mango-trees

Hartley entered without farther opposition, and was now in a grove of mango-trees, through which an infant moon was twinkling faintly amid the murmur of waters, the sweet song of the nightingale, and the odours of the rose, yellow jasmine, orange and citron flowers, and Persian narcissus.

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

It is now buried in a deep shady grove of mango-trees.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Under the thick shade of some mango-trees close by the house, several women-merchants were selling cotton goods; for here the women trade and work for the benefit of their husbands, a custom which Mahometan Malays never adopt.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

There are fine mango-trees on the slopes, said to have been planted by the Dutch two centuries ago.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

The banks are covered with large groves of fine mango-trees, among which the Portuguese lived while superintending the washing for the precious metal.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Reports from the immediate neighbourhood tell of the tardiness of the orange bloom, while the mango-trees have flowered off and on during the last three months without establishing hope of fruit, and without that excess of foliage which often registers a mild and encouraging season.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

When I really woke and began to stroll among the mango-trees, the western half of the sky, or rather a big area of it, was sullen — thickly, diabolically blue, as if reeking with fumes from hell.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

She sat looking past the thick mango-trees, whose fruit was changing colour like something gradually growing hot, to the ruffled, pale-brown lake.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

The lama squatted obediently in a little hollow of the ground not a hundred yards from the hump of the mango-trees dark against the star-powdered sky.

Kim 2003

Well kept roads radiating among vast plains clothed with giant trees, immense fields of manioc, magnificent forests of palms, cocoa-trees, mimosas, orange-trees, mango-trees — such was the country whose perfumes mounted to the “Albatross,” while many parrots and cardinals swarmed among the trees.

Robur the Conqueror 2003