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  • World clothe his form with her palm-groves and savannahs as fit drapery?

    Nature 2006

  • Closing the door behind him, Conan returned to his horse, mounted and turned westward, toward the open desert, swinging wide to skirt the sinister belt of palm-groves.

    The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • Three men were moving down the road toward the palm-groves, and from their slouching gait he knew they were negroes.

    The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • Three men were moving down the road toward the palm-groves, and from their slouching gait he knew they were negroes.

    The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • Closing the door behind him, Conan returned to his horse, mounted and turned westward, toward the open desert, swinging wide to skirt the sinister belt of palm-groves.

    The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • The vast flat landscape stretches behind him; the great winding river; the purple city, with forts, and domes, and spires; the green fields, and palm-groves, and speckled villages; the plains still covered with shining inundations — the landscape stretches far far away, until it is lost and mingled in the golden horizon.

    Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

  • For nearly three months had beheld the sun rise daily above the palm-groves, mount to the zenith, and descend like a globe of fire into the ocean, unobscured for a single moment of his course.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • What is to disprove that this tribe, instead of camping under palm-groves in Asia, wandered beneath island oak-woods rooted in our own seas of Europe?

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • The rain had ceased, cool breezes rustled through the palm-groves and sighed through the funereal foliage of the pandanus.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • After passing through the town it turns to the North-west, its course being marked by a line of circular walls breast high, like the Kariz of Afghanistan, placed at unequal distances, and resembling wells: it then loses itself in the Nakhil or palm-groves.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

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