Near to the building in which the idols were placed there stood a ceiba tree of an immense size, in the bark of which Cortes ordered a large cross to be cut.
The only resource we had left was to fell a ceiba tree of very large dimensions, of which we hollowed out a canoe of such magnitude, that nothing was ever seen equal to it in this country before.
But more wonderful far than the ceiba is a tree called by the natives by the expressive name of Matapalo--Tree-Killer.
At one time it is a colossal Bombax ceiba [130] that claims our attention.
The ceiba is one of the few tropical trees that ever shed their foliage.
In both cases we observe the same peculiar, buttressed roots that are so characteristic of the ceibaand some other giants of the forest.
Our steamer, like all the others there, was moored head and stern by cables leading to the venerable Ceiba trees that lined la Calle del Coco high above us.
In the valley just below is a beautiful Ceiba tree, under which the peace agreement between American and Spanish commanders was concluded in July, 1898.
If one has time to stop, or cares to leave the main highway at Ceiba and cross the ridge of hills about a mile distant, a beautiful little valley lies below, on the other side of the divide.
Between Cabo Cruz and Manzanillo are the embarcaderos of Nequiro, Media Luna, Ceiba Hueca and Campechuela, from nearly all of which a considerable amount of sugar is shipped during the season.
On the same road may be seen the famous ceibatree under which the armistice was signed terminating the war between Spain and the United States.
The tradition is that on this spot there stood, in 1519, an old ceiba tree under which the newly arrived settlers celebrated their first mass.
There was not a green thing to be seen, saving one huge Ceiba tree standing solitary in the middle of a great wind-swept plaza.
Giant ceiba trees reared themselves two hundred feet into the air.
It came from the direction of a big ceiba tree a hundred yards down the forest path.
Instead of the beeches and maple trees of Europe we here find the statelier forms of the ceiba and the palm-tree, the praga and irasse.
In England the number of deaths in each year from smallpox per one million inhabitants was: At the close of the eighteenth century, 3,000.
The juice of a ripe tomato is good applied locally.
The bath should be followed by a thorough rubbing of the skin with a Turkish towel.
Taken in all, it was weird, gruesome, a fit setting for the tragedy that lay waiting for them amid the roots of a dead ceiba just ahead.
See you, an enormous ceiba rolls over and sends him and the canoa to the bottom, yet he speaks of it with shamed laughter as though of a fault.
Half a dozen of them lay immediately beneath the overhanging branches of the ceiba tree; but they arrived there so silently that, even if Dick and Phil had been awake, they would have heard nothing.
A Jamaica police officer told me that if a ceiba had to be removed, the men who used the axe were well dosed with rum to give them courage to defy the devil.
The ceiba is the sacred tree of the negro, the temple of Jumbi the proper home of Obeah.
Many of the same species of trees are present, including Ceiba pentandra, Cedrela mexicana, Swietenia macrophylla, and Ficus sp.
The ceiba is the sacred tree of the negro, the temple of Jumbi, the proper house of Obeah.
He also sent for six Indian carpenters to assist ours in making a cross on a highceiba tree,[13] near the village of Cintla, where the Lord had granted us the great victory.
The bombax ceiba of Linnaeus, and one of the tallest trees growing in America.
Right in the middle of what once had been the square grew a ceiba tree, covered with lilac flowers, hanging in clusters like gigantic grapes.
There is a ceiba tree, a cypress tree, there stands a mezquite bush, strong as a cavern of stone, known as the Giver of Life.
The ceibaand cypress trees were employed figuratively to indicate protection and safeguard.
You remember it was a great ceiba to which Columbus made fast his ships on the bank of the Ozama River in Santo Domingo?
It is on this savannah that we have our first good opportunity of viewing the mighty ceiba tree near at hand.
The ceibamay not be the largest tree in the tropics.
For size of spurs and wealth of parasites the tree was almost as remarkable as the Ceiba I mentioned just now.
The leafiest tree in the country is the ceiba (Bombax ceiba), called by the Mayans yaxche or yastse.
There is another tree which rivals the ceiba in shadiness, but this you only see on the haciendas which have been long in cultivation.
There is a tradition that a ceiba grew in Valladolid.
A ceiba was believed to stand in the centre of the earth, and its branches grew through the successive holes in the seven heavens until the leaves reached the highest.
To all appearance never did the ceiba go slower,--never lie so dull upon the water.
Towards noon their progress became slower; and when at length the meridian hour arrived the ceiba stood still.
In this uncertainty they suspended the stroke of their paddles, and suffered the ceiba to come to a standstill.
A few sparks still smouldered where they had been nursed; and, with some decayed pieces of the ceiba itself, a big blaze was once more established.
The fears of those standing upon the ceiba could not have been greater than that of the savage himself, as his canoe came bumping against the dead-wood, and he saw standing above him a crowd of human forms.
Among the common trees in the upper stratum are Calophyllum brasiliense, Castilla elastica, Cedrela mexicana, Ceiba pentandra, Didalium guianense, Ficus sp.
Important herpetological habitats include the leaf litter, rotting stumps, and rotting tree trunks on the forest floor and the buttresses of many of the gigantic trees, especially Ceiba pentandra (Pl.
Individuals were most readily observed on the buttresses of some of the gigantic mahogany and ceiba trees.
I was glad for both our sakes when we reached the ceiba tree and stood leaning against it, fanning ourselves with our hats.
When I took the parrot's cage ashore on the previous evening, I had hung it on the limb of a ceiba too high for Cynthia to reach.
Then I asked the Bo's'n to take my hand, and the Minion took the other, and they pulled me up to the level under the ceiba tree.
The last words that we heard from Cynthia were, "the ceiba tree," and we took them as our guide.
The sacred tree is not named, but presumably it was the ceiba to which I refer elsewhere.
On this ceiba tree many zaphilotes or vultures were perched, and as we crept towards it I saw what it was they came to seek, for from the lowest branches of the ceiba three corpses swung in the breeze.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ceiba" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
