If there ever was a restaurant there, it must have been in Smyrna's palmy days, when the hills were covered with palaces.
They are relics of the grandeur of Genoa's palmy days--the days when she was a great commercial and maritime power several centuries ago.
They must lead somewhere-- to something else than common land, more palmy than the palms.
But though the green palmy cliffs of the land soon loomed on the starboard bow, and with delighted nostrils the fresh cinnamon was snuffed in the air, yet not a single jet was descried.
Oriental straits of that name, whose spout was oft seen from the palmy beach of Ombay?
His court vied with that of the Bourbons in their most palmy days for its magnificence.
His majesty was saluted with hearty cheers from the multitude, such as greeted his father in the most palmy days of his reign.
Could such a combination have taken place in the ancient palmy days of art, the pencil of the painter and the pen of the poet would have alike been employed to perpetuate its remembrance.
Those were the palmy days of the Astor, and if one could write their history in full, it would be a record worth reading.
He began life as a Whig, but became a prominent Know-Nothing in the palmy days of that party.
Her beauty, always that of a handsome barmaid, though higher in type and better kept, gave her a likeness to Mademoiselle George in her palmy days, setting aside the latter's imperial dignity.
Few branches of human knowledge more flourished during the palmy days of Italian literature than the exact sciences, especially in connection with military affairs, and the elegant arts.
But the storm, meanwhile, gathered, which was to sweep patron and poet from their palmy state.
We have seen that in the palmydays of Rome some of the large publishing houses were quite capable of turning out extensive editions at a few hours' notice.
Not far from the sculptor's workshop, and in the same quarter of the palace, was found a splendid and convincing proof of the magnificence of the appointments of the House of Minos in its palmy days.
But this had been in their palmy days, long, long ago.
Mrs Lynch had died before the commencement of Sim's palmy days.
It was in the palmy days of these celebrated monks, before corruption had set in, that the Dominican Order was recruited with one of the most extraordinary men of the Middle Ages.
Nothing was more extraordinary in the palmy days of Sind than the widespread commercial interests of Shikarpur.
It seems improbable, however, that it could have been more than a summer residence in its palmy days, for winter at this elevation (nearly 7000 feet) and in such an exposed locality would be very severe indeed.
Even during those palmydays he exercised a power that for the most part was not virile, but crushing and inhuman.
His palmy days were in the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, before the Renaissance had grown powerful enough to influence European life.
The coffee-houses, as resorts for men of different classes and occupations, survived till the early years of the nineteenth century; but their palmy days were over some time before the end of the eighteenth century.
The palmy days of the minstrels and romancists had passed away.
The human nature of today will be the human nature of tomorrow, and the human nature of tomorrow will be in all essential respects the same as it was in ancient Rome, Persia, and Egypt, and even in the palmy days of sea-sunk Atlantis.
All the world knows that France became a republic chiefly because Rome in her palmy days had been so called; nay, to this hour all the terms adopted by the revolutionary party have been borrowed from classical times.
In the six lectures which it contains, he gives us an estimate, first, of the physical and political condition of the Roman empire in its palmy days; then, of the force by which it pleased God to constitute the new creation in the midst of it.
These are the hereditary descendants and successors of the men who in the palmy days of the Mogul power spent their lives in decorating the royal palaces and tombs with mosaics and tracery.
