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The worship always depicts Durga with her four children, and occasionally two attendant deities and some banana-tree figures.
Archive 2009-09-01 photographerno1 2009
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The 2,400-square-foot ground-floor apartment has 3 1/2 baths and comes with Italian marble flooring and a terrace, with a whirlpool tub, opening into a palm and banana-tree garden.
Andie MacDowell 2008
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Banana yields have already dropped by 50-70 per cent, and banana-tree life spans have been reduced from about 30 years to just about two years.
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Here's the entire spread, minus the banana-tree fruit bowl we keep in the kitchen which has duh bananas, lemons and limes as I didn't think that was very Christmas-y.
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The idea that the future life is like the present does not appear to prevail; yet a banana-tree had been carefully planted at the head of several of the graves; the fruit might be considered an offering to those who still possess human tastes.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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The banana-tree has been introduced from Norfolk Island, where it grows spontaneously.
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School-kids ran along the side of the road, shielding themselves from the rain with flopping banana-tree leaves.
Pop Goes The Weasel Patterson, James, 1947- 1999
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School-kids ran along the side of the road, shielding themselves from the rain with flopping banana-tree leaves.
Pop Goes the Weasel Patterson, James, 1947- 1999
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The materials used in pot manufacture depend on local availability: compressed earth, pottery, bamboo tubes, banana-tree fibre, etc.
1.1. Forests 1982
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And on his orders they hastened to construct a barrier of banana-tree trunks.
Malayan Literature Various
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