Two black cows were yoked to the plough, which was made of tamarisk wood, while the share was of black copper.
Again, in the series of sculptures which illustrate the mystic history of Osiris in the great temple of Isis at Philae, a tamarisk is figured with two men pouring water on it.
It was getting dark and some tamarisk grew between them and the house.
In places an aloe lifted a tall shaft, tamarisk and prickly pear grew on the banks, but Kit saw no palms.
In the background a row of camels, making strange noises, knelt beside a broken wall, and behind the uncouth animals stones and clumps of tamarisk melted into the widening bottom of the wady.
He turned his eyes on her in surprise, holding the tamariskspill in one hand and the pipe in the other, poised in the air.
The tamariskflowers have more color in them than your face.
He saw Cruel Coppinger on the other side of the hedge, he had put his hands to the tamarisk bushes, and thrust them apart and was looking through.
The sea-breeze that tossed the pink bunches of tamarisk waved stray tresses of her red-gold hair, but somehow the brilliancy, the burnish, seemed gone from it.
She said nothing to this, but rose and walked, with her head down, along the bank, and put her hands among the waving pink bunches of tamarisk bloom, sweeping the heads with her own delicate hand as she passed.
Astrologers state that the Tamariskis under the rule of Saturn.
Herodotus informs us that theTamarisk was employed for a similar purpose by other nations of antiquity; and Pliny states that the Egyptian priests were crowned with its foliage.
The Tamarix Gallica is called the Tamariskof Apollo: the Apollo of Lesbos is represented with a branch of Tamarisk in his hand.
The Manna of Mount Sinai is drawn from the Tamarisk by puncture of the coccus: it exudes in a thick syrup during the day, falls in drops, congeals in the night, and is gathered in the cool of the morning.
The Tamarix orientalis is also known as the Tamarisk of Osiris.
By far the larger part of the valley is quite uncultivated, and much of it is occupied by tamarisk jungles, the home of countless wild pigs.
The swamps are full of huge reeds, bordered with tamarisk jungles, and in its lower reaches, where the water stretches out into great marshes, the river is clogged with a growth of agrostis.
Fifteen minutes passed on without a whisper--then a low whistle from the thicket proclaimed the success of Koorbo the Adel, who had recovered the wounded beast, recumbent in the darkest recesses of the tamarisk grove.
From the southern side, where the clayey tract is thickly clothed with stunted tamarisk and spartium, a road strikes up the valley in a north-westerly direction to the Mudaito town of Aussa, distant some three days' journey for a caravan.
Lying down in the shadow of a thick tamarisk bush, above which a tall palm towered proudly, he stretched his limbs comfortably to rest in the assurance that the people were now provided for, in war by his good sword, in peace by the Law.
There was a big tamarisk tree at the end of the garden.
Half way round the circle, where the shadow of the tall tamarisk tree in the Smiths' garden cut a jagged gap in the white rim of wall, there was some change, something that had not been there a moment ago.
In the darkness too, something else might have been seen--two figures stealing along in the deeper shade of the tamarisk hedge.
He saw his bicycle strike one of them full in the chest, as he put it at him at full speed--then became conscious that he himself was whirling through the air to land with a crash beneath the tamarisk hedge.
At the side of it, under the high tamarisk hedge, he made out two figures.
Pallas's Tamarisk (page 10) is one of the shrubs which thrive in bleak exposed places and in dry sandy soils.
The ground was covered with hoar-frost, and the feathery foliage of the tamarisk was like the finest white coral.
The rose bushes are covered with masses of large carnation-red hips, the bramble trailers are crimson and gold, the tamarisk is lemon-yellow.
This arrival increased the excitement among the men, who piled tamarisk and the gum tragacanth bush on the fires most recklessly, the wild, hooded tufangchis and their long guns being picturesque in the firelight.
It was a very uninteresting march, through formless gravelly hills, with their herbage all eaten down, nothing remaining but tamarisk scrub and a coarse yellow salvia.
Cedar and white ash, rock-cedar and sand plants and tamarisk red cedar and white cedar and black cedar from the inmost forest, fragrance upon fragrance and all of my sea-magic is for nought.
Hardly even the tops of the rushes, tamarisk and other bog-plants protruded above the surface.
Of the first named, the most important food providing trees were the doom and date palms, the sycamore, tamarisk and mokhayp or myxa.
The manna which is at the present day known in the Arabian desert through which the Israelites passed is collected in June from the tarfa or tamarisk shrub (Tamarix Gallica).
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The soft crack of a duck-gun came to their ears from far off among the tamarisk bushes beside the green-grey waters.
The desolation before them to him seemed a land of promise, for he was entering it with Ruby, and in it there were thousands of wild duck, and jackals that slunk out by night among the stunted tamarisk bushes.
They say there's any amount of jackals down there in the tamarisk bushes.
The growth of wild plants, scanty near the coast, became more luxuriant as we approached the hills; the Arman Acacia flourished, the Kulan tree grew in clumps, and the Tamarisk formed here and there a dense thicket.
The moon shone on the water; the clumps of bamboo and plantains on the central island showed softly dark; masses of feathery tamarisk trees and the sweeping curves of a sandhill or two beyond the garden shut out the world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tamarisk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
