Word: cypress
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...pass a languishing time in the bower of the Lady Melisande des Préaux, of Richard's court: "We trod on velvet there, on turf that some miracle of watering had kept soft and green as a nunnery lawn, past tall late lillies and dark cypress trees, down tiled paths between beds of yellow and red roses, at last to a colonnade of white fluted columns, the earth between set thick with violet leaves...
...name has long been familiar to me as the name of an animal known in the cypress swamps of the Southern states...
Every day she went down to the cypress tree, among the cactus grove ... She was wiser and subtler now, wearing only a dove-grey wrapper, and sandals. So that in an instant ... she was naked to the sun. (page...
...deep religious feelings of their own, put on a display of 20th Century icons at New York's Fordham University. Their modern icons dealt with the same devotional subjects-Christ Enthroned, The Archangel Michael, St. Nicholas, The Annunciation-as the 15th Century masterpieces. Painted in tempera on cypress or pine, they also had much of the same timeless, static charm...
...they don't-it's not up to us. All we can do is bury the death rate, and that's some job . . . We have about 10,000 different models, all the way from 18-inchers to the six-foot-sixers in bronze, aluminum, cypress, mahogany, inside silks, satins, plushes-things like that. But with the war, we just can't have the range. They make you stabilize . . . It's too bad, but that's how it goes...