| 单词 | tamarisk |
| 例句 | We walked between rows of small houses behind green or white fences, some with their verandas hidden behind the tamarisks, others standing naked among the rocks. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Although in an understandable hurry to incinerate the magazines, Vincent paused for a moment to stare at a tiny yellow-breasted warbler flitting about in the green mist of the left-hand tamarisk tree. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Surrounded by chollas, bur sage, and the comical scurrying of collared lizards, McCandless pitched his tent in the puny shade of a tamarisk and basked in his newfound freedom. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We cut some tamarisk branches for poles and dug worms for bait. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Describing the Jordan, she writes, “These waters fuel the tamarisk and the rhododendron blossoming on the riverbanks. . . . These waters host catfish and carp and bream, tiny mollusks and soft-shelled turtles.” Review | Rachel Held Evans died at 37, but a beautiful new book captures her brave outlook 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z It was more like a teenager’s dragster stripped down for speed, just a lightweight frame of tamarisk, elm and birch, missing only its two-horsepower engine. King Tut?s Chariot Arrives in Times Square 2010-08-02T22:41:00Z The monks used the term to describe a sweet resin that appears on certain shrubs in the Middle East, such as camel’s thorn and tamarisk. Is this biblical food the next foodie fad? This chef thinks so. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Perhaps most daunting was the task of removing invasive tamarisk with chainsaws. Modern Love: What Is Carved in Stone 2011-05-27T17:29:32Z Fed by spring water — unusual for the Salton Sea — these areas are now home to small shorebirds who flit about pools of water amid grasses and invasive tamarisk. The Salton Sea, an Accident of History, Faces a New Water Crisis 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z Exacerbating the problem are invasive non-native plants such as the tamarisk and Russian olive tree. West looks to create water as drought tests limits of conservation 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Invasive fire-prone species of tree, such as tamarisk, have moved in beneath the old cottonwoods. A Silver Lining: Giant Floods Not Only Destroy, They Renew 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Six years ago, workers removed invasive tamarisk trees at the site and planted a forest of native cottonwoods, willows and mesquites. Where a river no longer meets the sea, a pulse of water revives part of Mexico’s dry delta 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z A group of neighbors recently persuaded the city to cut down a row of invasive tamarisk trees bordering the golf course, planted in the late 1950s as Black families began to settle in Lawrence Crossley. 'We're here to stay.' Despite isolation and racism, Black Americans feel at home in California's desert 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z Another, “The Tamarisk Hunter” about a bounty hunter named Lolo who’s tasked with finding and killing water-thirsty tamarisk trees in a California gripped by drought. These eight short story collections would make excellent sci-fi anthology shows 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z The show takes its title from a Sumerian tale in which a king plants a tamarisk and a date palm in his courtyard and the two trees argue their merits with each other. Datebook: L.A. artist Brian Rea renders patterns in words at CMay Gallery 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Outside his windows the tamarisk trees looked like witches. Ottessa Moshfegh’s Otherworldly Fiction 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Fifty-three of these nonnatives, such as Russian olive and tamarisk, are on the state’s official list of “noxious weeds,” which sorts them into four categories according to their prevalence and priority for action. ‘Waterwise’ ornamental plant taking over Wasatch foothills 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Western states have spent a fortune trying to eradicate the tamarisk tree, which many experts believe hogs more than its share of water and damages the habitat of native species. Invasive Species Aren’t Always Unwanted 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Along the banks, the roots of weedy tamarisk shrubs guzzle even more water, and sedges grow in depressions — a sign of moisture pooling where it isn't needed. Use It or Lose It Laws Worsen Western US Water Woes 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Monday about 130 miles southeast of Los Angeles and burned heavy brush along with tamarisk and palm trees. Southern California fire prompts mobile home evacuation 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z The fire burned heavy brush, tamarisk and palm trees. Southern California fire prompts mobile home evacuation 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z The opposite riverbank, which abuts the Gila River Indian Reservation, is still thick with tamarisk. Arizona Enlists Beetle in Campaign for Water 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z But Julian D. Olden, an associate professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington, said tamarisks had been found to provide shelter for birds like the southwestern willow flycatcher. Invasive Species Aren’t Always Unwanted 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z “I wish I had been that somebody for the girl in the tamarisk tree.” The hard lives — and high suicide rate — of Native American children 2014-03-09T22:38:17Z Though their passing is often marked by yellow riverbanks thick with defoliated tamarisk plants, there are always some plants that remain, Dudley said. Introduced Beetle Bids to Curb Water-Sucking Tamarisk 2012-07-16T16:15:00.230Z It's the magic of Cornwall that, among its mists and tamarisk trees, time itself begins to warp. Free Cornwall! 2012-06-23T23:08:01Z “You do your best, but the tamarisk is very adaptable.” Arizona Enlists Beetle in Campaign for Water 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Sylvia and Lily paused to watch them from the tamarisks below the Marina. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Owens recalls how she used to climb the tamarisk tree with her cousin to look for the nests of mourning doves and pigeons — until the suicide of the 16-year-old girl. The hard lives — and high suicide rate — of Native American children 2014-03-09T22:38:17Z In places where the valley widened out, the river bed was full of bushes of tamarisk and sea buckthorn, but otherwise the vegetation was scanty. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z Near Suez are the so-called “Wells of Moses,” natural springs of rather brackish water, surrounded by tamarisks and date-palms, which help to form an oasis—a pic-nic ground—in the desert. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z While the beetle appears to be efficient at defoliating tamarisk trees, it works on its own schedule, which is why the tree is still often removed manually. Arizona Enlists Beetle in Campaign for Water 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z The king sat on the height near Gibeah under the tamarisk, with his spear in his hand and his servants round him. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z The tamarisk tree down the dirt road from Tyler Owens’s house is the one where the teenage girl who lived across the road hung herself. The hard lives — and high suicide rate — of Native American children 2014-03-09T22:38:17Z As to natural trees there are none, and even the bushes are few and unlovely, chiefly camel thorn and a rigid and thorny tamarisk. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z The ground was covered with hoar-frost, and the feathery foliage of the tamarisk was like the finest white coral. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Ms. Burke of the Grand Canyon Wildlands Council said that 15 people spent 10 days cutting tamarisk from a six-acre slice of shoreline nine miles downriver from the Glen Canyon Dam. Arizona Enlists Beetle in Campaign for Water 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Patches of thin grass, heather, juniper, thyme, tamarisks and mountain roses hardly relieve the bareness and aridity of the seaward slopes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z On the broad slopes of the loftier mountain ridges rise splendid forests of tamarisks, planes, cypresses and nut-trees, and above all magnificent cedars. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z The reedy marshes, the haunts of pelicans and pigs, are left behind at Aimarah, and tamarisk scrub and liquorice appear on the banks. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z The rose bushes are covered with masses of large carnation-red hips, the bramble trailers are crimson and gold, the tamarisk is lemon-yellow. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z For miles along the banks of the Colorado River, hundreds of once hardy tamarisk trees — also known as salt cedars — are gray and withered. Arizona Enlists Beetle in Campaign for Water 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z You were wise to take a Moorish house, I fancy--the patio with the tamarisks in the middle and the fountain and the red and green tiles--very pleasant, I should think. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z The nearer foreshores, fringed with rush and sedge and dark stretches of tamarisk, were peopled with Storks and Herons, Egrets, Spoonbills, Stilts, Avocets, and other waders. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z These scars, which pass for furrows, are about ten inches apart, and camel thorn, tamarisk, and other shrubs inimical to crops stand between them. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z This arrival increased the excitement among the men, who piled tamarisk and the gum tragacanth bush on the fires most recklessly, the wild, hooded tufangchis and their long guns being picturesque in the firelight. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z The tamarisk, which lives in Asia and the Middle East, was imported more than a century ago to prevent erosion. Arizona Enlists Beetle in Campaign for Water 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z He turned, and walked round the tiny group of tamarisks in the centre of the patio. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z For this purpose, large casks are sunk at intervals, some well hidden among rushes, others in open pools; but in these latter cases the tubs were cunningly concealed by cut tamarisks and other water-plants. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z In a hole in the middle of an uneven earthen floor there was a fire of tamarisk root and animal fuel, giving off a stinging smoke. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z It was a very uninteresting march, through formless gravelly hills, with their herbage all eaten down, nothing remaining but tamarisk scrub and a coarse yellow salvia. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z On this stretch of the Colorado River near the Grand Canyon National Park, the beetles’ handiwork is evident: Many tamarisks are brown or gray, denuded of their leaves. Arizona Enlists Beetle in Campaign for Water 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z The rods seem to have been of tamarisk, and without a magus no kind of sacrifices were performed. Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths and Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, 2011-10-13T02:00:41.150Z Hardly even the tops of the rushes, tamarisk and other bog-plants protruded above the surface. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z At every moment, dense palm-clusters or sycamores raised their regular canopies along the river, forming an avenue, or else tamarisks luxuriated and their branches threw fine shadows, like blue stripes upon gold. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z They had not gone half a mile further when they heard Ko, the Crow, singing the death-song in the top of a tamarisk under whose shade three men were lying. The Second Jungle Book 2011-09-10T02:00:30.870Z “We view the tamarisk as a pest,” said Joseph Sigg, the government relations director at the Arizona Farm Bureau. Arizona Enlists Beetle in Campaign for Water 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z In a lane where red-stemmed tamarisks grew lived another Wise Woman. The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall 2011-08-30T02:00:37.027Z Towards the end, two wild-cats bounded from the fringe of burning bamboos, and simultaneous shots stretched both lifeless among the tamarisks. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z The sunny morning outside seemed strange, with silver-green shadows between waving tamarisks and rustling sycamore-leaves. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z And Theopompus the Colophonian likewise mentions it, the Epic poet, I mean, in his poem entitled the Chariot— Shaking the large and lyre-toned scindapsus, Made of young tamarisk, in his skilful hand. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z Plus, once the beetles are done eating tamarisk leaves, they are likely to feed on other trees. Arizona Enlists Beetle in Campaign for Water 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z The bay, with its great beach of golden sand, its many hillocks—silvery-blue in places with sea-holly, and green with clumps of feathery tamarisk—lay open before her as she came out of the lane. The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall 2011-08-30T02:00:37.027Z At the side of it, under the high tamarisk hedge, he made out two figures. The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:25.780Z Davis and his co-authors point to the decades-long attempt in the American Southwest to uproot tamarisk shrubs, an alien plant that was, ironically, introduced from Eurasia and Africa in the 19th century. In a Globalized World, Are Invasive Species a Thing of the Past? 2011-06-14T09:00:00Z Mrs. Bunting looked out of her window at the tamarisk and the sea. The Sea Lady 2011-04-22T02:00:07.843Z To save money and avoid the constant culling, the United States Department of Agriculture studied how to introduce the tamarisk beetle, the tree’s natural predator. Arizona Enlists Beetle in Campaign for Water 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z As she walked down the lane to the bay, she looked through the tamarisk hedge into the common, and saw that somehow or other it looked different. The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall 2011-08-30T02:00:37.027Z In the darkness too, something else might have been seen—two figures stealing along in the deeper shade of the tamarisk hedge. The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:25.780Z Below us was a hollow filled with verdure, date trees, acacias, tamarisks, and luxuriant grassland, through which flowed trickling streams. The Treasure of the Tigris A Tale of Mesopotamia 2011-03-22T02:00:16.873Z By far the larger part of the valley is quite uncultivated, and much of it is occupied by tamarisk jungles, the home of countless wild pigs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z New tamarisks or other trees will replace the fallen ones, the scientists say, and the birds that live in the tamarisks, like the endangered Southwestern willow flycatcher, will be harmed. Arizona Enlists Beetle in Campaign for Water 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Here the cast of a few hundred yards revealed the tracks of a buffalo, and we carried the trail through thick groves of wild tamarisk, whose shady boughs, meeting over-head, formed natural bowers and arcades. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z O bird of the tamarisk! if thou invokest an absent friend for whom thou art mourning, even then, O bird, is thy affliction like the distress I also feel? The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z A considerable number of horses, camels, and sheep were grazing on the outskirts of the encampment, and quite two hundred tents lay scattered among the tamarisk and other bushes. The Treasure of the Tigris A Tale of Mesopotamia 2011-03-22T02:00:16.873Z The swamps are full of huge reeds, bordered with tamarisk jungles, and in its lower reaches, where the water stretches out into great marshes, the river is clogged with a growth of agrostis. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The date palm, sycamore, acacia, and tamarisk are some of the trees peculiar to its climate. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z The leading Adel cast a keen glance through the intervening screen of blue tamarisk, and looking me significantly in the face, pointed to both his eyes. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z The banks on either side were clothed with overhanging woods, of the sumach, maple, tamarisk, birch, in all the rich yet delicate array of the fresh opening year. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z A peacock, from high in a tamarisk that was fast folding its shutter leaves for the night, called discordantly. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z As I came nearer I found they were tamarisks in flower. Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z As soon as she was alone, Muriel divested herself of her clothes in the shelter of the tamarisks, and plunged into the cool water. Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z Ascending this stream, in which were a few stagnant pools of bitter unpalatable water, a human figure was detected skulking behind some thick green tamarisks by which they were overshadowed. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z In that far southern land the dawn had begun, and the birds, waking one by one, were singing their story of him to the soft-breathing tamarisk boughs. Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z Let us be gone; the sky looks portentous, the tamarisks tremble more than common, and the raw wind chills my very heart. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z Flycatchers, as their name suggests, evolved to nest in willow trees and adapted to tamarisks only as the pest-trees spread. U.S. Halts Use of Beetle to Attack Tamarisk 2010-06-23T02:05:00Z On another island, where we also found a big colony of frigate-birds roosting on the mangrove and Gulf tamarisk scrub, there was a small heronry of the Louisiana heron. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open How endless were those sandy wastes, broken only by the wild broom and acacia yielding its gum arabic, the wild palm and manna-giving tamarisk! Glories of Spain Outside the tamarisks lisped at intervals in a faint wind that rose in small puffs and died away in long sighs. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Though she skipped with the alertness of an antelope, yet, at intervals, she was forced to desist, and rest beneath the tamarisks to recover her breath. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z The water itself is clear and sweet, though there are salt marshes all round the lake, and beyond them a strip of ground parallel with the present borders of the lake and overgrown with tamarisks. The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar It was an ancient stone farmhouse, with large mullioned windows and hospitable, ever-open door, over which two tamarisk bushes had been trained into a rustic porch. Bosom Friends A Seaside Story He subsists solely on stray blades of grass, tamarisk, and tufts of lichen, that he picks up on the road. The Unveiling of Lhasa Trees are generally absent, except for thickets of poplars, dwarf oaks and tamarisks along the course of the Kura, the delta of which is smothered under a jungle of reeds and rushes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" She and Edward were looking out over the pines and tamarisks, across the blue Mediterranean. Man and Maid The house itself was a long two-storied building, flanked by low gray stone hedges feathered with tamarisks and fuchsias. Carnival We could hear her breathing lightly in the pauses between the howling of the jackals, the movement of the wind in the tamarisks, and the fitful mutter of musketry fire leagues away to the left. International Short Stories English And they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days. The Bible Story In the sheltered garden grew, according to their season, white arum lilies and rosy tamarisk, aloes and myrtle and oleander and other beautiful half-tropical shrubs, while geraniums, carnations and humbler flowers bloomed in profusion. The Head Girl at the Gables Lines of houses, similar to their new abode, and all built apart in their own grounds, stood on each side of the road, behind hedges of tamarisk or pomegranate. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley The camel's thorn and tamarisk shrub of the desert had disappeared. Guy in the Jungle A Boy's Adventure in the Wilds of Africa An old man on crutches, a blooming matron with rosary beads at her waist, and a nut-brown maid with laughing eyes stood under the porch, embowered in tamarisk and laurel-rose. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God. The Bible Story Pleasant to look upon were the dense groups of shapely trees: palms, mimosas, acacias, the gum-tree—which frequently rivals the oak in size—and the graceful tamarisk. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century The tamarisk appears afterwards to have given the idea of a subdivision of leaf more pure and quaint than that of the acanthus. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) Throughout our beautiful, southern winter days, I enjoy being alone by the tall mantelpiece, while several twigs of tamarisk smoke away in the hearth. Letters from my Windmill Here was the hedge of fuchsia; here the tamarisks on their high bank; here the entrance to Les Solitudes. Tante We cross it by the double arch of a dilapidated Saracen bridge, looking down upon thickets of oleander, willow, tamarisk and woodbine. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit The ties appear to have been of the tamarisk or shittim wood, of which the ark was constructed—a sacred tree in ancient Egypt, and now very rarely found in the valley of the Nile. Harper's Young People, June 1, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly “What about Margaret, Catharine, for Heaven’s sake, what about Margaret?” and the shadow that had come from behind the tamarisk hedge now fell across the porch straight before the startled woman. Wee Wifie Bunches of tamarisks and reeds form little islands on a calm sea. Letters from my Windmill Cedar and white ash, rock-cedar and sand plants and tamarisk red cedar and white cedar and black cedar from the inmost forest, fragrance upon fragrance and all of my sea-magic is for nought. Hymen They heard a rustling sound on the other side of the tamarisk. When Dreams Come True Several days before, all the houses appear in a new toilette, decked out with evergreens and branches of the vine and tamarisk, festoons of which are suspended from window to window. Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches A fierce sun beat down on yellow grass and dusty tamarisks. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Happily, an islet of tamarisks finally appears and I can get myself onto some dry land. Letters from my Windmill To the list of shrubs which most struck us, I may also add the brilliant flowering oleander, and the tamarisk. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Again the linnet gave voice to his song, and the cooling breeze sighed among the tamarisk plumes that waved about their heads. When Dreams Come True It had a little platform of pebbles to stand on, and tamarisks to tickle you from behind when the wind was northerly. Somehow Good He saw again the plain of tamarisk, thorn bush, and grass, and the long black line of charging Tartars. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Sometimes, I notice their bony, curved backs hunched over a clump of tamarisk, and their small, immature horns just visible. Letters from my Windmill But he ate not of the flesh or fat, although hunger sorely pressed him; and he burnt the bones in the fire, and tossed his tamarisk sandals into the swift stream of Alpheios. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life A pale, plumy spray of tamarisk intervened between them, otherwise he must have seen her. When Dreams Come True The country is naturally treeless, except for the tamarisk, which grows by the swamps and along the river-beds. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Ought he to go down and search among the tamarisks for him, to taunt him in his agony? The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan The top of the wall, as well as the edge of the flat roof of the house, was lined with masses of tamarisk for fuel. An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet They were generally of sycamore wood, sometimes of tamarisk, or of acacia; and occasionally ivory, and inlaid work, were substituted for wood. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life It stood well back from the highroad from which it was screened by a thick hedge-like growth of cedar, manzanita, tamarisk and lilac bushes. When Dreams Come True Westward of the cemetery and below the town is a kind of vale or declivity planted with tamarisks and fig trees, and containing three wells provided with handspikes. The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria Suddenly a red serpent, a streak of flame, followed by a tiny cloud and a thunder clap, leapt from out the tamarisks. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Through the darkness comes the sound of the lashing of the date palms and the tamarisks as they swing to the gale. The Tale of a Trooper The blades are all of bronze, the handles of the acacia or the tamarisk; and the general mode of fastening the blade to the handle appears to have been by thongs of hide. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Inside the hedge of tamarisk the air was sweet with flower scents, which floated thick and separate on the still air, like oil on water. The Valley of the Kings We then passed through fields and gardens fenced by thorny Opuntias, and planted with almonds, figs, olives, sycamores, and a few tamarisks, and finally reached the Quarantine Building of Gaza by half-past two o'clock. The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria Jaime received the impression that the cry came from very near, that perhaps it was uttered by someone hidden in the clusters of tamarisks. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Formerly the roads were lined with dusty tamarisks. The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir The handles of the chisel were of acacia, tamarisk, or other compact wood, the blades of bronze, and the form of the points varied in breadth, according to the work for which they were intended. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Iskender parted the growth of tamarisks and stood out before him. The Valley of the Kings Over the entrance doors large branches of the tamarisk are frequently hung for a shade. The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria His feet became entangled in the roots of the tamarisks which the wind had bared, and which sunk in the earth like a tangled skein of black serpents. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan The motion displaced his straw hat, and the next moment the breeze had carried it a little way over the edge of the cliff, where it was caught in a low bush of tamarisk. St. Winifred's, or The World of School The camel’s thorn and tamarisk shrub of the desert had disappeared. The River of Darkness, or, Under Africa The tamarisks just there were a sufficient screen. The Valley of the Kings This is a quiet burial-place planted round with dark green tamarisks, strongly contrasting with the yellow sands, which again are well set off by the background of sea and sky. The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria Febrer walked on until he arrived at the foot of the hill, where the tamarisk shrubs were thickest; then he turned, and stood motionless. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan It favoured its own plants, too—the tamarisk on the hedge, the fuchsia and myrtle in the cottage garden. Shining Ferry The fisher boat, The sands, the headlands fringed with broom And tamarisk were blotted. Helen Redeemed and Other Poems The hooting of an owl, or the bark of some dog in the distance, alone broke the stillness, of which the rustle of the tamarisks seemed part, so faint and vague it was. The Valley of the Kings The elms were burned up, and the willows and tamarisks; the lotus was consumed, and the rushes and reeds, which grew in great abundance round the beautiful streams of the river. The Iliad of Homer (1873) Now the Ironworker could attempt anything he liked against Don Jaime; he could lie in ambush for him among the tamarisks at the foot of the tower and shoot him as he passed. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Each habitation had a walled courtyard, and the top of the wall, as well as the edge of the flat roof, was lined with masses of tamarisk for fuel. In the Forbidden Land There were no more hills, but the remaining country was all of hard untilled ground, with sprinklings of tamarisk and kali bushes, which showed we were entering on a new botanical region. Byeways in Palestine To climb the high hills through the tangle of myrtle and tamarisk, and the tufted rosemary, with the kids bleating above upon some unseen height. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida One of our most accurate and least imaginative travellers describes it thus: "There were no signs of vegetation, with the exception of a few reeds and rushes, and here and there a tamarisk." The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms The howl rent the air again, not at the foot of the stairway now, but farther off, perhaps among the tamarisks which grew around the tower. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan In the middle of the town is a great cemetery full of tamarisks, and containing the sacred tomb of the sainted Wali Yakoub in the centre. Southern Arabia Near the village we saw people cutting twigs of tamarisk and willow. Byeways in Palestine In an open space near it they encamped beneath two splendid ethel-trees, or tamarisks. Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley The captain had suddenly appeared from behind a great clump of waving tamarisk, and stood looking down at the lad. The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap It was not unlikely that he was dragging himself cautiously outside the path among the tamarisks. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan There is much more vegetation here, many tamarisks and other shrubs giving delightful shade. Southern Arabia Black night behind the tamarisks—the owls begin their chorus— As the conches from the temple scream and bray. In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV Generally, however, there was nothing to be seen between the water and the sky but two yellow walls of clay, topped by endless thickets of tamarisk and nameless scrub. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Its bell had ceased ringing long before its windows came into view with the warm lamp light shining within; and the beach lay dark under the shadow of the tamarisks topping the graveyard wall. Major Vigoureux He had left his mother and sister half way on the road and had hidden among the tamarisks waiting for his father to leave the tower. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan We made a very early start next morning, and gradually got into a thick low wood, but where the Wadi Yeramis widened out there were only tamarisks. Southern Arabia Bananas hang down like golden cucumbers, and in barren places tamarisks and mimosas perfume the air. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People They sat in comfort under the feathery branches of tall tamarisk trees, smoking their water-pipes, after the sunset meal. Son of Power The Commandant saw her lift a hand beckoning him to follow, and followed her up the knoll to a whitewashed gate glimmering between the dark masses of the tamarisks. Major Vigoureux Isis found the body of Osiris at Byblos marked by a shrub of tamarisk, 376-l. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The banks of the abrs were full of castor-oil bushes, cotton, myrtle and tamarisk, all smothered with a pretty creeper covered with yellow flowers and little scarlet gourds. Southern Arabia On the banks grow small hawthorn bushes and tamarisks, interrupted by patches of reeds and small clumps of young trees, among which poplars always predominate. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People And above all, a few tall tamarisk trees drooped long branches under hundreds of small boys. Son of Power The state-rooms of the farm-house—parlour, hall, and best bedrooms—looked eastward upon Cromwell's Sound; but the waters of the Sound were hidden from the lower windows by a stout hedge of tamarisk. Major Vigoureux The genuine Acacia, also, is the thorny tamarisk, the same tree which grew up around the body of Osiris. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry And over high walls, delicate branches of acacia and tamarisk beckoned us, above low-hung drapery of wistaria, that dropped purple tassels to the lapping water's edge. My Friend the Chauffeur A small dark speck was seen in the distance; it was a green tamarisk! From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People This left that part open to the outside world; for the shrubs that used to grow thick at the feet of the tamarisk trees had been rooted up and green tenting-cloth stretched in their place. Son of Power There were no trees, but a most dense and luxuriant growth of tamarisk, populus euphratica, zizyphs and other thorns, forming a covert six to fourteen feet high. The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad A calumniator was marched round the city in disgrace, crowned with tamarisk. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. A thin little stream threaded the ravine, and on its banks grew clumps of the tamarisk, the oleander, and the thuya, making an oasis grateful to the eyes. In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I Christmas Tales from 'Round the World We had now some hope of safety, and we chewed the soft needles of the tamarisks like beasts. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People But they must have remembered the unwalled distances of their own Hills—the hedge of shrubs had been taken away; the tall slender tamarisk trees still standing, made no obstruction. Son of Power Here were tamarisk thickets, haunted with great metallic beetles, with such wings as Eastern smiths know how to use. The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad Poplars and sycamores and other trees, willows, I think, and exquisite tamarisks in blossom; and what I specially admired, the canes. Daisy in the Field No tree of any height is to be seen here, but the tamarisk grows in great abundance. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 Just after midnight I sank down by a tamarisk. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People They say there's any amount of jackals down there in the tamarisk bushes. Bella Donna A Novel On the 30th I got a glimpse of Shaiba, of the tall feathery tamarisks above the Norfolks' graves and trenches. The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad Farther up again, the low, brown crumbling cliffs crowned with green wreaths of tamarisk. The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine The humble tamarisk and woodland plains Delight not all; if woods and groves we try, Be the groves worthy of a consul's eye. My Life as an Author When we come to the first tamarisks we are again on sandy ground. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Deep myrrh thickets blowing round The stately cedar, tamarisks. The Days of Mohammed The horned poppy adorns the cliffs, and valerian and tamarisk thrive even during the winter months. Pictures in Colour of the Isle of Wight He heard the plash of fountains upon Mount Ida's slopes, and the whisper of the tamarisk on Marathon. Four Weird Tales It was a night of bright moonlight, and under the shadow of the tamarisk hedge she could see Killigrew's darker figure, with its unmistakably raking poise. Secret Bread At the edge of the sandy desert, where high dunes are piled up by the wind, tamarisks and saxauls were often growing. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Among the tamarisks he slumbers, with woe he causes us to be satiated. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria To the trench he rolled the trunk on the tamarisk cylinders, and buried all that was left of Athor the Golden. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Willows and tamarisks and elms he burn'd, Burn'd lotus, rushes, reeds; all plants and herbs That clothed profuse the margin of his flood. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper What trees there were—the Judas tree, the tamarisk, the umbrella-pine—grew close to the low parapets. The Enchanted April All vegetation came to an end, and only in some hollow a solitary tamarisk was still to be seen. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Doctor Unonius stared at the paper, and from the paper lifted his eyes to stare at the black bulk of the farm-house buildings, the stretch of roof, the tall chimneys looming above the tamarisks. Corporal Sam and Other Stories Palm and tamarisk, acacia and rose-shrub, jasmine and purple mimosa made a multi-tinted jungle about a shadowy pool in which a white heron stood knee-deep. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt It is a tamarisk of no rare kind, but of very great ago, in consequence of which, and of its exposed position, the growth and foliage are somewhat peculiar. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. Presently the tamarisk and the daphnes were at their best, and the lilies at their tallest. The Enchanted April Round them grow reeds and tamarisks, and even in other places near the mountains some vegetation struggles for existence. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People The courtlege of Landeweddy was hedged with tamarisks, now leafless, and through these, above the wall's coping, the upper part of the house loomed an indistinct mass against the indigo-gray night. Corporal Sam and Other Stories Hanging upon pegs in the wooden walls of his work-room were saws and the heavier drills, chisels of bronze and mauls of tamarisk, suspended by thongs of deer-hide. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt The common thorn is indeed tolerably abundant in a few places; but elsewhere the tamarisk and a few other sapless shrubs are the only natural products of this bare and arid region. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. Pomegranates, tamarisks, poplars, and acacias are even now almost the only trees besides the two above mentioned, to be found between Samarah and the Persian Gulf. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. In this way he had covered half a mile and more when his right foot plunged in a rabbit hole and he was pitched headlong into the tamarisks below. The Ship of Stars He devoured the fruit of the lotus, the tamarisk, the pomegranate, and held cats to be sacred. Bunker Bean A long amphora stood in a tamarisk rack in one corner; a linen napkin hung, pinned to the tent-cloth, over it; a glazed laver and a small box sat beside it. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt He was lying back again, staring out at the respectable imitation of a lawn, at rose beds, carpeted with over-blown mignonette, and a lone untidy tamarisk that flung a spiky shadow on the grass. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India The tamarisk grows chiefly as a shrub along the rivers, but sometimes attains the dimensions of a tree, as in the case of the "solitary tree" still growing upon the ruins of Babylon. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. He slid down, clutching at the tamarisk boughs which whipped his face. The Ship of Stars He heard the tamarisk bushes part and close again. The Keeper of the Door With a shovel of tamarisk he cleared the slab of its drift of sand. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt A chaffinch, fresh from his bath, flitted incessantly between the rail of the footbridge, a dozen yards below, and the boughs of a tamarisk beside it. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Then Achilles leapt into the stream, leaving his spear on the bank, resting on the tamarisk trees. The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) It would be beneath his dignity to offer any opinion, so under the tamarisks he sat smoking, watching the Arabs taking each other by the shoulders and talking with an extraordinary volubility. Sister Teresa The tamarisks in the compound waved their pink spikes to the sun, and in the palm-trees behind them bright-eyed squirrels dodged and flirted. The Keeper of the Door At Beer-sheba Abraham planted a tamarisk, and "called on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God." Patriarchal Palestine Certainly the village, as it lay bathed in moonlight, its whitewashed terraces and glimmering roofs embowered in dark clusters of fuchsia and tamarisk, seemed to harbour nothing but peace and sleeping innocence. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales The lime-trees and the willows and the tamarisks it burned; also the plants that grew in the streams. The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) Trees, bushes, sea-rushes, tamarisks, and heather grow on the edge of the ditches. Over Strand and Field It came from Young Zeb, the upper part of whose person, as he stood up in his cart, was just visible between two tamarisk bushes. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Even the palm grew only on the sea-coast or in the valley of the Jordan, and the tamarisk and sycamore were hardly more than shrubs. Patriarchal Palestine A tall, straight figure was coming towards her between the whispering tamarisks. The Lamp in the Desert Throughout their entire course dense forests shade their banks, and, as they approach the sea, tamarisks and over-arching mangroves mark where their waters mingle with the tide. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 This bird is in certain localities very numerous, but invariably confines itself to dense thickets of revel and tamarisk jungle. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 I leant back, watching the banks pass swiftly by, mile upon mile of red earth and waving tamarisk under the scorching blue. Five Nights They saw the sea before them, hung in space, and the sloping sails, and white sands flecked by the shadows of tamarisks, strawberry-trees, and pines. Romance of the Rabbit The lazy drone of bees hung on the air, and somewhere among the tamarisks a small, persistent bird, called and called perpetually, receiving no reply. The Lamp in the Desert I crept down over the hillside behind Tangier one dark evening, and lay all night beneath a bush of tamarisks dreaming the Moors were still about me. Ensign Knightley and Other Stories The one exception was a nest I found in the fork of a tamarisk bush. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 The waters were brown and discoloured, but the sun glinting on its ripples turned them into gold, and the tamarisk on the bank drooped over it, letting its long strands float on the gliding water. Five Nights To the left of the lawn, a high plastered wall—masked by hollies, bay, yew, and at the far end by masses of airy, pink-plumed tamarisk—shut off the eastward view. Deadham Hard Words flicked rapidly into being under her pen: "I shall be behind the tamarisks to-night." The Lamp in the Desert He led her to a quiet corner above the garden that was sheltered from the throng by flowering tamarisks. The Way of an Eagle They build in stunted tamarisk bushes, or rather in bushes of this kind which originally were cut down to admit of cultivation being carried on, and which afterwards had again sprouted. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 They then gather the gum that exudes from the tamarisk tree or the lichens from the rocks. The Making of a Nation The Beginnings of Israel's History At the corner of the battery and sea-wall, misty grey-green plumes of tamarisk veiled the tender background of grey-blue water and yellow-grey sand. Deadham Hard At times there must be a little rainfall here, or else some hidden source of water, for a scrub, of dwarf acacia, of camel-grass, and tamarisk had begun to show. The Flying Legion Looking back upon the hours that followed that talk with Bobby behind the tamarisks, Muriel could never recall in detail how they passed. The Way of an Eagle Pray, by the Nymphs, pray, Goatherd, seat thee here Against this hill-slope in the tamarisk shade, And pipe me somewhat, while I guard thy goats. Theocritus, translated into English Verse From my garden I look straight upon the Channel, and there are white caps upon the water, and the iris and tamarisk are all asway with the south-west wind that was also blowing yesterday. An Englishman Looks at the World Possibly this is the same individual who keeps the tangle of blackberry and tamarisk pruned down so that while resting with "Sir Walter Scott" or "Shakespeare" we may duly admire the view across Swanage Bay. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Here, there, patches of stunted tamarisk bushes were visible. The Flying Legion I sat down under the shade of a tamarisk tree to shelter myself from the sun. A House of Pomegranates The children, with one accord, crouched behind the tamarisk hedge. The Story of the Amulet What the tufts of delicate yellow plants like squirrels' tails, and lobsters' horns, and tamarisks, and fir-trees, and all other finely cut animal and vegetable forms? Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore But when in their eager speed Close on the end they were, then Teucer's feet Were trammelled by unearthly powers: some god Or demon dashed his foot against the stock Of a deep-rooted tamarisk. The Fall of Troy The cottonwood trees were a-flicker with sticky, yellow little leaves, and the feathery tamarisks were in pink bud. The Song of the Lark Not all men love Coppice or lowly tamarisk: sing we woods, Woods worthy of a Consul let them be. The Bucolics and Eclogues The plains of Marathon lay far astern, blushing faintly with their scarlet tamarisk blossoms. The Centaur He trotted off into the shade of the tamarisks. The Bronze Bell The additional trees and shrubs in flower are the tamarisk, altheas, Venetian sumach, pomegranates, the beautiful passion-flower, the trumpet flower, and the virgin's bower or clematis, which is such a quick and handsome climber. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827 The tamarisks were still pink, and the flower-beds were doing their best in honor of the linden festival. The Song of the Lark In these gardens a very common tree is the Ithel, a species of tamarisk, cultivated for its hard wood, of which the Arabs make their camels’ saddles, and every utensil that requires strong handles. Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred He opened up and cleared The tamarisk trees and the stave trees. The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 But he broke off as a body of soldiery burst from the tamarisks, and, headed by young Rowan, hurried toward the three, bringing with them a silent and unresisting prisoner. The Bronze Bell Its colour is a dirty yellow, and the piece which I saw was still mixed with bits of tamarisk leaves: its taste is agreeable, somewhat aromatic, and as sweet as honey. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land The tamarisk hedge was full of snow, like a foam of blossoms drifted over it. The Song of the Lark He shot a man seven years ago—one of Perucca's men, of course, who was creeping up through the tamarisk trees. The Isle of Unrest In my day it was proposed to cut a ship-canal through the low neck of barren sand, which bears nothing but a 'chapparal' of tamarisk. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Ahead, he saw Labertouche step out upon a shelving shore and, shaking his legs with an effect irresistibly suggestive of a dog leaving the water, peer inland through the tamarisks. The Bronze Bell Many tamarisk trees grow here, and some manna is collected. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land Seen from a balloon, Moonstone would have looked like a Noah's ark town set out in the sand and lightly shaded by gray-green tamarisks and cottonwoods. The Song of the Lark The subtle scent of flowering bushes filled the air with a cool, soft flavour, almost to be tasted on the lips, of arbutus, myrtle, cistus, oleander, tamarisk, and a score of flowering heaths. The Isle of Unrest The vine still covered every possible slope of black soil, and the aloes, crowned with flowers, seemed to lord it over the tamarisks, the hemlocks, and the nightshades. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Nothing can be more dreary than this naked surface, hushed into silence, where vegetation is reduced to a few tufts of rushes and tamarisks. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc The tamarisk abounds more in juices than any other tree of the desert, for it retains its vigour when every vegetable production around it is withered, and never loses its verdure till it dies. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land All the Mexican houses had neat little yards, with tamarisk hedges and flowers, and walks bordered with shells or whitewashed stones. The Song of the Lark A large, low moon turned the tops of the plume-grass to silver, and the stunted camel-thorn bushes and sour tamarisks into the likenesses of trooping devils. Indian Tales Then I passed under precipitous naked rocks, with the river on the other hand, skirted by low bushes of twiggy willow that looked like tamarisk from a distance. Two Summers in Guyenne Kit swept the tamarisk aside, and waved at him furiously. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Upon small sandy mounds in this plain tamarisk trees grow in great numbers, and in the midst of these lies the well of Szoueyra, which it is extremely difficult to find without a guide. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land Behind the high tamarisk hedge, her garden was a jungle of verdure in summer. The Song of the Lark The tremulous morning is breaking Against the white waste of the sky, And hundreds of birds are awaking In tamarisk bushes hard by. India's Love Lyrics Seek thou the tamarisk tree, and make thereof an arrow. National Epics As he did so, a hand appeared at the opening, and swept back the tamarisk. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Rock salt is found here as well as in Gharendel; date, acacia, and tamarisks grow in the valley; but they were now all withered. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land Outside, the sage-brush grew up to the very edge of the garden, and the sand was always drifting up to the tamarisks. The Song of the Lark We strolled later through the sacred precincts, halting in a tamarisk grove. Autobiography of a Yogi We camped at a noble reach, garnished with a mimic forest of old tamarisks, whose small voices, united in chorus, passably imitated the mighty murmur of the sea. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Warily he peeped through the screen of tamarisk that veiled the opening. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea At two hours we came to a thick wood of tamarisk or Tarfa, and found many camels feeding upon their thorny shoots. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land To see the pretty farm again nestling in its circle of tall tamarisks, to dream for hours by the seaside, to breathe the breath of furze and seaweed! The Idol of Paris I sat rigidly motionless on the grass amid the pink feathery tamarisk flowers. Autobiography of a Yogi The changes of the current have formed islands and beds of soil here and there, which are covered with a dense growth of ash, poplar, willow, and tamarisk trees. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain He clambered up the bank, brushed through the tamarisk, back into the comfortable darkness. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea It is from this evergreen tamarisk, which grows abundantly in no other part of the peninsula, that the manna is collected. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land A great tamarisk with feathery foliage of bright green formed a background. The Idol of Paris These tools were made of bronze, with handles of acacia, tamarisk, and other hard woods. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03 Ancient Achievements The Buddhists use flowers largely for funeral purposes, and an Indian name for the tamarisk is the "messenger of Yama," the Indian God of Death. The Folk-lore of Plants The islands are thickly clothed with tamarisks and pollarded acacias and stone pines, and are reputed to be somewhat malarial. With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement Near it are some large tamarisks and the wild henna of the Somali country, which supplies a sweet-smelling flower, but is valueless as a dye. First Footsteps in East Africa But the lantern still hung steadily: so signing to Billy to drag our prisoner behind a tamarisk bush, I open'd the second packet, and poured some of the powder into my hand. The Splendid Spur Among the principal trees which were cultivated were the vine, olive, locust, acacia, date, sycamore, pomegranate, and tamarisk. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03 Ancient Achievements A Sicilian tradition identifies the tree as a tamarisk, and a Russian proverb, in allusion to the aspen, tells us "there is an accursed tree which trembles without even a breath of wind." The Folk-lore of Plants This said, the spoils, with dropping gore defaced, High on a spreading tamarisk he placed; Then heap'd with reeds and gathered boughs the plain, To guide their footsteps to the place again. The Iliad Its course is marked by a long line of graceful tamarisks, whose vivid green looked doubly bright set off by tawny stubble and amethyst-blue sky. First Footsteps in East Africa Nothing else could be made out through the darkness but a few twisted tamarisk trees, that served to make the savagery yet more savage and the loneliness more desolate. King of the Khyber Rifles The hare limped on; snuffed curiously at a fragment of a smoke-stained lamp-shard, and died out, in the shadow of a clump of tamarisk trees. Life's Handicap The garden ended at a palm-grove, which cast its shade on Zeno's little private place of worship—an open plot inclosed by tamarisk hedges like walls. A Thorny Path — Complete The garden ended at a palm- grove, which cast its shade on Zeno's little private place of worship —an open plot inclosed by tamarisk hedges like walls. A Thorny Path — Volume 12 In this pretty spot, fresh with verdure and spring flowers, she soon found a bench shaded by a semicircular screen of dark-tufted tamarisk, and there she made him lie down. Serapis — Complete In this pretty spot, fresh with verdure and spring flowers, she soon found a bench shaded by a semicircular screen of dark- tufted tamarisk, and there she made him lie down. Serapis — Volume 06 They looked toward the tamarisk- bushes, whence the cry proceeded, and Joshua saw the young widow turn pale and then point with a hasty gesture to the convicts. Joshua — Volume 3 As evening approached we shot an antelope and made our camp—for we had brought the yak and a tent with us—among some tamarisk scrub, of which the dry stems furnished us with fuel. Ayesha, the Return of She It then ascended into a higher elevation, and led through a forest of mparamusi, tamarind, tamarisk, acacia, and the blooming mimosa. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley We were in a region of sandy hillocks feathered by tamarisk, and interspersed with poplar groves slanting like wheat in the wind. Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort Its companion, the spiny cactus, writhed here and there among juniper bushes and tamarisks. By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy These are deep, fierce, variable streams, which have buried the lower levels under great stretches of shingle, patched with jungles of hippophae and tamarisk, affording cover for innumerable wolves. Among the Tibetans So I, and Eucritus, and the fair Amyntichus, turned aside into the house of Phrasidamus, and lay down with delight in beds of sweet tamarisk and fresh cuttings from the vines, strewn on the ground. Greek Studies: a Series of Essays The forests of this country are chiefly composed of the gum and thorn species—mimosa and tamarisk, with often a variety of wild fruit trees. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley I believe that is only a continuation of this horrible thicket, and if the tiger is nearly played out, he would naturally make for the water and the cool tamarisk. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 We rounded the base of the hills, which rose rapidly from the shore, and crossed several small streams thickly fringed with tamarisk, that would be impassable during sudden storms of the rainy season. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 Black shapes appeared among the tiny mounds of earth, crowned with dusty grass and dwarf tamarisk bushes. The Garden of Allah A tamarisk that in the garden has drunk no water, Whose crown in the field has brought forth no blossom. The Golden Bough The hills on either side shot up into precipitous slopes, clothed ,with mimosa, acacia, and tamarisk, enclosing a river and valley whose curves and folds were as various as a serpent's. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley The waving plumes of the dark-green tamarisk divided as we gently moved forward, and in another moment we stopped. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 A number of tamarisks formed a jungle near the mouth, and the banks were a bright rose-colour, owing to the full bloom of thickets of oleanders. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 She put her horse at it and came out among the tiny humps on which grew the halfa grass and the tamarisk bushes. The Garden of Allah Her lament is for woods, where tamarisks grow not. The Golden Bough "Now I just want to give you an idea of how the tamarisk will be swayed," she said, holding a crayon between her tiny white teeth, and motioning me to a couch under the window. To-morrow? Immediately Nielmonne backed through the feathery tamarisk without the slightest sound, and we found ourselves outside the jungle. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 This lake swarms with varieties of water-fowl, which can only be shot by wading and waiting concealed in the high cover of rushes and tamarisk, as they are exceedingly wary. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 The camels roamed the plain among the tamarisk bushes, watched over by shrouded shadowy guardians sleepless as they were. The Garden of Allah Two black cows were yoked to the plough, which was made of tamarisk wood, while the share was of black copper. The Golden Bough These small tamarisk trees that fringe the glade will be bent nearly double. To-morrow? Suddenly an elephant sounded the kettle-drum note; this was quickly followed by several others, and a rush in the tamarisk frightened the line, as several animals had evidently broken back. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 There were plenty of snipe in the marshes below the cotton-fields, for which rushes, low bushes of tamarisk and other shrubs, afforded excellent cover. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 This Artemisia is like the tamarisk but a smaller growth and is held to be a characteristic of the Arabian Desert. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 In the middle of the garden there is a pleasant seat in the shade of a tamarisk tree. Captain Brassbound's Conversion The tamarisk seemed to call for little expense of the divine energy, for she was as tranquil, smiling, and human as usual, now, as she sketched the bushes. To-morrow? I had advanced about three-quarters of a mile, when the character of the jungle changed to tamarisk, and I felt certain that I was near the spot of yesterday. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 And in the far distance you see dim groups of trees—sycamores and acacias, tamarisks and palms. The Spell of Egypt Conscious that his rich array made him a conspicuous object, he retreated along the bank of the river, and endeavored to conceal himself in a thicket of willows and tamarisks. Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada Then I have the tamarisk and its inhabitants. Clever Woman of the Family Elms burnt and willow trees and tamarisks, and lotos burnt and rush and galingale which round the fair streams of the river grew in multitude. The Iliad Now," said I, "do you remember that yesterday evening I killed a buck near some water in a narrow depression in the middle of tamarisk jungle? Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 From it I could see tamarisk- and acacia-trees, and far-off shadowy mountains beyond the eastern verge of the Nile. The Spell of Egypt Goldsmiths heat their gold in chaff fires; physicians use fires of vine-twigs in their distillations; and tamarisk is the best fuel for a glass-house. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Scattered oases where men dwelt, but mostly Sand dunes held loosely in tamarisk Blown over and over themselves in idleness. North of Boston Who it was that spoke and sobbed we could not see, because of a line of tamarisk shrubs which once had been a fence. Moon of Israel A piece of tamarisk kept waving in the wind just in front of the rifle, beyond my reach. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 The air smelled sweet in the shade of the tamarisk; there was ineffable peace. The Patrician There was a place close to the wall all grown about with tamarisk trees, where I knew Garm kept his bones. Actions and Reactions High noon behind the tamarisks—the sun is hot above us— As at Home the Christmas Day is breaking wan. The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition So we crept to the tamarisks, and peeping through their feathery tops, saw a very sweet sight in the pure rays of that desert moon. Moon of Israel At all times during the hot season a dense bed of young tamarisk is a certain find for a tiger, should such an animal exist in the neighbourhood. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 It was to Barbara that Miltoun unfolded, if but little, the trouble of his spirit, lying that same afternoon under a ragged tamarisk hedge with the tide far out. The Patrician Forthwith the hero left his spear upon the bank, leaning it against a tamarisk bush, and plunged into the river like a god, armed with his sword only. The Iliad Grey dusk behind the tamarisks—the parrots fly together— As the sun is sinking slowly over Home; And his last ray seems to mock us shackled in a lifelong tether. The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition When evening came, the murmuring of the breeze amidst the tamarisk trees made him shiver, and he pulled his hood over his eyes that he might not see how beautiful all things were. Thais We were now marching through a long strip of this character which had at one time formed a channel; on either side the tamarisk strip was enormously high, and dense grass. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 But all that came was the sigh of the sea, and of the wind in the tamarisk. The Patrician He burned the elms the willows and the tamarisks, the lotus also, with the rushes and marshy herbage that grew abundantly by the banks of the river. The Iliad Black night behind the tamarisks—the owls begin their chorus— As the conches from the temple scream and bray. The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition They had not gone half a mile farther when they heard Ko, the Crow, singing the death-song in the top of a tamarisk under whose shade three men were lying. The Second Jungle Book The line halted for an explanation, and it appeared that the Rajah had fired, as the tiger for an instant showed itself upon the edge of the tamarisk jungle. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 About noon I came to a few tamarisk and juniper trees, and then to a few stunted firs. Lilith, a romance A sea that has cast us pale on the beach; Weeds with the weeds and the pebbles That hear the lone tamarisk rooted in sand Sway With the song of the sea to the land. Poems — Volume 1 The wines of the palm and the tamarisk, those of Safed and of Byblos, ran from the amphoras into the crateras, from the crateras into the cups, and from the cups down the guests' throats. Herodias From time to time a river would appear amid the verdure of tamarisks to lose itself at the turning of the hills. Salammbo |
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