Nor yet, unmindful of the fabled scrip, Forget the nuts from Barcelona's shore, Soaked in Iberian oil from olives pressed, To the crisp kernels adding one charm more.
A bottle of olives is a welcome addition, and pickles and other relishes may be included.
It was from that love of contrast, then, was it, which is a part of all luxury, that the fable of the Quatre Mendiants was made to serve like the olives at dessert.
A chill wind set the pines and the olives whispering mournfully together.
To the one side the azure sea was lapping to their feet soft messages of welcome, and to the other the olives and the pastel pines were crowding down the hillsides to wish them joy and happiness.
Mr. Dollond had ensconced himself behind them, and was phlegmatically starting on a rough study of the old town, which rose in a ragged, compact mass a hundred yards away, with its background of sad olives and sapphire sky.
Veal-cutlets or mutton-chops may be done the same way, or as veal-olives (No.
His finishing the olives left us the bottle, of course, and there is only one natural thing to do with an empty olive-bottle when you're on a water picnic.
Among olivesand acanthus was heard the bleating of sheep and the chirrup of the grasshopper.
Olives in scant patches, a lost vineyard, a speck of tilled soil, proved that men still laboured amid this vast and awful silence, but rarely did a human figure meet the eye.
She then flies away, and seeks another olive, to deposit in it another egg; she repeats this operation until she has placed on as many olives the three or four hundred eggs which she bears.
We will borrow the following details from this learned entomologist: "At the time when the olives are formed the Dacus proceeds to place an egg under the skin of each of the fruits.
It is my Garden of Olives where I come to watch before my death!
There are splendid olives and rare fruits, preserved, or as they dropped from the hand of nature.
The loveliness of the chestnut woods on the hill behind, not yet in leaf, but rosy with rising sap; big round olives also, dark silver in front.
This solemn type of sixteenth-century White Devil of Italy palace or villa recurs in this neighbourhood; places to keep their secrets; some apparently on the very border of the Campagna, where vines and olives end.
The white peacocks apparently all gone; but two superb green ones, their tails outspread, glittering on the grass under the olives just below the villa terrace.
A sort of tiny half-ruined, towered and walled St. Gimignano, with many olives about it, seems a ghostly apparition in it all.
No vegetation, save a few olives and scrub oaks and the bitter herbs and euphorbus.
Did they ramble among the scarlet pomegranates, the green oaks, the dark green palms, the cypresses and olives that grew in the vale of Nazareth, and made beautiful the hills that encircled it?
As He sat on the Mount of Olives over against the Temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked Him privately, Tell us, when shall these things be?
Were not Peter and John leaders in song when "at the descent at the Mount of Olives the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God," and especially when "the City of David" came into view?
We are reminded of the days when they sat together on the sea-shore, the time when they were watching for the coming of the Messiah with whom they now "sat on the Mount of Olives over against the Temple.
In the same chapter Justin states that when the Jews went out to the Mount of Olives to take Jesus, "there was not even a single man to run to his help as a guiltless person.
They are prettily laid out, and among many other trees, olives may be seen, unknown in any other part of the Delta.
Who shall describe aright with one pen the gnarled olives of Beaulieu and the palace-like front of the Cercle de la Mediterranee?
It is but a light repast of wine or milk, with bread and honey, or a taste of olives or cheese or possibly an egg.
The whole region was one of rich pasture and tillage, and from it the merchant ships from Cadiz brought to Rome cargoes of the finest wool and of excellent olives and other fruits.
Rub the bottom of a bowl with a clove of garlic, add a half cupful of mayonnaise, four finely chopped gherkins, twelve chopped olives and two tablespoonfuls of capers.
Cover each slice thickly with this paste; garnish with hard-boiled white of egg, cut into diamonds or tiny crescents, andolives cut into rings.
In the center of each sandwich make just a little mound of capers, using the olives at the four corners; each sandwich may be garnished in a different way.
But," continued he, "I think that olives which have been kept seven years would not be so good.
Till this period the friend to whom he had intrusted the jar of olivesbefore he left that city had never thought more of him or his jar.
Brother," said he to him, "you are not unacquainted with my intention of setting out on a pilgrimage to Mecca with the caravan which goes in a few days; I beg the favor of you to take charge of this jar of olives till my return.
The olives are all spoiled, and I have stopped up the jar again, so that if Ali Cogia ever comes back he will not discover that I have touched it.
He thought he must be deceived, and to relieve his doubts he took some of the dishes and other utensils of his travelling kitchen and emptied out all the olives without finding one single piece of money.
After the usual compliments, Ali Cogia begged the merchant to return him the jar of olives which he had left in his care, at the same time apologizing for having troubled him.
The jar was then handed to some skilful merchants who had been ordered to appear, and they reported it as their opinion that the olives were good, and of that year's growth.
Besides, do you suppose that, after so long a time, the olives can be good?
I am even ignorant that there were olives in it; you did not show them to me!
If that be the case," resumed the young cadi, "look at this jar, and tell me how long the olives have been kept that are in it.
He put the olives again into the jar, and, covering it, left the warehouse.
Do you propose to put all the olives in your pocket, Tobie?
Tobie felt in his pocket; he produced one of the olives he had stored there at dinner, and placed it in front of him, saying: "That stands for five hundred francs!
As regards the adaptability of the land of British Colony for various Fruits, I can say that they are especially adapted to the prune (French plums) and peaches for drying and canning, olives for olive oil and pickling; also for oranges.
Good bread and a dish of pickled olives make an excellent meal.
At daybreak, Hassan Messoud appeared with breakfast at our tent, olives and meat in a sauce of oil and pepper, not appetising upon an empty stomach, but not to be refused without offence.
I don't know how we should get along without olives and the oil we make from them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "olives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
