fig-trees

I have ordered some fig-trees and loquats, too, from Sydney.

Chapter 17 2010

We settled on a biblical reference: "a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, springing forth in valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;" Deuteronomy 8: 7-8

Liz Neumark: A Great Miracle Happened Here Liz Neumark 2010

Moretan Bay fig-trees are just so bizarre looking…kinda like ents?

Illustration Friday: Entangled 2009

They have dwelt under their vines and fig-trees, in ignoble ease perhaps, but free from oppression and exaction, and their happiness has been that of their good King.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Royal houses resemble those Indian fig-trees, each branch of which, bending over to the earth, takes root and becomes a fig-tree itself.

Les Miserables 2008

Several other undescribed species of fig-trees occur in the collection, but cannot be satisfactorily characterised from the material extant.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

Ye are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the soldiers of the Church with which to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked, fruitful olives, vines of Engadi, fig-trees that are never barren, burning lamps always to be held in readiness — and all the noblest comparisons of Scripture may be applied to books, if we choose to speak in figures.

The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury 2007

Dr. Salomon Muller, an accomplished Dutch naturalist, who lived for many years in the Eastern Archipelago, and to the results of whose personal experience I shall frequently have occasion to refer, states that the Gibbons are true mountaineers, loving the slopes and edges of the hills, though they rarely ascend beyond the limit of the fig-trees.

Essays 2007

I own I felt an inexpressible relief when I had come to the resolution to retire and betake myself to the peaceful shade of my own vines and fig-trees at home.

The Virginians 2006

But here a little patch of cleared ground shows old friends, who seem to cling by abused civilisation: - fine, hardy thistles, one of them bright yellow, though; — honest, Scotch-looking, large daisies or gowans; — potatoes here and there, looking but sickly; and dark sturdy fig-trees looking cool and at their ease in the burning sun.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005