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Cornelius Tacitus - Histoires
[ IN SLAVIC LANGUAGES]
... he openly retained one Seleucus, an astrologer, to direct his counsels, and to foretell the future. Old omens now recurred to his thoughts. A cypress tree of remarkable height on his estate had suddenly fallen, and rising again the following day on the very same spot, had flourished with majestic ...
Ariosto Ludovico - Orlando Furioso
[ POETRY]
... When he entreaties unavailing found, The youth prepared by force to part the two; Their poniards snatched away, and on the ground, Beneath a cypress-tree, the daggers threw. When they no weapons have wherewith to wound, With prayer and threat, he interferes anew: But vainly; for, since better weapons ...
Lovecraft Howard Phillips - In The Vault
[ FICTION]
... stony brickwork; cursing when a fragment hit him in the face, and laughing when one struck the increasingly excited horse that pawed near the cypress tree. In time the hole grew so large that he ventured to try his body in it now and then, shifting about so that the ...
Whitman Walt - Leaves Of Grass
[ FICTION]
... the mocking-bird, the American mimic, singing in the Great Dismal Swamp, There are the greenish waters, the resinous odor, the plenteous moss, the cypress-tree, and the juniper-tree; Northward, young men of Mannahatta, the target company from an excursion returning home at evening, the musket-muzzles all bear ...
Longfellow Henry W. - The Complete Poetical Works
[ POETRY]
... Girded it round about with a belt of luxuriant blossoms, Filling the air with fragrance. The house itself was of timbers Hewn from the cypress-tree, and carefully fitted together. Large and low was the roof; and on slender columns supported, Rose-wreathed, vine-encircled, a broad and spacious veranda, ...
Avirett James Battle - The Old Plantation
[ SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES]
... the old man spitting on his bait for luck before he noiselessly dropped his hook in the water at the roots of a large cypress tree, among some chunks of wood held there by the eddy in the bend of the river. Well, we had not fished long before a ...
Steedman Amy - Knights Of Artstories Of The Italian Painters
[ FICTION]
... long straight road could be seen, winding like a white ribbon through the grey and silver, and marked here and there by a dark cypress-tree or a tall poplar. And always there would be a glint of blue, where a stream or river caught the reflection of the sky ...
Tasso Torquato - Jerusalem Delivered
[ POETRY]
... plain he spied, And thither by a beaten path went he: The myrtle spread her mighty branches wide, Higher than pine or palm or cypress tree: And far above all other plants was seen That forest's lady and that desert's queen. XXVI Upon the trees his eyes Rinaldo bent,. And ...
Simms William Gilmore - The Life Of Francis Marion
[ FICTION]
... tried, Our leader frank and bold; The British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good greenwood, Our tent the cypress-tree; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its ...
Lang Andrew - The Violet Fairy Book
[ FICTION]
... approach you of their own accord, and will let you lead them away. When you have them safely, look about till you see a cypress tree, whose roots are of brass, whose boughs are of silver, and whose leaves are of gold. Go to it, and cut away the roots ...
Not Available - Deuterocanonical Books Of The Bible/apocrypha
[ PHYSICAL PLANT]
... honourable people, even in the portion of the Lord's inheritance. Sir 24:13 I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree upon the mountains of Hermon. Sir 24:14 I was exalted like a palm tree in En-gaddi, and as a rose plant in ...

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