stone-pines

I will not be sure, but I think we began to see his kind as soon as we got out of Valladolid, when we began running through a country wooded with heavy, low-crowned pines that looked like the stone-pines of Italy, but were probably not the same.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

There are several tall trees, stately stone-pines, also fig-trees & trees of breeds not familiar to me.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

The grounds are gay with starry anemones, and billowy acacias crested with odorous wreaths of yellow foam, dark and mysterious with tall ilexes, cypresses, and stone-pines, enlivened by graceful palms and tender deciduous trees, musical with falling and glancing waters, and haunted by the statues of Greek divinities that filled men's minds with immortal thoughts in the youth of the world -- dimly visible amid the recesses of the foliage.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

The stone-pines of Italy are seen through the distortion of convention, the palaces of Venice were never builded by the hand of man; and we lose by this the contrast which nature provides between solid earth and filmy cloud.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896 Various

The ivy-grown city-wall, a group of fine cypresses, a few stone-pines with their lovely velvet-like verdure, the gray old pyramid of

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various

A few ilexes and stone-pines arched their evergreen foliage over the road; and the succulent milky stems of the wild fig-trees were covered with the small green fruit, while the downy leaves were just beginning to peep from their sheaths.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

Outside the city wall a few private houses and two hotels lie back among eucalyptus, palms, and bushy stone-pines: several of the legations which represent the European Powers have modern houses, lost in greenery of sorts.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

Under the ilexes and noble stone-pines that show their dark-green foliage against the sky, the helmets and swords of cavalry glitter as they move to and fro.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

Passing the stone-pines crowning Monte Mario, there gleam away to the left the far waters of the sea, over which the purple mist of young night tenderly, softly falls.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Delicate pink and straw-coloured tea-roses, camellias, and jonquils mingled their high-born beauties with the more homely charms of wild-flowers that grew under the shadow of the great solemn stone-pines on the heights around, or twined their fresh garlands over the sad ruins of the Campagna.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan