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Example sentences for "olive trees"

  • In passing the Alps at the Col de Tende, where they are mere masses of rock, wherever there happens to be a little soil, there are a number of olive trees, and a village supported by them.

  • The way lay entirely over an unbroken level, for the most part covered with olive trees.

  • No woods of oak trees have been found in Peru, but if they were planted in the Collao, in the district of Cuzco, and in other parts, I believe that they would give the same result as olive trees in the coast valleys.

  • In some places in Peru it never thunders, lightning is not seen, nor do snows fall in the coast valleys, and these are the things which damage the fruit of olive trees.

  • I have already mentioned the plantations of olive trees we passed in our drive on the cliffs.

  • We now pass through groves of olive trees, whose sombre and silver tinted foliage, and wonderfully gnarled and twisted trunks, give quite a foreign tone to the landscape.

  • Still, there is much grace and beauty in the outlines of olive trees against a sunlit, blue-grey sky, the silver tints of their leaves quivering in the light.

  • Our road lay through a wood of olive trees, in a fertile uneven plain of red argillaceous soil.

  • The approach to Damascus on this side is very grand: being formed by a road above one hundred and fifty paces broad, which is bordered on each side by a grove of olive trees, and continues in a straight line for upwards of an hour.

  • Near the lower city are groups of olive trees.

  • The property of the inhabitants of this village consists of cows and other cattle, silkworms, and plantations of olive trees.

  • Making the best of the situation, the pegs developed into the handsomest group of olive trees in the district.

  • A fine grove of olive trees at Messa, in Morocco, was accidentally planted.

  • The pegs with which the cavalry picketed their horses were cut from olive trees in the neighborhood, and, some sudden cause of alarm leading to the abandonment of the position, the pegs were left in the ground.

  • So ran the rich landscape, broken only by belts of olive trees, to the far hills of Judea.

  • We left the place and its mealy-headed population, and turned eastward into wide, rolling tracts, scattered here and there with gnarled olive trees.

  • These shelves were so covered with wild shrubs--in some places even with rows of olive trees---that to me they had not the least appearance of that desolation so generally ascribed to them.

  • The slopes are covered with large olive trees, and the plain with fields and vineyards and numerous cherry trees.

  • The winter here is exceptionally mild, and some of the villas stand in little hollows clothed with pine and olive trees.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    additional number; also know; common fire; dark reddish; direction opposite; easily broken; even during; fermented liquors; good habit; good hotel; just the; knew himself; olive branch; olive brown; olive green; olive oil; olive tree; olive trees; ordinary seaman; popular vote for four; rock salt; secret place; this conception; united together; upon conviction; will presently