So the princess had to marry him, and after the wedding he gave her another fig to eat, so that her last horn also disappeared.
Then the ogre repeated: "Buchettino, My dear Buchettino, Give me a little fig With your dear little hand, If not I will eat you!
The ogre said again: "Buchettino, My dear Buchettino, Give me a little fig With your dear little hand, If not I will eat you!
Nell went back several times for new supplies, not ceasing to contend with each fig that the elephant was entirely tamed and that they could even at that moment go down to him.
They chanced upon a wide valley in which they found water and a score or more of wild fig trees.
As Nell firmly insisted upon feeding her new friend herself, Stas cut for her from a young bifurcated fig tree something in the shape of a pitchfork in order to make it easier for her to shove down the supplies to the bottom of the ravine.
I shall wrap up at once a large dose in a fresh fig peel and you must swallow it.
The fig is little grown in the East except as a curiosity, but on the Pacific coast it has gained considerable prominence as an orchard fruit.
In commercial cultivation, figtrees grow large, and they stand 18 to 25 feet apart; but in gardens where they are to be bent over, they are to be kept as bushes.
And the trees said to the fig tree: Come thou and reign over us.
And seeing a certain fig tree by the way side, he came to it and found nothing on it but leaves only.
And the eyes of them both were opened: and when they perceived themselves to be naked, they sewed together fig leaves, and made themselves aprons.
And the stars from heaven fell upon the earth, as the fig tree casteth its green figs when it is shaken by a great wind.
And when they passed by in the morning they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
And I will destroy her vines, and her fig trees, of which she said: These are my rewards, which my lovers have given me: and I will make her as a forest and the beasts of the field shall devour her.
Gathering I will gather them together, saith the Lord, there is no grape on the vines, and there are no figs on the fig tree, the leaf is fallen: and I have given them the things that are passed away.
He curses the barren fig tree and drives the buyers and sellers out of the temple.
The fig tree hath put forth her green figs: the vines in flower yield their sweet smell.
And he said to the dresser of the vineyard: Behold, for these three years I come seeking fruit on this figtree and I find none.
And over the oliveyards and the fig groves, which were in the plains, was Balanam a Gederite: and over the oil cellars, Joas.
All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with their green figs: if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.
A land of wheat, and barley, and vineyards, wherein fig trees and pomegranates, and oliveyards grow: a land of oil and honey.
Tame monkeys were trained to go into the high branches of the fig trees and throw down the fruit.
The lemon, orange, fig and olive were all native to Asia.
The Greeks called the wild fig erineos, and the Latins caprificus.
The history of thefig presents a close analogy with that of the olive in point of origin and geographical limits.
The remark made by several scholars as to the absence of all mention of the cultivated fig sukai in the Iliad, does not therefore prove the absence of the fig tree in Greece at the time of the Trojan war.
The Phoenicians must have transported good varieties to the coast of Africa and their other colonies on the Mediterranean, even as far as the Canaries, where, however, the wild fig may have already existed.
The result of our inquiry shows, then, that the prehistoric area of the fig tree covered the middle and southern part of the Mediterranean basin from Syria to the Canaries.
Romulus and Remus, according to tradition, were nursed at the foot of a fig tree called ruminalis, from rumen, breast or udder.
Homer mentions the sweet fig in the Odyssey, and that but vaguely.
Homer mentions a fig tree in the Iliad which grew near Troy.
We may doubt the antiquity of the fig in the south of France, but a curious fact deserves mention.
To do him justice, he cared not a fig for the palace, and he would have been content with the farmhouse under the hill where his gardener lived.
I am sorry to disillusionize you, but I don't care a fig for balls and garden-parties and salons.
I care not a fig for a few paltry acres, and as God hears me I'm a reasonable man.
When I got my borough I cared not a fig for parties or principles.
Nothing appeals to a man like resistance--resistance for a principle appealed to Bob, although he did not care a fig about that particular principle.
With my own eyes I once beheld a blind mendicant hanging by the neck from a fig tree, a bloody froth upon his lips.
A fig tree grew beside the wall, affording an admirable means of reaching the top--a natural ladder.
There is a fig tree growing close beside it at one place.
The clearing under the wild fig tree of the village is called the Place of Prayer (ithembo).
Never shall I forget the exquisite delight with which I ate the firstfig Ithulpo handed to me.
I instantly put out my hand for another, and he gave me a black fig with a red pulp, which vied with the first in excellence.
To sit in the luxuriant shade of the fig tree was a daily blessing to us in the summer season.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fig" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
