Vanamee's lean, spare face was of an olive pallor.
But Olive will be a thing of beauty and a joy for us and our children forever.
The olive tree grew and nourished; and, when you visit Athens, people will show you the very spot where it stood.
But after a time, he came to the village where he had lived happily for so many years, and soon he saw his own house half-hidden among the dark-leaved olive trees.
Illustration:] THE HORSE AND THE OLIVE I.
Where the olive and the carob ceased, box and ilex took possession of the inaccessible points, carrying up the long waves of vegetation until their foam-sprinkles of silver-gray faded out among the highest clefts.
A little fire of gnarled olive roots, pine cones, and eucalyptus boughs was blazing on the hearth.
The dwelling at Reine des Fees, sheltered from prevailing winds by a thick olive grove resting like a gray cloud upon the hillside above it, was of considerable size and pretension.
One burro was loaded with provisions, consisting ofolive oil, sugar, coffee, flour and canned cheese.
But if you want olive oil used, you must fry them yourself.
Later, I'll unpack some olive oil which you may use when cooking for me.
The Burgravine had a curious glitter in those eyes of hers, that generally astonished the stranger by their flower-blue in her olive face; yet, withal, she was full of smiles.
On the table lay the very rose he had presented to her with such a curve of slender olive fingers; with so happy a phrase, so graceful an inclination.
Betty looked up and her olive face grew thunder-dark as she recognized her niece.
The warm olive crept back to her cheek as she spoke.
Accustomed to the olive drab uniform and the usually clean-shaven face of the Sammy, these whiskered poilus with their red trousers and long blue coats pinned back from the front seemed strangely unlike soldiers.
He was exceedingly handsome then, with a rich olive complexion and oval face, youthful as a girl's.
Such a woman, for instance, as the Kaffir woman spoken of by Olive Schreiner in this passage, is the rare exception.
Probably Olive Schreiner did not intend it to cover the whole ground.
Male and Female -- Dusky olive -- brown above darkest on head, Which is slightly crested.
His scarlet feathers are now replaced by an autumn coat of olive and yellow not unlike his mate's.
Male -- Yellowish olive above; clear yellow below, shading to grayish white, with obscure dark streaks on side of breast.
Female -- Crown duller; gray where male is black, with olive Upper parts and grayer underneath.
Male -- Dusky olive above; head bluish gray, with a white line around the eye, spreading behind the eye into a patch.
Female -- Grayish olive brown above; whitish below; finely Streaked everywhere with very dark brown, like a sparrow.
Three women were elected to the Lower House: Mrs. Olive C.
Mrs. Tyler served as president until 1892, when Mrs. Olive Hogle was elected.
Olive Schreiner tells of an artist who painted a wonderful picture and none could learn what pigments he used.
At a gathering of Massachusetts farmers in Boston, Lucy Stone and Mrs. Olive Wright of Denver, spoke for woman suffrage; the meeting declared for it unanimously by a rising vote and every farmer present signed the petition.
Power, the present Secretary of State, Major Jonas, of the Aberdeen Examiner, and Mrs. Olive A.
And then--"Duet for violin and piano: Miss Olive Craven and Mr. Fred Parslow.
They have olive skins, black curly hair, flashing eyes, and fingers that dance with gemmy rings.
A high wall, covered with creeping plants, enclosed the park-like grounds, which terminated in the olive grove which surrounded the estate.
The Marchese pointed to a country house, which, barely a mile distant, lay half-hidden in an olive grove.
Then I cut away the olive branches, smoothed the trunk, made a bedpost, and bored all with a gimlet.
The priestess of Delphi finds a man sitting as a suppliant at the central point of the earth, his hands dripping with blood, a sword and an olive branch in his hand.
Such is the wonder I tell of, yet I know not, Lady, whether the bed is yet fixed there, or whether another hath moved it, cutting the foundation of olive from underneath.
One of these creatures obtained by myself in Borneo (Ceroxylus laceratus) was covered over with foliaceous excrescences of a clear olive green colour, so as exactly to resemble a stick grown over by a creeping moss or jungermannia.
The grafting wax used was made of beeswax, resin, olive oil and a small amount of lard to soften it.
I haveolive trees on first-class land; no pest of any kind is apparent.
Good bearing olive trees are now among the very best of our horticultural properties, while non-bearing olive trees are worth about $7 a cord for fire wood.
An olive orchard can be fertilized with stable manure or with a "complete fertilizer," or with the special brands of different manufacturers of special fruit fertilizers.
Having used olive oil and lard together you had too much soft fatty material.
There are quite a number of olive trees in this locality that have something wrong with them.
The olivetrees and pepper trees may communicate this trouble to citrus trees, or vice versa - whichever gets it first gives it away to the other.
If the olive trees which were originally planted were trained at first and still have a good trunk and tree form, the suckers which have intruded from below should be removed.
Would there be anything gained by transplanting oldolive trees 6 to 8 inches in diameter over nursery stock?
I have a lot of olive trees which have grown up around the old stumps.
For this purpose young people should be given salty food, materials that have been soaked in olive oil, salt itself, or certain vegetable soups with olive oil and salt.
With copper sulphate it yields olive colours (4 to 5 per cent copper sulphate and 3 to 4 per cent tartar).
With chrome it yields an old gold shade; with tin it produces more orange coloured yellows; with copper and iron, olive shades.
If a bright yellow green is wanted, then mordant with alum after the indigo bath; if olive green, then mordant with chrome.
Wool mordanted with 4 per cent of ferrous sulphate and 10 per cent tartar and dyed in a separate bath with weld with 8 per cent chalk, takes a good olive yellow.
The senile mirth had left the trader's face, and his olive skin was ashen.
She dared, because she was comely and buxom, and her chemise fell low on her full, olive breast.
The ruby flush was no longer there, and the face was olive and waxen.
Sue's smile, her fresh olive skin, her extraordinary green eyes, the subtly pleasing poise of her head on her perfect neck, touched again a certain group of associated emotions that had slumbered of late.
He could see her again, in that difficult crouching Russian step--her costume sparkling with color, her olive skin tinted rose with the spirited exercise of it, her extraordinary green eyes dancing with the exuberant life that was in her.
Jacob Zanin watched her--her brisk little nod and quiet smile for these acquaintances, her curiously boylike grace, the fresh tint of her olive skin.
There was a bronzy tint in their foliage, as though they were putting on olive drab in honour of the general.
There are great sacks of nuts, barrels of cranberries, kegs of olive oil, thick slabs of yellow cheese.
Across the wide fields of Bellaire there is a view of the brown woods on the ridge, turning a faint olive as the leaves gain strength.
His eyes were pure dark blue, contrasting rather strangely with his pale olive skin and intense black hair.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "olive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
