olive-trees

On each of these hills the olive-trees were pale as little wisps of smoke, while the cypress-trees were like darker shoots against their slight mist, the nearer ones green, the more distant ones black.

Weatherwatch: Camus muses on a gentle Tuscan breeze 2011

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

The missing verse seems to have something to do with olives or olive trees - and perhaps can be filled in in that regard by raiding the other hymn sung for this feast, Felix per omnes festum mundi cardines, which calls Peter and Paul "two olive-trees that stand before the Lord."

Archive 2009-01-01 bls 2009

The missing verse seems to have something to do with olives or olive trees - and perhaps can be filled in in that regard by raiding the other hymn sung for this feast, Felix per omnes festum mundi cardines, which calls Peter and Paul "two olive-trees that stand before the Lord."

Giovanni Vianini's bls 2009

Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being in whom are summed up all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity had also long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him dripping with darkness and overflowing with shadows in the depths all studded with stars.

Les Miserables 2008

These are two olive-trees that stand before the Lord

Archive 2008-06-01 bls 2008

"These are two olive-trees that stand before the Lord."

Archive 2008-06-01 bls 2008

But no one, either of the deathless gods or of mortal men, heard her voice, nor yet the olive-trees bearing rich fruit: only tender-hearted Hecate, bright-coiffed, the daughter of

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Nor is it only distance that lends enchantment to the view; for the fruitful country, and rich woods of olive-trees through which the road subsequently passes, render it delightful.

Pictures from Italy 2007

For they were crushed into a walled enclosure, having a road on both sides and planted thickly with olive-trees, and missiles were hurled at them from all points.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007