A Description and History of Vegetable Substances, Used in the Arts, and in Domestic Economy: Timber trees: fruitsC. Knight, 1830 - 422 sivua |
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... mentioned twenty - four others , which they found during the course of their travels in South America . Of the various species of oak , some may be classed with shrubs , others with the most majestic trees of the forest ; some are ...
... mentioned twenty - four others , which they found during the course of their travels in South America . Of the various species of oak , some may be classed with shrubs , others with the most majestic trees of the forest ; some are ...
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... mention : -One of the three in Donnington Park , the King's oak , was fifty feet high before a bough or even a knot appeared , and the base of it squared five feet entirely solid ; the Queen's oak was straight as a line for forty feet ...
... mention : -One of the three in Donnington Park , the King's oak , was fifty feet high before a bough or even a knot appeared , and the base of it squared five feet entirely solid ; the Queen's oak was straight as a line for forty feet ...
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... mentioned , was a tree of immense size , — being between six and seven feet in diameter , at three feet from the ground . Damory's oak in Dorsetshire was the largest oak of which mention is made . Its circumference was sixty - eight ...
... mentioned , was a tree of immense size , — being between six and seven feet in diameter , at three feet from the ground . Damory's oak in Dorsetshire was the largest oak of which mention is made . Its circumference was sixty - eight ...
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... mention of such things proves , that the oak can reach an age several times exceeding that of the longest lived of the human race . Since oak was so much in demand , it has become an object of great attention to planters ; and the ...
... mention of such things proves , that the oak can reach an age several times exceeding that of the longest lived of the human race . Since oak was so much in demand , it has become an object of great attention to planters ; and the ...
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... mentioned by Theophrastus , Pliny , and some other ancient natu- ralists , as being well known in the days of the Greeks and Romans , -the latter of whom used it for a variety of purposes , and among the rest for the stop- ping of ...
... mentioned by Theophrastus , Pliny , and some other ancient natu- ralists , as being well known in the days of the Greeks and Romans , -the latter of whom used it for a variety of purposes , and among the rest for the stop- ping of ...
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Sivu 57 - His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Sivu 286 - And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Sivu 285 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Sivu 270 - My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; I do beseech you send for some of them.
Sivu 258 - The blue-eyed myriads from the Baltic coast The prostrate South to the destroyer yields Her boasted titles and her golden fields • With grim delight the brood of winter view A brighter day, and heavens of azure hue, Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows.
Sivu 291 - This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceived; they, fondly thinking to allay Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit Chew'd bitter ashes, which the offended taste With spattering noise rejected : oft they...
Sivu 314 - ... but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark...
Sivu 60 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Sivu 240 - And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates ; neither is there any water to drink.
Sivu 74 - Then anon the air began to wax clear and the sun to shine fair and bright, the which was right in the Frenchmen's eyes and on the Englishmen's backs. When the Genoese were assembled together, and began to approach, they made a great leap and cry to abash the Englishmen, but they stood still, and stirred not for all that.