Crown of Wild Olive;" for the third paragraph, pp.
For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
Ruskin might have put the same note to it as he has put to a passage in the "Crown of Wild Olive," p.
The birds scattering the berries in all directions, and carrying them to great distances, the number of wild olive-trees is immense.
Other works of this practical period are Time and Tide, Fors Clavigera, Sesame and Lilies, and the Crown of Wild Olive.
Her son must not fail to win the crown of wild olive.
Over the crude and almost terrible strength of the ruins of the temple of Zeus it let its green garments trail down, as it felt its way softly but surely to the buried Stadium where once a boy of twelve had won the crown of wild olive.
And so, because of that, he could only see their child as a very young boy, wearing a boy's crown of wild olive, such as had once been won by the boy of twelve in the games at Olympia.
And hanging partly across it was that branch of wild olive.
Then Pollux laid aside his mantle, which one of the daughters of Lemnos had given him; and Amycus also stripped off his cloak, and put aside the great shepherd's crook made of a wild olive tree, that he bare.
Now there stood in the plain the stump of a wild olive-tree.
Now this was close to the river, and he found two bushes, of wild olive one, and of fruitful olive the other.
His most prominent utterance is his lecture on “War” delivered to the students at the Engineering College at Woolwich in 1865 and printed in The Crown of Wild Olive.
There you have a summary of the famous lecture on War in the Crown of Wild Olive, which has weakened Ruskin’s influence with many of his friends, and done undoubted harm.
Needless to say, his wish was carried out, and "somewhere in France" there lies a soldier with a copy of the Crown of Wild Olive clasped to his breast.
Our dying soldier, asking for a copy of the Crown of Wild Olive to be buried with him, and the other who calls for priestly ministrations, represent, ultimately, two different educational results.
He died soon after he was brought in, and one of his last requests was that a copy of Ruskin's Crown of Wild Olive should be buried with him.
The soldier with his copy of Ruskin does not prove the truth of the teachings of the Crown of Wild Olive, does not prove that Ruskin said the last word or even the truest word on the subjects dealt with therein.
Ruskin," it says in the introduction to The Crown of Wild Olive which my little friend reads at school, "is certainly one of the greatest masters of English prose.
I remember the solemn voice of a lecturer on English literature, years ago, moving me to buy The Crown of Wild Olive.
Instead, you put them in a conspicuous place and exhibit them kicking and cuffing one another, and when they win give them apples or wild olive.
At Olympia a wreath of wild olive, at the Isthmus one of pine, at Nemea of parsley, at Pytho some of the God's sacred apples, and at our Panathenaea oil pressed from the temple olives.
More sweetly wilt thou sing, if thou wilt sit down beneath the wild olive tree, and the groves in this place.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wild olive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
