palm-branches

The zeal of Sister Anna Maddalena has been rewarded, for there, among the Extravagant Saints, sure enough, with a border of palm-branches and hour-glasses, stands the name of Saint Dionea, Virgin and Martyr, a lady of Antioch, put to death by the Emperor Decius.

Archive 2009-11-01 Theodora Goss 2009

Vivaldi hastened to the choir, the pavement of which was strewn with palm-branches and fresh flowers.

The Italian 2004

He first carried a wall round the Hedjra, or the place where the body of Mohammed had been deposited at his death, and which was at first enclosed only by palm-branches.

Travels in Arabia 2003

They were dressed in white, with large head-shawls of red and black striped cotton, and they waved green palm-branches instead of banners.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

We set rafts of palm-branches to bear us clear of the streaming floor, covered them with felt mats, and huddled down on them under sheepskins, with another mat over us like a shield to throw off the water.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

She looked slowly around her without replying; then her eyes were arrested in the background, where something bluish and sparkling fell upon a bed of palm-branches.

Salammbo 2003

So I established myself in its southern gate-tower, and set my six Haurani boys (for whom manual labour was not disgraceful) to cover with brushwood, palm-branches, and clay the ancient split stone rafters, which stood open to the sky.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

In the only account given of one of these feasts, we read that the people brought olive-branches and pine-branches, myrtle-branches and palm-branches, and made themselves booths upon the roofs of their houses, in their courts, and in their streets, and dwelt in them, 'and there was very great gladness.'

At the Time Appointed J. N. [Illustrator] Marchand

Poor people were satisfied with very simple tenements; their wants being easily supplied, both as to lodging and food; and their house consisted of four walls, with a flat roof of palm-branches laid across a split date-tree as a beam, and covered with mats plastered over with a thick coating of mud.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

The building, we shall find in every case, is a roughly-constructed hut, consisting of a floor raised a couple of feet above the spongy soil, and covered with a steep roof of palm-branches, with perhaps a thatch composed of the leaves of the same invaluable tree.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various