Palm-trees

Palm-trees stood motionless, the bougainvillea hung in heavy sheets of magenta colour.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

Palm-trees grow in latitude 37°; an arborescent grass, very like a bamboo, in 40°; and another closely allied kind, of great length, but not erect, flourishes even as far south as 45°

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Palm-trees grow in latitude 37°; an arborescent grass, very like a bamboo, in 40°; and another closely allied kind, of great length, but not erect, flourishes even as far south as 45°

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Palm-trees, like human beings, are male and female.

The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis Ellice Hopkins

Palm-trees, I thought, rose towards heaven, like passionate souls longing for release from earthly bondage; Spanish women, full-breasted and sinuous, danced _boleros_, _fandangos_, while the air rang with the joyous sound of castanets, and toreadors in picturesque habiliments twanged the light guitar.

The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia 1919

Palm-trees, or bananas with huge, ragged leaves, or trees unlike any familiar to our experience, might stand near by, close to the big cow corrals.

VII. Wild Hunting Companions 1916

Palm-trees grow in lat. 37°; an arborescent grass, very like a bamboo, in 40°; and another closely allied kind, of great length, but not erect, flourishes even as far south as 45° S. 21

Chapter XI 1909

Palm-trees and tamarinds overhung it; palm-trees, mimosas, and mangroves marked the course of a limpid river.

Sir Mortimer Mary Johnston 1903

Palm-trees, which have grown there for some hundred years perhaps, rise from the ground, either separately or in superb clusters, and temper the light of the always hot sun on the rose-trees and the flowering hibiscus.

Egypt (La Mort de Philae) Pierre Loti 1886

Softly the feathery Palm-trees fade in the violet Distance,

India's Love Lyrics Laurence Hope 1884