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Example sentences for "acacias"

Lexicographically close words:
abyssal; abysses; acaba; acacia; academic; academical; academically; academician; academicism
  1. Along the horizon lay a quivering sea, where high waves chased each other from east to west, the real hills standing out as little islands in their midst, and the stumpy acacias magnified into vast forests.

  2. So traversed she her realm, when mangoes green Baobabs by, showed freshest hues; and sheen Of silver touched acacias slight; and lone The solitary aloes, dreamed.

  3. Horse-chestnuts and acacias make a pleasant foreground to a prospect of considerable extent.

  4. The acacias and pawlonias on the ramparts are in full bloom of creamy white and lilac.

  5. Not a leaf was stirring; the topmost branches of the lilacs and acacias seemed to stretch upwards into the warm air, as though listening for something.

  6. There were many alleys of old lime-trees in it, full of sunlight and shade and fragrance and glimpses of emerald green at the ends of the walks, and many arbours of acacias and lilacs.

  7. But it is thickly covered with trees: poplars and oaks and wild figs and acacias and wild olives.

  8. I remember the place where we ate our lunch in a small grove of eucalyptus-trees, with sweet-smelling yellow acacias blossoming around us.

  9. Palms and acacias and jewelled flower-beds, were cut out sharply in vivid colour by the lights which streamed from open windows.

  10. The walls are veiled in hanging creepers; there is a little box-hedge and a shower of sun-flecked acacias and lilacs from which the grey trunks of giant cypresses soar like the columns of a mighty temple.

  11. The fruit and poultry market was in the little piazza full of pollard acacias behind the Franciscan church.

  12. The green banks of the river are diversified by coppices of acacias and tamarisks.

  13. Thus the traveller's eye may rest on palms and acacias intermingled with pines; on oaks or maples covered with epiphytal orchideae; while pothos and clematis, bamboos and ivy, fill up the strangely contrasted picture.

  14. The Acacias are innumerable, all yielding a famous bark for tanning, and a clean and excellent gum.

  15. Cattle and sheep browse on the twigs of this and some allied species, even in the presence of plentiful grass, and are much sustained by such acacias in seasons of protracted drought.

  16. In front, a dwarf stone wall with a light wooden paling surrounded a lawn, on which grew tall acacias or locusts.

  17. Givins still stands, wearing at this day a look of peculiar calm and tranquillity, screened from the outer world by a dark grove of second-growth pine, and overshadowed by a number of acacias of unusual height and girth.

  18. Between the clumps of the stunted acacias the sun beat down with the pitilessness of a battleship's furnace, and it was not much better in the acacias themselves.

  19. The horse pricked up his ears, and cantered forward through the basket willows and acacias which bordered the sleeping lake.

  20. The king entrusted me with your safe conduct; permit me therefore to wait for you under the acacias yonder.

  21. The cool air was burdened with mysterious hints of acacias and roses, which the dew had stolen from drowsy gardens, and over the gently rippling waters floated the holy sound of the sweet-tongued bell, from .

  22. Having brought home specimens of most of the woods of the interior, I find that several of the acacias would be valuable for ornamental work, having a pleasing perfume resembling that of a rose.

  23. This day at five miles further we ascended some undulating ground on which the acacias of the interior grew.

  24. The scrubs now receded from the river, but the curious variety of acacias they contained still drew our attention towards them.

  25. On arriving at the castle embedded in acacias and laurustinus she asked of the maid who opened: "Can I see Mrs. Scarlet?

  26. The thorny Acacias are often selected, but I have seen them on Sisoo and other trees.

  27. Groves of palm and acacias dotted the fields and flocks of sheep and goats were to be seen along the roadways of the irrigating canals that appeared to overspread the valley like a net.

  28. It was already very hot in the south, and the perfume of the acacias in full bloom everywhere was almost more than we could bear, especially at Montélimart.

  29. The sun burns as in a tropical country, and yet the sad Chinese April, anæmic from such a drought following the frozen winter, is barely heralded by the tender color of the few tiny leaves on the old willows and acacias of the court.

  30. At last, when they can hold out no longer and go and lean against the porticoes among the old acacias and willows, another company just like the first comes forward and begins again, to the same tune, a similar dance.

  31. The acacias and the monotonous willows, which are almost the only trees scattered over this northern China, show here and there on their slender old branches little pale-green leaves just barely out.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acacias" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.