fruit-trees

Daylight advanced the capital, fifty thousand dollars, and, as he laughingly explained afterward, "I was stung, all right, but it wasn't Holdsworthy that did it half as much as those blamed chickens and fruit-trees of his."

Chapter I 2010

The bare willow trees around the villages put forth soft green leaves and the wheat turned green in the fields and the blossoms of the fruit-trees were rose-colored and white….

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

The bare willow trees around the villages put forth soft green leaves and the wheat turned green in the fields and the blossoms of the fruit-trees were rose-colored and white….

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

Waste not the land, neither destroy corn and fruit-trees; they are the gifts of Allah.

The Talisman 2008

He seated himself on a wooden bench, with his back against a decrepit vine; he gazed at the stars, past the puny and stunted silhouettes of his fruit-trees.

Les Miserables 2008

Small pollards, which had been formerly planted around the little gardens, had now waxed into huge and high forest trees; the fruit-trees had extended their branches over the verges of the little yards, and the hedges had shot up into huge and irregular bushes; while quantities of dock, and nettles, and hemlock, hiding the ruined walls, were busily converting the whole scene of desolation into a picturesque forest-bank.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

An orchard of thriving fruit-trees extended to the southward of the dwelling.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

I came amid these reflections to the brow of a hill, from which I expected to see Glentanner, a modest-looking yet comfortable house, its walls covered with the most productive fruit-trees in that part of the country, and screened from the most stormy quarters of the horizon by a deep and ancient wood, which overhung the neighbouring hill.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

They played in an alley of the garden bordered with a few shabby fruit-trees.

Les Miserables 2008

In three of these, Madame Magloire cultivated vegetables; in the fourth, the Bishop had planted some flowers; here and there stood a few fruit-trees.

Les Miserables 2008