palm-leaves

Speaking from his solid-gold hotel suite while being attended by oiled eunuchs and being fanned with huge palm-leaves made from £50 notes, Cowell added, I'm sure that next season we can find a couple of genuine schizophrenics, at least one bipolar and a Tourettes sufferer, and I'm hopeful of seeing Britain's first on-screen suicide before 2011.

Archive 2009-06-01 Dungeekin 2009

Speaking from his solid-gold hotel suite while being attended by oiled eunuchs and being fanned with huge palm-leaves made from £50 notes, Cowell added, I'm sure that next season we can find a couple of genuine schizophrenics, at least one bipolar and a Tourettes sufferer, and I'm hopeful of seeing Britain's first on-screen suicide before 2011.

Cowell Confirms 2010 'Britain's Got' Series Dungeekin 2009

So we are wont to weave these palm-leaves and earn, during the day, a wherewithal to break our fast at nightfall; and we have lived on this wise nigh upon forty years.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

“Zambíl” or “Zimbíl,” a limp basket made of plaited palm-leaves and generally two handled.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

“Mishannah,” which Lane and Payne translate basket: I have always heard it used of an old gunny-bag or bag of plaited palm-leaves.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

“Atbák”; these trays are made of rushes, and the fans of palm-leaves or tail-feathers.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Then he girded his loins and took the body, wrapped it in an Abá-cloak and, laying it in a large basket of palm-leaves, he shouldered it saying, Thou art a stranger here and knowest no one: so sit thou in this place and await my return till day-break.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

We went in, hand in hand, till we came to a low wicket, which the King himself opened and led me into a ruinous place of frightful desolation and thence passed into a chamber, wherein was naught but a prayer-carpet, an ewer for ablution and some mats of palm-leaves.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

At its more quiet outfall, it was half-hidden in huge fantastic leaves and tall flowering stems; but near the waterfall the grassy bank sloped down toward the stream, and there, on palm-leaves strewed upon the turf, beneath the shadow of the crags, lay the two men whom Amyas sought, and whom, now he had found them, he had hardly heart to wake from their delicious dream.

Westward Ho! 2007

His reading-stand had been decorated with flowers and palm-leaves by some of the ladies of the city.

Speeches: Literary and Social 2007