Sylva

Martha Hall, 17, began taking classes at Southwestern Community College in Sylva, N.C., when she was 15.

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The inhabitants of this place-which, she had learned, was called "Sylva" - seemed to treat her and her expedition as a kind of circus-cavalcade of freaks, when they were not regarding them as if they were some kind of unreasoning beasts.

If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993

Mr. Sylva from the Sacramento Bee wrote a similar "good people" story a few months back.

Heroes or Villains? 2010

"Sylva," &c., now first published from the original M.. in the Library at Wotton, with notes by the Rev. R.M. Evanson, is among the books announced by Colburn, for the first of July.

International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850 Various

Evelyn tried to introduce it, but did not succeed at first, and the tree is not mentioned in his "Sylva" of 1664.

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

While recommending this practice in his "Sylva," Evelyn remarks, "The only instance I know of the like in our country, is in the park at Althorp."

Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. Benson John Lossing 1852

"Sylva" does not speak of the autumnal color of the former.

Excursions Henry David Thoreau 1839

While Britain retains her awful situation among the nations of Europe, the "Sylva" of EVELYN will endure with her triumphant oaks.

Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Isaac Disraeli 1807

Should not EVELYN have inserted an oak-tree in his bearings? for his "Sylva" occasioned the plantation of "many millions of timber-trees," and the present navy of Great Britain has been constructed with the oaks which the genius of Evelyn planted.

Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Isaac Disraeli 1807

I must call Sylva to bear me company, for one of my nervous attacks is upon me, and I cannot sleep. "

Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems Effie Afton 1858