pride-of-India love

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  • Constitucion, surrounded by beautiful live-oaks and pride-of-India trees, with their long, hanging-mosses and sweet-smelling blossoms.

    Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas Various

  • Rectus and I took a walk around the "Plaza," -- a public square planted thick with live-oak and pride-of-India trees, and with a monument in the centre with a Spanish inscription on it, stating how the king of Spain once gave a very satisfactory charter to the town.

    A Jolly Fellowship Frank Richard Stockton 1868

  • Rectus and I agreed, however, that we would rather have a pride-of-India tree than a charter, as far as we were concerned.

    A Jolly Fellowship Frank Richard Stockton 1868

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