cypress-trees

On each of these hills the olive-trees were pale as little wisps of smoke, while the cypress-trees were like darker shoots against their slight mist, the nearer ones green, the more distant ones black.

Weatherwatch: Camus muses on a gentle Tuscan breeze 2011

At the same time the cypress-trees on the summit seemed to shoot up in a single jet against the sudden blue of the sky.

Weatherwatch: Camus muses on a gentle Tuscan breeze 2011

And the hill with its cypress-trees and houses vanished anew.

Weatherwatch: Camus muses on a gentle Tuscan breeze 2011

The hearse skirted a clump of cypress-trees, quitted the grand alley, turned into a narrow one, entered the waste land, and plunged into a thicket.

Les Miserables 2008

Others, now thinly straggling, passed onward as the evening closed, and the shadows of the cypress-trees fell darker around.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

To the familiar simplicity of that Italian building there were not lacking signs of a certain spiritual change, for out of the olive-grove which grew to its very doors a skittle-alley had been formed, and two baby cypress-trees were cut into the effigies of a cock and hen.

The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays 2004

They have planted it with cypress-trees, and flowering-shrubs.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

Employed in preparing dead cypress-trees for the timber of the raft.

Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales 2003

Judging from his hair and teeth, he might have been between thirty and forty years of age: to the west and north of the grave were two cypress-trees distant between fifty and sixty feet; the sides towards the tomb were barked, and curious characters deeply cut upon them, in a manner which, considering the tools they possess, must have been a work of great labour and time.

Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales 2003

  Gaunt cypress-trees stand round the sun-bleached stone;

Collected Poems 2003