almond-trees

The almond-trees are in blossom; the fig-trees are beginning to sprout; everything is in the tender bud, the young leaf, or the half-open flower.

Washington Irving 2004

The almond-trees that grew in a clump at the bottom of the garden had shed their pink blossom and begun to form fruit.

Ultima Thule 2003

[60] The word L+W+Z+ (Luz) signifies an almond-tree, and the town may have derived this name from the fact that almond-trees abounded in the neighborhood.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

The Turkish trenches enclosed a lovely little spinney of fig-trees and almond-trees in full bloom, under which we concealed the guns and beneath whose sheltering branches we slept.

With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett

Palaces of the Cæsars on a sunny February afternoon, I saw above the hoary masses of stone the rose-tinted bloom of almond-trees.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

The hedges are putting forth their leaves, the almond-trees are in full blossom, and in the vineyards the _contadini_ are setting cane-poles and trimming the vines to run upon them.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various

The orchards of almond-trees, with thriving beans planted underneath them, and the fat fields of barley, spoke volumes for the prosperity of his days.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

Here and there palm-trees, almond-trees, and the ubiquitous camelthorn are seen interspersed amongst the houses; women in red and yellow garments, with turquoise rings in their ears and noses, peep at you furtively from behind their flimsy doors, and as you proceed up the valley you find several towers constructed to protect the gardens from

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

IT was in February, and the almond-trees were beginning to blossom on the black lava about Diamante.

The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel 1915

And look, they have built a barn on the green meadow under the almond-trees.

The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel 1915