree puffs dun blossoms into the blue air.

Men, Women and Ghosts Amy Lowell 1899
And Washington's armies away over the smoke-tree to the Southwest.

Men, Women and Ghosts Amy Lowell 1899
Miss Mitchell lived not far from Ellen, in a tidy white house with a handsome smoke-tree on one side of the front walk and a willow with upside-down branches on the other.

The Portion of Labor Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891