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Two weeks later, in mid-July 1960, Jane, Vanne, and their cook Dominic had settled into their camp under the tall oil-nut palms of the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

Two weeks later, in mid-July 1960, Jane, Vanne, and their cook Dominic had settled into their camp under the tall oil-nut palms of the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

"We'll take the light, too," Kelolo had agreed, for he was tired of his smoky oil-nut candles when the white man's whale-oil lamps were so obviously superior.

Hawaii Michener, James 1959

And how we enjoyed our dinners under the spreading oil-nut tree, chatting as we ate, and deciding every day anew that Tempy Ann made the nicest sage cheese in the world, and our Ruthie the best turnovers.

Aunt Madge's Story Sophie May 1869

Support for planting of such species as Jatorpha curcas, an oil-nut producing tree helps meet social goals while addressing our need for energy.

Orangeville Citizen 2010

Support for planting of such species as Jatorpha curcas, an oil-nut producing tree helps meet social goals while addressing our need for energy.

Orangeville Citizen 2010

Support for planting of such species as Jatorpha curcas, an oil-nut producing tree helps meet social goals while addressing our need for energy.

Orangeville Citizen 2010

Support for planting of such species as Jatorpha curcas, an oil-nut producing tree helps meet social goals while addressing our need for energy.

Orangeville Citizen 2010

The shredded fibres of the outside of the oil-nut are set alight and held under the nose and the whole crowd of friends and relations with whom the stifling hot hut is tightly packed yell the dying man's name at the top of their voices, in a way that makes them hoarse for days, just as if they were calling to a person lost in the bush or to a person struggling and being torn or lured away from them.

Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

It was quite a sight the next morning to see the people coming in from the neighboring towns, and to note their odd dresses, which were indeed of all kinds, from silks and velvets to coarsest homespun woollens, dyed with hemlock, or oil-nut bark, and fitting so ill that, if they had all cast their clothes into a heap, and then each snatched up whatsoever coat or gown came to hand, they could not have suited worse.

Tales and Sketches, Complete Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849