myrtle-tree

A THRUSH was feeding on a myrtle-tree and did not move from it because its berries were so delicious.

ruchiii Diary Entry ruchiii 2007

Wherefore also he is unfruitful, like the wild myrtle-tree.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

Instead of the thorn would come up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier the myrtle-tree.

A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England Eliza Southall

In fol. 13, col. i, of the same treatise from which the above is quoted, we are informed by Ben Azai that Esther was like the myrtle-tree, neither tall nor short statured, but middle-sized.

Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various

The salubrity of the atmosphere and the proximity of the village to the sea may account for the extraordinary growth of the myrtle-tree, which attains here an astonishing height.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 570, October 13, 1832 Various

"And is it true, Thorwald, that instead of the thorn there came up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier there came up the myrtle-tree?"

Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World James Cowan

"I will tell you Luis -- when the myrtle-tree grows figs, and the fig-tree is pink with myrtle flowers, then I may fall in love with Dias de Bonilla -- if I can take the trouble."

Remember the Alamo 1888

A THRUSH was feeding on a myrtle-tree and did not move from it because its berries were so delicious.

Fables Aesop 1880

A large white cat sunned herself on the strawberry bed, and a mocking-bird sang in the myrtle-tree that overshadowed the study-window.

St. Elmo 1872

A large white cat sunned herself on the strawberry bed, and a mocking-bird sang in the myrtle-tree that overshadowed the study-window.

St. Elmo. A Novel. Augusta Jane 1867