Word: palms
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...palm-house at the Botanic Garden, there is now a large Cycas, or so called Sago palm, in fruit. In the centre of the great cluster of bright green leaves there is a globular mass of reduced leaves of a tawny color, many of them bearing on their edges flat and exposed ovules...
...been with us. We then realize the full meaning of the thoughts that passed through the mind of Jacob as he stood on the bank of the Jordan. The choir sang the anthem, "Turn thy face from my sins," by Attwood. The song for men's voices, "Palm Branches," by Faure, was also given as appropriate to Palm Sunday...
...ideal of things which are at trainable, is a paper which is honest, which does not palm off on its readers advertisements as news matter, which is not blindly partisan, which does its best to improve its readers, and does not pander to its lowest tastes in order to roll up a large circulation...
...verse: "But went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim." There is throughout the whole life of Jesus this continual contrast of society and solitude. Thus it was in perfect keeping that at this great crisis of his life, on the Thursday before Palm Sunday, Jesus should have turned aside to commune with himself. In the mental as well as the moral life we all need times of refreshment, quiet moments for reflection. It is for this purpose that these vesper services have been undertaken; to draw us apart a moment from the cares...
...large sale, and have received very favorable notice from the critics and classical scholars both of this country and of Great Britain. These scholars have especially commended the power displayed in bringing Plato's meaning in plain, but remarkably pure English, a point in which they award the palm of excellence to this author, who is now known to be a Boston lady of high position, no less eminent for her generous support of works of practical benevolence, than for her classical scholarship. The present writer does not hesitate to pronounce the translation of the Georgias in the present volume...