They scooped out a most comfortable nest with their claws and bills in the rotten branch of an acacia tree, and there they brought up two young families, all of them white as snow, with flame-coloured crests.
In Persia the cypress was the sacred tree of the god Mithra, while in Egypt the acacia was intimately associated with Osiris.
On an ancient sarcophagus an acacia is represented with the device, "Osiris shoots up.
I heeded not the thorny mimosas; my horse heeded them not; but large trees of the falseacacia (robinia) stood thickly in the way, and their horizontal branches hindered me.
As evening came on, we emerged from a scrub of Acacia and Tamarisk and turned due East, traversing an open country with a perceptible rise.
I notice, too, the beautiful blackwood or hickory of the colonists (Acacia melanoxylon), though not in great abundance nor of unusual size.
An early-blooming acacia has made a commencement; a shower of fresh, golden sprays illumines its tender greenery.
Leaving a branch of acacia to mark the spot, they returned with their story to Solomon, who ordered them to go and exhume the body--an order that was immediately carried out.
Thus the Temple of Solomon was used to denote the Church of Christ, the bough of acacia signified the Cross, the square and the compass the union between the Old and New Testaments, etc.
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.
Half-way down were great lengths of high platform built upon acacia piling.
Turning as though pursued, he disappeared up an acacia tree from which he could not be dislodged.
I naturally lay no stress on the accident that the acacia occurs here.
Bata’s heart later in the story is changed into a blossom of an acaciaor a cedar.
It is the acacia whose presence is rationalized apparently for the purpose of forming a sign by which to find again the place of the hastily buried.
Bata’s wife has the acacia tree, on which Bata’s heart is a blossom, felled, and as a result Bata dies.
The acacia tree in which the lamp used to hang was riven asunder.
The lamp was swinging in the acacia tree as he trotted up to the friendly gate of the ford-house.
The driver was attending to his horses; but all the others were holding earnest council under the acacia tree, where the lantern was still swinging.
Whero, pointing to the gleam of water in the distance, and the dark roof of the house by the ford, half buried in the white blossom of the acacia grove beside it.
The upper portion was thickly clad with acaciaand other thorns, and upon the summit, the Somali pine tree observed by me near Harar, and by Lieutenant Herne at Gulays, first appeared.
Arrived at the village, we found the elders seated under the shade of a venerable Acacia feasting; six bullocks were immediately slaughtered for the Caffilah and ourselves.
The growth of wild plants, scanty near the coast, became more luxuriant as we approached the hills; the Arman Acacia flourished, the Kulan tree grew in clumps, and the Tamarisk formed here and there a dense thicket.
My attendants occupied themselves with gathering the edible pod of an Acacia called Kura [9], whilst I observed the view.
In other parts the young bark of the acacia is used; it is first charred on one side, then reduced to fibre by mastication, and lastly twisted into the semblance of a rope.
Herds of camels and flocks of milky sheep browsing amongst thorny Acacia and the tufted Kulan, suggested pleasing visions to starving travellers, and for the first time after three days of hard riding, we saw the face of man.
On these heights, which are mostly conoid with rounded tops, joined by ridges and saddlebacks, various kinds of Acacia cast a pallid and sickly green, like the olive tree upon the hills of Provence.
The travellers slept in a deserted Kraal, surrounded by a stout fence of Acacia thorns heaped up to keep out the leopards and hyenas.
She had thrown her mantilla back, to show her shoulders, and a great bunch of acacia that was thrust into her chemise.
She had another acacia blossom in the corner of her mouth, and she walked along, swaying her hips, like a filly from the Cordova stud farm.
And taking the acacia blossom out of her mouth she flipped it at me with her thumb so that it hit me just between the eyes.
When she had gone into the factory, I saw the acacia blossom, which had fallen on the ground between my feet.
For pomatums of other odors it is only necessary to substitute rose, jasmine, tubereuse, and others, in place of the acacia pomatum in the above formulæ.
It is procured by maceration from the Acacia farnesiana.
Black currant leaves, and which the French term cassie, have an odor very much resembling cassie (acacia), and are used extensively for adulterating the true acacia pomades and oils.
The acacia tree was on top of a high bluff, but a path ran down the bank in a zigzag way to the water's edge, where Cap'n Bill's boat was moored to a rock by means of a stout cable.
On the alluvium grow the same, mixed with Tamarisk, Acacia Arabica, and a few other bushes.
The west bank was covered with a small Sal forest, mixed with Acacia Catechu, and brushwood, growing in a poor vegetable loam, over very dry sand.
At the angles of the river broad terraces are formed, fifteen to thirty feet above its bed, similar to those just mentioned, and planted with rows of Acacia Serissa, or laid out in rice fields, or sugar plantations.
The most prevalent were Carissa carandas, Olax scandens, two Zizyphi, and the ever-present Acacia Catechu.
For some miles in front open forest of giraffe-acacia lay before them.
The round, plushlike, yellow and orange balls of the acacia trees spread abroad upon the soft breeze a most delicious, honey-like scent.
By twelve o'clock, when they knocked off for half an hour's rest, and ate some lunch under the grateful shade of an adjacent acacia tree, they had all been more or less lucky.
A hundred and fifty yards away, gathered round three or four spreading trees of the giraffe-acacia species, stood a troop of more than twenty tall giraffes.
He had camped by a dead acacia tree, destroyed by white ants, and soon had before him a cheerful blaze.
He seems to be coming forward to meet the beholder, with anacacia staff in his hand.
I found that we had camped close to a large quantity of acacia seed that they had been preparing when we arrived, but had no time to carry it away before we were on them.
The vegetation of this district is poor; the myall is scarce, but the mulga (Acacia aneura) generally plentiful.
Gum arabic, a gum yielded mostly by several species of Acacia (chiefly A.
Acacia Farnesiana), with deliciously fragrant flowers, which are used in perfumery.
One of the Australian wattle trees (Acacia colletioides), so called from the impenetrability of the thicket which it makes.
Gum Senegal, a gum similar to gum arabic, yielded by trees (Acacia Verek and A.
Defn: An Australian tree (Acacia Doratoxylon), and its tough wood, used by the natives for spears.
Special adaptations for this purpose exist; thus, Acacia spadicigera has large hollows thorns, and species of Cecropia have stem cavities.
It was difficult to choose among the houses where all were exactly alike; but you could choose among the streets, for some were planted with young limes and some with plane trees, and one, Acacia Avenue, with acacias.
They had come to the end of Acacia Avenue before either of them spoke again.
The chemist, a newcomer, had set up his shop very conveniently at the corner of Acacia Avenue.
Ranny's idea of fun was not Earl's Court or the Coliseum; it was to mount a bicycle and ride from that lonely place, Acacia Avenue, into places that were more lonely still.
Johnson's was the new drapers at the other corner of Acacia Avenue, opposite the chemist.
Acacia Avenue, with its tufted trees, with its rows of absurd and pathetic and diminutive villas, was for Winny a shining walk between heavenly mansions.
And finally his fancy and Violet's was taken by one house, Number Forty-seven Acacia Avenue, for it stood just opposite a young tree with a particularly luxuriant tuft.
In the western part of the North-Western Provinces you will often notice wisps of straw tied round the trunks of acacia trees, which, as we shall see, possess mystic powers, as a means to bar disease.
Monterey pines and cypress, with acacia and a variety of flowering shrubs, are grouped with fine effect.
The walls of the palaces are embowered in eucalyptus, acacia and cypress trees.
